Are you an Email Service Provider (ESP) or other third-party sender, but found that the DMARC.org FAQ or Glossary didn’t answer your questions? Then you may want to check out this DMARC FAQ written specifically for ESPs by the email authentication specialists at ValiMail. Written in a clear and conversational style, it focuses on the […]
ARC Interoperability Testing Day: February 19th
The interoperability testing event mentioned when ARC was announced in October (see this press release) has been scheduled for Friday, February 19th, 2016 in San Francisco. Parties implementing the ARC protocol in their product or service by that date should consider participating in the event. Those parties should join the arc-discuss mailing list if they […]
Instructional DMARC videos from Dmarcian
DMARC report processor Dmarcian.com has made a series of videos about DMARC and email authentication available on their website. There is no charge to view the nine videos, which are based on presentations Dmarcian has developed and offered over the past several years. You can find all nine videos here: https://space.dmarcian.com/videos-on-all-things-dmarc
Phishing Education on the Today Show
NBC morning television show The Today Show featured some basic, consumer-friendly tips on identifying and avoiding phishing scams on their November 16th show. Developed in partnership with security firm ESET, they also added an interactive quiz on their website. You can find both items by following this URL: http://www.today.com/money/test-your-phish-spotting-skills-fun-quiz-t55891 Hopefully this is something even security […]
DMARC.org presenting at Cloud & Messaging Day in Tokyo
Steven Jones will be speaking at the Cloud & Messaging Day meeting in Tokyo the afternoon of Monday, November 16th.The meeting is organized and hosted by messaging and infrastructure specialists TwoFive of Tokyo. (A PDF version of the flyer in Japanese is available here.) Jones will address all attendees in the first session on the […]
“DMARC is easy!” “DMARC is hard!” Which is it?
It happens so often in IT that it’s a cliché. Somebody comments to senior management about a complex, long-term project you’re involved in, saying: “That’s easy, I could do that in an afternoon. What’s taking your people so long?” Or you’ve spent weeks on careful research, building the business case, explaining the cost-benefit trade-offs, and […]
Authenticated Received Chain protocol has a web site
A web site, http://arc-spec.org, has been created to share information and news about the Authenticated Received Chain (ARC) protocol announced earlier this week. As the specification is reviewed and implemented by the Internet community, and more information and resources are developed around it, they will be linked from or hosted on the site.
M3AAWG Conference in Atlanta to Feature DMARC Training
At the Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG) conference in Atlanta on Monday, October 18th, DMARC.org will provide a training session on DMARC and email authentication. Barry Jones of ACS Technologies will present a representative case of how to use DMARC and email authentication to protect users from relentless phishing attacks and other […]
Yahoo to Expand Use of Strict DMARC Policy
Last year AOL and Yahoo curtailed massive email-borne abuse of their customers by deploying strict DMARC policies on their marquee domains. Recently Yahoo announced that they would be extending that policy to more of their domains as soon as November.
North American ISPs Using DMARC to Protect Inbox
The biggest global mailbox providers – AOL, Google*, Hotmail/Microsoft, NetEase, Yahoo – have been using DMARC to filter out fraudulent email sent to their users from the beginning. But readers have told us that some major North American ISPs are also using DMARC to protect their customers. We like to recognize these ISPs for using […]