Understanding Business Email Compromise

Business Email Compromise (BEC) is a form of cybercrime that uses email fraud to deceive organizations. While the name indicates it is targeting only businesses, every domain owner can be affected. In a common BEC scam, criminals impersonate a company’s vendor and send a believable, yet fake, invoice in order to misdirect transfer of funds.…
Vaughn Talbert
27 October 2020
Technical Guidance

DMARC and Email Deliverability

Deliverability, also referred to as inbox placement, is a key concern for today's marketers. With a background in email deliverability, dmarcian Strategic Alliances Manager Victor Minev discusses the effect that DMARC, and its underpinning technologies, has on inbox placement.DMARC and deliverability are obviously interconnected. Depending on who you ask, DMARC has either a  direct or…
Vaughn Talbert
9 December 2019

The Intersection of Marketing and Domain Security

dmarcian Marketing Director John Bowers tells a cautionary tale and speaks to the need for marketing departments to coordinate efforts with their organization's IT department.The marketing and domain-security crossroad has become a treacherous place. Less than six months after helping my teenage son set up an account at a major U.S. bank, he and I received…
Vaughn Talbert
17 October 2019
phishing Ecosystem NewsTechnical Guidance

Three Steps for Basic BEC Defense

Weaponized fake emails are fooling businesses around the globe. When combined with easy access to information from business-facing social networks, BEC attacks now indiscriminately target everyone—from the smallest shops to the largest organizations in the world. The following three steps will put basic BEC defense in place at your organization:Use DMARC to get visibility into…
John Bowers
7 October 2019

How DMARC Contributes to Email Delivery and Engagement

In the State of Email Security, Mimecast reports that email “impersonation attacks increased almost 70 percent in comparison to the results in last year’s report – with 73 percent of those organizations impacted by impersonation attacks having experienced a direct loss, specifically loss of customers (28%), financial loss (29%) and data loss (40%). Phishing attacks…
John Bowers
26 July 2019
Technical Guidance

Understanding Shadow IT

For those who’ve been doing IT long enough to remember using a green display monitor also remember a time when everything was locked down and centralized. During the early 1980s, Local Area Networks became more popular and with them came decentralization, allowing other internal departments within an organization to take control of their IT requirements…
Vaughn Talbert
23 May 2019