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Tahawul Tech
20-05-2025
- Business
- Tahawul Tech
BeamSec launches MailX at GISEC 2025
In an era where cyber threats are growing more sophisticated by the day, organisations are rethinking how they protect one of their most critical assets: the inbox. Email remains the most common entry point for cyberattacks, particularly phishing, which continues to evolve in both volume and complexity. At GISEC 2025, BeamSec made a decisive move to address this challenge by officially launching MailX, its advanced Email Monitoring & Behavioural Analysis tool. MailX is designed to deliver intelligent, real-time protection by continuously monitoring email activity. Unlike traditional filters that rely heavily on static threat databases, MailX learns from how each organisation communicates. It detects subtle anomalies in tone, structure, or sender behaviour—often before a user even realises something is off. A slightly misspelled domain, a file that 'looks normal' but isn't, or an unexpected shift in message patterns: MailX identifies these signals and takes action immediately. It quarantines threats, alerts security teams, and minimises response time to potential incidents. What makes MailX stand out is not just its detection capabilities, but its adaptive intelligence. The system evolves with the organisation, learning its unique communication habits and adjusting accordingly. This behaviour-based approach allows MailX to go beyond surface-level scanning, offering proactive defence tailored to each environment. For teams tasked with safeguarding sensitive communications, it represents a significant upgrade over legacy solutions. While MailX operates in the background with quiet precision, BeamSec understands that true cybersecurity requires both machine intelligence and human awareness. That's where Alfred, the company's conversational AI assistant, comes in. Already actively used across the UAE, Alfred brings a new dimension to security awareness by turning passive training into real-time engagement. Instead of annual sessions or static e-learning modules, Alfred delivers personalised, bite-sized guidance exactly when it's needed—right within the user's workflow. Employees can report suspicious emails with a single click, submit questionable links or attachments for immediate review, and receive instant feedback that reinforces secure behaviour. Alfred adapts to each user's habits and needs, making learning feel natural rather than forced. Over time, this results in more confident, cyber-aware teams that actively participate in their own protection. Together, MailX and Alfred form a complementary defence system: one focused on intelligent threat detection, the other on building strong human behaviour. By combining these two layers, BeamSec offers a forward-thinking security framework designed for today's hybrid, fast-paced work environments. As cyber risks continue to rise, BeamSec's AI-first approach represents more than just innovation—it's a necessary evolution in how organisations prepare, respond, and stay ahead. Image Credit: BeamSec
Forbes
18-05-2025
- Forbes
Secure Your Gmail Account Now As Hackers Attack — Here's How
Protect your Gmail account now. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images You'd be forgiven for thinking that all hope is lost if you are among the 1.8 billion active Gmail users in 2025. After all, headline after headline warns of yet another sophisticated attack attempting to compromise Gmail accounts. Mea culpa, I'm as responsible as anyone for writing such articles, this is another, and there's a reason for that: Gmail is the most popular free email platform on the planet and is constantly under attack from those who would separate you from your Gmail account to gain access to the valuable data within. That's just a fact. Another is that, in the overall scheme of things, a minuscule minority of Gmail account holders ever actually lose control to a hacker. Nobody posts online to say their Gmail hasn't been hacked, after all. I cover the attack methodologies with two distinct purposes in mind: to spread awareness of the threat and to advise users on how to protect themselves from attack. This article focuses firmly on the latter, and it's remarkably easy to do if you act now, before the hackers can strike. All email platforms and accounts are targets for cybercriminals, including state-sponsored actors with spying in mind and ransomware groups seeking an easy way into a network. Gmail itself, as I have said many times before, is actually a pretty safe place to be. From ground-breaking large language models trained on phishing, malware and spam emails working hard in the background, to new rules covering strict sender authentication protocols that have had an incredible impact on the amount of potentially malicious spam received by Gmail account holders. Yet attacks do happen, on a daily basis, and Gmail account holders do find themselves compromised. Here's the thing: you need to be proactive with your security protections, to work alongside the defenses that Google already has in place, to ensure that your email does not fall into the hands of hackers. The Google Security Checkup is number one on the Gmail account hacker defense list as it represents the most efficient way to ensure that a number of security protections are in place by checking what you already have and don't have activated. Everything from two-factor authentication status to email forwarding activations and safe browsing controls is covered. Best of all, it is automatic, as soon as you land on the security checkup page, all the details have already been compiled and are waiting for you in an easy-to-use checklist format. Take the Google Account Security Checkup now. Google/Davey Winder 'I'm sticking with making it as easy as possible to protect your Gmail account by rolling as many defenses up in one strategic action, and recommending you enroll in Google's Advanced Protection Program. There are myriad reasons for making this recommendation, but essentially it's down to Google ensuring additional checks are made that help prevent even the most determined hackers from gaining access to your Gmail account. This includes everything from additional blocks on potentially harmful downloads, restricting most non-Google apps from accessing data from your Gmail account, and imposing additional steps into the account recovery process to prevent sophisticated attackers from using this method of taking control. This one really should be a non-brainer: stop using passwords and switch to a passkey to protect your Gmail account. 'Google research has shown that security keys provide a stronger protection against automated bots, bulk phishing attacks, and targeted attacks than SMS, app-based one-time passwords, and other forms of traditional two-factor authentication,' Google's Gmail spokesperson, Ross Richendrfer, told me. And he's not wrong, switching to a passkey really does make your Gmail account infinitely more robust against the most common hack attack tactics. Better yet, you can use your passkey in combination with the Advanced Protection Program. Whenever you sign into a device for the first time with your Google account you will need your passkey. A hacker, even one with your username and password, can't sign in unless they have your passkey, which means access to the device it is on and your biometrics to open it. 'Passkeys give high-risk users the option to rely on the ease and security that comes with using personal devices they already own,' Shuvo Chatterjee, the product lead of Google's Advanced Protection Program, said. Create a Gmail Account passkey. Google
