A year into the pandemic, Security Operations Centers (SOCs) are getting bombarded by employee-reported phishing attacks both real and imagined—as legitimate threats slip by unnoticed, according to analysis from our latest cross-industry phishing response survey. Long before any of us had ever heard the term "COVID-19," phishing was implicated in nearly 7 in 10 corporate data breaches, prompting...

Wondering how DMARC affects email? Here’s a comprehensive guide explaining what DMARC is, how it affects email, and why your company needs it for security.What is DMARC?What does DMARC mean? DMARC, short for Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance, is an email authentication protocol to help email administrators prevent fraudsters from spoofing email domains by specifying...

A newly-enhanced Agari App for Splunk integrates email threat data from both Cloud Email Protection and Agari DMARC Protection directly into Splunk SIEM, with support for Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud. This comes at a pivotal time. We’re over a year into the pandemic, with an estimated 57% of corporate employees still working remotely and the prospect of transitioning to new, hybrid office...

While we’re all Zoomed, Webexed and Teamed out after thirteen months of the pandemic, cybercriminals are taking advantage of the situation. They know we’re heavily relying on digital communications and they’re sending fake emails, pretending to be your boss. They’re sending fake invoices, pretending to be your vendor. They’re even sending fake requests for gift cards, on the off-chance that...

Protecting employees, customers, and partners against email security threats is about to become simpler and more effective, thanks to new features in our latest product release. It couldn't happen at a more pivotal moment.According to a new report from the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), 2020 was as bad as you thought it was. The number of reported email attacks against US companies...

When it comes to reports from the security industry, one of our yearly favorites is the IC3 Internet Crime Report, which covers all cybercrime reported to the FBI. Each year, the report provides breakdowns on the confirmed losses victims face across the globe. While the crimes are heavily focused in the United States, the FBI receives victim reports across the globe, giving a non-biased, non...

Email is still perhaps the greatest potential cybersecurity threat to most organizations. We look at the best way of approaching advanced email protection and broaching it with the Board at your organization.

The pervasive threat that cybercriminals pose to the security of critical information has dominated media headlines over the past year. Major data breaches, from Uber’s data theft cover up to the 147.9 million American’s affected by the attack on Equifax, have shifted the focus to the damage cybercriminals can do to an organization. However, whilst cyber-attacks from external forces continue to...

You can catch up on Part 1 here.As we discussed in part one of this series, SPF and DKIM are important foundational standards for email authentication. But, even after an email sender has fully deployed SPF and DKIM, there are still three key elements of email authentication equation missing—and that's what led to the development of DMARC.#1: Which Matters More: SPF or DKIM?First, there is no way...

The Covid-19 pandemic has undoubtedly changed working patterns for good. What are the implications for public sector organizations and what can they do to improve their cybersecurity posture?

Why do you need DMARC to protect your email domains from being leveraged in phishing attacks? To get the full picture, let's look at the basics—and how DMARC came to be.What is DMARC?Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance, or DMARC, is an open email authentication protocol that helps senders protect their email domains from being spoofed by fraudsters in phishing attacks and...

Many of the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) Trusts have been taken back to pen and paper after Friday’s much publicized cyber-attack that saw IT systems infected with Ransomware and others taken offline to prevent infection.

Curious how BIMI can protect your email? I’ll explain what BIMI is, how it works, and how you can use it to protect your brand’s email communications.What is BIMI?Brand Indicators for Message Identification, or BIMI, provides a standardized method for businesses to showcase their brand logo next to the subject line of their authenticated emails so they stand out in crowded inboxes, with built-in...

CISOs and their teams are about to get some serious performance enhancers in their high-stakes race against email security threats. According to the FBI, phishing campaigns, business email compromise (BEC) scams, and other advanced email attacks have resulted in $26 billion in business losses over the course of three years. Then 2020 happened. With 75 million corporate employees even now still...

Considering recent high-profile data breaches, does it come as a surprise that employees are increasingly concerned about their employer’s approach to keeping data, including their own personal data, secure?