Protecting Your Brand From Phishing: How to Create a DKIM Record

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Protecting Your Brand From Phishing: How to Create a DKIM Record

A DKIM record provides a way for senders to be proactive against phishing attacks. This document demonstrates how can create a record in DNS that will enable your domain to fight back against this form of email fraud. By examining your delivery status reports and looking at the headers of spam emails, you can see if they are attempting to use your mail server as part of their sending infrastructure. If they are, then this record will prevent them from continuing to use your domain for sending fraud messages. This approach will work with any domain that supports DKIM or DMARC records." "Protecting Your Brand From Phishing and senders and receivers of email can use DMARC to automate DKIM authentication and establish trust between communicating domains. This creates an explicit record of the correspondence that can be verified by all parties, deterring offsite spamming efforts. The Domain-Based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance (DMARC) Policy is a standards based mechanism for authenticating, reporting


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