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Email security in South Africa

How South Africa protects its email, measured from public DNS across 1,087,806 domains, and which sectors move the national picture.

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22 /100

Average score across 1,087,806 domains

25/100

Active. 894,201 with live mail routing.

10/100

Inactive. 193,605 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. 8,984 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 15% E 25% F 51%

Where South Africa stands

Across the 1,087,806 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 25, while those with no mail routing score 10. 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	1,799	35 /100
2	Manufacturing & Engineering	2,192	31 /100
3	Healthcare & Life Sciences	639	31 /100
4	Retail & Consumer Brands	1,705	30 /100
5	Transport & Logistics	812	30 /100
6	Technology & Communications	4,526	30 /100
7	Agriculture & Environmental Services	1,327	30 /100
8	Construction, Property & Infrastructure	2,126	29 /100
9	Professional Services	3,483	29 /100
10	Personal & Local Services	669	28 /100
11	Charities	477	26 /100
12	Membership Organisations	194	26 /100
13	Hospitality, Travel & Leisure	1,516	26 /100
14	Media, Marketing & Creative	3,731	24 /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	11,874	30 /100
2	Cape Verde	42	29 /100
3	Mali	34	28 /100
4	Libya	176	28 /100
5	Kenya	94,463	27 /100
6	Botswana	8,250	26 /100
7	Mozambique	9,354	26 /100
8	Tanzania	31,567	26 /100
9	Democratic Republic Of The Congo	161	25 /100
10	Ethiopia	6,538	25 /100
11	Gabon	62	25 /100
12	Namibia	5,453	25 /100
13	Cameroon	533	25 /100
14	Swaziland	39	24 /100
15	Zambia	4,179	24 /100
16	Egypt	11,766	24 /100
17	Uganda	8,757	23 /100
18	Zimbabwe	32,365	23 /100
19	Benin	2,745	23 /100
20	Ghana	4,607	23 /100
21	Equatorial Guinea	26	23 /100
22	Madagascar	5,130	22 /100
23	South Africa (this country)	1,087,806	22 /100
24	Mauritius	9,716	22 /100
25	Mauritania	1,370	21 /100
26	Nigeria	140,434	21 /100
27	Réunion	29,672	21 /100
28	Lesotho	1,903	21 /100
29	Senegal	8,550	20 /100
30	Malawi	2,027	20 /100
31	Guinea-Bissau	296	20 /100
32	Gambia	1,128	20 /100
33	Mayotte	3,307	20 /100
34	Sudan	2,237	19 /100
35	Morocco	81,157	19 /100
36	Burkina Faso	1,993	18 /100
37	Chad	619	18 /100
38	Rwanda	7,423	18 /100
39	Sierra Leone	1,214	18 /100
40	Guinea	919	18 /100
41	Burundi	2,838	18 /100
42	Niger	689	17 /100
43	Côte d'Ivoire	16,273	17 /100
44	South Sudan	667	17 /100
45	Togo	2,822	17 /100
46	Algeria	21,821	16 /100
47	Djibouti	1,991	13 /100
48	Liberia	631	13 /100
49	Seychelles	3,908	12 /100
50	Tunisia	70,145	11 /100
51	Somalia	27,683	9 /100

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