By Brent Sleeper, senior manager of product marketing, Agari This article originally appeared on the Email Security Blog. Which should you use: DKIM, SPF, or both? We’re going to cover these terms, when you should use them, what they do — and how best to protect your email domains. Is it Either/Or — or Both? Is…

By Crane Hassold, Senior Director of Threat Research at Agari This story originally appeared on the Email Security Blog Sophisticated new threat actors, evolving phishing tactics, and a $800,000 business email compromise (BEC) scam in the second half of 2020 all signal big trouble ahead, according to new analysis from…

By Art Chavez, senior product marketer, Agari 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…

This story first appeared on the Agari Email Security Blog. By Armen Najarian, Chief Identity Officer, Agari If you haven’t deployed Domain-based Messaging Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC) to protect your brand from being impersonated in phishing scams, there are pressing reasons to jump on it now. Without a doubt…

This article originally appeared on the Agari Email Security Blog By Michael Cichon, Vice President, Digital Marketing, Agari With marketers more dependent on digital channels, many may accelerate their tests of Google’s AMP for Email technology in search of an edge. But without an email protocol called Domain-based Messaging Authentication…

This article originally appeared on the Agari Email Security blog. By Crane Hassold Scams related to COVID-19 helped fuel a 65% increase in employee-reported phishing attacks during the first half of 2020, according to our mid-year Phishing Incident Response Survey of SOC professionals at 13 large organizations spanning a cross-section…

This post originally appeared on the Agari Email Security blog. By Armen Najarian, CMO and Chief Identity Officer, Agari The first half of 2020 saw 25 additional Fortune 500 companies adopt Domain-based Messaging, Reporting & Conformance (DMARC) — bringing the total to 20% of organizations within the index, according to…

This article originally appeared on the Email Security blog. By Michael Paiko, Vice President, Product Marketing Coronavirus-related phishing attacks and business email compromise (BEC) scams skyrocketed 3,000% from mid-March through early June, according to mid-year analysis from the Agari Cyber-Intelligence Division (ACID). As chronicled in our H2 2020 Email Fraud…

This article originally appeared on the Email Security Blog. By Patrick R. Peterson, Founder and CEO, Agari A seismic shift in the email threat landscape has CISOs bracing for sophisticated new forms of business email compromise (BEC) scams, as phishing’s center of gravity begins to tilt from West African email…