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Here are 4 ways SA companies should protect your emails against a Liberty-style hack

Source: Business Insider SA, 01/07/2018

It appears that Liberty was hacked through a compromised email which
is notoriously difficult to secure, says Dominic White, Chief
Technical Officer at cybersecurity consultancy SensePost.
`Imagine if you had to complete a one time password every 15 minutes
for your phone to automatically pull email,` White told Business
Insider South Africa.
`[Emails and public wifi] also makes monitoring hard: thousands of
users coming from hundreds of networks don`t leave an easy way to spot
a careful malicious connection.`
Liberty clients` data were breached by a third party on June 14.
The hackers demanded an undisclosed amount of money to halt the
release of the information onto the `dark web`, but Liberty said it
had not made any payments thus far.
Liberty said none of its customers had yet been financially impacted
by the data breach.
White gave Business Insider South Africa a list of four ways
corporates can protect themselves against a Liberty-style hack:
1) Limit the number of emails stored online
â€œA quarterly or bi-annual archiving from online servers to backups is
a tough policy, but can limit the total size of mail,â€ White says.
This can limit the exposure to unsecured emails.
2) Enable two-factor authentication
When users log in with a password, companies can set up additional
automated interactions for users to log in. â€œThis is already standard
functionality in both Gmail and Office365,â€ White says.
3) Carefully control administrative access
Especially if you are using additional or third-party mail filters or
storage solutions, make sure administrative access to those is
carefully controlled. â€œLong, unique passwords, limited access from
outside the organisation. Two Factor Authentication should all be
considered.â€
4) Consider using email encryption
For highly sensitive communication, White suggests companies make use
of S/MIME, a kind of encryption. â€œ It`s not an easy solution, but for
regular confidential mail, it can hide it even from an authenticated
attacker,â€ he says.

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