Cisco Advanced Phishing Protection:
Implementation Process (Hosted)
Published: June 22, 2018
Deploying Cisco Advanced Phishing Protection is a straightforward, well-defined process. The process
has been refined based on years of experience supporting large organizations with their email security
initiatives. Three primary project elements include: 1) Cisco Email Security Gateway 2) Hosted Cisco
Advanced Phishing Protection Sensors and 3) Cisco Advanced Phishing Protection
These goals will be achieved:
• Understand the Messaging Architecture
• Deployment of Cisco Advanced Phishing Protection Sensors
• Confirmation of Message Traffic
• Verification of Accurate Message Scoring
• One Cisco Advanced Phishing Protection Policy in enforcement mode
Additional discrete steps are detailed.
Primary Project Tasks
The primary Onboarding tasks consist of:
• Configuring Cisco Email Security Appliance for Dual Delivery of all messages to the Cisco
Advanced Phishing Protection Sensor. Enabling full visibility to the organization's inbound mail
stream.
• Deployment of Hosted Cisco Advanced Phishing Protection Sensor. Providing the Cisco Advanced
Phishing Protection Email Trust platform with the required message details (i.e. Authentication
headers).
• Tune Policy & Data Model. Tuning to accurately identify your organizations valid messages.
Adjusting policies to effectively identify malicious messages i.e. BEC.
• Enable Policy Enforcement.
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Primary Project Tasks
• Enforcing policy to block malicious messages i.e. Friendly name spoofs.
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