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…
SPF prevents emails sent by unauthorized people from landing in the inboxes of targeted recipients. However, if your SPF record is misconfigured, it can do more harm than good- especially if it’s overly permissive. By overly permissive, we mean using the +all mechanism, as this setting can turn your domain into an open relay for…
DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act) is a Europe-based framework explicitly designed to establish regulatory compliance for the finance sector. This act has been in force since January 2025. Though DORA and DMARC are not directly linked with each other, DMARC helps in DORA compliance by improving the email security posture. DMARC is an email authentication…
SPF is the email authentication protocol that allows domain owners to specify which mail servers they officially allow to be used to send emails on behalf of a domain. Wildcarding in SPF is done using the ‘*’ mechanism. It matches any domain or IP that doesn’t explicitly match other mechanisms in the record. Wildcarding usually…
The truth is that the most important people in your organization are also the most targeted individuals for cyber-attacks due to their access to the most critical information and the management of sensitive systems that are major targets for cyber-attackers. Since these accounts are the key to your organization’s most valuable resources, it only makes…
Overly permissive SPF configurations refer to settings that are set so loosely and broadly that anyone on the Internet can send emails from your domain. These configurations weaken your email infrastructure, ultimately exposing your brand name to phishing, spoofing, ransomware attacks, and other security risks. If unauthorized, malicious people send emails from your domain and…
They say familiarity is deceptive, and we absolutely agree with it, especially in the context of cybersecurity. We base this statement on the paradigm that humans tend to trust patterns and blindly click on something that looks familiar at a glance. While doing this, we tend to overlook minor mistakes or discrepancies that can lead…
If you have just started with SPF implementation for your domain, your SPF record can run into multiple technical issues since there are many limitations and rules involved in creating and managing it. One such rule is that the length of the SPF record should not exceed 255 characters. You can address this issue by…
When it comes to maintaining the integrity of the contents of an email and verifying that they genuinely come from a trusted sender, DKIM is the authentication protocol that most security teams trust. This email authentication standard operates on cryptographic algorithms to generate a digital signature on each email. In this way, the recipient can…
It’s important to properly configure your domains so that email deliverability is not hampered. If your emails are marked as spam or rejected, the recipient will not receive your message in their inbox. With correctly configured SPF and DKIM records comes the trust within recipients that they have received the email from a genuine sender…
