Email is the lifeblood of all organizations, especially small- and midsize businesses (SMBs). It's how you communicate with customers, partners, and employees. It also happens to be one of the primary vectors for bad people to do bad things. To reduce risk, you must keep your communications channels #secure. With #phishing attacks, spam, and other cybersecurity threats on the rise, emailsecurity must be one of your top priorities. In today's blog, we explore the importance of three fundamental technologies in the mail protection space: SPF (Sender Policy Framework), DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail), and DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance).…
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This is the first in Alpine's series on the modern security stack. Over the next few weeks, we will delve more deeply into each of the technologies that form a proper layered defense strategy. Do you have good security? Of course! We have the best anti-virus money can buy... Those of us in the security services and architecture arena have seen this conversation time and time again. And it makes us cringe every time. Sure, there was a time when a solid anti-virus would prevent the lion's share of problems that the young malware authors presented. But that time has passed.…
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