Deployment

What to do About Non-DMARC Capable Email Sources

Non DMARC Capable Sources When deploying DMARC, you may occasionally encounter email vendors that do not support DMARC authentication on your outbound email.  While most email service providers have implemented and adopted DMARC as a best practice, some vendors have not caught up. To help users deal with Non-DMARC capable sources, dmarcian classifies these email streams as "Non-Capable" (or "Non-Compliant"). This is done for two reasons: To save our users time trying to get a source of email to send…
dmarcian
19 February 2018
Industry News

FTC Study Released Regarding DMARC

Press release from Federal Trade Commission, March 3rd 2017 "In a study released today, the Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Technology Research and Investigation (OTech) reports that most major online businesses are using proper email authentication technology to prevent phishing emails, but few of these businesses are taking full advantage of the latest technologies to combat phishing. Phishing is a type of online scam that targets consumers by sending them an e-mail that appears to be from a well-known source…
dmarcian
3 March 2017
Industry News

Expansion of DMARC is Now Critical

Press Release Reposted with Permission from The Global Cyber Alliance Expansion of DMARC Critical to Reducing Spread of Malicious Emails Global Cyber Alliance Calls on Leading Cyber Companies To Improve Email Protections SAN FRANCISCO, February 14, 2017 – There is a fix that can prevent a great amount of email-born attacks on consumers and businesses. Unfortunately, the vast majority of public and private organizations globally, including leading cyber security companies, have not deployed DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance) to…
dmarcian
14 February 2017
Industry News

Subdomain Management Changes

As many of you may have noticed, there have recently been some changes to the UI regarding subdomains. After talking with people about how subdomains were being used and abused across the internet, we decided to spend some time rethinking how dmarcian process, sorts and displays subdomains. These new changes allow our system to handle large quantities of subdomains more efficiently and accurately. (more…)
dmarcian
9 January 2017
Deployment

Too many DNS lookups?

People sometimes run into the "too many DNS lookups" error when rolling out SPF (Sender Policy Framework). It doesn't help that there is a lot of bad guidance on the Internet. This article describes how to fix this issue. (more…)
dmarcian
4 August 2016