Tag: DMARC

Improve Email Deliverability by Setting Up SPF Records

May 25, 2023

Recently, Gmail changed its email acceptance policies to reject emails from sending domains without SPF or DKIM records. If they can’t be sure a message originated from an authorized server, it may end up in the spam folder. Setting up SPF records is one way to improve email deliverability, prevent spoofing, and keep your emails […]

New Feature: Custom Bounce Domains

July 26, 2022

LuxSci has introduced a new feature to improve reporting for bounced transactional and marketing messages. The new “Custom Bounce Domains” feature allows administrators to set a custom domain for bounce processing that will not break DMARC. What is DMARC? DMARC stands for Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance. It protects users from forged emails and […]

How to Avoid Business Email Compromise Attacks

July 5, 2022

Business email compromise (BEC) attacks are on the rise and are poised to eclipse ransomware as the biggest threat to cybersecurity. Since 2016, $43 billion has been stolen through BEC. Even more concerning, there has been a 65% increase in BEC from 2019 to 2021. This article explores what business email compromise scams are and […]

Zero Trust Email

July 20, 2021

Our third article on Zero Trust Architecture covers zero trust email and the systems it requires. In May, the Biden Administration announced a new approach to cybersecurity that included a push toward Zero Trust Architecture. We have already covered Zero Trust Architecture as a whole, and also talked about how dedicated servers are important parts […]

ARC and SMTP MTA-STS: The State of Domain-based Email Authentication – Part 3

September 19, 2017

We’ll close (for now) our three part series on the state of domain-based authentication for emails by completing the story on technologies being deployed or defined to improve the security of the email ecosystem. In Part 1, we wrote about using Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) to authenticate the sending mail […]