Why Does New Zealand Need DMARC Protection?

Email phishing is responsible for more than 9 out of every 10 data loss incidents in the world. That’s more than any other single factor making organizations like yours lose sensitive data. Worse yet, they could be using your brand name to target the general public—your customers—and causing them to lose trust in your brand.

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Email Spoofing in New Zealand is a Major Threat

Email Spoofing in New Zealand is a Major Threat

As of May 2020, New Zealand has just over 4,600 domains with valid DMARC records, placing it 36th on the list of countries with protected domains. This still means the majority of New Zealand’s business domains are unprotected against cyberattacks. What’s more, not all users will have it enforced — you’re only DMARC-enforced when you set your policy to quarantine or reject.

DMARC Compliance in New Zealand

DMARC Compliance in New Zealand
  • According to a study conducted by PowerDMARC in July 2020, only 11% of New Zealand government departments and the country’s top 200 organizations had any kind of DMARC enforcement. Several businesses were found to have faulty or invalid DMARC records, and were likely completely unaware of it.

  • All of these organizations have left themselves wide open to fraud email, phishing scams and loss of brand reputation.

Why is DMARC Important?

Most domains use protocols like SPF or DKIM to stop email spoofing. While these are useful, they have flaws an attacker can exploit. DMARC, on the other hand, does something different:

 

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