Table of Contents:

1. Google and Yahoo! Deadline Approaching for Email Security Requirements
2. Upcoming Raptor Email Security Features
3. Features Added in the Last Quarter
4. PCCC Attending CloudFest EU 2024

Google and Yahoo! Deadline Approaching for Email Security Requirements

Today on February 1st, 2024, Yahoo! and Google will be attempting to crack down on spammers by enforcing stricter domain hygiene requirements for domains sending more than 5,000 emails per day.

Specifically, BOTH Google and Yahoo! will require email best practices such as DMARC, DKIM, and SPF to be properly implemented. Further, we have seen these required when other thresholds have been hit so it is HIGHLY recommended you set these up immediately to help your email deliverability.

In addition, Google wants to ensure that Gmail recipients are receiving mail they actually want to receive. In order to accomplish this, a clear spam threshold that senders must stay under will be implemented. You can find out more by reading the Google blog: https://blog.google/products/gmail/gmail-security-authentication-spam-protection/

Of import, according to Google staff, this additional protection only extends to Gmail accounts at this time. Workspace instances will NOT get these additional protections yet.

What do I need to do?

Besides not sending spam, ensure you have DMARC, DKIM, and SPF configured for your domain.

PCCC provides both commercial support offerings and a playbook for admins to read more about these technologies and their importance for email deliverability.

Upcoming Raptor Email Security Features

Adding [New] Raptor Email Security Remark

PCCC has been developing and testing the [New] Remark.

For the [New] Remark, a check between the sender domain and recipient domains will be made and if there is no record of correspondence between them, the [New] tag will be added to the Subject line of the email. It gets complex with newsletters and freemail domains like Gmail but our goal is to alert you of the risk of a new correspondent.

An ideal use for this tag is to help identify potential phishes using close cousin attacks and freemail providers.

Features Added in the Last Quarter

Added [QR-code] Raptor Email Security Remark

The QR-Code Raptor Email Security Remark will be added to emails scanned by Raptor Email Security that contain a QR code.

QR Codes are not useful in email and these typically represent a risk.

Added [ZeroDay] Raptor Email Security Remark

Any email that triggers Raptor Email Security’s Zero Day detection will have the [ZeroDay] Raptor Email Security Remark added.

These emails should be treated with the utmost caution as there is an extremely high chance of the email being malicious in nature.

What is a Zero Day?

A Zero Day is an exploit for a system or device that is known by hackers but not known / not patched. They are extremely dangerous.

PCCC Attending CloudFest EU 2024

PCCC is proud to announce that our CTO Giovanni Bechis will be attending Cloudfest EU this year.

At Cloudfest EU, we hope to gain even more knowledge and insight into ways that we can continue to improve upon the protections our Raptor Email Security product provides.

Please let us know if you will be attending! We’d love to meet up!