phishing Industry News

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 the scope of your potential BEC problem. DMARC will show you which servers around the Internet are sending email using your email domains—even the bad…
John Bowers
7 October 2019
Videos

Videos on all things DMARC

We're very pleased to feature a series of short, technical videos that walk through various aspects of DMARC.  These videos draw upon the best of our training courses, are freely available and can be viewed at your leisure. These videos stand by themselves and should be accessible even to the less technically inclined among us. If you've got an hour and you'd like to become an expert in DMARC, view them in order and then let us know how you…
dmarcian
7 August 2019
Webinars

Webinar: A How-To Guide to Modernizing Your Phishing Defenses

In our last webinar, we discussed how phishing protection is a shared responsibility between the industry as a whole, organizations and their security teams, and the individual end user. In the 2nd webinar of our 3-part series, dmarcian CEO Tim Draegen and GreatHorn CEO Kevin O’Brien discuss the phishing defenses of an ideal organization and talk about how to address the "danger zones" that represent the most underserved or misunderstood areas of phishing defense. We provide an action plan for:…
Vaughn Talbert
26 November 2018
Press Release

dmarcian Announces Partnership with EnCirca

Online Security Services Now More Accessible for Community Banks November 12th, 2018 - With trust at the heart of the bank-to-customer relationship, community banks strive to compete with mega banks in their ability to secure their online banking and email communication channels. As a whole, community banks with limited IT staff are particularly vulnerable to email, web, and online attacks from bad actors.  Fortunately, open standard technologies exist today for community banks to cost-effectively address cyber vulnerabilities and achieve the…
Vaughn Talbert
12 November 2018
Industry News

The Cybersecurity Tech Accord and the Global Cyber Alliance endorse DMARC

A recent event in Washington D.C. brought together the Global Cyber Alliance (GCA), the Cybersecurity Tech Accord (CTA), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Department of Justice (DoJ) to acknowledge the importance of email authentication in securing the online world. The event coincided with the one year anniversary of the DHS BoD 1801 - a Binding Operational Directive instructing the Federal government to adopt email and web security standards including DMARC. dmarcian’s CEO, and one of the primary authors…
Vaughn Talbert
19 October 2018
Webinars

Webinar: The Evolution of Phishing & How We Fight It

In 2017, the FBI estimated that losses due to business email compromise increased by 88% as compared to 2016. Yet many end users still associate phishing with the prototypical email from Nigeria. In this webinar, dmarcian CEO Tim Draegen and GreatHorn CEO Kevin O’Brien will walk through the history of phishing attacks – from the early days of the widespread Nigerian prince schemes to today’s sophisticated and highly targeted spear phishing threats. We’ll explore how we keep our philosophical approach…
Vaughn Talbert
17 October 2018