SPF Softfail or SPF Hardfail: What’s Right for Your Domain?
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SPF Softfail or SPF Hardfail: What’s Right for Your Domain?

When it comes to email authentication, SPF offers different result qualifiers to indicate how the receiving mail server should handle emails that are outside of the list mentioned in the SPF record of the sending domain. These result qualifiers are SoftFail and HardFail. There is no hard-and-fast rule as to which one’s the better choice…

Determining DMARC Authentication with Relaxed and Strict Alignment Modes
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Determining DMARC Authentication with Relaxed and Strict Alignment Modes

Now that DMARC implementation has become a norm in 2024, it is important that you understand its nuances to make informed decisions and fortify your organization’s defenses. One of the integral aspects that determine the efficacy of DMARC authentication is choosing the right DMARC alignment mode.  When it comes to DMARC alignment, choosing between relaxed…

The Importance of DMARC For Email Marketing and How to Get Started With it
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The Importance of DMARC For Email Marketing and How to Get Started With it

Email marketing is the backbone of the new-age online business era, where newsletters and other forms of marketing content are dispatched in bulk with the intention of attracting prospects into opening them and clicking on the links. Upon clicking the links, the recipients are taken to the products or services pages, hoping they will make…

How to Add a DMARC Record to DNS?
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How to Add a DMARC Record to DNS?

Learning how to generate and add a DMARC record to DNS helps fortify phishing and spoofing attacks. DMARC is short for Domain-based Message Authentication Reporting and Conformance, a protocol designed to help recipients’ mail servers identify genuine and suspicious emails.  To add a dmarc record to DNS, you need to update your DNS settings with…

Getting Rid of Common SPF Errors for Email Security and Delivery
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Getting Rid of Common SPF Errors for Email Security and Delivery

Since the fourth quarter of 2022, there has been a 1,265% increase in malicious phishing emails and a 967% rise in credential phishing. The expansion of ChatGPT and similar AI generative tools are contributing to this steep surge, and experts are anticipating the situation to worsen in the coming months.  Although the message for the…

8 Types of Phishing Attacks to Be Wary of
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8 Types of Phishing Attacks to Be Wary of

Phishing exists, and we all are well aware of it. However, we still end up getting trapped in the new tricks of scammers. These attacks surge specifically during the holiday seasons as people look for discounted gifts and household items. Threat actors create spoofed email addresses and websites to trap executives and attempt business email…

Detecting DMARC Issues Through Pentesting
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Detecting DMARC Issues Through Pentesting

Pen testing or penetration testing is defined as an authorized and strategized simulated cyberattack performed to explore the vulnerabilities of a technical system.  Sounds complicated? Here’s a simpler explanation- So, companies hire a penetration tester who breaks into their system just like a hacker would do. They try to take note of all the security…

The Impact of Email Forwarding on SPF, DKIM, and DMARC
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The Impact of Email Forwarding on SPF, DKIM, and DMARC

So you have your email authenticated with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, yet your DMARC report shows discrepancies in the alignment? Chances are that your emails were being passed through an intermediary mail server before they were delivered. This is a classic case of email forwarding.  But then why implement email forwarding if it can compromise…

The History and Evolution of Sender Policy Framework (SPF)

The History and Evolution of Sender Policy Framework (SPF)

The digital landscape is ever-expanding, both in a malicious as well as positive sense. Also, communication is an inevitable part of businesses and operations, and email is a common medium for exchanging messages and information. Bad actors have always exploited their intelligence and capabilities to impose themselves as trusted entities and fool people into giving…

Fix SPF Permerror: Overcome Too Many DNS Lookups

Fix SPF Permerror: Overcome Too Many DNS Lookups

Listen to this blog post below DMARC Report · Resolve SPF Permerror: Limit DNS Lookups   A little prudence in following the correct practices with your SPF record can create a world of difference in eliminating unwanted SPF Permerrors caused by increased DNS lookups. SPF, or Sender Policy Framework, is a valuable tool for email…