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Small and medium-sized businesses are the target of 56% of incidents in the United States. EasyDMARC’s domain scanner shows business owners how secure their email ecosystem is.
As cyber attacks escalate in 2021, a recent study points out that U.S. owners of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) remain overconfident in cyber threats. Yet they are now the preferred targets of hackers. For busy small business owners and IT staff, EasyDMARC provides a quick solution to understanding their email security risks.
In its report for the first half of 2021, Accenture Security saw a 125% increase in the volume of incidents year over year. While most countries and industries were simply hit, the United States was hit hardest, targeted by 36% of attacks. It’s a threat that small business owners in America must be aware of.
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Yet, in its Momentive Small Business Survey for the third quarter of 2021, CNBC reported that 56% of U.S. small business owners are not concerned about being targeted by hackers. 42% of them have no plan in place to respond to an attack. This overconfidence could explain why hackers around the world are targeting US SMEs.
Additionally, in its 2021 Data Breach Investigation Report, Verizon noted that the majority of incidents impact U.S. businesses with fewer than 1,000 employees. SMEs are the target for 56% of incidents in the United States, with an increase in the number of cases more than doubling from 407 in 2020 to 1,037 cases in 2021.
In addition, financial losses due to cyber attacks mainly stem from a vital channel for SMEs: their email marketing. This happens through a type of attack, known as Commercial Email Compromise (BEC), where a company’s emails are tampered with. The 2020 FBI Internet Crime Report shows that BEC takes the biggest financial toll, accounting for $ 1.8 billion of the $ 4 billion in losses due to all forms of hacking.
The reasons SMBs overlook their business email compromise risks range from focusing on the operational side of the business to lack of time or resources and staff to deal with this issue. EasyDMARC understands the specifics of running an SME and provides an online tool to combat the risk of compromising business emails in seconds, without any technical knowledge required. The tools and solutions are available for all SMEs, or for the MSPs that support them.
EasyDMARC’s Domain Scanner shows business owners how secure their email ecosystem is, with a simple tool anyone can use and understand. The analysis provides an immediate report on the status and performance of the 4 major email security protocols (DMARC, SPF, DKIM and BIMI) and provides guidance on how to improve them.
From there, small business owners, their staff or MSPs can quickly understand how secure their email ecosystem is and can take quick and easy steps to improve their email security. EasyDMARC solutions do not require IT expertise to be implemented.
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