# Common Providers and Tools The most common business email provider, with approximately 40% market share, is [[Microsoft Exchange Online]]. From there we have [[Google Workspace]] at around 30% The remaining providers are in single digits and are likely less relevant to the average small business' needs. This aligns with personal use as well, with "outlook.com" and "gmail.com" being the personal products offered by Microsoft and Google respectively # Basic Security Email is not secure. However, There are three primary technologies that make it 'more' secure. If these are turned on and configured for your email system across all your domains, you're easily in the top 5% of businesses for managing email correctly, and will experience far fewer issues with your emails going into junk. - [[SPF]] - Which systems are allowed to send from your domain. - [[DKIM]] - The signed proof it came from one of those systems - [[DMARC]] - Where to report any fake emails that fail the above Want to know if yours are configured? https://mxtoolbox.com/ [[MX Toolbox]] is one of the longest running tools on the web for analysing your email configuration, as well as [[DNS]] in general.