How Area 1 Stops BEC Phishing

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Beyond Email Authentication: The Most Effective Approach to Stopping BEC Phishing

Business Email Compromise (BEC phishing) has reportedly caused over $9 billion in business losses, impacted more than 80 percent of businesses worldwide, and is still vastly underreported.

BEC phishing messages are simple, with no links or attachments. They are deliberately socially engineered to trick their victims into taking digital or physical action — and will bypass SEGs, Office 365, Gmail, DMARC, and other defenses.

It’s clear that tackling BEC requires a new approach. Traditional defenses are failing to defend against these attacks.

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Why the absence of URL and attachments to analyze makes it so difficult for traditional detection engines to detect BEC messages
The keys to detecting BEC – only an array of advanced email analysis techniques that evaluate both the origin and the context of the email can reliably detect BEC phishing

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