Email authentication protocols are the foundation of your email security strategy, and even the most seemingly insignificant error can mess up your deliverability and security. One such issue is an invalid DKIM signature, which means there are inaccuracies in your domain’s DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) configuration.
The main purpose of DKIM is to verify whether a malicious entity tampered with email content in transit. To ensure this, a pair of public and private keys are produced for your domain and used by the source email systems to digitally sign the headers of outgoing messages. This digital signature remains valid until intermediate email systems modify the signed part. The d= value represents the signing domain in the header field.
Back in October 2023, Google released its revamped version of email-sending policies, which mandated bulk email senders to comply with the new authentication standards by February 2024. Cut to today: Google has now officially started rolling out these updated policies, and some organizations are receiving the following error message while sending emails:
DMARC, or Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance is one of the most important email authentication protocols that helps protect your email domains from phishing, spoofing, and other email-based cyber threats. Perhaps this is why it has now become a norm for organizations that send bulk emails to comply with.
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Mailchimp is a popular email marketing service that businesses use to create, send, and analyze email campaigns. If you also use Mailchimp, configuring SPF, DKIM, and DMARC will enhance your email deliverability and email security.
Flexible and dynamic SPF records are easier to manage and need less frequent updates. Such records are even more significant for organizations with an extensive email ecosystem as they allow scalable SPF configurations.
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No matter what your organization’s size is and how many emails you send in a day, you can be a target of impersonation and phishing attacks. So, ensure all your domains, including the parked ones, are secured with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC. In this guide, we are taking you through the 4 steps to enable DKIM using the Google Admin console.
Before you follow these steps, check if your domain’s DNS already has the SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records. Redundancies make all your records invalid, neglecting the responsibility of these email authenticating agents. You can use online SPF, DKIM, and DMARC record lookup tools designed for email security assessment to ascertain this; all you have to do is enter your domain name and the type of record you want it to evaluate for you.