Research: Threatpost – U.S. Universities Get Failing Grades for DMARC Adoption

Analysis from Red Sift shared with Threatpost shows that only 3 percent of the top 200 schools in the 2020 WSJ/THE College Rankings have the DMARC protocol configured at its fullest protection level.

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10 Nov. 2019

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