Authentication

Feature Article

Online Travel and Internet Retail Most Vulnerable to Email Attack

By Stephanie Jordan
in

This month, Agari published its first Email TrustIndex, a composite score on a scale of 1, lowest level of security, to 1000, the highest level of security, that measures email attack vulnerability and email trust by industry. The first TrustIndex analyzed four industries: Social Media, Internet Retail, Online Travel and Financial Services. The finding? Online Travel and Internet Retail rated least trusted and most vulnerable to email attack.

Published May 31, 2012

More Articles

Combating Phishing and Fraud with DMARC
by Stephanie Jordan
At the end of January, 15 leading technology ecommerce, and financial services companies jointly announced DMARC.org, a working group focusing on developing standards for reducing the threat of...

Department of Homeland Security Selects Online Trust Alliance to Provide Training
by Stephanie Jordan
This month the Online Trust Alliance (OTA) announced it has been awarded a contract to offer training on email authentication for all U.S government agencies and organizations.

Email Accountability: A Vision Worth Pursuing?
by Dave Lewis—CMO; Message Systems
Plain talk about our commitment to safe and secure messaging in email

Trust Takes Time and Dedication to Build, But Only A Second to Collapse
by Craig Spiezle -- Executive Director & Founder; Online Trust Alliance
2011 is being heralded as the “year of the breach”. Combined with the rise of fraudulent business activities and uncertainty of the U.S. economy, recent studies indicate trust in email, advertising...
Eye on Messaging

Cyber Attacks and Safeguarding the Internet
by Stephanie Jordan
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano recently stated that we might be able to keep our shoes on while going through airport security checkpoints in the near future. It seems there is...

Central American Bank Expanding Entrust IdentityGuard Platform for Layered Security with Mobile Capabilities -- Real World Solutions for Mobile Security
by Messaging News staff
The Challenge Grupo Financiero Ficohsa, founded in 1994 and based in Honduras, is taking a proactive stance in securing customer identities by expanding their strong authentication solution to...
Osterman Research

Making Authentication Easier and More Secure
by Michael Osterman
One of the fundamental tensions in providing access to any system is finding the right balance of security and accessibility: A system needs to be sufficiently difficult to access in order to...

Two New Email Security Features to Combat Rising Tide of Targeted Attacks: Cisco IronPort Outbreak Filters and Business Class Email

by Stephanie Jordan
In “Who Will Be Next Victim in Breach and Hacks? Nintendo Joins List Including Google, RSA Security, PBS, Lockheed Martin, Sony” I reviewed a few of the many breaches reported in 2011,...

National Internet Safety (and Security?) Month, MAAWG, and Passwords
by Stephanie Jordan
The United States Senate passed a resolution in 2006 stating that June is National Internet Safety Month, the idea is to prompt Internet safety discussions between parents and kids—but why not...
Syndicate content