Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace have become essential to how businesses communicate, collaborate, and operate. But as these platforms have become central to business, they have also become increasingly attractive targets for cybercriminals.
Business Email Compromise (BEC) is a good example. An attacker may impersonate a trusted company, compromise a legitimate account, manipulate an existing conversation, or use stolen credentials to access sensitive information. And when something goes wrong, the impact can extend far beyond the inbox.
That’s why protecting Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace requires more than a single security control. Organizations need to prevent attacks where possible, detect suspicious activity, and have a reliable way to recover if an attacker succeeds.
This is where EasyDMARC and MSP360 can complement each other.
Start With Email Trust
One of the most direct ways attackers attempt to impersonate an organization is by spoofing its domain.
SPF, DKIM, and DMARC help organizations establish whether messages claiming to come from their domain are legitimate. While implementing DMARC is an important first step, managing it effectively can become complicated as organizations use marketing platforms, CRMs, ticketing systems, billing applications, and other third-party services to send email on their behalf.
EasyDMARC helps organizations gain visibility into their email authentication environment, identify legitimate and unauthorized sending sources, understand authentication failures, and move toward stronger DMARC enforcement with greater confidence.
The goal isn’t simply to publish a DMARC record. It’s to establish trust in the organization’s email domain and reduce opportunities for attackers to impersonate it. But email authentication is only one part of the equation.
Protect Against Account Compromise
DMARC can help prevent attackers from spoofing your domain, but it doesn’t stop an attacker who gains access to a legitimate Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace account.
Once inside a real account, an attacker may be able to read conversations, monitor business relationships, manipulate email threads, create forwarding rules, or use access to launch additional attacks.
Organizations therefore need additional identity and access controls, including strong authentication, appropriate access policies, application controls, and monitoring for signs of compromise.
This highlights an important principle: email security and identity security solve different problems, and both matter.
What Happens When an Attacker Gets In?
Even with strong preventative controls, no security strategy can guarantee that an organization will never experience a compromise. An attacker may delete messages, modify information, or disrupt business operations. That’s where recovery becomes an important part of the security strategy.
MSP360 provides SaaS backup and recovery capabilities for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace data protection, giving organizations an independent recovery path for critical cloud data. Its capabilities include automated Gmail and Outlook backup, item-level restore, immutable backup, BYOC options, and centralized multi-tenant management for MSPs.
Together, these capabilities address a different part of the problem than email authentication.
EasyDMARC helps protect the trust surrounding email. MSP360 helps protect the data behind the business.
A Layered Approach to Cloud Protection
For MSPs, this creates an opportunity to take a more complete approach to protecting customers’ Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace environments.
Rather than treating email security, identity protection, and backup as separate conversations, MSPs can help customers understand how these layers work together:
- Email authentication helps prevent domain spoofing and impersonation.
- Identity security helps reduce the risk of account takeover.
- Security policies and monitoring help identify suspicious activity.
- Backup and recovery help limit the impact when data or accounts are compromised.
No single technology can address every path a BEC attack can take. A spoofed domain, compromised account, and deleted mailbox require different controls and different responses.
That’s why a layered strategy is so important.
Security Doesn’t End When the Email Is Delivered
Email remains one of the most important trust mechanisms in business. A message can initiate a payment, change banking information, share sensitive data, or trigger an important business process.
Protecting that process requires more than securing the message itself.
With EasyDMARC helping organizations establish and maintain email trust, and MSP360 helping protect and recover the data within Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, MSPs can help customers build a more resilient security strategy; one that addresses prevention, protection, and recovery.
Because when it comes to BEC, the question isn’t simply,
“Can we stop the email?”
It’s also:
“Can we trust where it came from? Can we protect the account behind it? And if something goes wrong, can we recover?”
A layered approach helps answer all three.
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