Enhance Email Security with DMARC Email Authentication
Imposters Pose a Threat
Fraudsters often pose as government agencies using spear phishing to impersonate a specific person at a government body or public agency. Threats have become increasingly sophisticated.
This is just one reason the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued BOD-18-01 back in 2017, requiring Federal agencies to implement DMARC as a mechanism to thwart government impersonation. It's also the reason that the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) also requires the Mail Check tool authentication.
Many agencies have met the deadline, however there are still a number that continue to struggle with email systems that are notoriously complicated–making it difficult to identify all authorized and unauthorized senders. It doesn't have to be with Fortra DMARC Protection!
Set Your DMARC-ations
Fortra stays one step ahead of fraudsters because it understands the identity and trust relationships behind the email message. Our solutions know what good emails and sender behavior looks like, so we can stop the bad.
Financial institutions use Fortra to fully-automate DMARC implementation. This accelerates deployment, reduces time to enforcement and helps them stay there.
Fortra also protects staff from disruptive advanced email attacks and supports the Security Operations Center with workflow automation for incident response.
Why Government Email Is Still a Prime Target for Attacks
Email is the #1 way attackers target citizens and government employees.
What's Broken?
Email lacks build-in authentication:
Attackers can easily spoof or impersonate anyone in your organization using free tools
Attackers need to be right just once:
With billions of emails hitting government inboxes, odds are in the attacker's favor
Email gateways can't solve the problem:
Attackers rely on social engineering tactics and identity deception, not malicious content or URLs that traditional tools were built to detect
Stronger Protection for Government Email
Fortra stays one step ahead of fraudsters because it understands the identity and trust relationships behind the email message. Our solutions know what good emails and sender behavior looks like, so we can stop the bad.
Financial institutions use Agari to fully-automate DMARC implementation. This accelerates deployment, reduces time to enforcement and helps them stay there.
Fortra also protects staff from disruptive advanced email attacks and supports the Security Operations Center with workflow automation for incident response.
DMARC for Government
The Public Sector Perspective
The NCSC recommends DMARC records in place for all domains, regardless of whether the domain is used for email or not.
The NCSC’s Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) recommends a DMARC policy of Reject (“p=reject”).
The Government Digital Service (GDS) requires that all government departments adopt DMARC with the strongest DMARC policy (“p=reject”).
The Federal Perspective
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has mandated adoption of DMARC on all government agency email domains.
DMARC (and email authentication) is evolving into a key metric that impacts the FISMA scorecard against your agency.
NIST recommends using DMARC authentication tools to provide protection against phishing (SP 800-177, Trustworthy Email, Section 4.6).
Additional Benefits of DMARC
Stop Email Phishing Attacks Using Your Agency's Reputation
Reduce Account Takeover Risk
Increase Email Deliverability
Gain Visibility Into Cyberattack Risk
DMARC FAQs
When emails are received by the mailbox provider, the receiver checks if DMARC has been activated for your domain.
Here’s a typical policy in DNS. Note that this domain is configured with a policy of ”reject”.
DMARC record for agari.com:
Fortra DMARC Protection
Learn about Fortra DMARC, how it works, the features, and take the product tour here.