At times, you need an external party to handle the exchange of emails on your behalf. Now, since you can’t afford to overlook email authentication done through SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, you need to give control of a few DNS records so that everything works properly. This blog specifically shares how domain owners can do…
If you send emails from Amazon SES and see the ‘Via amazonses.com’ warning, then you need to set up SPF and DKIM. This warning basically indicates that the mailbox provider perceived that your emails were sent from Amazon SES and not your brand. This blog guides you on setting SPF for Amazon SES so that…
Microsoft Office 365 is a cloud-powered productivity platform that offers its users many benefits. However, like any other platform, it is also infested with cybercriminals and their ill-intended agendas. According to a recent report by SlashNext, there was an 856% increase in malicious email and messaging threats from April 2023 to April 2024. And that’s…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
