From the course: How to Conduct a Phishing Email Investigation

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- [Instructor] Analyzing an email sender's domain can be useful in verifying the legitimacy of an email and identifying potential scams or phishing attempts. For security professionals. this will be helpful if you see this domain repeatedly targeting your company with emails. You can place remediation blocks to prevent future emails from the domain. Here are the steps to analyze an email sender's domain. First look at the sender's email address and note their domain name, the part of the email address that is after the at sign. Next, check the domain name against the company or organization that the email claims to be from. For example, if the email claims to be from a bank but the domain name does not match the bank's official website, it may be a phishing attempt. I have seen some tricky instances where it was legit but it looked fake because the company used a different domain for the emails. The best defense, in either…

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