InfoSec

Can you tell your DMARK from your DKIM ? Four years ago I received a mysterious message from our email provider, mandrill. It was advising me that email sending for our startup would be stopped unless I completed DKIM and SPF signatures for our email. Fortunately the email also contained some pretty easy to follow instructions so the issue was closed out pretty quickly. I was curious why we needed two; why DKIM & SPF ?...

"People who feel safe work harder and your biggest cost each month, by far, is wages not safety equipment." I learned this after graduating as a civil engineer. Now years later I’m an engineer in IT and it’s pretty much the same for InfoSec. Yes sure it keeps evil hackers at bay but mostly it’s just good management that gives your team more organised with much more time to move the dial forward and less time spent fixing & firefighting the unexpected....