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Email security in South Africa

How South Africa protects its email, measured from public DNS across 1,062,406 domains, and which sectors move the national picture.

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22 /100

Average score across 1,062,406 domains

24/100

Active. 880,900 with live mail routing.

9/100

Inactive. 181,506 with no mail routing found.

An inactive domain is not receiving email, yet it stays registered and can still be forged in your name. Securing it costs nothing and closes that door. 8,806 of them already declare that they carry no mail. How we measure this

How these domains spread across score bands

A 0% B 1% C 9% D 14% E 25% F 51%

Where South Africa stands

Across the 1,062,406 domains we benchmark in South Africa, the average email-security score is 22 out of 100, a little above the global average of 13. That leaves the typical domain here open to being impersonated.

The headline covers every registered domain. Domains that carry live mail score 24, while those with no mail routing score 9. Both matter, because a domain does not need working email to be forged in your name.

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The big number is every registered domain in South Africa.
Active and inactive split that same population by whether mail is flowing.
The coloured bar shows how those domains spread from band A down to band F.

Industries in South Africa

Which sectors lift the national average, and which pull it down.

#	Industry	Domains	Score
1	Financial Services	1,804	34 /100
2	Manufacturing & Engineering	2,197	31 /100
3	Healthcare & Life Sciences	639	30 /100
4	Technology & Communications	4,537	30 /100
5	Retail & Consumer Brands	1,713	30 /100
6	Agriculture & Environmental Services	1,329	30 /100
7	Transport & Logistics	815	30 /100
8	Construction, Property & Infrastructure	2,133	29 /100
9	Professional Services	3,490	29 /100
10	Personal & Local Services	669	28 /100
11	Charities	477	26 /100
12	Membership Organisations	194	26 /100
13	Hospitality, Travel & Leisure	1,518	26 /100
14	Media, Marketing & Creative	3,744	23 /100
15	Government & Public Services	822	22 /100

South Africa within Africa

How South Africa compares with the rest of the region. The map and the table both follow the view selected above.

#	Country	Domains	Score
1	Angola	11,322	30 /100
2	Guinea	478	29 /100
3	Cape Verde	42	27 /100
4	Libya	178	27 /100
5	Mali	34	27 /100
6	Kenya	93,949	27 /100
7	Botswana	8,187	26 /100
8	Namibia	5,274	26 /100
9	Mozambique	9,295	26 /100
10	Gabon	62	26 /100
11	Tanzania	31,437	25 /100
12	Ethiopia	6,212	25 /100
13	Democratic Republic Of The Congo	162	25 /100
14	Cameroon	535	24 /100
15	Swaziland	39	24 /100
16	Benin	2,521	24 /100
17	Egypt	11,664	24 /100
18	Zambia	4,162	24 /100
19	Uganda	8,599	23 /100
20	Zimbabwe	32,340	23 /100
21	Equatorial Guinea	26	23 /100
22	Algeria	12,063	23 /100
23	Ghana	4,604	23 /100
24	Madagascar	4,849	22 /100
25	Liberia	328	22 /100
26	Mauritius	9,224	22 /100
27	South Africa (this country)	1,062,406	22 /100
28	Nigeria	133,927	22 /100
29	Mauritania	1,297	21 /100
30	Réunion	28,397	20 /100
31	Malawi	1,932	20 /100
32	Lesotho	1,881	20 /100
33	Senegal	8,258	20 /100
34	Guinea-Bissau	285	20 /100
35	Côte d'Ivoire	9,939	20 /100
36	Mayotte	3,143	20 /100
37	Gambia	1,088	20 /100
38	Morocco	77,195	19 /100
39	Burundi	2,507	19 /100
40	Sudan	2,186	19 /100
41	Burkina Faso	1,878	19 /100
42	Chad	586	19 /100
43	Rwanda	7,089	19 /100
44	Sierra Leone	1,173	18 /100
45	Niger	638	18 /100
46	South Sudan	632	17 /100
47	Togo	2,694	17 /100
48	Tunisia	34,291	15 /100
49	Djibouti	1,860	14 /100
50	Seychelles	3,818	13 /100
51	Somalia	26,377	9 /100

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