EMAIL SECURITY AND PROTECTION
What are DMARC and PCI Security Standards?
(And How They Affect Your Company)
DMARC
(Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance) strengthens your organization's security by verifying the authenticity of emails, preventing spoofing and phishing, and protecting your reputation.
It also enhances governance by providing control over your email domain, ensuring compliance, and improving email deliverability.
PCI SSC
The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council is a global leader in safeguarding payment data. Their Data Security Standards (DSS) are a comprehensive set of requirements for any organization that handles credit card information, ensuring secure payment processes and protecting sensitive data.
PCI-DSS V4.0 is their latest version, designed to help companies more effectively address and safeguard cardholder data against current threats.
The upcoming PCI DSS V4.0 standard will require companies processing credit and debit card payments to implement anti-phishing measures, including DMARC, by March 31 2025.
The Cost of Not Having DMARC
The cost of not having DMARC in place can be significant and affect multiple departments within a company, leading to a domino effect of financial, operational, and reputational losses across various departments.
Financial Costs
Brand Damage & Loss of Trust
Phishing attacks and email spoofing erode customer trust, leading to potential revenue loss, decreased sales, and damage to brand reputation.
Legal Expenses
If fraudulent emails are used to impersonate your company for illegal activities (e.g., scams, fraud), legal costs for defending against lawsuits and managing customer complaints can be substantial.
Increased Security Costs
Addressing the aftermath of a successful phishing attack or data breach can be expensive, involving incident response teams, forensic investigations, data recovery, and customer notification.
Regulatory Fines
Non-compliance with security regulations (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA) due to inadequate email authentication measures can result in hefty fines.
Email Deliverability Costs
Lost Marketing Opportunities and ROI
Low email deliverability and engagement rates result in poor return on investment for your marketing campaigns. You may need to spend more on other marketing channels to compensate for lost reach.
Blacklisting
If your domain is used for phishing or spam, it can be blacklisted by email service providers, leading to lower email deliverability rates and fewer people receiving your marketing messages.
Lower Engagement
When your emails fail to reach your intended audience, you miss out on valuable engagement opportunities like clicks, opens, and sales conversions.
Act Now.
Full DMARC Compliance Takes 6-9 Months!
Most organizations take 6-9 months to achieve full compliance. That leaves little room for critical email security like DMARC, especially if you’re also facing PCI-DSS V4.0 auditing.
Why Mimecast for Your DMARC Implementation
As the leader in email security for 20+ years, Mimecast offers industry-leading detection and world-class efficacy trusted by 42,000 customers globally. By applying the right detection capabilities at the right time, they surround your communications with continuous protection to block the most sophisticated threats.
Mimecast Can Help You With:
- Fast and simple DMARC deployment with low-touch, self-service tools
- User-friendly reports for faster analysis to track progress
- DNS change monitoring with proactive alerts
- Guidance from DMARC experts who are pioneers in the field
- Detailed information relating to your customer's email domain
- Workflow manager to keep track of related tasks plus monitoring tools for any changes that affect legitimate email flow
- A fully integrated product suite that works seamlessly to enhance protections, increase visibility, and reduce complexity.
Mimecast: AI-Powered Email Security and Cloud Integration
Are you tired of sophisticated email threats slipping past your defenses? Mimecast Email Security offers a powerful layer of protection designed to detect and stop impersonation attacks before they reach your users.
Internal Email Protection
Mimecast's advanced security inspections go beyond external threats. Internal Email Protect helps you detect and remediate security risks within your own email system, preventing attacks from spreading internally.
Data Leak Prevention
Mimecast helps protect sensitive information from being sent to external parties or even within your organization, reducing the risk of data breaches.
Discover and Remediate Threats With Advanced Security From Mimecast
Social Engineering Defense
Leverage industry- leading AI to defend employees from sophisticated social engineering and business email compromise attacks.
Real-Time Detection
We catch display name spoofing and reply-to address mismatches, exposing malicious attempts to mimic trusted senders.
Proactive Blocking & Quarantining
Suspicious emails are immediately blocked and quarantined, preventing them from reaching your users.
Dynamic Bannering
Contextual email banners surfaced based on risk and updated in real-time across devices.
Browser Isolation
Protect employees by allowing them to safely browse to any website.
What Makes Mimecast Different
Industry's Best Protection
AI-powered, 42,000 customers, 1.7 billion emails inspected daily, 27,000+ customers who use Mimecast alongside M365.
Instantaneous Deployment
Deployment in minutes, optimized M365 protections out of the box.
Simplified Administration
Pre-configured settings, one-click remediation, intuitive threat dashboard.
Fully Integratable + Customizable Policies
Integrates easily with Mimecast and your current security ecosystem.
Secures All Email Environments
M365, On-Premises, Cloud, Hybrid with a 14-Day Look Back to see what malicious emails have slipped through the cracks.
Complementary Solutions
Awareness Training, CyberGraph, DMARC.
Try Threat Scan for Microsoft 365 FREE for 30-Days
Ready to see who’s spoofing your company’s domain? Start your Threat Scan Free trial today.
How Mimecast’s Threat Scan Trial Works
- The Mimecast Email Security Cloud Integrated Threat Scan processes 30 days of mail already delivered by Microsoft. The mail is processed using the same inspection engines when Mimecast protects live mail, giving you and your organization a window into the types of threats lying dormant in your inboxes.
- Mimecast will use the Microsoft Graph API within M365 and will not affect mail flow or modify settings in “Threat Scan Only” mode.
What Privileges Are Required?
Mimecast requires M365 Global Admin privileges to allow access to mail and optionally remediate any discovered threats. For more information on the required privileges, review the Connecting to Microsoft 365 article.
What Threat Information Is Provided?
Threats and unwanted mail are shown in 4 categories: Malware, Phishing, Untrustworthy and Spam.
What Results Can I Expect?
You’ll be sent a detailed Threat Scan report via email, plus optional Loss Avoidance analysis from a Mimecast representative.
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