Email Standards

DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance) – is an email authentication protocol. It is designed to give domain owners the ability to protect their domain from unauthorised use. The purpose of DMARC is to protect a domain from being used in business email compromise attacks, phishing emails, email scams and cyber threat activities. In combination with SPF and DKIM, DM ARC provides comprehensive email security  that will substantially increase your protection against high- risk email. 

DKIM – DKIM stands for DomainKeys Identified Mail. This is an email authentication method that allows the recipient to verify that an email was sent from the domain it claims to be from and that it has not been tampered with during transit. DKIM works by attaching a digital signature to the header of an email message. 

SPF (Sender Policy Framework) – is an email authentication method designed to detect forging sender addresses during the delivery of the email. 

Message Transfer Agent (MTA) – within the internet email system a MTA is software that transfers electronic mail messages from one computer to another using SMTP.  

BIMI (Brand Indicators for Message Identification) – is a standard improving email security via logo authentication. It increases brand recall, improves email open rates, and influences buyer behavior by putting a trademarked logo next to every email you send with the only integrated BIMI and VMC integration available on the market. 

VMC (Verified Mark Certificate) – is a digital certificate issued by a certificate authority that verifies logo ownership. Your logo must be a registered trademark before receiving a VMC. A VMC verifies that your organization is the legal owner of your brand logo. (Source: google.com) 

Security and Information Event Management (SIEM) – is a software solution to aggregate, correlate and if need be alert on events from across an organisations IT portfolio. Some popular SIEM products include Azure Sentinel, Splunk, and LogRhythm. More: https://smxemail.com/our-company/blogs-news/blog/siem-data-feed-could-change-the-game-2022-03-16/  

Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) – is an EU regulation that solve an important problem in the EU financial regulation. Ensures all suppliers to government agencies take all steps to protect data. 

Top Level Domain (TLD) – domains with the highest level in the hierarchical DNS – root part of the domain name.