The third JPAAWG General Meeting will be held on November 11th and 12th in a virtual format. An exciting program has been organized, and will once again feature an update on DMARC adoption and standards developments from DMARC.org, as well as keynotes from M3AAWG and sessions with leading industry figures from across Japan and the […]
The number of valid DMARC policies observed in the DNS increased by roughly 300% over the course of 2019, based on analysis of data from Farsight Security. At the end of 2018 there were roughly 630,000 valid DMARC policies published, and at the end of 2019 this figure was 1.89 million. (See similar announcements from […]
The Japan Anti-Abuse Working Group (JPAAWG) held its first meeting in Tokyo, Japan on November 8th, 2018. DMARC.org director Steve Jones was invited to give a general update on DMARC and related matters, and the slides from that presentation are now available for download. The update covers several areas of interest to people working to […]
A report released by the Global Cyber Alliance in late October attempts to quantify the expenses avoided by the companies that they have helped to implement strict DMARC policies (quarantine or reject). The full report (available here) contains a wealth of information and quotes from GCA and industry partners, while the executive summary shares a […]
As first reported on the arc-spec.org website, on October 2nd the IETF’s DMARC Working Group published version 18 of the ARC specification document, incorporating the changes suggested during the Working Group Last Call (WGLC). There are many small language changes to clarify concepts or bring usage in line with other IETF documents, such as Email […]
The DMARC Working Group has completed Last Call for the ARC specification. This means that when the final consensus changes are incorporated, the document will be submitted for approval and publication by the IETF. It is possible that the specification might be published before the next IETF meeting in November, though perhaps more likely between then […]
An alpha version of an open source implementation of the ARC protocol has been released. Congratulations to all involved in bringing this project to an initial release. ARC allows forwarders and mailing lists to convey message authentication results that would otherwise be lost, which can present difficulties to some DMARC adopters. OpenARC v0.1.0 can be […]
The number of Internet domains with active, valid DMARC records as measured at the end of September was over triple the figure from 12 months earlier. Using data supplied by Farsight Security through Q3 2016, the figure was 62,066 domains. Updated with data captured through Q3 2017, that figure rose to 193,958 domains. The following […]
On Monday of this week, DMARC.org Executive Director Steven M Jones and a number of prominent colleagues spoke about email authentication and combating online fraud and abuse at Cloud & Messaging Day in Tokyo, Japan. The details of the event, in Japanese, are available at this link. The event featured, in order of appearance: Neil […]
DMARC.org director Steve Jones will speak to the Email Sender and Provider Coalition during their monthly call on Thursday, September 7th. The talk will address recent articles about low adoption of DMARC in various industry sectors, obstacles organizations encounter when deploying DMARC, and what recent and upcoming events may change that equation. Jones will also […]