Troubleshooting DKIM issues for Google Workspace
If your legitimate emails are failing DKIM authentication, being rejected, or being marked as spam, there might be a misconfiguration in your email authentication records. To know the problem, you need to check your SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records. This guide is here to help you with checking misconfigurations in DKIM. 1. Verify if emails…
4 sectors that need email authentication the most and why
We are living in times where you have to think twice before clicking. But despite being mindful about what websites you visit and what links you download, you and your business are not 100% shielded from cyberattackers. Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, vishing, smishing, and phishing attacks have increased by a staggering…
How to manually decipher DMARC reports and why is it a difficult thing?
DMARC reports are the backbone of email authentication. Reading these reports helps you understand the situation of outgoing emails and how recipients’ mailboxes handle them. Reading these reports lets you know if an unauthorized, malicious person is sending emails from your domain. However, there is a catch; these DMARC aggregate and forensic reports are in…
Understanding the pct tag (percentage tag) in DMARC
The DMARC record you publish in your domain’s DNS helps the receiving servers know how you want them to handle illegitimate emails sent from your domain. Do you know there exists a way using which you can instruct the receiving server to check a prespecified percentage of emails to see if they are legitimate or…
How to configure SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records for Brevo?
By now, you probably know enough about authenticating your email-sending domain and its numerous benefits. The first and perhaps the most important one being how it protects your organization from falling prey to pervasive cybersecurity attacks like phishing, ransomware, malware, spoofing, etc. Apart from this, configuring your sender domain with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC helps…
