Configuring DMARC for validating the FROM: address domain for senders in Microsoft 365
DMARC validates emails sent from your Microsoft 365 domain to prevent spoofed senders from attempting business email compromise (BEC) attacks, ransomware, and other phishing instances. For the DMARC validation process, the domains in the MAIL FROM and FROM addresses are verified for alignment. DMARC in Microsoft 365 for different domain types For MOERA domain users…
How Can You Check Your Domain Reputation?
A good domain reputation means most of your emails will land in the inboxes of recipients instead of spam folders. It’s needless to say, emails sitting in spam folders bring no benefit to businesses. Be it transactional, notification, promotional, newsletters, surveys, confirmations, or even internal emails, you send them for a purpose, and that purpose…
DMARC Setup Stage 1- Preparation
The process of deploying DMARC is crucial but complicated. To avoid problems related to maintenance, modifications, reporting, and troubleshooting, it’s vital that you plan and record everything. We suggest that before you start creating or modifying DNS records to analyze DMARC data, you take care of two things for a smooth deployment: Why Should You…
A Guide to Deploying SPF, DKIM, and DMARC Like a Pro!
Does your organization send more than 5000 emails per day? Does it struggle to keep phishing and spoofing at bay despite implementing email authentication protocols— SPF, DKIM, and DMARC? Well, we understand that there is no foolproof way of preventing these cybersecurity attacks, but you certainly can limit their frequency and impact. You’d be surprised…
How Does Email Forwarding Break DMARC?
Emails are forwarded more often than we realize, and while DKIM isn’t affected by email forwarding, SPF and DMARC may break. For SPF, you create a list of senders officially authorized to send emails on your behalf. When an email is forwarded, the initial recipient becomes the sender; so, if the initial recipient’s IP address…
Creating Microsoft 365 Transport Rule to Quarantine Unauthorized Inbound Emails
Domain owners use DMARC reports to instruct receiving mailboxes to quarantine or reject emails from unauthorized IP addresses. This helps minimize the possibility of victims engaging with potentially fraudulent emails sent on the pretext of official conversation from your company. However, Microsoft works a bit differently! Microsoft doesn’t reject emails because it considers the instances…
