9 Must-Know Best Practices for Email Security

This guide explains that email remains a primary attack vector—exploiting human behavior through phishing, BEC, spoofing, and malicious attachments—and recommends a layered defense combining strong authentication, advanced filtering, MFA, employee training, safe handling practices, least-privilege access, easy reporting, and Human Risk Management. It emphasizes that technical controls alone are insufficient, advocates real-time coaching and integrated incident response with cloud email security, and references KnowBe4 solutions to measure and reduce human risk.