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A Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC) monitor gives your organization visibility and control of how its domain is being used in email communications. It helps your business protect its reputation, reduce impersonation risk, and ensure legitimate emails reach inboxes, not Spam folders.
With Sendmarc’s DMARC monitor, your company gets real-time reporting, actionable insights, and a clear path to full DMARC enforcement. It is the foundation for building a secure and trusted email environment.
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A DMARC monitor is a tool that gives your company visibility into how its domain is being used to send email. It tracks authentication results, identifies unauthorized senders, and highlights configuration issues that could impact email deliverability or security.
DMARC is an email authentication protocol that builds on Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM). It helps prevent email spoofing by verifying that messages claiming to come from your organization’s domain are legitimate.
With a DMARC monitor, your business can:
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Your company publishes a DMARC record in its DNS. The DMARC record defines how email receivers should handle messages that fail authentication checks and where to send reports.
When an email is sent from your organization’s domain, receiving servers check if it passes SPF and DKIM validation.
Email servers generate aggregate reports (in XML format) that outline the authentication results. These reports are sent to the address specified in your business’s DMARC record.
The DMARC monitor collects and processes these reports, presenting the data in a user-friendly dashboard. Your company gets a clear view of all sources sending messages on its behalf.
The monitor continuously tracks authentication results and alerts your organization of suspicious activity. This allows for timely action and improves your business’s security posture.
Tip: Try a free DMARC monitoring solution to understand the value it offers before your company commits to the protocol.
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DMARC monitoring is the ongoing process of collecting and analyzing DMARC reports to ensure that only authorized emails are sent from your organization’s domain. It helps detect phishing, stop spoofing, and improve your business’s overall email security posture.
A DMARC policy is the set of instructions your company gives to receiving email servers on how to handle unauthenticated emails sent from its domain. The policy options are none (monitor only), quarantine (send to Spam), and reject (block the email).
An aggregate DMARC report is generated automatically and generally sent on a daily or weekly basis, outlining email authentication results. A forensic DMARC report is triggered in real time and provides detailed information about individual messages that fail authentication.
Yes, DMARC is necessary to protect your organization’s customers, employees, and stakeholders from email-based threats like phishing and spoofing. DMARC is also required by major email providers, governments, and regulators, so it helps your business meet multiple compliance standards.
Interpreting DMARC reports involves reviewing data that shows who’s sending emails from your company’s domain and whether those emails passed SPF and DKIM checks. Sendmarc’s DMARC monitoring service simplifies this process by turning raw data into clear, actionable insights.