Cyber security
Email filtering and cloud protection
Spam, phishing, malware and payment fraud stopped before they reach an inbox, with Check Point Harmony Email in front of your Microsoft 365.
Who it is for
Businesses in Teesside and the North East that run on Microsoft 365 and have had a near miss: the invoice with new bank details, the voicemail that needed a sign-in, the email from the managing director asking for a quick transfer. Anyone whose finance team approves payments by email, and any business that has been told its built-in filtering is enough and is not sure.
What you get
A dedicated filtering layer in front of your mailboxes, Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration, that identifies and quarantines phishing, malware attachments and links, impersonation and payment fraud before delivery, tuned to your business and managed by our team. Suspect messages are held, not deleted, and released on request; genuine mail gets through; and your staff see far fewer of the emails designed to catch them at 16:42 on a Friday.
The problem
Most attacks arrive by email. It only takes one person clicking one link, or replying to one convincing request, to hand over a password or let malware in.
Phishing is no longer riddled with typos. It mirrors your tone, timing and workflows: a supplier you really use asking to update their bank details, a shared document from a colleague's real name, a Microsoft sign-in page that is pixel-perfect. Authorised push payment fraud often starts this way, with a compromised mailbox read quietly for weeks before an invoice is altered. Of the million messages we see for our clients, we monitor hundreds a day in which a fraudster appears to adopt someone's address to prompt a payment.
Microsoft 365 filters some of it. A dedicated layer catches more: Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration sits in front of your mailboxes, inspects every message, attachment and link, and quarantines what it judges malicious or fraudulent before it is delivered, including impersonation of your own directors and suppliers. It also protects the collaboration tools around email, such as Teams and SharePoint, where the same links and files travel.
Filtering takes most of the load off your staff, but a few messages still reach them, and those are the cleverest ones. That is why this service pairs with awareness training and with endpoint and identity protection for the day someone clicks.
What Odyssey provides
- Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration, part of Check Point Infinity, placed in front of your mailboxes
- Phishing, malware attachments and malicious links identified and quarantined before delivery
- Impersonation and payment fraud detection, including emails pretending to be your own directors and suppliers
- Protection extended to Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive, where the same links and files travel
- Quarantine with review and release, so a genuine message held by mistake is back in minutes
- Policies tuned to your business and managed by our team, with reports on what was stopped
What is included
| Included | Detail |
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| Set-up | Filtering connected to your Microsoft 365 tenant in front of every mailbox, with no change to how staff send and receive |
| Policies | Rules tuned to your business, including your own domain, directors' names and regular suppliers, so impersonation is caught |
| Quarantine | Suspect messages held for review, visible to the user or the administrator, and released on request |
| Collaboration | Links and files in Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive scanned under the same policies |
| Reporting | A regular summary of what was stopped, by type, and the users most targeted |
| Support | False positives, releases and policy questions handled by our service desk within three rings |
Not included, or sold separately
- Email itself
- Microsoft 365 licences and mailbox support are the Microsoft 365 and Azure service; this sits in front of them
- Backup of email
- Filtering stops bad mail arriving; restoring deleted or encrypted mail is backup and recovery
- What a person does after a message gets through
- Endpoint and identity protection covers the device and the account, and security awareness training covers the person
- On-premises mail servers
- Harmony Email protects Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, including Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive and Google Drive as well as email; an on-premises Exchange server is not covered
- Outbound compliance
- Archiving, legal hold and data loss prevention rules on outgoing mail are configured separately where you need them
How it is delivered
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Review what gets through today
A look at what Microsoft 365 is already catching, what your staff are reporting, and which addresses and suppliers an attacker would impersonate.
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Connect and configure
Harmony Email connected to the tenant in front of every mailbox, policies set for your domain, directors and suppliers, and Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive scanning switched on. Staff notice nothing except fewer bad emails.
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Tune
The first weeks are watched for genuine messages held by mistake and for anything still slipping through, and the policies adjusted with you.
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Brief the team
Staff told how to see and release their own quarantined messages, and how to report anything suspicious that still arrives, in one short note.
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Manage and report
Releases, questions and policy changes through the service desk, and a regular report of what was stopped and who was targeted.
Why trust Odyssey with this
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ISO
Certified to ISO 27001 for information security
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In-house
All work completed by Odyssey employees, never subcontracted
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Calls answered within three rings, and a director is always reachable
- Supporting North East businesses since 1987
Questions people ask
Does Microsoft 365 not filter email already?
It filters some. Check Point Harmony Email adds a dedicated layer that inspects every message, attachment and link and catches more phishing, malware and impersonation before it reaches staff, and it extends to Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive.
What happens to a genuine email that gets stopped?
It is held in quarantine, not deleted, and can be released straight away by the user or by our service desk. The first weeks are tuned with you so that becomes rare.
Which email filtering product do you use?
Check Point Harmony Email and Collaboration, part of Check Point Infinity, placed in front of your mailboxes and managed by our team.
Does it stop invoice and payment fraud?
It catches impersonation of your directors and suppliers and the altered-invoice patterns that start authorised push payment fraud, which is why we ask for your supplier list during set-up. Keep a second-channel check on payment changes regardless; no filter catches everything.
Does it stop dangerous attachments and links?
Yes. Malware attachments and malicious links are stopped at the gateway and malicious email is quarantined before delivery, with links in Teams and SharePoint files scanned under the same policies.
Will staff notice any change?
Only fewer bad emails. Sending and receiving work exactly as before; the filtering sits in front of the mailbox, and a held message is visible to the user to release.
Do we still need to train staff if our email is filtered?
Yes. The messages that get through are the cleverest ones. Our security awareness training teaches staff to spot and report them with short lessons and phishing simulations, and endpoint and identity protection covers the day someone clicks.
Can we see what was stopped?
Yes. A regular report shows what was quarantined, by type, and which users are most targeted, which is useful evidence for insurers and for deciding where training should focus.
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