BEC PROTECTION
Stop advanced BEC attacks with campaign-level insight into how attackers impersonate people, suppliers, and trusted domains.
Multi-Vector Approach
Business email compromise protection helps stop fraud that impersonates executives, suppliers, and other trusted senders. Effective protection combines behavioural threat detection, email authentication, supplier-risk visibility, user resilience, and automated response.
Analyse message intent for deception, behavioural anomalies, relationship patterns, authentication results, and business context.
Identify risky supplier relationships, compromised third-party accounts, and lookalike domains used in invoice fraud attacks.
Use email authentication and domain monitoring to prevent spoofing and identify lookalike domains used for impersonation.
Human-Targeted Threats
Business email compromise scams target people who handle payments, invoices, supplier communications, and other sensitive requests. Because these attacks often contain no malicious payload, effective detection requires an understanding of the identity, behaviour, relationships, and intent behind a message.
Advanced Email Security
Detect attacks that use impersonation and social engineering instead of malicious payloads. Proofpoint Core Email Protection uses multi-model AI to expose BEC attacks by analysing sender behaviour, message content, sender and recipient relationships, reputation, and unusual activity.
Behavioural BEC Detection
Analyse behavioural patterns and anomalies to identify deceptive messages in real time.
Message and Intent Analysis
Understand message content and language alongside other signals to identify signs of BEC.
Relationship Analysis
Evaluate sender and recipient relationships to detect unusual or suspicious communications.
Supplier Fraud Detection
Detect tactics associated with invoice fraud, including compromised third-party senders.
Fraud Protection
Discover legitimate senders, manage SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, and identify lookalike domains used for impersonation and email fraud. Proofpoint Email Fraud Defense helps prevent attackers from abusing the domains and identities your organisation relies on.
Sender Discovery and Authentication
Identify authorised senders and validate SPF, DKIM, and DMARC across your email ecosystem.
Safe DMARC Enforcement
Move towards a DMARC reject policy with validation that helps prevent disruption to legitimate email.
Lookalike Domain Detection
Monitor for domains that mimic your brand and may be used for BEC, phishing, and impersonation.
Supplier Risk Visibility
Assess supplier domains, authentication posture, email activity, and threat signals to identify risky relationships.
Targeted User Training
Train your users to spot BEC attacks, make safer decisions, and report suspicious messages before fraud succeeds. Proofpoint ZenGuide security awareness training delivers targeted education based on the real threats people face, with streamlined reporting and automation to accelerate response.
Risk-Based BEC Training
Deliver targeted education based on users’ risk, behaviour, roles, and the threats they face.
Threat-Informed Simulations
Use real attacks to create relevant phishing simulations and learning experiences.
One-Click Threat Reporting
Give users a simple way to report suspicious email across desktop and mobile devices.
Just-in-Time Coaching
Guide users at moments of risk with contextual learning based on real-world behaviour.
See how Core Email Protection detects BEC threats, identifies at-risk users, and gives security teams the context to fully understand and investigate attacks.
Why Proofpoint
| Capability | DMARC-only approach | Proofpoint BEC Protection |
|---|---|---|
| BEC detection | Helps prevent domain spoofing, but not other forms of BEC impersonation | Analyses behaviour, message content, relationships, and other signals to detect BEC |
| Domain protection | Protects authenticated domains from unauthorised use | Combines email authentication with lookalike-domain monitoring |
| Supplier fraud protection | Does not address compromised accounts or lookalike supplier domains | Identifies supplier impersonation, compromised accounts, and risky supplier domains |
| Account compromise protection | Does not protect against attacks from legitimate compromised accounts | Detects suspicious activity associated with compromised email accounts |
| User resilience and response | Requires separate tools for user resilience and threat response | Connects BEC protection with education, reporting, investigation, and remediation |
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Business email compromise (BEC) is an email scam that uses impersonation and other social engineering tactics to deceive people. Attackers may pose as executives, suppliers, or other trusted senders to create a sense of urgency and trick users into sending money, sharing sensitive information, or taking another risky action. Unlike many phishing attacks, BEC does not require a malicious link or attachment.
Organisations can prevent BEC by combining behavioural threat detection, email authentication, account protection, supplier-risk visibility, and security awareness training. These controls help detect spoofed email, impersonation, compromised accounts, and other social engineering techniques while helping people recognise and report suspicious requests.
No. DMARC helps prevent attackers from spoofing trusted domains, but BEC can also use lookalike domains, compromised email accounts, and supplier impersonation. Effective BEC protection combines email authentication with behavioural detection, domain monitoring, account protection, and user resilience.
AI can detect BEC by analysing signals that may reveal deception, including sender behaviour, message content, communication patterns, relationships, and unusual activity. This helps identify email scams that may contain no known malware, malicious link, or other traditional threat indicator.
BEC uses impersonation or other social engineering tactics to make a fraudulent request appear legitimate. Email account compromise occurs when an attacker gains control of a real email account and uses that trusted identity to carry out an attack. Organisations need protection against both forms of identity abuse.