Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI) ready for take off?

BIMI is the new open standard for visualising your brand in the recipient’s mailbox with an image. Why BIMI? The new standard uses DMARC, leading some to call BIMI ‘DMARC 2.0’. While almost all previous authentication and identification methods work in the background, BIMI is the first to really try to visualise and strengthen your […]

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Categories: Authentication, DMARC, General

Choosing the right DMARC policy

Publishing DMARC records is more popular than ever. Even among those that don’t have domains related to sensitive fields, such as financial institutions, that are vulnerable to abuse. Have you thought about the policy that underpins your objectives for DMARC? Do you even have clear objectives for DMARC? DMARC policies DMARC requires three policies: none, […]

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Categories: Authentication, DMARC, General

Gmail introduces emails with lock

From now on computer users can see if their emails that go through Gmail are safe by Gmail lock. If so, the email has a special marking. For the time being, this service is only available in the United States. So there is lots of work to do for the companies that send huge amounts […]

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Categories: DMARC, General, Providers

DMARC: Four Years of Enhancing Email Security - A Look Back and Forward

It has been almost 4 years since the DMARC procedures were first launched, as well as our first publication of an article regarding this topic. As a reminder, DMARC is a Spoofing-fighting validation system. It relies on technologies such as SPF and DKIM, empowering email senders to provide receivers servers with the procedures of what […]

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Categories: DMARC, General

DMARC: A new standard for domain protection

SMTP protocol is old and easy to use. It was invented before 1980 to enable email sending to private networks. Thanks to the native SMTP protocol, it is possible to send an email using the desired sender address, but this option has also created electronic communication reliability issues as, in particular, the development of phishing […]

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Categories: DMARC, General

What DMARC means for you

A week ago DMARC went public causing a tidal wave of publicity, discussion, and fuzz. Many senders are now asking what they should do with it. In this post I will try to put things in perspective, so senders can judge better what it means for them. First of all, DMARC is not something completely […]

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Categories: Authentication, DMARC, General

Check your emails with emailaudit.com

We recently launched a service to check your emails against standards, guidelines, and best practices. This service is called EmailAudit and is available on emailaudit.com. It checks DNS, SPF, headers, DKIM, DMARC, and more. The results are not a simple pass or fail, but contain detailed information on compliance and suggestions for fixing. EmailAudit was […]

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Categories: DMARC, General

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