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DMARC and Lookalike Domains: How to Protect Your Customers from Getting Duped

Fri, 02/07/2020
Hint: DMARC Alone Won't Cut It Think the prospect of cybercriminals using your domains to launch phishing attacks sounds bad for your brand? Just wait until you hear the latest on lookalike domains. Over the last few months, researchers have been discovering a troubling number of phishing sites that feature domains meant to impersonate leading brands in a variety of industries. Sometimes referred...
Advanced Threat Protection
Anti-Phishing
Cloud Email Security
DMARC Email Authentication
Press Release
Press Release

Sophisticated Technical Cyber Threats Will Give Way to Low-tech Attacks in 2020

FOSTER CITY, CALIF. (Dec. 18, 2019) – Email security and anti-phishing firm Agari’s much-anticipated annual list of predictions is out today and shows that top information-security professionals will grapple with a very different type of attack going into the new year. Fortune 1000 CISOs can expect fewer malware attacks, the company says. “We fully expect cybergangs and cyber-criminal...
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Microsoft Office 365 + Secure Email Cloud: All You Need in a Cloud-First World

Mon, 11/04/2019
You’ve heard the statistics…more than 70% of all business users will be provisioned with cloud office applications in the next two years, including email. It’s an overdue modernization that eliminates physical infrastructure to drive cost savings and integrate services for improved productivity Chasing this move, cybercriminals intent on account takeover are evolving their tactics, targeting end...
Advanced Threat Protection
Anti-Phishing
Cloud Email Security
DMARC Email Authentication
Email Security for Office 365
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How to Prevent Phishing Attacks that Target Your Customers with DMARC and Office 365

Thu, 09/26/2019
Editor's Note: This post originally appeared on the Microsoft Security blog and has been republished here. You already know that email is the number one attack vector for cybercriminals. But what you might not know is that without a standard email security protocol called Domain Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance ( DMARC ), your organization is open to the phishing attacks that...
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
Business Email Compromise
Advanced Threat Protection
Anti-Phishing
Cloud Email Security
DMARC Email Authentication
Email Security for Office 365
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How to Stop Phishing Message Voicemail Attacks

Tue, 09/24/2019
At Agari we often talk about the evolving nature of advanced email attacks and the identity deception tactics that go with them. These attacks bypass legacy controls and like a magician delighting a curious audience, they trick the human psyche by targeting core human emotions such as fear, anxiety and curiosity. Of course, the magic in this case comes with ill intent. A good example of a...
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
Consumer Phishing
Spear Phishing
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Ensuring DMARC Compliance for Third-Party Senders

Fri, 09/06/2019
Marketo. Salesforce. Eloqua. Bamboo HR. Zendesk. It only takes a minute to realize how much organizations love third-party senders. They are typically responsible for sending our important customer notifications, marketing promotions, prospecting emails, and even employee information. Because their mail is so important to your business, we should do what we can to help them become DMARC compliant...
Cloud Email Security
DMARC Email Authentication
Press Release
Press Release

Agari Joins Microsoft Intelligent Security Association Program

FOSTER CITY, Calif. – May 15, 2019—Agari, the next-generation Secure Email Cloud that restores trust to the inbox, today announced that it has joined the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association . This is yet another step towards collaboration that will enable DMARC reporting capabilities for Microsoft Office 365 customers. “As a Microsoft Partner, Agari actively participates in the Microsoft...
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Current Email Architecture Transformation Raises the Bar for Security

Thu, 05/09/2019
Enterprise email architecture is evolving, which is good news for cybercriminals. Legacy secure email gateways (SEGs) simply don't provide full protection from today’s evolving and costly attacks, and cloud-based email requires a new security approach. In contrast, the next generation of email security—the AI-powered Secure Email Cloud —gives organizations more comprehensive security and better...
Cloud Email Security
Email Security for MS Exchange
Email Security for Office 365
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The Time is Now: Underscoring the Importance of DMARC for State and Local Governments

Wed, 04/17/2019
Scammers know that impersonating a trusted government agency is an extremely effective way to trick or scare victims into handing over money, personal data, or sensitive information. In many cases, it’s all too easy for cybercriminals to use the agency’s own domains to send authentic-looking phishing emails to constituents and contractors. That’s why the Department of Homeland Security announced...
Cloud Email Security
DMARC Email Authentication
Press Release
Press Release

Agari Expands Executive Team to Support Rapid Customer Growth and Product Innovation

