Business Password Managers: What We Recommend, and Why
Why company passwords belong in one managed vault, the password managers we recommend, and how we help your team move across.
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Emails. We use them every single day practically without fail to communicate with the humans around us. And yet, so many people don’t realise just how inherently insecure email is. It’s so easy to send an email pretending to be someone you’re not, so easy to intercept mails and tamper with them before they reach their final destination.
At least it was so easy. But that was before your favourite IT provider partnered up with Sendmarc to keep your mails secure.
One of the biggest email security threats that companies face is the risk of attackers sending emails from their domain, or posing as people you trust in Social Engineering attacks. Sendmarc makes sure that you have full visibility over where your emails come from, and that only authorised users can send emails using your domain name. By partnering with Sendmarc, we at Solid Systems are putting your business’ security front and centre, reducing the risk of your humans or your company as a whole falling victim to an email attack.
The biggest benefit to businesses is that their sender reputation is going to improve, and they’ll have more control over the sending and receiving of unauthenticated emails. Plus the reporting gives a quick picture of their email security adding even more value.
Sendmarc enables our clients to not only defend their domains against email threats like spoofing and phishing but also increase their domain’s trustworthiness, ensuring every genuine email reaches its intended recipient without interception or tampering.
Sendmarc provides a user-friendly view of your Domain’s DMARC compliance and gives you insight into who is sending emails from your domain so that you can clamp down on spoofing attempts by configuring SPF and DKIM only for services you allow.
Sendmarc identifies real email and stops fake emails, so you don’t have to worry.
Using Sendmarc, what arrives in an inbox is always the real thing. You and your reputation have guaranteed protection from impersonators, fraudsters and attackers. You can be fully confident that any email received bearing your identity has been verified as authentic.
There are 5 main email risks the finance industry is especially susceptible to. Making sure that they are addressed will go a long way towards safeguarding your reputation.
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When one of your team members falls for a social engineering attack, the attackers have the opportunity to gain significant access, and can fly under the radar while doing so.
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Email was never designed to be as popular as it has become, and it wasn’t built with security in mind. Attackers are taking advantage of the platform in a number of different ways.
Read MoreWhile Sendmarc is a critical tool for preventing email spoofing, you also need to protect your human’s email login credentials, making it more difficult for attackers to compromise your business addresses. This is where Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) can be an invaluable asset to your business.
We set up and monitor DMARC, SPF and DKIM with Sendmarc as part of Secure365.
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