Targeted Threat Protection - URL Protect - Overview

This article contains information on Mimecast's Targeted Threat Protection - URL Protect, including its benefits, configuration of policies and definitions, user awareness, device enrollment, managed URLs, and tools for monitoring and optimizing URL security.

Targeted Threat Protection - URL Protect is an advanced Mimecast service that builds on our security gateway services to protect your organization against the growing threat posed by advanced phishing and spearphishing attacks in inbound mail. It works by rewriting all URLs in inbound messages. This means each time the end user clicks the link, we can conduct security checks on the destination web page in real time. It provides your organization with the following benefits:

• • • Instant protection from targeted attacks and spearphishing attempts across all devices without client-side software.
    • Protection against good websites turning bad or delayed exploits.
    • Centrally managed, rapid deployment without using any additional infrastructure.
    • Centrally visible administrative monitoring and reporting on user activity.

Introducing Targeted Threat Protection - URL Protect

For information on Targeted Threat Protection - URL Protect, see the guides listed below:

• • • Configuring URL Protect: Describes how Targeted Threat Protection - URL Protect protects your organization and how your users will use it.
    • URL Protect Dashboard: Describes how the Targeted Threat Protection - URL Protect Dashboard provides administrators with a graphical summary of all URL Protection activity.
    • Targeted Threat Protect - Frequently Asked Questions: Provides a list of frequently asked questions on Targeted Threat Protection, complete with their answers.

Configuring URL Protection Definitions and Policies

For information on configuring URL Protection definitions and policies, see the guides listed below:

• • • Configuring URL Protect Definitions and Configuring URL Protect Policies list all the options you can set to configure a URL Protection definition and policy to apply granular control to the flow of email messages as Mimecast processes them.
    • URL Protect - First Policy: Provides advice on how to configure a URL Protection definition and policy, together with optimal settings we recommend to protect you against targeted attacks via URLs with a new installation. You must log on to Mimecaster Central to access this page.
    • URL Protect - Bypass Policies: Describes how to exclude specific senders or recipients from URL Protect policies by creating a URL Protect Bypass policy.
    • Configuring Google Calendar Invites: Describes how to apply Targeted Threat Protection - URL Protect to Google Calendar invitations if your organization uses Google Apps.

User Awareness / Device Enrollment

For information on configuring user awareness and device enrollment, see the guides listed below:

• • • Device Enrollment: Describes how device enrollment works with Targeted Threat Protection and describes the benefits of enabling this authentication service for end-user devices.
    • Managing Device Enrollment: Describes how to manage device enrollment of end-user devices with Mimecast's Targeted Threat Protection.
    • Configuring User Awareness: Describes how to configure user awareness to redirect users to a page providing information about the destination of the link they've clicked.
    • User Awareness & Device Enrollment Templates: This email template will tell your end users about user awareness and device enrollment, including what they will see and need to do.

Further Information

For further information on configuring URL Protect see the guides listed below:

• • • Managed URLs: Describes how to use Targeted Threat Protection - URL Protect managed URL functionality to add a domain or URL to a block or allow list, overriding the real-time action when a link is clicked.
    • Verifying a URL: Describes how to verify a URL rewritten by Targeted Threat Protection - URL Protect.
    • Check & Decode URLs: Describes how you can decode and check the safety of a URL without clicking on it from the Targeted Threat Protection - URL Protect dashboard.
    • URL Protection - Logs: Describes how you can view the URL Protect Log file details for each link clicked on by end users and to block or allow a URL.
    • Optimization: Provides help to help you perform a review of your current environment and learn about the latest Targeted Threat Protection optimizations.
    • QR Code Phishing Scan: Mimecast QR Code Scanning for URL Protection policies.