Advanced Email Security
Overview
Any organization or business irrespective of its size largely depends on emails to communicate with internal and external parties. Employees naturally get involved in the transmission of emails either as senders or receivers. These emails often contain highly confidential and sensitive information like bank account details, transaction details, employee information, etc. While organizations usually have security systems in place to intercept all email exchanges, some bypass these systems as they are sent from illegitimate or compromised email accounts.
Over 90% of cyberattacks that succeed are initiated with a seemingly harmless email. Relying on in-built security systems leaves organizations and businesses vulnerable to cybercriminals, who are continually exploring and exploiting loopholes existing in these flawed systems. Phishing emails, for example, go so far as to persuade users or employees to divulge personal information, approve false bills, or download malware that can infect the company’s network. Owing to such cyber risks constantly targeting enterprises via email, email protection and authentication is essential.
Benefits
Apart from giving companies and organizations control over their email domains through DMARC’s implementation, EmaiAuth has the following advantages:
- Protects brand reputation
Cybercriminals will seek to spoof domains and use a brand’s online presence for nefarious deeds regardless of the size or breadth of the firm. DMARC protects the brand’s integrity by keeping the brand name out of an attacker’s arsenal of faked email domains. - Provides more insight into cyber threats
DMARC allows organizations to keep track of all authorized and non-authorized third parties who send emails on their behalf, ensuring compliance with security best practices. - Prevents email spoofing
All organizations want to protect their domain from spoofing attacks. While this is beneficial for internal employees, it also prevents spammers from utilizing the organization’s domain to assault or spoof other businesses. SPF and DKIM are two tools that can help with this. Once these two are in place, DMARC can be implemented. - Increases email deliverability
Even valid emails might end up in spam folders or quarantines, which can be problematic when emails contain sensitive medical information or other important data. DMARC provides additional assurance that emails sent by a specific company are authentic, thus enhancing deliverability to inboxes while also preventing spam.
How Can DMARC Help?
DMARC (Domain-Based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance) is an email authentication standard or protocol that determines whether an email is authentic or not. It relies on SPF and DKIM, two other protocols, to decide the authentication status of an email. It provides visibility of the sources sending emails from an organization’s domain, ensures better email deliverability, and, most importantly, provides security against domain spoofing, phishing and impersonation attacks.
EmailAuth provides free tools to validate and verify domains for DMARC, SPF and DKIM, and also generate new records. It completely automates the setup process for DMARC, making it easier to choose who is allowed to send an email on the specific domain’s behalf and keep track of that domain’s enforcement policies.
Apart from giving companies and organizations control over their email domains through DMARC’s implementation, EmaiAuth provides many other advantages. You can read about them here.