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Email security, explained

Practical, jargon-free guidance on protecting your domain - and what the data says about how everyone else is doing.

Short, practical reads on getting email authentication right – written for the people who have to make it work, whether that’s your own domains or a portfolio of clients’. No fluff, no fearmongering: just the things that actually move the needle, plus what our benchmark data reveals about the wider picture.

Guide

The SPF 10-lookup limit, and how to beat it →

Why your SPF quietly stops working as you add cloud senders – and the cleanest way to fix it for good.

Guide

How to get to p=reject without breaking mail →

A safe, staged path from DMARC monitoring to full enforcement – without blocking legitimate mail.

Data

Why the average domain scores just 21/100 →

What our benchmark of millions of domains reveals about the real state of email security.

Standards

DMARCbis: what’s changing in the DMARC standard →

The first major DMARC revision since 2015 – the tree walk, the end of pct, and what to do.

Guide

Securing mail in transit: MTA-STS and TLS-RPT →

DMARC stops impersonation; this is how you stop your mail being downgraded and read in transit.

More articles coming soon.

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