Risk · Nov 2025

The true cost of skipping DMARC

We condensed the German article for international teams. Spoofing incidents do not just hurt trust – they inflate legal fees, repayment demands and insurance premiums.

Hidden expenses pile up

• Customer reimbursement: average €48k per wire-fraud event.
• Incident response: forensics, outside counsel and PR easily reach €20k.
• Productivity loss: sales and finance teams spend days collecting evidence.

DMARC tightens security controls

Rolling out DMARC gives you an auditable inventory of domains, documented onboarding flows and continuous monitoring. Regulators and insurers increasingly demand these artifacts before renewing policies.

Build your business case

1. Quantify the number of look-alike emails reported by customers.
2. Estimate downtime and reputation impact if invoices are spoofed.
3. Compare that total with the cost of managed DMARC services.

Need help translating the German data points into your board report? Talk to DMARCFlow and we will walk you through benchmarks and ROI models.