By now, most employees know misspellings, fishy links, and questionable attachments are the telltale signs of an email scam. While this is notable evidence of successful employee education, scams and cyberattacks have only gained sophistication. Even the most savvy employees can fall for a clever email spoofing campaign.
According to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report, the average cost per compromised record has steadily increased, and in 2020, the average breach costs organizations $3.92 million. Since spoofing is often the first step in a costly breach, your business has a major incentive to prevent these attacks before they occur. In this piece, we’ll explore email spoofing more closely and offer useful suggestions to protect you and your company.
The Evolution of Email Spoofing
In spite of the few email filtering options available, spoofing morphed into a major global security issue by the 2000s. In response, the European Union released a Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications in 2002, making it illegal to send unsolicited communications without the prior consent of the recipient.
The US followed suit in 2004, but these regulations overwhelmingly failed at completely eliminating spoofing and other types of email-based spam. Even with today’s advanced cybersecurity tools, 3.1 billion domain spoofing emails are sent per day, and over 90% of cyberattacks start with an email message.
How to Successfully Prevent Email Spoofing
Email is now completely enmeshed with work, making spoofing prevention a baseline requirement in any organization.
Commonly used strategies like SPF, DKIM, and DMARC have severe limitations, even when employed simultaneously. In fact, as more companies adopt those tactics, attackers launch more domain impersonation attacks that SPDF, DKIM, and DMARC cannot protect against.
Read our 3 part blog series Understanding-DMARC: What’s Driving All the Hype?
AI-powered anomaly detection tools analyze both user behavior patterns and email metadata, helping the algorithms and platform better identify and respond to new spoofing techniques.
To react to spoofed emails quickly and effectively, organizations must layer advanced mailbox anomaly detection on top of SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and training.
Learn more about advanced mailbox-level anomaly detection.
Stop Spoofing With An Advanced Email Security Platform
IRONSCALES is a pioneer in the cybersecurity space, detecting email spoofing and other advanced threats better than any other platform on the market. The IRONSCALES platform includes mailbox-level anomaly detection, anti-phishing tools, and protection against business email compromise (BEC). And with intelligent automation, IRONSCALES can stop phishing emails before they even hit your employees’ inboxes.
Not only that, IRONSCALES is easy to use and deploy, allowing your security administrators to help your employees stay safer together.
Take the first step towards a more holistic, comprehensive approach to your security by requesting a free IRONSCALES demo today.
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