An email addressed from a health insurance company is four times more likely to be fraudulent than an email from a social media company, according to Fortune. The survey analyzed three processes for the companies’ email authentication process: checking emails against a list of authorized senders, verifying a sender through an encrypted digital signature and comparing the email to published records on a company’s server.
However, health insurance company Aetna stood out in the survey with better security — its policy of checking emails against the company’s published records is a significant portion of its security, according to the report.
“The poor folks in healthcare have traditionally not had much digital interaction,” Patrick Peterson, Agari founder and CEO, told Fortune. “They’re the ones furthest behind by a country mile.”
