5. Cisco Email Security: Macro Detection
Cisco email security offering provides comprehensive security whether on-premise (physical/virtual) or cloud - no need to sacrifice. Providing robust layer of defense against ransomware, business email compromise, phishing, and much more. In this session we will focus on adding a content filter that detects marcos minimizing the threat that come in the form of email.
Macros are a series of commands that can be run automatically to perform a task. Macrocode is embedded in Office documents written in a programming language known as Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). Macros could be used maliciously to drop malware, download malware, etc. Malicious macro files usually are received in Word documents or Excel spreadsheets but other formats do exist.
