Business Email Compromise: 5 Steps to Prevent Incident Risks
Brief
Email gateways, endpoint controls, and traditional file-centric sandboxing remain essential components of an enterprise defense strategy.
But as phishing campaigns shift away from malicious file attachments and move entirely into the browser, they create a major visibility gap for security operations centers (SOCs).
This critical vulnerability serves as the primary gateway for one of the most financially devastating threats facing modern enterprises: Business Email Compromise (BEC).
The Scale of the BEC Threat
The business impact of this visibility gap is substantial. According to the FBI’s IC3 2025 report, Business Email Compromise caused $3. 05 billion in reported losses in a single year.
This aligns with a broader surge in enterprise breach severity, with IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025 revealing that the average cost of a data breach has reached $4.8 million.