{"id":2403,"date":"2020-10-01T15:50:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T15:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kdmarc.com\/blog\/?p=927"},"modified":"2026-03-13T11:56:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T06:26:55","slug":"dmarc-adoption-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/threatcop.com\/blog\/dmarc-adoption-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"Only 20% of Fortune 500 Firms Employed DMARC in H1 of 2020!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Recent security findings have revealed that 80% of Fortune 500 companies have been vulnerable to email-based attacks. The reason is the slow adoption of DMARC in the H1 of 2020.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">DMARC stands for \u2018Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting &amp; Conformance\u2019. It is a standard email authentication, policy, and reporting protocol. It secures email domains against cyber criminals activities.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">According to the security analysis of DMARC adoption trends worldwide, around 20% of organizations adopted DMARC in the first half of 2020. It further revealed that:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">From March to June 2020, there has been a 3000% increase in email-based attacks exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">66% of these email-based attacks were brand impersonations.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">These attacks exploited big names like World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On average, 90% of undetected email-based attacks successfully make it to the inboxes of employees. