On Message with Ben Gross

New IronPort Study on Authentication

April 24th, 2006

Last week at the Email Authentication Summit, IronPort presented the results of a study on adoption of Sender ID and DomainKeys. Among the highlights:

35% of all Internet email is now authenticated using SIDF

9% of all Internet email is now using DKIM

75% of all Fortune 100 companies use SIDF for marketing related email, 45% use DKIM

Adoption of DKIM has increased from an negligible value in just 9 months

9 of the top 10 most phished domains use SIDF, 5 out of 10 use DKIM

The study, Email Authentication: Sender ID Framework (SIDF) and DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Scorecard, was written by IronPort analysts after examining global email traffic patterns using IronPort’s SenderBase traffic monitoring network. The full text will be available soon on the IronPort site; in the meantime, additional details are in the press release.

Recent Pew Reports on Chinese Internet Users, Broadband Adoption, and Spam The Pew Internet & American Life Project conducts nationally stratified surveys of American households on a wide range of topics related to internet use. Pew re ...

Link roundup for 8/5/07 Fingerprinting the World's Mail Servers: is a short research article by by Ken Simpson and Stas Bekman in O'Reilly Sysadmin investigating the percentage of depl ...

Link roundup for 8/2/07 Social Networking Goes Global Major Social Networking Sites Substantially Expanded Their Global Visitor Base during Past Year: A new report from comScore outlin ...