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Peril · Social Engineering

Make impersonation harder than it looks.

Business email compromise and phishing get easier when a domain doesn’t prove who is allowed to send its mail. The Social Engineering dial estimates how likely an email-driven loss is for this applicant today.

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What drives the dial

What the scan looks for.

Missing email authentication

No SPF, DKIM or DMARC record, so anyone can send mail that appears to come from the domain.

Weak enforcement

Records that exist but are misconfigured or set to monitor only.

Exposed mail infrastructure

Mail servers reachable from the internet running software with known vulnerabilities.

The report’s Mitigating Controls section also shows whether email security and phishing protection are detected in place.

How it shows up

In the report.

The Social Engineering dial sits in the Security Score. The findings behind it are in Risk Detections, and the Infrastructure section shows whether they’re concentrated on one host.

How to read the score →

Representative finding
FindingNo DMARC policy published for the primary domain
DomainMail
PerilSocial Engineering
Hazard categoryMissing email authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC)
Fed by these domains

Where social engineering exposure sits.

Real-world context

What similar incidents cost.

The report’s Incident Lawsuits section matches the applicant to comparable real cases by industry, size and attack profile. It gives pricing context; it isn’t a prediction.

Questions to raise

Common subjectivities.

  • Publish SPF and DKIM for every sending domain.
  • Move DMARC to an enforcing policy.
  • Patch internet-facing mail servers.

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