What is ARC (Authenticated Received Chain) and its role in email security?

ByBrad Slavin Reading Time: 5 minutes

ARC or Authenticated Received Chain helps overcome the shortfalls of DMARC, further strengthening the overall email security standards. ARC is an extension of the existing email authentication standards– SPF, DKIM, and DMARC– that has opened gates for validating the sending sources of emails when they pass through multiple intermediate servers. Let’s delve deeper into understanding…

SPF record lookup: A much-needed diagnosis

ByBrad Slavin Reading Time: 4 minutes

These days, LLMs, or large language models, are making it easier for threat actors to write convincing phishing emails without leaving suspicious red flags, which are traditionally seen as hallmarks of phishing emails. As per Darktrace’s End of Year Threat Report 2023, 38% of phishing emails used novel social engineering techniques. That’s exactly why protecting…

Setting SPF and DKIM for Salesforce

ByBrad Slavin Reading Time: 3 minutes

When using an external email sender, like Salesforce, to send emails from addresses within your domain, it’s crucial to set up SPF and DKIM. Without these configurations, recipients’ inboxes may flag the emails as potential spoofing attempts. The impact varies: some corporate email servers automatically delete such emails, while others redirect them to the spam…

What is the Role and Relevance of SPF Surveys?

What is the Role and Relevance of SPF Surveys?

ByBrad Slavin Reading Time: 4 minutes

SPF or Sender Policy Framework is the first line of defense between your email ecosystem and email-based cyberattacks. It ensures that only authorized mail servers can send emails on behalf of your brand and from your domain, which helps to protect your organization from phishing and spamming. But what if this line of defense is…

Difference Between SPF Setup for Small, Medium, and Large Businesses

ByBrad Slavin Reading Time: 4 minutes

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…

A Comprehensive Guide to Manually Generating SPF Records for Custom Domains

ByBrad Slavin Reading Time: 3 minutes

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…

Qualtrics, Moosend, Shopify, and Other Major Email Service Providers are Emphasizing the Deployment of DMARC

ByBrad Slavin Reading Time: 4 minutes

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…

How Does the CIDR Notation Error Affect SPF?

ByBrad Slavin Reading Time: 4 minutes

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…

Sender Policy Framework Risk Exposures in 2024

ByBrad Slavin Reading Time: 4 minutes

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…

How Does SPF Help Marketers in Improving Email Deliverability?

How Does SPF Help Marketers in Improving Email Deliverability?

ByBrad Slavin Reading Time: 7 minutes

Imagine a situation where all your well-crafted emails land in your audience’s inbox, and they actively engage with them! Sounds like every marketer’s dream, right? As much as we would want this to become a reality, it is not! Although we understand that achieving 100% email deliverability is far-fetched or rather impossible, this doesn’t mean…