Security News > 2022 > March > Email authentication helps governments and private companies battle ransomware
One of the most effective ways cybercriminals can execute ransomware attacks? Email.
Given that emails deliver 96% of all social engineering attacks, email authentication provides the best first-line defense against ransomware attacks.
Designed to empower email domain owners to protect their own domains from unauthorized use, this critical layer - often missing from more traditional email content filtering via artificial intelligence or machine learning - prevents cyber attackers from employing domains for business email compromise attacks, email scams/phishing, and other cyber threats.
The first line of defense against ransomware lies with email authentication.
Enforcing email authentication protects a company's domain against both inbound and global phishing abuse, provides visibility and control over the email services employed by the company and helps protect the brand overall from reputational and financial damage caused by fraud.
It's long past time to start prioritizing workforce and tech modernization by incorporating DMARC solutions, email authentication and data encryption to prevent phishing/ransomware attacks.