Given the fact that 90% of attacks on organizations start from malicious emails, companies should implement strong email security measures to prevent cyberattacks and data breaches. Among other regions, the situation around cyberattacks is concerning South East Asia too, with scam victims losing $385.6m in the first half of 2024, a 24.6% increase compared with the same period of the previous year. Some Southeast Asian countries even experienced more than 347 million cyber attack cases in the first half of 2023 alone, with the highest number of cases being due to ransomware incidents.

UNODC estimates “financial losses between US $18 billion and $37 billion from scams targeting victims in East and Southeast Asia in 2023 alone, with a high proportion of these losses attributed to scams committed by organized crime groups in Southeast Asia.” 

The scope of sectors discussed here in relation to DMARC, SPF, MTA-STS, and DNSSEC implementation includes healthcare, business, banking, government, telecommunications, transport, and education.