In the era of instant communication and remote approvals, business email compromise shows how quickly routine processes can become attack paths. With Business Email Compromise (BEC), attackers impersonate or take over a trusted identity to trick victims into sending money, credentials, or sensitive information to an unauthorized recipient. It can be especially difficult to detect, as attackers can compromise legitimate inboxes or phone numbers, spoof addresses, identities, or
Security teams are hardly short on data; they’re overwhelmed by it. The real challenge is deciding which signals matter and how to act on them before they escalate. Every alert, every suspicious domain, and every flagged executable competes for attention in an environment in which time is the most constrained resource. A detection on its own rarely answers the question that actually matters: Does this require action right now or not? The difference between signal and noise is