“None of us is as smart as all of us.” — Ken Blanchard Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is an email authentication protocol created in the late 1990s that is still widely used worldwide. Its success lies in the fact that it’s an amalgamation of the efforts and brains of so many people who kept adding…
As of August 13, 2024, the United States is the world’s largest sender of spam emails, with as many as 8 billion of them sent daily. China and Germany are closely following, with 7.6 billion and 7.3 billion, respectively. Email-based phishing, spoofing, and BEC attacks are taking over the world. As per the IC3 Internet…
In today’s email ecosystem, security and deliverability must go hand-in-hand. Sender Policy Framework is the email authentication protocol that acts as a core line of defense against unauthorized people trying to send emails from your domain. Implementing and monitoring SPF ensures your brand doesn’t get involved in phishing and spoofing. Email deliverability is a critical…
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…
If your SPF record has any errors and you don’t fix them soon, then recipients’ mailboxes start marking your emails as spam or rejecting them outright. This way, communication takes a toll, and your brand’s reputation tarnishes over time. Poor email deliverability results in issues such as low engagement rates, wasted resources, compliance risks, and…
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…
Be it corporate entities or business enterprises, emails tend to be one of the strongest modes of communication for conveying professional messages. However, the deep penetration of AI into our personal and professional lives, as well as highly dynamic cyberattacking tactics, have made email communications vulnerable to cyber threats. Over time, phishing and email spoofing…
A famous software firm, Egress, published its Phishing Threat Trends Report in October 2024, highlighting how impersonation became the most prolific phishing tactic in 2024. In the context of cybersecurity, impersonation is the act of a threat actor pretending to be a trusted individual, organization, or system. By posing as a known and reliable entity,…
SPF flattening prevents your SPF record from exceeding the maximum lookup limit and becoming invalid. The process works by simplifying the SPF record, eliminating the need for frequent lookups, thereby keeping it within the limit. However, with growing adoption, intricate email infrastructures, improper email authentication practices, and emerging technologies, the future of SPF flattening is…
To thrive in today’s digital world laden with cybersecurity threats, you must implement certain measures to tighten your security. One way is to guard your email ecosystem with authentication protocols that ensure authorized emails are sent from your domain. Now, when you set up email authentication protocols like SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, you should be…
