Berkeley, California – February 16, 2016 – As DMARC enters its fifth year as an open standard, leading organizations increasingly rely on Domain-based Authentication, Reporting & Conformance (DMARC) to protect their customers from email fraud that impersonates their domains. In 2016, DMARC.org will continue to promote increased use of email authentication to protect consumers, and advocate the […]
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
“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 […]
Global Mailbox Providers Deploying DMARC to Protect Users
Berkeley, California – October 19, 2015 – The Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, & Conformance (DMARC) specification has proven its value in combating fraudulent email since its introduction three and a half years ago. Thousands of companies use it to prevent billions of messages fraudulently using their Internet domains from reaching inboxes, thereby protecting their customers and employees […]
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 […]
Receiving DMARC Reports Outside Your Domain
There are good reasons why one domain might want to have the DMARC reports about its traffic sent to a mailbox in a different domain. However DMARC.org has recently received several aggregate reports for a few seemingly random domains with no connection to DMARC.org – which is potentially a form of abuse itself, and one […]
“Email Authentication Basics” Slide Deck Now Available
A new presentation explaining the basics of how email authentication works is available from DMARC.org. The concepts and common usage of SPF, DKIM, and DMARC are all covered in this introductory slide deck, which is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA). You can download the 1.9MB PDF file clicking […]
Paper on DMARC and privacy laws in Germany and the EU
eco, the largest Internet industry association in Europe, released a paper in late March addressing DMARC and the data privacy laws of the EU. The short answer is that mailbox providers should feel free to implement DMARC filtering and send aggregate reports to domain owners, even under the very stringent data privacy laws of Germany. […]