DMARC enforcement and monitoring
The effectiveness of DMARC hinges on two of its core components— DMARC enforcement and DMARC monitoring. Without monitoring DMARC reports, you will not understand the relationship of your emails with different receiving mailboxes. You need to know if a malicious entity is trying to send emails from your domain or if any of the genuine…
Vendor Causes Breach, Texas Supplier Hacked, Nokia Investigates Breach
Hey people! It’s a new week, and we are back with a fresh dose of cybersecurity news once again. This week, it’s all about big companies being attacked by threat actors. Now you know that no one is completely safe from cyberattacks, not even big industry names. The sensitive data of Amazon employees was breached…
4 situations in which you should use the DMARC’s p=none policy
DMARC has three policies— none, quarantine, and reject. The ‘quarantine’ and ‘reject’ policies are strict and are used the most. However, there are cases where the ‘none’ policy is ideal. The ‘none’ policy is enforced using the p=none tag in a DMARC record. It instructs the receiving servers to take no action against unauthorized emails…
What is DMARC compliance and how can you achieve it?
If your organization sends out marketing or bulk emails, you must make sure they reach your audience safely. While this might not seem like a big goal, it is certainly not easy to check all the boxes, given that cybercriminals are only getting better with their tactics. They are perpetually on the lookout for new…
External DNS records required for SPF in Microsoft 365
SPF records are TXT records that prevent unauthorized emails sent from your domain from landing in the recipients’ inboxes. This minimizes the chances of someone getting duped under the impression that an official representative from your company is communicating with them, asking for sensitive details or transferring money. Domain owners are allowed to have only…
