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Volume 341, Issue 3 · 11 articles from 5 issues
A Canadian MSP made DMARC a mandatory, revenue-generating client service using EasyDMARC to cut troubleshooting time.
M.I.T. Consulting, a Canadian MSP serving Ontario law firms and construction companies, struggled to diagnose email delivery failures without centralized visibility into authentication records. After adopting EasyDMARC, CTO Michael Fin found onboarding took only a few minutes and praised the platform's ability to flatten SPF records and surface issues.
When a client changed hosting providers without notice and lost DNS records, the team pointed them back to EasyDMARC and restored everything almost immediately. The efficiency shaped strategy: M.I.T. made DMARC mandatory for all clients, treating it as a strong upsell for industries where reliable email is critical.
Email authentication shifted from a reactive burden into a standardized, revenue-generating service.
A roundup of Gmail alternatives spanning privacy, business, and AI-powered email platforms for 2026.
The article examines email platforms competing with Gmail, each with distinct advantages. Privacy-focused options like Proton Mail and Tuta Mail emphasize encrypted communication, with Proton Mail offering end-to-end encryption.
Business solutions include Microsoft Outlook, which integrates with Teams and Word, and Zoho Mail, which offers affordable hosting with custom domains. For AI-powered management, Shortwave, built by former Google engineers, provides inbox summaries, advanced search, writing assistance, and smart prioritization.
Fastmail appeals to power users, and Apple Mail serves the Apple ecosystem. Privacy concerns, data tracking, better organization, and ad-free preferences drive users toward alternatives, though Gmail remains popular.
Enterprise SPF records degrade as vendors accumulate, risking authentication failures and spoofing exposure.
Multi-vendor SaaS stacks quickly approach the DNS lookup limit, so each new platform integration risks a PermError failure.
MSPs need per-client records with documented sender inventories and active monitoring. Stale entries consume lookup slots and leave a spoofing surface behind.
Organizations should audit existing records, confirm which vendors are actually active, and remove unused includes.
SPF misconfiguration can cause critical email rejection, enable business email compromise and create compliance documentation gaps.
Banking leads all sectors on DMARC adoption, but adoption is not protection and most banks never reach p=reject.
Financial services consistently ranks among the top one or two sectors nationally for having a DMARC record, well ahead of retail, healthcare and government.
Across the six countries PowerDMARC studied, banking is the best-enforced or near-best-enforced sector, typically landing between 40% and the low 60s percent on p=reject, meaning roughly a third to 60% of financial institutions still do not block a spoofed email outright.
Most research covers only the largest banks, while the FTC Safeguards Rule has since 2024 covered any business providing financial services, down to a car dealership handling loan applications. EasyDMARC found only 7.7% of the world's top 1.8 million email domains are fully protected with p=reject.
DMARC should be a 2027 budget priority as email authentication becomes a business, not just security, issue.
The article argues DMARC should be prioritized in organizational budgets for 2027. CISO concerns about compliance and governance rose from 38% to 45% between 2025 and 2026, while phishing-related credential compromise climbed from 20% to 25%.
It stresses that email authentication is no longer just a security issue but a business one affecting deliverability, customer engagement, and brand reputation.
Regulations like NIS2 and DORA are pushing organizations toward structured cybersecurity governance. DMARC protects domains from unauthorized use and provides sender visibility, but success depends on people and process rather than technology alone.
The call to action is to move email trust from an accepted risk to a managed one by 2027.
Successful enterprise DMARC enforcement depends on governance, not just technical setup.
The guide argues that enterprise DMARC deployment success depends on governance structures rather than technical expertise alone.
Organizations commonly stall at the monitoring-only p=none setting, which provides visibility but zero protection against spoofing. It identifies three critical obstacles: undiscovered sending sources, SPF configuration sprawl, and lack of clear ownership across departments.
Effective enforcement follows a phased approach from monitoring to quarantine to rejection, informed by aggregate DMARC reports. Sendmarc's platform addresses enterprise scaling by centralizing report analysis and making authentication data accessible to the stakeholders who must approve policy changes.
Email should be managed as critical infrastructure with the same ownership, visibility and monitoring as other essential business systems.
Email now underpins customer communications, authentication workflows, marketing and product experiences, yet most organizations manage it through siloed tools without unified oversight.
The article maps eight interconnected layers of email infrastructure: sending services, DNS configuration, authentication protocols, mail routing, security, deliverability, monitoring and governance.
Unlike other critical systems, email typically lacks centralized accountability, producing blind spots, delayed diagnosis and recurring incidents.
Recommendations include building a complete inventory of sending services, authenticating all legitimate senders, implementing continuous monitoring, establishing clear ownership and preparing incident response procedures in advance.
Doppel argues email security must move from rule-based systems to AI-native architecture built on three core pillars.
The article contends that email defense should evolve beyond legacy rule-based tools toward AI-native architecture.
It identifies three foundations: a natural-language detection engine that interprets plain-English policies instead of hand-coded YARA or Sigma rules, an intelligent feedback loop with autonomous agents that investigate misses conversationally, and scalable infrastructure that applies LLMs across all detection paths while controlling token costs.
It also warns that as email payloads become executable code for AI, adversarial prompt injection becomes an emerging risk requiring new architectural safeguards.
SPF record architecture decisions determine DNS lookup counts and DMARC alignment at enterprise scale.
The article examines how SPF record structure decisions impact DNS performance and email authentication. RFC 7208 caps SPF evaluation at 10 DNS lookups, a constraint that becomes critical for organizations using multiple sending services.
The guide discusses IP flattening as a lookup reduction strategy, though it risks accuracy drift when providers change infrastructure.
It also addresses the choice between -all and ~all qualifiers, noting that ~all suits organizations still identifying senders, while -all becomes appropriate after DMARC enforcement deployment.
Sophos research finds email and phishing cause half of ransomware incidents while median ransom demands fell to under $700,000.
Sophos surveyed 2,158 IT and security leaders and found malicious email and phishing together account for half of all ransomware incidents.
Stolen credentials remain the second-most common vector, with nearly 80% of attacks involving identity-based compromise.
Exploited software vulnerabilities declined from roughly one-third of attack vectors to 18%.
Recovery costs averaged $1.7 million, but median ransom demands dropped to just under $700,000, about two-thirds lower than two years earlier.
Backups proved critical to recovery, with two-thirds of victims successfully restoring encrypted data from them.
Guide for MSPs to deploy DMARC as a recurring revenue service protecting clients from email-based threats.
This guide explains how managed service providers can build scalable DMARC services as recurring revenue opportunities.
It covers why email authentication demand is growing due to increasing phishing attacks, compliance requirements, and auditor scrutiny.
The article outlines a step-by-step deployment approach including sender discovery, report analysis, and gradual enforcement, while highlighting how DMARC projects often reveal broader security gaps that lead to additional service opportunities.