Knowing where an organization hosts their email just makes the hackers’ job easier.
When an organization doesn’t have its MX records pointed to a gateway, they are broadcasting to hackers where their email is hosted. An inbound email gateway protects the location of your email hosting by preventing exposure via your MX records. There’s nothing between the organization and the Internet, leaving an organization’s MX records exposed. This is essentially broadcasting to the public where an organization’s most valuable communication data is kept. API point solutions offer a less secure approach because the organization’s MX will be pointed directly to the email host. An MX record (mail exchange record) publishes where to route an organization’s email to the public internet. Weighing email security gateways versus point solutions? Let’s start with MX records. We expose the vulnerabilities created by API point solutions and we will lay out a recommendation for why you are much more secure when you choose to implement a full email security platform with an inbound gateway, outbound filtering (for reputation protection, DLP, and compliance), and email encryption.ĪPI point solutions are leaving your MX records exposed Main Takeaway: API point solutions are broadcasting to hackers where an organization’s email is hosted. Over the course of this article, we will dispel the myth that you don’t need a gateway to be secure. These point solutions leave users unprotected in a variety of ways including exposed MX records, zero protection over outbound email and inability to encrypt. In reality, they are doing this because it was easier to build their solution without a gateway.
Email security point solutions want to convince you that you don’t need an email security gateway to be secure.
If you read no further, this article can be summarized in the following statement: Secure Email Gateways (SEGs) are far more secure and provide more visibility and control to administrators than the API point solutions.
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