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About Pavan Kushwaha
Pavan Kushwaha is the Founder & CEO of Kratikal and Threatcop and a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA). His cybersecurity journey began in 2013 after a firsthand encounter with a sophisticated phishing attack, inspiring him to build Kratikal with his NIT Allahabad peers. Today, he leads globally recognized solutions that reduce human risk using behavioral science, automated risk detection, and agentic AI security. He specializes in penetration testing and building secure security architectures for modern enterprises. An information security researcher and author of multiple cybersecurity books, he has trained 15,000+ professionals across 130+ countries. He has filed patents (pending) for innovations in real-time email trust and people security, turning security awareness into measurable, repeatable risk reduction.
Closing the 48-Hour Gap: The Evolution of Real-Time Domain Protection
For years, enterprises have invested in DMARC to protect their domains, yet many security teams remain frustrated by the limitations of traditional protocols. The traditional DMARC reporting process is plagued by late reports (arriving 24 to 48 hours after an event), aggregated data, and a lack of visibility into the specific behavior of an attacker. The core of this topic is how real-time DMARC is reshaping domain protection by providing visibility in just 56 to 70 seconds. This rapid response time allows organizations to uncover the exact email ID a hacker used for spoofing, rather than just identifying an IP address. This technology ensures that security teams are no longer reactive but can actively correlate and stop attacks as they happen.
Important Lines from the Speaker:
- “What you can do with the help of Real-Time DMARC is you can uncover that email id which actually sends out the email”.
- “Real-time DMARC takes around 56 to 70 seconds to come… whereas the traditional technologies and in terms of demar protocol takes 24 to 48 hours”.
- “Even if it’s originating from Sigrade AWS you can still control those email and kind of stop those emails… That’s the craziest part”.
Uncovering Hacker Behavior Across All Channels
Pavan explains that real-time DMARC provides a “drastic shift” in visibility. It does not matter if a user is on M365, Google Workspace, or sending from a random server; the technology uncovers the specific ID used to spoof VIP users and employees. This allows organizations to correlate exactly which channels these attacks are originating from.
One of the most critical aspects of this technology is its ability to automatically block users involved in account takeovers by integrating directly with existing security solutions or M365. This level of control extends even to third-party senders like SendGrid or AWS. By identifying abnormal behavior in real-time, enterprises can stop malicious emails even after they have been sent from the SMTP server, providing a critical safety net that legacy DMARC cannot offer.
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