“You should already be on top of the authentication process. If you aren’t, then now is the time”

Davey puts on his best Dalek voice and shouts “Authenticate, authenticate, authenticate” as he explains why you should check your DMARC settings

Last month, I briefly mentioned DMARC when writing about how and why I switched my primary email client from Gmail to Proton Mail. This month, given the amount of activity surrounding email authentication over the past few months from both sides of the cybersecurity fence, I thought I would dive a little deeper. I suspect – I admit I have no actual statistics to back this up – that most email users have never heard of the Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) security protocol. Why would they? So long as emails are reaching their destination, be that their own inboxes or someone else’s, why worry? Indeed, when Google started to implement new rules relating to the authentication of messages arriving in Gmail inboxes from marketers, spammers and anyone else who…

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