Only Two-Thirds of Federal Domains Meet Email Security Deadline

NextGov: Just over two-thirds of federal email domains met a Homeland Security Department deadline Tuesday to install and be fully protected by a tool that guards against email phishing scams, according to a tally from the Global Cyber Alliance.

About one-fifth of agency web domains appear not to have even begun installing the tool, known as DMARC, the organization found.

That figure comes after a year of staggered deadlines to implement DMARC, which verifies that emailers are who they say they are.

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