Most organizations think they're protected. They're not. Microsoft Defender sounds solid on paper — but in the real world, it's letting phishing, malware, and business email compromise walk right through the door. In this episode of The Audit, the crew pulls back the curtain on one of the most exploited attack surfaces in any organization: email.

Co-hosts Joshua Schmidt, Eric Brown, and Nick Mellem are joined by IT Audit Labs' own Cameron Birkland — fresh off three first-place CTF wins in Vegas — for a live walkthrough of Check Point Harmony Email, a tool that plugs directly into your Microsoft 365 environment and shows you exactly what your current setup is missing.

🎯 What you'll learn in this episode:

• Why out-of-the-box Microsoft Defender consistently fails against advanced phishing and BEC attacks — and what "good" email security actually looks like
• How Check Point Harmony uses machine learning and contextual AI analysis (not just signature matching) to catch threats that bypass traditional filters
• How threat actors silently set up forwarding rules and inbox monitoring to loot data for weeks — without triggering a single alert
• IT Audit Labs' new "14 plus one" email security assessment — a 14-day live scan of your Microsoft 365 environment with a full debrief, no disruption required
• A live demo of the Harmony dashboard: phishing reports, geo-anomaly detection, OneDrive malware scanning, and DLP for exposed sharing links

Whether you're securing a 50-person company or advising a 5,000-user enterprise, this episode gives you the practitioner-level insight to finally close the gap in your email defenses.

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