It was not long ago when Google and Yahoo revamped their email-sending policies and made DMARC authentication a mandatory exercise for organizations sending more than 5,000 emails a day. The aim of these mail service providers was simple— to build a cyber-resilient digital ecosystem. Recently, another major ESP— Microsoft, jumped the bandwagon and announced that it…
You have a company? You have a domain? You and your team send emails? If the answer to all these questions is a solid ‘yes,’ then you surely can be under the radar of email phishers and spoofers. It doesn’t matter if you have two people in your company or two thousand; you need to…
Understanding the realities and limitations of the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is crucial for making informed decisions about your email security. Believing in SPF myths can lead to a false sense of security, potentially putting your system at risk. For example, the misconception that SPF is self-sufficient could lead to a lack of additional security…
Amazon Simple Email Service, or SES, is a cloud-based email-sending service developed for businesses that send marketing, notification, and transactional emails. Regardless of the types of emails you send, it’s crucial to protect them from threat actors. Without proper protection, illegitimate emails sent on your behalf could end up in the inboxes of recipients, potentially…
Email security was a headache for tech giants (and even some smaller companies) in the late 1990s. It was the time when threat actors started exploiting email communications to attempt impersonation, spoofing, and phishing-based attacks in the names of reputed companies and domain owners. Considering the rise in email-based cyber menaces, many experts got involved…
SPF records, as you may be aware, are like the bouncers of your email servers. They’re the DNS records that explicitly specify which email servers are officially allowed to send emails on behalf of your brand. By defining this list, domain owners keep out the riff-raff, preventing unauthorized people from sending emails that could tarnish…
Threat actors look for unprotected emails. They use various social engineering and phishing tactics to manipulate recipients into sharing confidential information, transferring money, downloading malware-infected files, etc. In 2023, 94% of organizations had email security issues, and considering the rise in email menaces, even Google and Yahoo explicitly state the importance of DMARC adoption. These…
All the IP addresses that you officially allow to be used for sending emails on your behalf are listed in an SPF record. When domain owners have to mention multiple IP addresses, they often use the CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing) notation as it’s a way of representing IP address ranges in a compact manner. Using…
Here’s a harsh truth- your customers’ card transactions are not as secure as you might think. Even though card payments have opened up new avenues in the business world, there exists a problem! This payment method puts your customers at risk of credit card theft and jeopardizes the credibility of your business. Given the current…
Sender Policy Framework is an email authentication protocol that allows a domain owner to publish an SPF record corresponding to their name. This SPF record includes a list of IP addresses and mail servers that the domain owner officially authorizes to be used for sending emails from. When the email reaches the recipient’s server, it…
