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Installing a network sandbox to safeguard against external threats has been accepted by many as the gold standard for more than a decade. Sandbox-based cybersecurity solutions are a protected and isolated environment on a network that simulates a company’s production network for security testing and analysis purposes.
In advanced threat protection, sandboxing provides an added layer of protection in which any email that passes the email filter and still contains unknown URL links, file types, or suspicious senders can be isolated and tested before they reach the network or mail server. But as more businesses move their critical data and cybersecurity defenses to the cloud and the volume of network traffic increases substantially, enterprise cybersecurity teams are rethinking their use of sandbox environments.
