Businesses with an online presence need robust measures to protect their authenticity and identity. We are living in a time where the global average cost of a data breach in 2024 is USD 4.88 million—a 10% increase over last year and the highest total ever. Statistics like these are already encouraging business owners to deploy…
If you send emails using the Omnisend platform and still don’t have SPF, DKIM, and DMARC in place, then your emails can get blocked. Deploying and managing these email authentication protocols is important for enhanced email deliverability and prevention from phishing. Irrespective of how many emails are sent from your domain daily or monthly, you…
You might have often come across the term quid pro quo, perhaps in the context of legal or business dealings. This Latin phrase, which means “something for something,” has also found its way into the domain of cybersecurity, and one thing’s clear: it’s laden with negative implications. When understood in the context of cybersecurity, the…
When it comes to upholding the integrity and security of your email communications, SPF (Sender Policy Framework) is the frontline barrier that keeps malicious actors at bay by maintaining a record of all the mail servers authorized to send emails on behalf of your domain. To effectively protect your domain, you need an SPF record…
In SPF, fallback mechanisms come into play when an email fails SPF checks, but the recipient’s server or policies offer ways to handle or mitigate the failure. They provide you the flexibility in handling emails that fail SPF checks while still being able to maintain security through other email authentication protocols. This ensures that email…
To enable SPF for your domain, you need to add a DNS TXT record at your domain provider. When doing so, keep the following points in mind to ensure everything works efficiently and there are no security gaps. Add your SPF record Use your credentials to sign in to your domain host’s management console and…
It’s common for businesses to have multiple subdomains, but what about their security? While some domain owners completely ignore securing their subdomains, some subject them to the SPF policy of the parent domain. Yes, the latter is definitely better than the former, but even that doesn’t promise robust defense against phishing, spoofing, and ransomware attacks…
SPF, which is short for Sender Policy Framework, is an email authentication protocol that allows Microsoft 365 domain owners to prevent threat actors from succeeding in deceiving recipients by sending phishing and spoofing emails from your domain. With SPF in place, emails sent by only officially authorized IP addresses and servers linked to your domain…
Sophos is a British security software and hardware company that offers a suite of products. It specializes in communication endpoints, encryption, network security, email security, mobile security, and unified threat management. Sophos provides solutions for businesses and consumers to protect against malware, viruses, ransomware, and other cyber threats. Configuring SPF for Sophos Sender Policy Framework…
As you know, DMARC is based on SPF and DKIM, and the alignment of both these protocols is crucial for its processing. Identifier alignment builds a connection between the authentication flow of SPF and DKIM while also dictating the DMARC policy subjected to illegitimate emails sent from your domain. The two DMARC alignments– strict and…
