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Fixing Email Security: It's Still A Rocky Road Ahead

SiliconANGLE , Thursday, June 1,2023

The foundational protocols for making email more secure and less of a threat have been in place for almost a decade, yet they remain mostly unused, poorly implemented and largely ineffective.

A recent report from Sendlayer shows just how much of a problem that is.

We all know that email is terribly insecure. If we get distracted, we can easily click on a piece of malware or get connected to a phishing site that will steal our credentials.

All it takes is a single user to be convinced that a malevolent missive is legitimate. And that single misplaced message can cause a world of hurt, beginning with a ransomware attack, or heaps of money transferred to a criminal's bank account, or an upload of private documents across Wikileaks and the dark web.

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