FileWall Review

Content Disarm & Reconstruction

FileWall uses a threat prevention and file sanitization technology called CDR (content disarm and reconstruction) to ensure that your organization and its employees are completely protected from both known and unknown cyber threats that can be deliberately or accidentally transmitted by senders via email.

Through CDR technology, FileWall can discover, remove, and contain those unknown threats hiding in attached email files which often evade and bypass the security methods and capabilities of detection-based anti-malware and sandboxing solutions. Because these traditional security systems and applications only look for files that contain known threats, cybercriminals and hackers can easily embed content into email attachments for more advanced and sophisticated types of attacks and avoid detection.

FileWall checks any potentially malicious or suspicious content hidden in files that are attached to internal and external emails. Thus, it can verify if email file attachments contain codes, scripts, or exploits that might be used for launching known or unknown malware or ransomware attacks or zero-day or APT attacks. The application, then, disarms and removes all malicious or suspicious content from the files and creates sanitized versions of the files which can be used safely in your organization. This capability is not provided by traditional anti-malware and sandboxing solutions which only isolate and block malware-infected files. 

Employee Productivity

As mentioned earlier, FileWall helps you keep your organization and employees secure from known and unknown threats hidden in email file attachments. These threats can be transmitted by cyber criminals or hackers not affiliated with the organization and forwarded by employees themselves unawarely. This means cyber criminals and hackers can exploit the types of files you and your employees are commonly using to spread threats across your organization. For example, they can embed unknown malware into Microsoft Office documents and PDF files and your employees can innocently share these infected files with their co-workers as email attachments.

 Therefore, you need to implement effective ways to prevent threats from entering and spreading throughout your organization’s network. However, handling malware-infected office files can have a negative impact on the productivity of your employees, especially if you’re relying on traditional anti-malware and sandboxing solutions. With FileWall, you can seamlessly implement preventive and proactive cybersecurity measures without disrupting the usual tasks your employees are doing.

FileWall monitors, handles, and protects the flow of emails within your organization. It runs the CDR process on internal emails, and your employees may not even notice that the emails and file attachments they received have gone through such a process. Through file sanitization, the application can immediately reconstruct or regenerate files infected by malware. All potentially malicious content found in the original files isn’t existing in these newly regenerated files. Moreover, FileWall retains the legitimate structures, components, and characteristics of the original files. As a result, you can allow your employee to share, use, and work on important files continuously without putting them at risk for cyber threats. 

Optimized For Microsoft Exchange Online

FileWall is a CDR-based cybersecurity solution exclusively built for Office 365 users, specifically those who are using Microsoft Exchange Online. Thus, it aims to protect the email communications, activities, and transactions of  Exchange Online users from cyber threats and attacks originating from email attachments. You can buy this application from Microsoft’s marketplaces and instantly deploy it in just a single click without the need for any technical training. 

You can use the application to complement the capabilities of security solutions offered by Microsoft that you’re currently using, like Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP). In fact, FileWall doesn’t modify or damage any of the existing sender security capabilities of EOP and ATP. In case you have anti-malware, sandboxing, and other cybersecurity tools, systems, and services from third-party providers, FileWall can also smoothly work with them. This way, you’ll be able to create and implement a robust IT security infrastructure that can protect your organization from advanced, sophisticated, and evasive cyber threats delivered via email attachments.