DMARC policies increase 28% Through June 2021

The number of valid DMARC policies observed in the DNS increased by 28% over the first half of 2021, to a total of 3.46 million, based on analysis of data supplied by Farsight Security. This was double the growth rate during the same period in 2020, when roughly 330,000 new records reflected a 17% increase […]

Upcoming DMARC.org Talks

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 […]

United Kingdom Leading The Way In Email Security

The United Kingdom may have the most forward looking policies and deployment plans of any major government. Last week Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond announced a £1.9 billion national cyber security strategy that includes a broad series of measures, and will continue a series of improvements in email security that the UK government has […]

DMARC Required For UK Government Services By October 1st

Government Digital Service (GDS), part of the United Kingdom’s Cabinet Office, is requiring that other government departments adopt DMARC and HTTPS/HSTS to protect their online services by October 1st, 2016. This includes making the strongest DMARC policy (“p=reject”) the default for email services at that time. This will apply to all services operating under the service.gov.uk […]

Two ARC Implementations Tested At Interoperability Event

From arc-spec.org: On February 19th representatives from AOL (NYSE:VZ) and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) successfully tested the first two implementations of the ARC protocol at an interoperability event. LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD) hosted the in-person, all-day event at their San Francisco offices and facilitated the testing. Also participating were representatives from Cloudmark, Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA), DMARC.org, the Trusted Domain Project, […]

Prominent Brands Cut Email Abuse by More than 50% with DMARC

New Data Reveals the Significant Value in the Protection Provided by DMARC San Jose, California – February 18, 2014 – DMARC.org, an industry collaborative working to increase consumer trust in email, published new data demonstrating how DMARC adoption reduces the risks associated with fraudulent email. Senders, such as Facebook, PayPal, and Twitter, as well as […]

In First Year, DMARC Protects 60 Percent of Global Consumer Mailboxes

San Jose, California – February 6, 2013 – DMARC.org, an industry collaborative working to increase email trust, announced today that the DMARC standard now protects almost two-thirds of the world’s 3.3 billion consumer mailboxes worldwide. First announced January 2012, DMARC marshals the forces of leading brands and email suppliers to combat rampant email deception and […]

DMARC Internet Protection Standard Gains Momentum

San Jose, California – October 3, 2012 – DMARC.org, a technical working group that has been developing standards for reducing the threat of deceptive emails, such as spam and phishing, today announced that many of its members have deployed the enhanced protection capabilities of DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance). DMARC contains features that […]

Leading Email Senders and Providers to Combat Email Phishing through DMARC.org

San Jose, California – January 30, 2012 – Fifteen leading email service and technology providers are today announcing DMARC.org, a technical working group that has been developing standards for reducing the threat of deceptive emails, such as spam and phishing. DMARC.org draws upon a history of private industry collaboration with 18 months of dedicated work, […]