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DMARC Manager improves email security
DMARC Manager improves email security Image: Bing - AI

There is a new DMARC Manager: The advanced tool addresses the complex challenges that companies face in managing DMARC, DKIM and SPF configurations, especially when working with multiple domains. As email threats in the form of fraud and identity theft continue to increase, the need for robust email authentication procedures has never been greater. The DMARC Manager was developed by Hornetsecurity to provide administrators and Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) with an intuitive solution to set up and maintain best practices in email authentication. Easier…

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Manufacturing: Only 19 percent with email authentication 
Manufacturing: Only 19 percent with email authentication - Image by guilaine on Pixabay

Despite increasing cyberattacks, companies in the production and manufacturing sector do not have comprehensive protection against phishing and spoofing attacks. A survey shows that only 19 percent of manufacturing companies have implemented strict email authentication policies. A recent global study by email security provider EasyDMARC shows that while 61 percent of manufacturing companies have implemented the DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance) email authentication protocol, only 19 percent apply a strict authentication policy that offers comprehensive protection against phishing and spoofing attacks. Hardly any phishing and spoofing protection The study examined the 4.796 largest manufacturing companies worldwide and shows that 43…

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Negligence: No .de DMARC protection against phishing
Negligence: No .de DMARC protection against phishing Image by Gerd Altmann on Pixabay

Most organizations with a .de domain are inadequately protected against phishing and spoofing. A study by EasyDMARC has shown that only 4,55 percent of organizations with the top-level domain .de use DMARC for email authentication. Google & Co, on the other hand, already reject emails without DMARC. The email security provider EasyDMARC has examined organizations with a .de domain to find out how they are using DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance). The email security experts found that of 6.428.99 country domains in Germany, only 292.796 use the DMARC policy. This corresponds to 4,55 percent. Completely protected against phishing...

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Email Fraud: How Top Companies Put Others at Risk
Email fraud: Danger from leading German companies

The majority of leading German companies lack basic email security precautions. This poses a danger for customers, partners and employees, as they could quickly become victims. Proofpoint, Inc. today published a new study on the topic of email security for German companies. It shows that 65 percent of the 40 largest German companies do not actively protect their employees, customers and partners from email fraud. This is the result of an analysis of the level of implementation of Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) among DAX40 companies. Lack of protection through DMARC sender authentication DMARC is...

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DMARC exposes fake emails
Mail attack spam virus

The DMARC mechanism checks the domain of the real sender of an email and can thus expose fake emails. Kaspersky experts have eliminated the disadvantages of Domain-based Message Authentication Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) with newly developed technology. Throughout the history of email, people have come up with many technologies to protect recipients from fraudulent emails (mainly phishing). DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) and Sender Policy Framework (SPF) had significant disadvantages, so the Domain-based Message Authentication Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) mail authentication mechanism was developed to allow messages with a fake sender domain.

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