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Top 5 DMARC Insights From Our Live Chat

Top 5 DMARC Insights From Our Live Chat

With extensive training and experience in cybercrime technology, IT support, and research, dmarcian business analyst Ernest McLeod shares his insights on working the front lines as users and customers engage with our online chat feature. “Working in this role has given me a unique perspective on how critical email is... Read more »

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How to Create and Add an SPF Record

How to Create and Add an SPF Record

An SPF record or SPF TXT record is a record that is part of your domain’s DNS. It contains a list of all the IP addresses that are permitted to send email on behalf of your domain.

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Vendor Management: The Importance of Identifying Third-Party Sources

Vendor Management: The Importance of Identifying Third-Party Sources

For many organizations, the deployment of DMARC across their domain catalog can involve many challenges. One such challenge is the identification of all third-party services, also called sources, that send email on behalf of one or more domains. Our Deployment Team recommends the important step of developing a strong process... Read more »

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Obstacles along the Path to Wider DMARC Adoption

Obstacles along the Path to Wider DMARC Adoption

With over 18 years of relationship management experience in the digital realm, Dan Levinson, dmarcian’s Director of Client Success, shares his insights on DMARC as a best practice and obstacles to adoption within the email ecosystem. As a mission-driven company, dmarcian is dedicated to improving and securing the entire world’s... Read more »

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What is a DMARC Record?

What is a DMARC Record?

As a mission-driven company, dmarcian is focused on spreading the adoption of DMARC. Because of this, we interface with a wide range of people with varying degrees of knowledge. We thought we’d take a step back and take a look at something fundamental: What is a DMARC record? A DMARC... Read more »

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Top 5 DMARC Deployment Mistakes

Top 5 DMARC Deployment Mistakes

With phishing exploits at an all-time high, there’s growing awareness of how DMARC can help protect domains and make email more trustworthy. It’s no secret that enacting DMARC can be a complex and intimidating process. DMARC project teams often enter uncharted territory and make mistakes as they deploy the DNS-based... Read more »

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DMARC Reporters Who Skip the DKIM Selectors

DMARC Reporters Who Skip the DKIM Selectors

With the DMARC technical standard, the importance for reporters to include DKIM selectors in their reports cannot be minimized. DMARC aggregate reporting is high level and includes all the information you would expect is important and sometimes necessary to identify who sent the original email. The DKIM selector is vital... Read more »

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DMARC in 2020 – A Look Forward

DMARC in 2020 – A Look Forward

The end of the year offers a chance to pause and reflect on what 2020 may have in store. dmarcian’s General Manager of the Americas, Ed Carroll, shares his predictions for DMARC in 2020. The end of the year can sometimes seem like an arbitrary mark on the calendar, but... Read more »

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DMARC and Email Deliverability

DMARC and Email Deliverability

As DMARC has grown to become an email authentication best practice and industry standard for phishing prevention, there’s little question that it affects deliverability.

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How to Handle Your Parked Domains

How to Handle Your Parked Domains

It is easy to overlook parked domains (also referred to as inactive domains) when it comes to email security. After all, these domains are typically inactive and in some cases not even configured to send email. However, they shouldn’t be overlooked. Failure to take proper precautions protecting inactive domains provides... Read more »

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