Why OKRs are not just another TLA
Many companies use OKRs (objectives and key results) as a way to measure individual, team, and company performance. There are as many ways of using OKRs as there are companies using them: It’s generally good practice to implement OKRs that are SMART because, otherwise, it’s challenging — if not impossible — to measure success. But while SMART […]
Introducing Valimail Defend: A definitive defense against untrusted emailing domains
[Sassy_Social_Share] Valimail Defend blocks untrusted-domain attacks like this one. This month, Valimail announced;the general availability of our third major email protection product, Valimail Defend™, which protects against lookalike-domain and friendly-from phishing attacks.. Valimail Defend joins Valimail’s suite of existing products: Valimail Enforce™, which helps companies protect themselves against fraudsters and phishers who are spoofing their domains […]
Five more myths of email authentication
[Sassy_Social_Share] As I wrote in my last blog post, email is a legacy technology with a lot of accumulated “technical debt” and standards limitations, and there aren’t many true email experts who understand the full set of standards backwards and forwards. As a result, staying on top of the real-world workings of email can be a […]
Five myths of email authentication
[Sassy_Social_Share] Email is one of the most vulnerable points in an enterprise’s cyber defenses. Multiple studies (from Proofpoint, Verizon, and others) have shown that over 90% of all cyberattacks start with email-based phishing. An anti-impersonation defense focused on email authentication can block a significant portion of these exploits, but there is a great deal of […]
Global fight against fake email intensifies
Fake email is at the heart of cybersecurity risk — yet many companies are still not using well documented and open standards-based technologies that could protect themselves. A quick look at the stats will reveal just how critical this is. Fake email lies behind the 60 percent jump in business email compromise (BEC) losses in […]
We’re celebrating Data Privacy Day with zero PII
In support of Data Privacy Day, I’d like to share Valimail’s position on personally identifiable information (PII). Our products, unlike many others, are designed to not be dependent on PII. We do not need (or want) access to the contents of your email messages. We made early design decisions so that we didn’t have to rely […]
Fake email leads the list of cybercrimes to watch out for this holiday
Fake emails become worse during the holidays, like Black Friday or Cyber Monday. However, these fake emails can be stopped.
Solving a problem that affects literally billions of people: fake email
Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s Financial District on the 20th floor of a high rise is Valimail, a company dedicated to protecting the world from the #1 cyber attack vector: malicious emails. While our view alone captures most people’s breath, it’s Valimail’s product and culture that captures the attention of engineers. For starters, engineers […]
How to prevent payroll diversion scams
Don’t let payroll scams phish your paycheck away! Business email compromise (BEC) comes in many varieties. You’ve probably heard about BEC in the form of executive impersonation attacks, resulting in wrongful corporate wire transfers or W-2s making it into the wrong hands, but BEC is a risk for all employees, not just executives. One of the […]
Federal compliance with email authentication directive continues to grow
The deadline for compliance is past, but the number of federal domains protecting themselves against email impersonation continues to grow. As of this week, 57 percent of all federal domains are protected by strict DMARC policies in compliance with government requirements. That’s a sharp jump from 50 percent at the beginning of the month — and we […]
What’s your industry’s email fraud protection rate?
Valimail regularly queries many millions of domains for the presence of published DMARC and SPF records, and performs detailed analysis on any records that we find. For our recent
$12.5 billion: The cost of email impersonation (and that’s just the tip of the iceberg)
Email impersonation is in the news again. On Friday, the news hit that the Department of Justice had indicted 12 Russians on counts of attempting to interfere with the 2016 election in the U.S. At least one of the indicted is accused of using spear-phishing techniques to gain entry to the Democratic National Committee. It was […]