Is Your Email At Risk?
Every month, a Northern Michigan business calls us after finding out their email was compromised and money was taken from their bank account. It happens more than you'd think — and most of the time, the business owner had no idea it was possible.
This free 38-page guide, written by Tom Wyant, explains exactly how these attacks happen and what you can do to prevent them.
What You'll Learn
This guide is written for business owners — not IT professionals. It uses a real-world scenario to walk you through how email-based fraud actually works, then gives you practical steps to protect your business.
The Threat
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How hackers use your email to gain access to your business bank account
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Why email is the weakest point in almost every business's security setup
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How a single click by one employee can give a hacker full access to your systems
The Most Common Email Scams
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Email forwarders — how hackers silently monitor your inbox for weeks before striking
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Spoofed emails — how criminals impersonate your suppliers using lookalike domain names that are almost impossible to spot
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Edited PDFs — how invoice PDFs can be intercepted and altered to redirect payments
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Keyloggers — malware that records every keystroke and sends it to hackers in real time
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CEO fraud — how hackers impersonate business owners to trick employees into sending money
The 9 Layers of Protection
The guide walks through the specific security measures that — when combined correctly — reduce your chances of being hacked to just 1–2%:
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Multi-factor authentication
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Third-party spam filtering
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Email authentication records (SPF, DKIM, DMARC)
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AI-powered email screening
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Improved security endpoints
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Dark web monitoring
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Security awareness training for your team
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Email encryption
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Business processes and security culture
About the Author
Tom Wyant is the founder and owner of Wyant Technologies, a managed IT services company based in Traverse City, Michigan, serving businesses throughout Northern Michigan and beyond. He has been working in IT since 2003 and wrote this guide after watching too many local businesses lose money to email-based fraud that could have been prevented.
Ready to Find Out Where Your Business Stands?
Reading the guide is a great first step. An IT Risk Assessment from Wyant Technologies gives you a complete picture of your current email security, your network, your backups, and everything else that could put your business at risk.
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