Celebrating a year of fighting email phishing with DMARC
Feb 6, 2013
Summary
This post details Facebook's adoption and advocacy for the DMARC protocol, a key advancement in email security for thwarting phishing attacks. It highlights Facebook's early adoption of an early DMARC protocol in 2011, their hosting of an interoperability event to test and iterate on the protocol, and the significant impact of DMARC in protecting a large percentage of consumer mailboxes. The post also touches on the inherent complexity of email as a technology and the collaborative effort involved in evolving its security standards.
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