DMARC 2.0? New BIMI standard will help fight spoofing and phishing

Major email service providers are teaming up with large corporations like health insurers, financial service providers and social media giants to develop a new standard that will let commercial email senders securely display their logo next to the “from” name when a message is in a user’s inbox. Brand Indicators for Message Identification, or BIMI, aims to bolster sagging public trust in email, and thereby increase customer engagement with commercial marketing messages. But senders will have to use industry-standard email verification measures in order to leverage BIMI, and the logos will also appear on individual emails from employees of the sending company, as well as mass marketing messages. As a result, BIMI, will also help combat spoofing and phishing messages, according to Patrick Peterson, the founder and executive chairman of email security outfit Agari — one of the new standard’s authors. “We’re putting the trust back into email,” he told […]

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