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How to drive cybersecurity as a top business priority
Everyone has a role to play in protecting the enterprise. Whether you’re shaping strategy or implementing solutions, aligning efforts to mitigate critical risks ensures a stronger, more resilient enterprise. If you missed Red Sift’s recent webinar on “From Data to Buy-In: Driving Cybersecurity as a Top Business Priority” we’ve got you covered. The session…
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BreakSPF: How to mitigate the attack
BreakSPF is a newly identified attack framework that exploits misconfigurations in the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) a widely used email authentication protocol. A common misconfiguration involves overly permissive IP ranges, where SPF records allow large blocks of IP addresses to send emails on behalf of a domain. These ranges often include shared infrastructures like…
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Never miss an expiring certificate again with Red Sift Certificates Lite
SSL/TLS certificates are the backbone of secure, uninterrupted digital experiences—but managing them effectively to prevent downtime remains a persistent challenge. With browser and certificate authorities looking to reduce certificate durations to as little as 90 or even 47 days, keeping track of renewals has never been more critical. That’s why we’re excited to introduce…
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Navigating G-Cloud 14 for DMARC solutions: A guide for former NCSC Mail…
Navigating G-Cloud 14 for DMARC solutions: A guide for former NCSC Mail Check users With the NCSC discontinuing key features of its Mail Check service, including DMARC aggregate and TLS reporting, after March 2025, UK public sector organisations must prepare for this change by transitioning to alternative email security solutions. To support this shift,…
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Mail Check is changing: What UK public sector organisations must know about…
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has suggested a change to Mail Check services starting on 24 March 2025. This change mainly involves ending DMARC aggregate reporting. This change comes as a measure to expand the services provided by Mail Check to any UK based organisation, while also limiting the cost and complexity of…
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Beyond DMARC: How Red Sift OnDMARC supports comprehensive DNS hygiene
Registrable domains and DNS play a crucial role in establishing online identity and trust, but their importance is often taken for granted. During new service setups, record updates are often overlooked, accumulating outdated entries. As infrastructure teams become increasingly overstretched, services may be incorrectly shut down without proper cleanup, leaving behind a sprawl of…
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First look at DKIM2: The next generation of DKIM
In 2011, the original DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM1) standard was published. It outlined a method allowing a domain to sign emails, enabling recipients to verify that the email originated from an entity holding a private key that matches the public key published in the domain’s DNS records. Now in 2024, DKIM is ready for…
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Securing our world: For a safer internet
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a time for industries to unite in promoting digital security within today’s complex landscape. Bad actors are leveraging increasingly sophisticated methods—such as email phishing and Business Email Compromise (BEC)—to exploit vulnerabilities, impersonate legitimate contacts, and access sensitive information. CISA Director Jen Easterly advises us to “always think before you…
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Boosting email security amid recent Coinbase phishing attempts
In recent weeks, there have been reports of sophisticated phishing attacks disguised as official communication from the cryptocurrency platform, Coinbase. These phishing emails closely mimic Coinbase’s branding and language to build recipient trust and prompt clicks on malicious links. The subject lines of these emails generally follow a format: the sender’s address starts with…
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Red Sift’s Fall 2024 Quarterly Product Release
Building on the momentum of our Summer Release, we’ve taken another big step forward in AI-driven security with our Fall 2024 updates. Over the last few months, we’ve been focused on developing our skilled up large language model (LLM), Red Sift Radar – now fully integrated with OnDMARC – making it the first LLM…
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Strengthening U.S. political campaigns against cyber threats: The urgent need for DMARC…
Securing political campaigns from cyber threats has never been more urgent. It is critical to secure communications that handle sensitive exchanges with voters, contributors, donations and coordinate complex operations. Campaigns make exceptionally rich targets for cyber espionage and exploitation, with our open-source research, demonstrating nearly 75% of US Senate campaign websites having not achieved…
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Apple & Chrome propose reduced certificate lifetime
The lifetime of SSL/ TLS certificates continues to grow shorter. Chrome initially proposed reducing certificate lifespans to 90 days to enhance security and mitigate risks associated with compromised certificates. Apple took this initiative further, proposing a draft ballot to shorten the maximum validity period for public SSL/TLS certificates to just 47 days by 2028.…
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Skill up your security: How defenders can harness AI
How can defenders identify and resolve security issues faster with Red Sift Radar, and what does it have to do with the movie Tenet? That was the key theme of this year’s 16th e-Crimes & Cybersecurity Mid-Year Summit education session, featuring Billy McDiarmid. If you missed the event, don’t worry—we’ve got you covered with…
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Behind the Screens: North Korea’s Focus on DMARC in Email Espionage
If you missed our recent virtual fireside chat “Behind the Screens: North Korea’s Focus on DMARC in Email Espionage,” or couldn’t attend due to geographical restrictions, we’ve got you covered. Joined by cybersecurity experts from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Stanford University, together with Red Sift, the session explored how the North…
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Gmail announces Common Mark Certificates (CMCs) support for BIMI adoption
Co-authored in partnership with Entrust. Gmail has officially announced its support for Common Mark Certificates (CMCs), enabling organizations to utilize BIMI (Brand Indicators for Message Identification) in Gmail without requiring a registered trademark. This means businesses that have established use of a logo but haven’t gone through the registered trademark process can now incorporate…
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Red Sift OnDMARC Recognized as “Leading B2B Tech Software” Provider by Expert…
Red Sift is delighted to once again be recognized as a prestigious “Top Solution” award from Expert Insights, a B2B tech research platform. This coveted award underscores Red Sift’s unwavering commitment to delivering top-notch cloud solutions – and recognized in two categories: Red Sift OnDMARC is an award-winning, cloud-based DMARC, DKIM and SPF configuration…
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Powering Up Cybersecurity: Red Sift Partners with Pax8 to Equip MSPs with…
We’re excited to share that Red Sift has officially teamed up with Pax8, one of the leading cloud commerce marketplaces, to make our cybersecurity solutions more accessible to Managed Service Providers (MSPs) globally. This new partnership means that MSPs can now easily access and deploy Red Sift’s solutions—like OnDMARC, Certificates, and Brand Trust—directly through…
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4 key takeaways from Red Sift Radar’s live briefing
If you missed the introduction of our latest innovation, Red Sift Radar, don’t worry – we’ve got you covered! Here are the 5 key takeaways from our launch webinar with Red Sift’s CEO Rahul Powar, Senior Director of Sales Engineering Billy McDiarmid and Zachary Bennett, IT & Security Manager at FHC. Watch the live…
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Revolutionizing Cybersecurity: How Abusix and Red Sift Are Taking Automation and Proactive…
As the emergence of new technologies continues to expand, so too does the threat of cyber abuse, an ever persistent and growing challenge for organizations worldwide. Addressing these threats head on requires not just vigilance, but innovation and collaboration. In a new partnership, Abusix, an innovator in internet abuse prevention, and Red Sift, known…
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Large Language Models: Harnessing Power with Prudence
Large language models (LLMs) have become a global phenomenon, revolutionizing the field of artificial intelligence. These powerful tools have unlocked new possibilities in a range of applications, from natural language processing and automated content generation to advanced data analytics, addressing challenges that were once deemed too complex or unfeasible. However, their widespread popularity and…
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