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Valimail Wins Again!

The Business Intelligence Group today announced that Valimail has won the 2022 Fortress Cyber Security Awards in the data protection category.

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Myths and Truths of DMARC

DMARC can be a confusing topic: Points of view vary and there is no shortage of misinformation out there. But there are some recurring themes worth unpacking.

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The Essential Guide to BEC (Business Email Compromise) Attacks

Business Email Compromise, or BEC, is a type of scam where cybercriminals impersonate trusted parties, such as the CEO, business partners, or other executives in a company.

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Let’s talk DMARC: A Conversation with Microsoft and Itron

Did you miss the Valimail LinkedIn Live on March 4? You can still catch the replay of this episode of…

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Demystifying SPF Macros

Sender Policy Framework, more commonly known as SPF, is an email authentication standard that allows a domain owner to authorize the use of its domain in email messages, with such authorization tied to the physical source of the message

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Valimail Wins Gold at the 2022 Cyber Security Global Excellence Awards®

Valimail is a Gold winner in the 18th Annual 2022 Cyber Security Global Excellence Awards®

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Let’s talk DMARC: The Path to DMARC Enforcement

Watch our demo with our DMARC expert and learn how you can get to DMARC Enforcement using Valimail patented technology.

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What is FedRAMP Compliance & Why Does it Matter?

How DMARC Handles Domains and Subdomains in Email Addresses. DMARC uses the DNS to store records indicating how to evaluate incoming messages for authenticity

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How Long do DNS Updates Take?

How long do DNS updates take? Whenever you make a DNS change, you almost always see a disclaimer saying it could take 24-48 hours for your change to fully take effect.

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Brand Protection Dmarc as a Service

How DMARC Handles Domains and Subdomains in Email Addresses

How DMARC Handles Domains and Subdomains in Email Addresses? DMARC uses the DNS to store records indicating how to evaluate incoming messages for authenticity

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Brand Protection Dmarc as a Service

DKIM vs. SPF: Understanding the Difference to Improve Email Deliverability

Although they work for the same purpose, DKIM and SPF are vastly different. Should you set up both of them? Find out here!

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Brand Protection Dmarc as a Service

Log4Shell Vulnerability: What You Need to Know!

There is a new zero-day security vulnerability known as Log4Shell that hit the world last week. Here’s what you need to know.

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Brand Protection Dmarc as a Service

Bolster Brand Resilience With DMARC

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.

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Brand Protection Dmarc as a Service

The Spooky Side of Email

When you think of pretending to be someone else, what comes to mind? Dressing up as your favorite character and taking your kids trick or treating?

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A Brief History of Communications.

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.

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Google launches BIMI. Here’s how to take advantage.

As an active participant in the founding and development of the BIMI protocol, Valimail is thrilled to announce today that BIMI availability has taken a big leap forward as Google has rolled out general support in Gmail. This means brands can now display their authenticated logos in roughly 2 billion inboxes around the globe.

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DMARC authentication gets you the deliverability you deserve

Ever since the release of RFC 4408, the first revision of the SPF specification, there’s been a misconception in email…

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

This post is an excerpt from the Valimail research report, 2020 Election Infrastructure Remains Vulnerable to Email Hacking, which was…

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How vulnerable are U.S. political campaigns to election interference from spoofed email?

How much can you trust that a political fundraising email really came from who it appears to come from —…

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How vulnerable are states to election interference from spoofed email?

Valimail has been monitoring the usage of email authentication technologies in election infrastructure for several years now. Our analysis shows…

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M3AAWG’s email authentication checklist is clear, concise, and timely

M3AAWG’s email authentication checklist is clear, concise, and timely The Messaging, Malware, and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG) recently published…

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Not yet at DMARC enforcement? Maybe your DMARC solution isn’t cloud-ready

Partial visibility isn’t enough Of the thousands of cloud applications in the marketplace, only about two percent of them (currently…

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Major milestone: 1 million DMARC records

Valimail has been tracking and publishing data on DMARC usage since 2017, but this edition of our Email Fraud Landscape series is especially exciting since it’s the first …

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The benefits of BIMI — and how to get ready for it

BIMI logos can boost engagement in email marketing campaigns. This post explains the details of the BIMI standard. For the…

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It’s not your fault: Here’s why you haven’t gotten to DMARC p=reject

DMARC is a powerful email authentication protocol that works at Internet scale, enabling domain owners to control how their domains…

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Marketers: Have you talked to your IT team about your email deliverability and open rates? (Hint: You should.)

We all know that the greater your brand presence, the greater your pipeline growth, your digital presence, and ultimately your…

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Just how bad is the problem with fake sender identity?

For years, secure email gateways have been playing a cat and mouse game with phishers, countering email attacks by constantly…

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7 common mistakes people make with DMARC

Interest in DMARC is growing exponentially, but most of the organizations that deploy DMARC don’t actually achieve its full anti-spoofing…

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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…

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Email: The front line of cybercrime (research part 1)

The battle against phishing rages on. Estimates from the FBI peg losses due to just one type of email-based attack,…