Security News > 2021 > February > How to Fight Business Email Compromise (BEC) with Email Authentication?
An ever-evolving and rampant form of cybercrime that targets emails as the potential medium to conduct fraud is known as Business Email Compromise.
This is why industry experts are coming up with email authentication protocols like DMARC to offer a high level of protection against impersonation.
Email authentication can be referred to as a bevy of techniques deployed to provide verifiable information about the origin of emails.
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, which is the industry standard for email transfer, has no such in-built feature for message authentication.
This highlights the need for effective email authentication protocols like DMARC that actually delivers its claims!
It specifies to receiving servers how to respond to emails that fail either/both of these authentication checks, giving the domain owner control over the receiver's response.