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handle emails that fail these checks, and offers Robles identified several proactive preventions,
feedback reports to domain owners. It tells what including:
to do with fraudulent emails that won’t pass • Enforce password-less authentication where
verification. You should have an email box to catch possible.
them all. • Improve email authentication.
• Update your SPF, DKIM and DMARC email
“Unfortunately, a lot of organizations say they records.
can’t afford filtering,” Gerardo said. “By properly • Provide regular training and phishing tests.
implementing these protocols, you can reduce the • Domain Name System security, filtering to
risk of business email compromise by ensuring protect your organization from malicious sites
that emails are indeed from their claimed source, and unwanted emails.
protecting yourself against identity deception.”
Your goals should be to reduce email fraud, improve Robles added: “My favorite – a lot of end-user
email deliverability, protect brand reputation, training.”
comply with regulations and cost savings.
George Gerardo can be reached at: george.gerardo@west-mec.org
Alex Robles can be reached at: alex.robles@cyberpools.org

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