How vulnerable are states to election interference from spoofed email?
[Sassy_Social_Share] Valimail has been monitoring the usage of email authentication technologies in election infrastructure for several years now. Our analysis shows that, at virtually every level of the American election infrastructure, there is massive vulnerability to email impersonation. This is due largely to the poor penetration of email authentication standards that can prevent spoofing: DMARC, SPF, and DKIM. […]
Not yet at DMARC enforcement? Maybe your DMARC solution isn’t cloud-ready
Why you need visibility Email authentication has always required careful planning to get things right. But doing so was less intimidating before enterprise software and on-premises mail exchanges migrated to cloud platforms. Many SaaS applications today use email to drive engagement, conversion, and retention, or simply to deliver notifications and updates. Naturally, you can configure […]
Valimail and DigiCert team up to help you get BIMI-ready
Valimail is proud to announce that we are partnering with DigiCert to help companies prepare for BIMI — a new standard that will increase email marketing effectiveness while stimulating the adoption of email authentication. The partnership is aimed at helping customers of DigiCert and Valimail get ready for Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI), a new […]
Why we’re partnering with Twilio SendGrid for security and deliverability
Twilio SendGrid and Valimail have teamed up to provide customers with Valimail’s DMARC Monitor and Enforce solutions, which will help Twilio SendGrid customers further protect their domains from phishing and impersonation attacks. Valimail is already the #1 provider of DMARC management tools to Office 365 users, and has the industry’s highest rate of getting customers’ domains to DMARC enforcement (the state […]
Domain spoofing declines as protective measures grow (research part 3)
Domain spoofing declines as protective measures grow (research part 3) Valimail’s data shows a slow decline in the rate of email spoofing through exact-domain impersonation over the past several years. In the last year it’s remained roughly level at about 1% of all email volume authenticated by Valimail. This is significantly down from 2.3% in […]
Email: The front line of cybercrime (research part 1)
[Sassy_Social_Share] The battle against phishing rages on. Estimates from the FBI peg losses due to just one type of email-based attack, the business email compromise (BEC), at $1.7 billion in 2019 alone. Other sources have noted that 83% of email attacks are brand impersonations and another 6% are impersonations of people, meaning nearly 90% of […]
How dormakaba maintains email security through acquisition after acquisition
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) can stimulate growth, provide opportunities to obtain a competitive advantage, increase market share, and even consolidate supply chains to reduce overhead costs. For example, when DORMA and Kaba merged in 2015 to form dormakaba, it allowed the two entities to combine DORMA’s architectural hardware, access controls, and systems with Kaba’s safe […]
How Yelp took the fast track to spoof-proof email
Even though DMARC at enforcement is incredibly effective at preventing the vast majority of all cyberattacks, adoption rates remain relatively low. And many companies that do implement DMARC continually struggle to reach true enforcement. We hear the same question over and over again from our peers and prospects: If DMARC at enforcement is so effective, why is […]
CISOs want measurable results, survey shows
CISOs want measurable results, survey shows Enterprises tend to spend a lot on cybersecurity. So you’d think they’d be insisting on — and getting — measurable results. It’s not necessarily so. According to a survey of almost 300 IT security executives conducted by SC Media and research firm C.A. Walker, cybersecurity vendors often fail to […]
Complete Office 365’s DMARC support with Valimail
Valimail is proud to be a part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association, an ecosystem of vendors that have integrated their solutions with Microsoft to better defend against a world of increasing threats. This mission aligns well with our vision of bringing trust to the world’s communications. We’ve recently deepened our Microsoft partnership by offering Valimail’s […]
BIMI leaps forward with first usable VMC certificate
The new BIMI email standard provides a secure, global framework enabling email senders to provide validated, sender-specific logos that will appear in email inboxes alongside the authenticated email messages they send. Because these logos will appear in inbox list views as well as message views, this means BIMI-using organizations stand to gain potentially millions of brand impressions […]
DMARC quarantine vs reject: Choose the right policy
Learn how DMARC quarantine and reject differ but work together to provide you with more control over how inbox providers handle suspicious-looking emails.