Email is still the front door for most businesses. Filtering spam is table stakes; modern email security also looks at impersonation, malicious links, and account takeover after a password leak.
Controls worth turning on
- Multi-factor authentication for every mailbox
- Anti-phishing and anti-malware policies in Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace
- External sender warnings so staff notice mail from outside the company
- DMARC, DKIM, and SPF so spammers have a harder time spoofing your domain
- Safe handling of shared mailboxes and forwarding rules
Habits that stop wire-fraud
- Never change payment details based only on email—confirm by phone using a known number
- Be suspicious of “CEO needs gift cards” or “urgent invoice” threads
- Watch for lookalike domains in long email threads
Google publishes Workspace security best practices in admin help; Microsoft’s security roadmap for Microsoft 365 is documented at Microsoft 365 security. Locally, see Google Workspace support and layered security.
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