How dormakaba maintains email security through acquisition after acquisition

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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 […]

Email Impersonation Knows No Borders

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Hello…Elvis? Photo credit: Gunnshots Email impersonation scams, also known as business email compromise (BEC) or phishing attacks, have risen 20 percent in the first nine months of this year, according to the Singapore police. According to the report, those scams have cost Singaporeans S$19 million (U.S. $13.4 million), of which the police have only been […]

Can DMARC Do for Email What SSL Certificates Did for E-commerce?

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Email authentication can help secure our cloud services just like SSL did our servers. Image credit: FutUndBeidl Valimail CEO Alexander García-Tobar explores this question today in InformationWeek’s Dark Reading. The article explains how email’s historic lack of authentication came about, why that’s a problem today, and how DMARC can help solve that problem. García-Tobar writes, The good […]

Government Guidance for Email Authentication Has Arrived in USA and UK

We recently discussed governmental organizations that send out warnings rather than preventing spear phishing attacks through email authentication.Therefore it’s good to see a pair of prominent governmental organizations giving clear guidance to their constituents about using DMARC to enforce authenticity of email on their domains. The British Government Digital Service announced in June an upcoming requirement that all […]

Spear Phishing Attacks Now Aimed at Unlocking Mobile Devices

Unlocking a lost or stolen mobile device can be very difficult, as the news made quite clear earlier this year. While the FBI eventually found a way into Syed Farook’s iPhone, privacy boosters could take heart that it required months of time and the massive resources of United States federal law enforcement to do so. Presumably […]

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