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The Time is Now: Underscoring the Importance of DMARC for State and Local Governments

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...
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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

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...
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New “BEC-as-a-Service” Trend Means Just About Anyone Can Launch an Attack

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...
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M&As Put Your Company at Risk for BEC Losses and Data Breach Liability

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...
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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

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...
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Watch a Short Demo of Agari DMARC Protection

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.
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The ROI of Protecting Your Brand, Customers and Partners from Phishing

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...
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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

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...
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Agari Summer '18 Release Extends Protection against Advanced Deception Attacks

FOSTER CITY, Calif., June 13, 2018 – Agari, a leader in Identity Deception Protection solutions, today announced its Summer ’18 Release, which extends the protection of the Agari Email Trust Platform™ against advanced identity deception attacks. Major enhancements in this release include attachment analysis for improved account takeover detection, an interactive threat taxonomy for granular attack...
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Agari Wins 2018 SC Magazine Award for Best Email Security Solution

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – RSA Conference – April 19, 2018 – Agari, a leading cybersecurity company, today announced it has been recognized as the “Best Email Security Solution” by the 2018 SC Magazine Awards, from a prestigious field of finalists including Proofpoint (NASDAQ: PFPT), FireEye (NASDAQ: FEYE), Mimecast (NASDAQ: MIME) and Zix (NASDAQ: ZIXI) . The Agari Email Trust Platform was selected...
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Why are my Google Calendar Invites Blocked by DMARC?

Are you sending Google Calendar invites and not getting replies, or maybe your invitees tell you they tried to reply and it was blocked? Or maybe you are trying reply to Google Calendar invites and being blocked saying the mail is not accepted due to your domain's DMARC policy? This is an issue I have been seeing, so I did some digging and I have figured out what is going on. Before I get to the...
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Understanding Email Identity

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...
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Email Headers Explained: Understanding Email Header Information

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.
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Security Professional Pain Points – and How to Solve Them

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...
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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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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...