I was asked to help a friend who works at a high end company a while back. They were a frog hair away from sending a bad actor a quarter-million-dollar check. The threat was a fake invoice from a typosquatted domain. Their IT provider's fix? Buy a pricey piece of hardware and "perhaps consider" buying up all the look-alike domains. This, they were told, was the only way. Oddly, no one mentioned DMARC, DKIM, or SPF. No one talked about the fundamental tools that actually stop domain impersonation...tools that are cheaper and more effective than the hardware solution. There's a critical gap between basic IT support and real security. The answer isn't just to sell more boxes. It's to empower businesses with the right knowledge and put security first. It's not that complicated.
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Shawn, exactly! It’s surprising how often fundamental tools like SPF, DKIM, and DMARC are overlooked. Empowering teams with proper email authentication can prevent costly scams without expensive hardware.
Homan S.
2w
I totally agree. At the end of the day, it's not just about adding more tools to solve a problem. It's about making security a deliberate part of IT, not something you do after the fact. When security is integrated into the core, not just added on later, the outcomes are much more effective and long-lasting.
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2wShawn, we just investigated a very similar case. A government office sent an invoice to a supplier, and both sides lacked proper DMARC, DKIM, SPF, and BIMI records. That gap created a direct path for fraud if it hadn’t been caught in time, it could have resulted in a major financial loss of $275.000 And you’re exactly right: too many IT providers suggest buying hardware or scooping up domains, but they skip the fundamentals. Email authentication and brand indicators like BIMI cost little to implement and are far more effective. That said, DMARC isn’t the whole story. We’re also finding that Microsoft 365 tenants often have critical security settings left disabled things like anti-spoofing, Safe Links, Safe Attachments, and DLP. Without those hardened as well, attackers still find ways around. It’s not about buying more boxes it’s about implementing and monitoring the right controls that already exist using zero trust proactive security.