Cortex Advanced Email Security
AI-driven, automation fueled protection against advanced email threats

The Rise of AI-Driven Phishing

GenAI models have empowered cybercriminals to craft highly convincing phishing emails with remarkable efficiency. These AI-generated messages are often free from the grammatical errors and awkward phrasing that once served as telltale signs of phishing attempts, making them increasingly difficult for individuals and traditional security systems to detect.

Hyper-Personalization at Scale

Leveraging AI, attackers analyze vast amounts of publicly available data to tailor phishing emails to a specific individual. This hyperpersonalization increases the likelihood of recipients engaging with malicious content. For instance, AI can mimic the communication style of a colleague or reference recent activities relevant to the target, enhancing the deception

AI enables the rapid generation of phishing emails, allowing cybercriminals to scale their operations with minimal effort. Research indicates that AI can produce phishing content at least 40% faster than humans and facilitate large-scale campaigns that can swiftly reach thousands of potential victims with personalized email.

Point email security solutions, such as secure email gateways (SEGs) and integrated cloud email security (ICES), analyze emails in isolation, lacking the broader context needed to detect multistage attacks. Today’s threats use AI, compromised identities, and lateral movement, turning an email into just the first step of a broader attack. Relying solely on email-specific security leaves organizations blind to the full attack chain. Without cross-domain visibility into endpoints, identities, and cloud applications, security teams react to isolated alerts rather than stopping threats at their source.

No matter how much AI you use to fight email attacks, email security can’t exist in isolation. Correlating threats across email, identities, endpoints, and networks is essential to uncover whether a phishing attempt is part of a larger breach. Beyond detection, automated remediation stops account takeovers, isolates compromised endpoints, and eliminates threats before they escalate.

Introducing the Cortex Advanced Email Security Module

Cortex goes beyond traditional email security, connecting email threats to the full attack storyline. The Advanced Email Security module runs on the Cortex platform. It’s powered by the AI-ready data foundation of Cortex Extended Data Lake (XDL) and provides end-to-end visibility and automated remediation across multiple security domains. By treating email as part of a larger security challenge, it quarantines threats, disables compromised accounts, and isolates affected endpoints in real time, delivering unmatched precision and response

• Understand true email intent with GenAI: Outsmart sophisticated phishing attacks by using LLMs, behavioral analytics, and user profiling to analyze both the content and the underlying intent of communications.
• Accelerate response with cross-domain data: Reduce detection and response times by leveraging Cortex XDL to correlate rich data from email, identity, endpoints, and your network for a full attack path analysis.
• Stop threats with industry-leading automation: Instantly neutralize attacks with best-inclass automation that removes malicious emails, disables compromised accounts, and isolates endpoints in real time.

Documentation:

Download the Cortex Advanced Email Security Datasheet (PDF).