Two-fifth of India’s largest companies remain vulnerable to email fraud: Proofpoint study
Proofpoint released new research showing that two in five (41%) of Fortune 100 India companies are lagging behind on basic cybersecurity measures, which may subject customers, staff, and stakeholders to a higher risk of email-based impersonation attacks and fraud.
These findings are based on an analysis of the 2025 Fortune 100 India companies list and their implementation of Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC), a widely adopted email validation protocol. DMARC protects domain names from being misused by malicious actors by authenticating the sender’s identity before allowing an email to reach its intended destination. This authentication system helps detect and prevents domain spoofing – an email phishing technique used for business email compromise (BEC) and other email-based attacks. DMARC has three levels of protection – monitor, quarantine, and reject, with reject being the most secure for helping prevent suspicious emails from reaching users’ inboxes.
Email remains one of the...
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