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Quarantine

In plain language

A holding area where suspicious email or files are kept until someone checks them.

The metaphor

Like a holding tray at the post office for suspicious mail: nothing reaches your desk until it has been looked at.

Going deeper

How it works

  • Suspect messages are held in quarantine and stay out of your inbox.
  • Staff or admins can release a good one.
  • Review it from time to time.
  • Antivirus also quarantines files.

How WILDCARD handles it

Email Security filters mail in real time, holding suspect messages out of your inbox.

In practice
  • A real invoice lands in quarantine.
  • A phishing email is held.
  • A file is held by antivirus.

A question owners ask

Can I rescue a quarantined email? Yes. Ask your admin to release it after checking.

Where WILDCARD handles this
Email
Security
  • Real-time email filtering
  • Phishing and impersonation caught
  • External senders flagged
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