FOSTER CITY, Calif. and LONDON, April 1, 2019 — Agari , the next-generation Secure Email Cloud that restores trust to the inbox, today announced it has appointed Sheryl Hawk to lead Agari’s Customer Success function. Hawk brings more than 20 years of leadership experience building services teams and optimizing customer retention in the enterprise security space. As Agari’s Vice President of...
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Protecting our Clients from Email Spoofing: Our DMARC Journey

Tue, 03/26/2019
This post originally appeared on the Armadillo Blog and has been lightly edited for clarity. Most organisations have been successful in blocking malicious emails targeted at their employees, at least to some extent. Various on-premise and cloud providers exist to take care of anti-spam, anti-virus, reputation scores, and advanced features such as sandboxing of executables. As a service provider...
Cloud Email Security
DMARC Email Authentication
SPF
DKIM
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New “BEC-as-a-Service” Trend Means Just About Anyone Can Launch an Attack

Tue, 01/22/2019
Business email compromise (BEC) fraud is a lucrative venture, and now that industry is expanding in a troubling way—by lowering the barrier to entry so that anyone with a couple hundred bucks can outsource a BEC attack. BEC criminals are organized, behaving in many ways like legitimate businesses . And just like any successful company in a growing industry, these criminals are looking to add...
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
Business Email Compromise
Cloud Email Security
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M&As Put Your Company at Risk for BEC Losses and Data Breach Liability

Thu, 01/17/2019
Mergers and acquisitions can build your company's value overnight, but business email compromise (BEC) and data breaches can tear it down just as quickly. Too often, M&A announcements are followed by waves of BEC attacks against the companies involved, or by news that the target company was the victim of a data breach. To get the most value from a merger or acquisition, you need to know how to...
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
Business Email Compromise
Data Breach
Spear Phishing
Cloud Email Security
Press Release
Press Release

Agari Appoints John Giacomini as Chief Revenue Officer

Foster City, CA – January 7, 2019 – Agari , the next-generation Secure Email Cloud that restores trust to the inbox, today announced it has appointed John Giacomini as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Giacomini joins Agari with more than 25 years of cybersecurity sales excellence. As Agari’s first CRO, Giacomini is tasked with growing all direct sales, channel sales, and customer success functions...
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Agari Identity Graph

Sat, 12/01/2018
Transcript The Agari Identity Graph is the AI-powering Agari Suite of advanced email security solutions, protecting your inbox from costly and damaging phishing schemes, account takeovers, and business email compromise attacks. The Graph leverages machine learning and makes over 300 million model updates each day, analyzing tens of billions of emails flowing through the Secure Email Cloud. The...
Cloud Email Security
Email Security for G-Suite
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Product Video

Watch a Short Demo of Agari DMARC Protection

Fri, 11/09/2018
In this short demo video, John Wilson, Senior Fellow, Threat Research at HelpSystems shows how Agari DMARC Protection helps clients defend their marketing investment, protect their brand, and keep their customers’ trust.
Cloud Email Security
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The ROI of Protecting Your Brand, Customers and Partners from Phishing

Thu, 10/25/2018
Over the past 6 months, 100% of Agari customer brands and more than 80% of their domains have been the target of consumer phishing or B2B phishing attacks impersonating their brand to commit fraud. While the cost of phishing attacks isn't always visible, there are very real costs to businesses in the form of email deliverability, brand value and fraud costs. The root cause of this problem is that...
Cloud Email Security
DMARC Email Authentication
Press Release
Press Release

Agari Fall '18 Release Completes First and Only Fully Automated Advanced Email Security Solution Powered by Al

FOSTER CITY, Calif. – September 20, 2018 – Agari, the only cloud-native solution that uses predictive AI to stop advanced email attacks, today announced its Fall ‘18 Release, a series of breakthrough enhancements for the Agari Email Trust Platform ™ -- the industry’s only fully automated advanced email security solution powered by artificial intelligence. Agari Customer Protect ™, which safeguards...
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Email Fraud: Modeling, Time-Series Analysis & Predicting the Next Attack

Tue, 08/14/2018
After the typical malicious email attack is launched, its first victim will be compromised in under 4 minutes. Now, emerging, predictive models may point to new ways to neutralize that threat. Data science may soon be able to predict when the next email fraud attack will hit your company's inboxes. But why should we care? After all, what's the value of being able to predict these assaults? Is an...
Cloud Email Security