Zendesk moves to “p=reject”

Customer service and support platform provider Zendesk has employed DMARC to monitor email activity using their domains for several years. In September, Zendesk switched over 80,000 sub-domains that they use to support their customers to a “p=reject” DMARC policy. This prevents fraudulent email using these sub-domains from reaching consumers, and protects their customers’ and Zendesk’s […]

Eleven Commercial Email Gateways Support DMARC

Businesses and other organizations can protect themselves from certain classes of phishing attacks on their employees by using DMARC to filter incoming email messages. But whether the company is large or small, they usually don’t have the expertise or resources to build their own filtering solution. That’s why commercial email gateways that support DMARC are […]

“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 […]

DMARC is a Proven Tool in the Fight Against Fraudulent Email

San Francisco, California – February 18, 2015 – Since it was introduced to the public in 2012, the Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, & Conformance (DMARC) specification has proven its value in combating fraudulent email. Email is an essential channel of communication but to be effective, the recipient must trust that it comes from the identified […]

Email Vendors: Time to Build in DMARC

DMARC is extremely useful, yet I’ve heard some vendors are putting their implementations on hold because of the IETF DMARC working group. You really shouldn’t wait though — it’s been in wide use for nearly three years, enterprises are looking at DMARC for B2B traffic, and the working group charter is limited in it’s scope […]

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 […]