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Email Security

Email Authentication protects your site from phishing, fraud, and impersonation. It also helps improve email deliverability and reduces the chance that an email will end up in a recipient’s spam inbox. Email spam senders, or spammers, regularly alter their methods and messages to trick potential victims into downloading malware, sharing data or sending money.

What is DMARC?

DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance), is an email authentication standard, policy, and reporting protocol. It builds on the widely deployed SPF & DKIM protocols and is the only way for email senders to tell email receivers that the emails they are sending are truly from them. Using DMARC enables senders to publish a policy on how email servers should react on inauthentic messages.

What is DKIM?

DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail), allows senders to associate a domain name with an email message, thus vouching for its authenticity. This is done by “signing” the email with a digital signature, a field that is added to the message’s header. The recipient MTA can verify the DKIM signature, which gives users some security knowing that the email did actually originate from the listed domain, and that it has not been modified since it was sent.

What is SPF?

Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is a simple email-validation system designed to detect email spoofing by providing a mechanism to allow receiving mail exchangers to check that incoming mail from a domain comes from a host authorized by that domain’s administrators.

The Risks Associated with Spam

By opening this email, the reader confirms that their email address is live and working. If they click on malicious links in the email, malware could be downloaded to their device. Also, replying can lead to personal information like banking information being stolen or money being taken from people who don’t know what’s going on. Even if the sender looks real, spam emails shouldn’t be opened or replied to. If you need more information, the best way to make sure the message is correct is to call the sender through another method. Lastly, DDoS attacks are one of the biggest risks of spam. Distributed Denial of Service is what DDoS stands for. This is what happens when a hacker gets information from spam and uses too much of your network’s bandwidth. This means that you can’t use your network in a way that takes a long time to fix. This can hurt a business’s reputation and make it less effective.