DMARC adoption grows but expertise fails to keep pace

DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance) is a vendor-neutral authentication protocol that allows email domain owners to protect their domains from unauthorized use or spoofing. A new report from anti-phishing specialist Valimail reveals that as of January 2020, nearly a million (933,973) domains have published DMARC records -- an increase of 70 percent compared to last year, and more than 180 percent growth in the last two years. In addition, 80 percent of all inboxes worldwide now do DMARC checks and enforce domain owners' policies. However, only 13 percent of all DMARC records are configured with enforcement policies, which… [Continue Reading]