(Spear) Phishing issue – you’re doing it wrong and it’s costing you money !!
Organizations forget DMARC Compliance when dealing with a phishing issue.
DMARC Compliance
O365 – Easy guide to add DMARC
Microsoft’s O365 platform supports the email authentication protocol called DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance). This protocol prevents spammers from illegitimately using your email domain and sending email with a “From” address that makes email appear to come from someone in your domain. The impact of spammers illegitimately using your domain to send spam …
GSuite – Easy guide to add DMARC
Gmail supports the email authentication protocol called DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance). This protocol prevents spammers from illegitimately using your email domain and sending email with a “From” address that makes email appear to come from someone in your domain. The impact of spammers illegitimately using your domain to send spam or junk …
Gmail for Business and O365 users – DMARC is free !!
Ok I admit it – I am a DMARC advocate, evangelist and all round believer in this standard. Key takeaway – DMARC protocol is FREE and you can implement DMARC whilst you do a review for the best email cloud security/filtering platform – they are independent of each other. Scenario – I’m at dinner with …
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In response to “Raising the red flag on recent DMARC hype”
DMARC Compliance is a process that uses a DMARC dashboard as a tool to receive and analyse reports through which informed recommendations can be made. So lets discuss the flaws identified. Mailsploit – this website identifies bugs in certain email applications that are shown to be vulnerable to XSS and code injection attacks. In fact, …
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DMARC Compliance, Email Deliverability and IP Reputation – here’s the proof.
When working through an issue, it’s always best to have some type of statistical data to base a decision or to build a business case for a potential change. Of course we also need to keep in mind not to the taint the data and mold it into our predetermined or preferred premise. The assertion …
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$100M email fraud and the DON’T of DMARC Compliance
There’s an old saying that rings true most of the time and way too often namely “the plumber’s house has the worst plumbing in the street, or relating it back to technology “an online service provider still running on physical non virtualized servers”. The key message here is that for those that should know better …
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Subdomain abuse has become mainstream
It was in 1742 that Thomas Gray penned a famous poem about young innocence unknowing or even uninterested in the challenges ahead in adult life. You yourself would be familiar with this poem based on its closing statement “Innocence is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise.” Starting in mid-February of this year, a massive cyber-attack …
Email – No longer set and forget.
Email borne threats have increased exponentially over the last decade. Our dependence on the humble email has fundamentally changed the way we do business. The Radicati Group in their latest Email Statistics Report indicates that there are approximately 3.8 billion email users in 2018 that send close to 282 billion emails per day. From the outset of its …
Aristotle and his contribution to preventing email domain spoofing.
Well over 2 thousand years ago, Aristotle, a Greek philosopher, defined a concept that we know and use today – that of causality typically known as “cause and effect”. In fact, he proposed that causality has 4 contributing factors or causes, that can identify the reason of anything occurring. Don’t worry – you haven’t landed …
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