In this article, we’ll explore two practical steps to strengthen your communication safety. We’ll discuss how residential proxies can protect your email activities, and then examine the importance of securing your email domain with proper authentication and policies. Along the way, we’ll see what the latest research and experts say about keeping business emails safe.
Current service providers have a variety of proxies, but we concentrate here on residential proxy solutions because they offer distinct advantages over other types (like datacenter proxies) when it comes to appearing legitimate online. Residential proxy IPs are real addresses assigned to homeowners by ISPs, they make your traffic look like it’s coming from a normal user. This reduces the chance of being flagged or blocked by email providers’ security filters. In contrast, cheap datacenter proxies or VPNs might trigger suspicion or spam flags. With residential proxies, your logins to business email or cloud accounts seem routine, not robotic.
Another safety benefit is how proxies can contain phishing damage. Email phishing is an enormous threat – in fact, roughly 90% of corporate cyberattacks start with a phishing email. A residential proxy won’t stop phishing emails from arriving (you still need spam filters and user training for that), but it can limit the fallout if someone accidentally clicks a malicious link. Essentially, the proxy acts like a motion sensor at the door – any suspicious movement trips an alarm. Many attackers won’t even realize a proxy is in place, so they might expose more of their tactics or identity, thinking they have a direct line in. In this way, using proxies adds resilience: even when humans make mistakes, the technology provides a second chance to catch the bad guy.
Lastly, residential proxies can improve privacy for everyday business communications. By routing email-related traffic through different IP addresses (often even rotating through a pool of addresses), it becomes harder for third parties to build an advertising profile on your company or track your employees’ online activities. For instance, that marketing newsletter tracking who opens their emails might log an IP address that leads nowhere near your actual office. This helps avoid targeted ads and profiling based on your corporate network’s identity. It’s a subtle benefit, but in an age of data-driven advertising, a little obscurity goes a long way in preserving privacy.
Alternatively, there is always a choice to opt for other types of proxies, if a security team has different priorities. The best solution is to try out both on Webshare or similar trustworthy platforms, then make an informed decision. They even allow new users to try a limited number of proxies for free, which is a handy way to test the waters.
Domain-based email threats are on the rise, especially in the form of business email compromise (BEC). In a BEC scam, attackers either infiltrate your actual email system or spoof your email domain to pose as your company’s executive, tricking people into wiring money or divulging sensitive data. This threat has become so prevalent that, according to a 2025 cyber trends report, BEC now targets 70% of organizations and accounts for about 25% of security incidents, making it the top email-related attack vector today.
Why is BEC so effective? Because it exploits trust in your domain’s good name. If criminals send a message that appears to come from CEO@yourcompany.com and it lands in an employee’s or customer’s inbox, there’s a high chance the person will believe it’s legitimate.
The impact of deploying these measures is huge. In fact, countries and industries that mandated DMARC have seen phishing email rates plummet in recent years. Despite this, most businesses have been slow to adopt strong email authentication. A recent study in mid-2025 found that only 7.7% of the world’s top 1.8 million domains have a strict “reject” DMARC policy in place – meaning less than one in ten companies globally is fully protected against email spoofing. Shockingly, over half of domains surveyed did not have any DMARC record at all, leaving the door wide open for fraudsters to send fake emails in those companies’ names.
In short, it’s crucial not to stop halfway – you should aim to move your DMARC policy from monitoring only to an active protection mode once you’re confident everything is configured correctly.
