Security News > 2020 > February > How some presidential campaigns use DMARC to protect their domains from being spoofed
DMARC can prevent spammers from using a trusted domain name to send junk mail, a useful tactic for the presidential campaigns and for your organization, according to security provider Valimail.
Owners of legitimate domains can protect their names from being spoofed in junk mail through Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance, a type of authentication that verifies email messages by checking the sender's domain.
As this type of spoofing can be used against those running for president in this year's election, here's how the presidential campaigns are using DMARC, and how your organization can as well.
This latest DMARC data shows an improvement from May 2019 where there were 23 candidates, and only three of them were fully protected by DMARC. Without DMARC in place, the presidential campaigns can be susceptible to spoofing in a few ways.
"It's a real sign of progress when more than half of the presidential campaigns have not only published DMARC records, but have configured them with effective enforcement policies."