The healthcare industry depends a lot on technology — whether it’s online appointments, digital health records, or connected medical devices. While this reliance has made patient care faster and more effective, it has also given cybercriminals more ways to break in. Now, it’s more frequent than ever to come across news of threat actors encrypting…
No doubt that placing your logo beside every email you send makes your brand stand out in a crowded inbox and boosts engagement. Yes, deploying BIMI helps brands affix their logos to outgoing emails, but this process is somewhat complicated. Establishing trust and integrity in the recipients’ inboxes requires you to prove that the messages…
Maintaining an SPF record is pretty easy, given that you use only one or two email services. But that’s not always the case. For most organizations, there are more than a handful of servers and third-party services that are used to send emails to their clients and prospects. These services include CRM platforms, marketing tools,…
During the 2024 Black Friday to Cyber Monday (BFCM) period, Mailchimp customers sent billions of emails. Notably, on Black Friday alone, over 133 million emails were dispatched in a single hour. On the other hand, SendGrid claims to send 148+ billion emails every month. And at the same time, there has been a massive 202%…
SPF (Sender Policy Framework), one of the three email authentication protocols, enables recipient email servers to verify whether or not the email received is an authorized one. However, SPF comes with its own set of intricacies, as there is a limit of 10 DNS lookups. Once the SPF record has reached the maximum limit of…
Most organizations have strict norms and regulations on what resources their employees can access— like which systems are open to all, who gets special permissions like admin rights, or which tools are absolutely out of bounds. While most employees abide by these rules, there are some who find a way to work around them. This…
The Trello breach, which occurred in January 2024, resulted in approximately 15 million users having their email addresses, names, usernames, project management information, and activity logs scraped and offered for sale on a hacking forum. This incident raised significant concerns regarding user data security and highlighted the importance of implementing strong passwords and two-factor authentication…
Sender Policy Framework, or SPF, is a simple way to tell the receiving servers which IPs or mail servers are allowed to send emails on behalf of your domain. It basically means ‘allowlisting’ all those who are officially permitted to send emails as your business representatives. But that’s not all when it comes to implementing…
Gone are the days when incorrect grammar, poor graphics, an unprofessional tone, and other flaws were red flags of a phishing email. It’s 2025, and AI has enabled threat actors to create convincing emails without such flaws. They are creating sophisticated emails that look like they have been genuinely sent by friends, colleagues, clients, service…
In general, cyber resilience is a company’s ability to withstand, respond to, and recover from cyberattacks or IT failures while continuing to operate smoothly. It’s like having a backup plan and strong defenses to keep business running even when something goes wrong. There is no strict definition of cyber resilience as the digital landscape keeps…
