How Long Do DNS Updates Take?

How long do DNS updates take?

How long do DNS updates take? You almost always see a disclaimer saying it could take 24-48 hours for your change to fully take effect. Is that really true?

Bolster Brand Resilience With DMARC

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But when it comes to protecting your reputation and building resilience into your brand through email security, the marketing organization just may be the optimal partner.

A Brief History of Communications.

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We’ve communicated with each other in various ways for centuries, always seeking ways to connect. For as long as we’ve had communications, we had to secure them.

How vulnerable are U.S. election operations to email spoofing?

Pie chart titled "Election System Manufactures: DMARC enforcement". 12.5% protected by DMARC. 37.5 % no DMARC. 12.5% invalid DMARC. 7.5% valid DMARC, not enforced. Source: Valimail

This post is an excerpt from the Valimail research report, 2020 Election Infrastructure Remains Vulnerable to Email Hacking, which was released last week — receiving coverage on NPR and elsewhere.  U.S. elections happen largely at the local level, with elections administered by local boards of elections or registrars of voters. Those elections are usually conducted […]

How vulnerable are states to election interference from spoofed email?

pie chart showing DMARC enforcement rates for US state domains. 3.3% protected by DMARC, 3.9% invalid DMARC, 22.2% valid DMARC not enforced, 70.6% no DMARC

[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

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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

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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

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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)

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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 […]

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