Abney Associates News Blog Warning: Foiling Phishing With Au
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Abney Associates News Blog Warning: Foiling Phishing With Authentication
In its new report on using e-mail authentication to fight phishing attacks, BITS offers a list of best practices and recommendations, including expanded use of the DMARC security protocol.
BITS, the technology policy division of The Financial Services Roundtable, believes that the Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance protocol plays a key role in mitigating phishing schemes.
DMARC standardizes how e-mail receivers perform e-mailauthentication by providing a uniform reporting mechanism that's built on reputation.
"DMARC is pretty helpful in a couple of different areas," says Andrew Kennedy, senior program manager for BITS' security initiatives, in an interview with Information Security Media Group [transcript below].
Kennedy sees DMARC as an overlay of the Sender Policy Framework [SPF] and DomainKeys Identified Mail [DKIM] protocols, which aid in e-mail authentication.
"If there was an authentication failure for one of those protocols, it leaves you in the lurch if you don't have a policy in place to deal with that, and DMARC helps close the gap there," he says.
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