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Understanding Email Identity

Wed, 10/12/2016
One of the things that often stumps even the most security conscious companies is knowing all the third-party email service providers they are working with. It is extremely difficult, if not impossible for these organizations to protect their customers from phishing attacks if they don’t even know who is sending legitimate email on their behalf. And this gets even more challenging when you...
Advanced Threat Protection
Anti-Phishing
Cloud Email Security
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Email Headers Explained: Understanding Email Header Information

Wed, 07/27/2016
With the surge of phishing and other advanced email attacks, you can’t be too careful when it comes to your inbound email messages. Beyond viewing the basic information provided, you should make it a habit of viewing and understanding your emails' full headers.
Cloud Email Security
DMARC Email Authentication
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Security Professional Pain Points – and How to Solve Them

Fri, 05/20/2016
Ask any security professional what the number one pain point is within their organization, and chances are they’ll say ‘user behavior’…with ‘malware’ coming in as a very close second. And while these issues are very different on the surface, they do have one thing in common: both are often the cause of high-profile data breaches, largely in part to the increased use of spear phishing email...
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
Spear Phishing
Advanced Threat Protection
Anti-Phishing
Cloud Email Security
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Press Release

How to Become Unphishable

As phishing attacks continue unabated, vendors and banks alike are scrambling to find better solutions. In a warning issued this week, the FBI said it’s seen a 270% increase in identified victims and exposed losses due to business email compromise since January 2015. Business email compromise or “CEO fraud” phishing targets businesses that frequently perform wire transfers. Perpetrators compromise...
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Press Release

Email Security Protection: Predictions and Pivots for 2016

SAN MATEO, CA – February 22, 2016 – Agari, the only enterprise-grade security solution for companies to establish a trusted email channel, today announced it will discuss current trends and future forecasts in the security space during its upcoming webinar, Email Security Protection: Predictions and Pivots for 2016 . The webinar will take place on Wednesday, February 24, 2016, at 9:00 a.m. PT. The...
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Don’t Let Your Customers Be Fooled By Cousin Domains

Tue, 12/15/2015
In the last five years, we’ve all become far too familiar with it – hackers spoofing a company’s domain and therefore tarnishing the brand, bad actors attempting to infect our computers with malware, and criminals sending millions of spam messages. As if this isn’t enough, now there is a whole group of people working to outsmart companies AND their customers by using cousin domains to fool...
Cloud Email Security
DMARC Email Authentication
SPF
DKIM
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What is Identifier Alignment?

Tue, 10/07/2014
When you begin to work with DMARC, you realize just how important identifier alignment is. Identifier alignment forces the domains authenticated by SPF and DKIM to have a relationship to the "header From" domain. Header From Domain and the MailFrom domain are different? Yes, they are! Hearing these terms can confuse people. They sound like the same thing, but in reality they are not. The...
Cloud Email Security
DMARC Email Authentication
DKIM
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What are the Differences Between DomainKeys (DK) and DKIM?

Tue, 09/16/2014
This is the second in a new ongoing series for us that gives you the tips and tricks you need for successful DMARC deployment . Read the previous tip here . DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is the successor to Yahoo DomainKeys. Both share similarities, however DKIM has the additional aspects of Cisco's Identified Internet Mail standard (IIM). The enhancements to this standard gives more security...
Cloud Email Security
DMARC Email Authentication
DKIM
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DMARC Deployment Tips & Tricks: PermError SPF

Tue, 09/09/2014
This is the start of a new ongoing series for us that gives you the tips and tricks you need for successful DMARC deployment. What does "PermError SPF Permanent Error: Too many DNS lookups" mean? There are several safeguards put in place with SPF . One of these is a limitation of DNS lookups to help ensure that you do not have timeout issues. SPF will evaluate only 10 DNS mechanism lookups in an...
Cloud Email Security
DMARC Email Authentication
SPF
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The Phishing Kill Chain

Mon, 08/04/2014
One of the great things about a conference like BlackHat is that it gives people like me the opportunity to take a step back, get out of the specific back alleyways of cybersecurity that we usually inhabit, and take a broader, more holistic look at attack and defense. One concept that's been talked about for a while is the Cyber Kill Chain. It takes a military-theoretical approach to network asset...
Advanced Threat Protection
Anti-Phishing
Cloud Email Security
DMARC Email Authentication
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DMARC is Transformational

Thu, 07/03/2014
The Benefits of Monitor Mode When a technology exists that can tell you if and when your domains are being spoofed (and by who), why would you not use it?! What is DMARC? DMARC was created to address some fundamental problems with existing email authentication technologies (SPF and DKIM). It provides feedback about your email authentication implementation and gives ISPs (Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft...
Cloud Email Security
DMARC Email Authentication
SPF
DKIM