What is BIMI and how can marketers use it for email campaigns?
You may have heard about BIMI logos and how they can boost engagement in email marketing campaigns. This post (the first in a series) explains the basics of BIMI. Email isn’t just ...
How to create a BIMI-compatible logo using SVG images
Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI) is an emerging standard that allows brands to display their logos alongside authenticated email messages. BIMI was designed to be easy, but it has become clear ...
Why we’re partnering with Twilio SendGrid for security and deliverability
Twilio SendGrid and Valimail have teamed up to provide customers with Valimail’s DMARC Monitor and Enforce solutions, which will help Twilio SendGrid customers further protect their domains from phishing and impersonation attacks ...
Zero-trust inbox security with Valimail Defend
We live in a new era of increasing, relentless and rapidly changing fraudulent phishing attacks. While existing technologies try to keep pace, it’s common to find threat actors always one step ahead ...
Why email needs a zero-trust security model
Email threats have moved past a content-centric approach (aimed at delivering malicious links and attachments) to more sophisticated gambits. Almost 90% of email attacks manipulate sender identity to fool recipients and initiate ...
Just how bad is the problem with fake sender identity?
For years, secure email gateways have been playing a cat and mouse game with phishers, countering email attacks by constantly scanning for malware, viruses, bad links, and poor sender IP reputations. That ...
Best practices for email security while employees are WFH
Cybercriminals are exploiting uncertainty and fear around the COVID-19 pandemic, with phishing emails targeting individuals and institutions — utilizing spoofed identities to evade detection. This is an even bigger concern at a ...
7 common mistakes people make with DMARC
Interest in DMARC is growing exponentially, but most of the organizations that deploy DMARC don’t actually achieve its full anti-spoofing benefits. Here’s how to overcome the most common DMARC deployment challenges. In ...
Phishing attacks exploit Coronavirus anxiety
In the past week, there have been many reports about criminal activity exploiting people’s fears of the coronavirus, aka Covid-19. The U.S. Secret Service, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United ...
Domain spoofing declines as protective measures grow (research part 3)
Valimail’s data shows a slow decline in the rate of email spoofing through exact-domain impersonation over the past several years. In the last year it’s remained roughly level at about 1% of ...
