Email Risk Assessment

DEFION’s Email Risk Assessment is designed to evaluate how secure your organisation’s email systems are against today’s most common cyberattacks. Email remains the leading entry point for threats such as phishing, malware delivery, and business email compromise. A single weakness in configuration or detection can result in significant financial and reputational damage.

This assessment provides clarity on your current protection level and actionable guidance to close critical gaps — ensuring that your email environment supports both resilience and compliance.

What We Do

Our experts conduct a structured audit of your email environment, including:

• Review of email security standards and applied controls

• Verification of authentication security (SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MFA)

• Assessment of communication protection mechanisms

• Review of logging, alerting, and administrative configurations

• Evaluation of anti-spam, anti-malware, and anti-phishing systems

To complement the configuration review, we also perform controlled test emails simulating malicious activity. This validates how your current defenses respond in practice.

How We Work

Our methodology is pragmatic and risk-driven:

1. Configuration review – accessing the administrative console to analyse implemented security measures.

2. Gap identification – highlighting misconfigurations and weaknesses.

3. Control testing – sending safe but simulated malicious emails (attachments, links) to evaluate filtering effectiveness.

4. Recommendations – developing clear remediation guidance.

Deliverables

You receive:

• A detailed report covering evaluated aspects, identified vulnerabilities, and proposed remediations.

• A prioritised action list to strengthen detection and prevention capabilities.

• A read-out session with DEFION experts to ensure clarity and alignment on next steps.

Why Email Risk Assessment by DEFION?

• Business-first view – results framed in terms of financial, operational, and reputational risk.

• Proven expertise – conducted by DEFION’s offensive security specialists with extensive experience in adversarial simulation.

• Actionable outcomes – clear, prioritised recommendations, not just raw technical findings.

• Low operational overhead – minimal disruption, fast turnaround.

The Business Value

For the C-suite, this assessment provides peace of mind:

• Are our email defenses correctly configured against modern threats?

• Could an attacker bypass our filters with today’s techniques?

• What immediate improvements will reduce our risk exposure?

With email being the number one attack vector, ensuring its resilience is a foundational step in securing your organisation’s overall cyber posture.