We configure and manage your SPF, DKIM, DMARC, TLS and monitor threat intelligence and email sources to prevent impersonation of your domain (So your customers can trust your brand).
DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) is an email authentication method designed to prevent email address spoofing. It involves adding a digital signature to outgoing emails, which can be verified by the recipient's email server to ensure the message is legitimate.
DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication Reporting and Conformance) is an email authentication protocol that helps prevent email spoofing and phishing attacks by allowing email receivers to verify that incoming messages are from a legitimate sender. It works by allowing domain owners to publish policies in their DNS records, specifying what to do with messages that fail authentication checks.
MTA-STS improves mail security by requiring authentication checks and encryption for email sent to your domain. Use Transport Layer Security (TLS) reporting to get information about external server connections to your domain.
Brand Indicators for Message Identification, or BIMI (pronounced bih-mee), is an email specification that enables email inboxes to display a brand's logo next to the brand's authenticated email messages. BIMI aims to give trusted senders control over how their brand is represented in messaging services.
The results of the Threat Intelligence check help to identify suspicious emails or ones that should be blocked. It also highlights deliverability issues from legit sources.
The Spamhaus databases that are checked are comprehensive and effective threat intelligence data sets. They are continuously updated and maintained by the Spamhaus Project researchers.
Forward-confirmed reverse DNS (FCrDNS) is a spam filtering mechanism that tests if a given IP address has both forward (name-to-address) and reverse (address-to-name) Domain Name System (DNS) entries that match each other.
This verification is a weak form of authentication that exists to prove that there is a valid relationship between the owner of a domain name and the owner of the network that has been given an IP address. As this is difficult for spammers and spoofers to bypass FCrDNS is checked by some mail receivers in an effort to reduce phishing attacks and spam.
Legitimate email servers should be correctly configured for FCrDNS to avoid deliverability issues.
Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is an email authentication method that checks if the sender of an email is authorised to use the domain name in the email address. SPF helps prevent email spam and phishing attacks by verifying email authenticity.
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