The Difference in DMARC Reports: RUA and RUF
If you're just getting started with your DMARC project, it's important to understand the differences between the two associated report types—aggregate (RUA) and forensic (RUF).
News & Knowledge
Yahoo Begins Including DKIM Selectors in Reporting
A new and welcomed trend has emerged from the land of DMARC reporters, third parties who generate and send aggregate and forensic reports.
Need to Ignore Some Reporters to Reach Higher DMARC Compliance?
Many customers may find that on their journey to DMARC compliance, certain DMARC reporters (email servers that receive email from your domain) are consistently reporting the same levels of SPF/DKIM/DMARC compliance even after you correct any issues on the sending side.
CISA Recommends DMARC for Healthcare Organizations
As phishing continues to be the top attack method for cyber criminals to infiltrate the networks of healthcare organizations to steal medical data, personal identifiable information and deploy ransomware, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) has published a DMARC fact sheet relative to healthcare organizations.
Data Security and Insight: dmarcian and Your Data
We live in a data-driven world. Data can either help you or hurt you, but the best way to ensure it is helpful is to be intentional about what you do with it.
SMTP TLS Reporting
SMTP TLS Reporting is about receiving reports from the internet regarding possible connection security issues that servers experience when connecting to your inbound email systems.
MTA-STS
MTA-STS is an inbound mail protocol designed to add a layer of encryption/security between sending and receiving mail servers.
The purpose of MTA-STS is to encrypt and secure communications between SMTP servers via TLS (Transport Layer Security) preventing man-in-the-middle attackers from viewing and manipulating in-transit emails.
FBI Releases 2020 Internet Crime Report
The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has released the 2020 Internet Crime Report, which includes information from 791,790 complaints of suspected internet crime—an increase of more than 300,000 complaints from 2019—and reported losses exceeding $4.2 billion. 2020 was a record year for internet crime complaints from the American public... Read more »
SPF Problems with MailChimp
We sometimes hear from our customers who have problems with how Mailchimp handles SPF. They see the following in their dmarcian dashboard: SPF is not possible as Mailchimp uses their own domain in the bounce address. And sometimes they’ll message us with some variation of the following: I chatted with... Read more »
How to Publish a DMARC Record with Wix
For those of you that use Wix as your DNS provider, here are brief instructions for adding a DMARC record. If your domain has been added through one of their partners, you’ll manage your DNS records through that hosting partner. NOTE: It’s always good practice to check the primary instructions... Read more »