topic Re: block Base 64 encrypted Mails For Phishing Scanning in Firewall and Security Management

block Base 64 encrypted Mails For Phishing Scanning

Kannan_Velraja — Fri, 03 May 2019 13:43:33 GMT

Hi Team,

Please confirm when the Firewall is Configured as MTA and deployed it will block "Base 64 encrypted Mails For Phishing Scanning"

Thanks in advance.

Re: block Base 64 encrypted Mails For Phishing Scanning

TP_Master — Fri, 03 May 2019 16:58:51 GMT

Hi,

Not sure what you are asking about?

When the gateway is configued as MTA (and also on non-MTA deployment) it decodes base64 to handle the attachments / mail body.

We have protections against Phishing attacks and keep improving them.

Does that answer your question?

Re: block Base 64 encrypted Mails For Phishing Scanning

Ryan_St__Germai — Fri, 03 May 2019 18:25:51 GMT

Base64 is just encoding not encryption. All email attachments are base64 encoded when sent. CheckPoint decodes this base64 to inspect the attachment itself.