Why Every Business Needs DMARC

Written by Julia G

Cyber threats have escalated significantly in recent years. Last year, 64% of businesses reported facing Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks, with an average financial loss of $150,000 per incident. The rise of remote work continues to increase companies’ vulnerability to security breaches.

Given these alarming statistics, it’s surprising that many companies have not enhanced their email security with DMARC. Yet, according to dmarc.org only 23.5% of those who even implemented it, have reached a ‘reject’ policy. With GlockApps DMARC report analyzer you can create a DMARC record in less than 5 minutes and start moving towards the ultimate security right away.

How to Protect Your Sender Domain with DMARC: Using DMARC Enforcement

Written by Julia G

There is no other channel with such a wide audience reach than email. That is why legal business owners are using email to reach out to their clients and subscribers, and that is why spammers like to use email for malicious purposes. Hacking and phishing attacks in emails are increasing year by year.

The good thing is that there is a mechanism that allows email senders to protect their domains from misuse.

How the New Email Uptime Monitoring Helps with Multiple SPF Records

Written by Julia G

SPF stands for Sender Policy Framework, and it is an email authentication protocol. The purpose of SPF is to check whether the email was sent from the person it says it is from. We showed how to create an SPF record and deploy it. And if you are reading this article you’ve probably encountered some issues with that. So let’s answer the burning question right away.

How to Strengthen Your Brand with BIMI Record

Written by Julia G

BIMI (Brand Indicators for Message Identification) is steadily gaining popularity among email providers, making it easier for companies to display their brand logos in recipients’ inboxes. Currently, BIMI is supported by Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, Fastmail, and Apple Mail (for iOS 16 and macOS Ventura and later). This standard increases brand awareness and trust, allowing trusted senders to display their logos alongside emails. As more providers adopt BIMI, it will become an even more valuable tool for email authentication and branding.

What is DMARC: Using a DMARC Record to Protect Your Domain

Written by Julia G

Implement a DMARC record to create a safe environment for both your company and your audience. As the most effective email validation system, DMARC records protect your domain from business email compromise.

According to Verizon, 94% of all malware comes from email. Phishing attacks consist of 80% of all incidents. About $17,700 is lost every minute on average due to phishing attacks.

DMARC: How to Prevent Email Spoofing

Written by Julia G

Modern email authentication uses a combination of three methods: SPF, DKIM, and DMARC. These methods help ensure that a message came from a sender shown in the From header.

By deploying DMARC, email senders can prevent spoofed spam and phishing emails from reaching their email subscribers and customers, protecting their brand and the subscribers’ personal data.

This post explains the basics of SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, and tells how to deploy DMARC properly and read DMARC reports.

What is SPF Record: How to Create, Optimize and Check It

Written by Julia G

This article will teach you what an SPF record is and how you can create an SPF TXT record that’s optimized to pass SPF authentication, protect you from spam, and improve your email deliverability. 

What is SPF (Sender Policy Framework) and How to Set it Up

Written by Julia G

Setting up your SPF (Sender Policy Framework) will not only improve your email deliverability but will also help you maintain a positive domain reputation and reduce the likelihood of your email message going to the spam folder.

SPF is one layer of email authentication published within your Domain Name System (DNS) records as a DNS TXT record.

After implementing SPF records allow the receiving mail server to verify if an email sender is authorized to send mail on behalf of the domain owner. Only authorized IP addresses and domain names will allow SPF authentication to pass when they send email.

Authenticate Emails with DMARC for Better Deliverability

Written by Julia G

Email is a wonderful opportunity for businesses to promote their brand and get clients. On the other hand, email facilitates the spreading of spam, phishing, malware, viruses and other fraud simply because it is difficult to tell if the sender is really the one it pretends to be.

Legitimate senders have to wade through complicated anti-spam filters just to get their emails delivered to the destination user.

To help email senders deliver legitimate emails to the recipients and block phishing and fraud messages, a new email authentication standard was adopted by email senders and receivers.