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5 Big Myths about DMARC, Debunked
By Monica Delyani on Tue, 04/26/2022
With email attacks contributing to billions of lost dollars each year, a growing number of organizations are adopting Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance (DMARC) in an effort to protect themselves and their customers from fraudsters. Adoption of DMARC has steadily gained traction since the onset of the pandemic, and the original email authentication protocols at the heart...
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Why Agari DMARC Protection Is Essential to Your DMARC Journey
By Mike Jones
This on-demand webinar explains how to understand when your company is being targeted in an attack and how Agari DMARC Protection stops email spoofing.
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2022 Data Privacy Week – Education and Inspiration
Mon, 01/24/2022
As the world becomes more and more dependent on online resources to complete daily tasks, such as work meetings, grocery shopping, and even exercising, the risk of cyber attacks, data breaches, and information stealing increases. If you’re not already protecting your personal information online, now is the perfect time to start, as Data Privacy Weeks kicks off today.Led by the National Cyber...
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Six Steps to Email Security Best Practice
Thu, 01/13/2022
To help IT teams define a robust email security policy and determine what’s required from an email security solution, we’ve put together a new six-step guide.
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What Is Email Phishing? Protect Your Enterprise
Wed, 12/08/2021
Phishing emails can steal sensitive data and cost companies' their reputation. However, protecting a company from these scammers doesn't need to be difficult.
What Is Email Phishing?
Phishing is when an attacker mimics a trusted person or brand in an attempt to steal sensitive information, or gain a foothold inside a company network. While phishing emails are by far the most popular, these...
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It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year… for Cybercriminals
Mon, 11/29/2021
The holiday season is upon us, which means it’s also the busiest time of the year for online shopping. There’s Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and gifts to buy for loved ones. Plus, gifts to buy for yourself when the deals are this good! But beware, for cybercriminals ‘tis also the season to scam millions of dollars from unsuspecting people and companies. They’re banking on people being in a rush and...
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TLS Email Encryption: What It Is & How to Check if Your Email Is Using It
Mon, 06/21/2021
What exactly is TLS when it comes to email encryption?
TLS, or cybersecurity protocol Transport Layer Security first developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), was designed to establish secure communications that provide both privacy and data security. Originally created from another encryption protocol called Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL...
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5.8B Malicious Emails Spoofed Domains; 76% of Fortune 500 Still at Risk: DMARC Results from Agari
Wed, 05/05/2021
Global adoption of Domain-based Messaging, Reporting & Conformance (DMARC) topped 10.7 million email domains worldwide in 2020—reflecting a 32% increase in just six months, according to our H1 2021 Email Fraud & Identity Trends Report.
The total number of domains with DMARC set to its highest level of protection against email spoofing climbed to 3.8 million during the same period. That's up a...
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What is DMARC? Effects on Email Spoofing & Deliverability
Tue, 04/20/2021
Wondering how DMARC affects email? Here’s a comprehensive guide explaining what DMARC is, how it affects email, and why your company needs it for security.
What is DMARC?
What does DMARC mean? DMARC, short for Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance, is an email authentication protocol to help email administrators prevent fraudsters from spoofing email domains by...
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Email Security: Agari Delivers a Whole New Level of Actionable Insight to Outpace Threat Actors
Sun, 01/24/2021
CISOs and their teams are about to get some serious performance enhancers in their high-stakes race against email security threats.
According to the FBI, phishing campaigns, business email compromise (BEC) scams, and other advanced email attacks have resulted in $26 billion in business losses over the course of three years. Then 2020 happened.
With 75 million corporate employees even now still...
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DMARC: 3 Best Practices for Capturing Next-Level Business Value
Fri, 12/18/2020
Implementing DMARC at its highest enforcement level is critically important to security and messaging operations. But it's also just the first step to realizing the full value of your DMARC program.
To understand why, let's start with the basics. DMARC, which stands for Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance, can stop fraudsters from spoofing your domain and impersonating...
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What is Email Spoofing & How to Stop Attackers from Spoofing Your Email Address
Tue, 12/15/2020
What is email spoofing, how does it work, and why is it so dangerous to your company? We’ll explain everything you need to proactively stop attackers from spoofing your email address.
Email Spoofing: What Is It?
Email spoofing is when a fraudster forges an email header’s ‘From’ address to make it appear as if it was sent by someone else, usually a known contact like a high-level executive or...
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BEC Cash-out Methods: Email Fraudsters Experimenting With Alternative Approaches
Tue, 12/01/2020
Business email compromise (BEC) actors are exploring alternative cash-out methods for spiriting away the profits from their crimes.
Traditional bank accounts have long been the go-to choice for email scammers seeking to cash out the funds they've pilfered from organizations they victimize. Just since 2016, BEC groups have defrauded businesses out of more than $26 billion worldwide. But over the...
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DKIM for Email: What It Is, How It Works, and How to Add It
Thu, 11/19/2020
We'll cover what DKIM for email is, why your company needs it, how it works, how to set DKIM up, and additional ways to prevent email spoofing attacks.
What is DKIM?
First, let’s clarify what DKIM is in email. DomainKeys Identified Mail is a technique that uses your domain name to sign your emails with a digital “signature” so your customers know it’s really you sending those emails and that...
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DMARC: 5 Keys to Success
Wed, 11/18/2020
In this post, we will look at 5 keys to DMARC success both organizationally and in enterprise-wide implementation.
Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC) is a standard email authentication protocol that plays an essential role in any organization’s cyber security arsenal. That’s because DMARC is key to protecting your business, customers, and partners from email...
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5 Keys to DMARC Success
DMARC email authentication is essential to protecting your business, customers, and partners from email attacks that spoof your domain and hijack your brand. But for large enterprises, effective DMARC deployment is a complex, high-stakes effort.
Let Agari show you the way to full DMARC protection quickly and safely.
In this webinar, you’ll discover 5 best practices from the pros:
Key program...
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BEC Attacks: What They Are, How to Spot Them, and What to Do
Tue, 11/10/2020
Here we’ll cover what BEC attacks are, how they work, what they usually look like, and how to handle them.
What is a BEC Attack?
7 Common BEC Attack Patterns
Top Identity Deception Techniques
How Can BEC Attacks be Stopped?
What's the Best Way to Recover From a BEC Attack?
What is a BEC Attack?
First, let me explain what a BEC attack is. In short, Business Email Compromise phishing occurs...
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DMARC Setup Guide: How to Add DMARC Step by Step
Fri, 10/09/2020
We'll explain how to configure DMARC for your company's email, including what you'll need and how to add DMARC to your DNS. Just follow these DMARC setup steps!
Before we begin, here’s a high-level overview of how to add DMARC to your DNS.
Add your DMARC record into your DNS
Select the TXT record type
Add the host value (see details below)
Add the value information (see details below)
Save...
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Agari Fall ' 20 Release Boosts CISO Confidence in Enterprise DMARC Deployment
Tue, 09/29/2020
With cyber gangs leveraging business email compromise (BEC) attacks that actively exploit their targets' level of DMARC adoption, CISOs have been ratcheting up email security.
Until now, the need to dial up defenses against imposters posing as senior executives in email attacks has been increasingly forcing legitimate business correspondence into quarantine. The chain reaction kneecaps commerce,...