A Stricter DMARC Policies will be Adopted to Gmail in 2016

Gmail Login: Google has announced that it will be moving Gmail to a strict DMARC policy starting in June 2016.

The idea is to thwart cybercriminals who hack into user accounts and then scrape the address books; they then use a different server to spoof messages from the hacked user to his or her own contacts. They do this for spam and fraud purposes, for phishing and to spread malware.

DMARC.org is an initiative of the Trusted Domain Project (TDP), a non-profit and tax-exempt public benefit corporation, and is supported by the following sponsors: Agari, Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA), Farsight Security, Google, PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), and ReturnPath. DMARC.org is dedicated to promoting the use of DMARC and related email authentication technologies to reduce fraudulent email, in a way that can be sustained at Internet scale.

The news follows Yahoo’s announcement that it would expand its use of DMARC to protect users of the ymail.com and rocketmail.com services by November 2, with more coverage to be added to additional domains in the coming months.

DMARC is also taking steps to address the downsides of using the specification. When Yahoo and AOL began protecting their customers from abuse, there was a small percentage of users who were negatively impacted by the change. To address these issues, several workarounds were quickly deployed by service providers and mailing lists, and two long-term solutions were submitted to the IETF for consideration. One of these, the Authenticated Received Chain (ARC), is being presented at the Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG) meeting in Atlanta. The goal is to engage the technical community in helping to refine and test the proposed solution with deployers such as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, with an interoperability event being organized for the first quarter of 2016.

“We are pleased to be supporting the ARC protocol to help mailing list operators adapt to the need for strong authentication,” said John Rae-Grant, lead product manager for Gmail.

“More and more companies have been adopting DMARC and email authentication over the past few years, with more vendors and service providers adding the necessary support to their offerings in order to make that adoption simpler,” said Steven Jones, executive director of DMARC.org. “With new protocols like ARC emerging to address the traditional email use cases that were problematic under some DMARC policies, and the leadership of forward-thinking companies like Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, I expect to see the rate of adoption accelerate globally.”

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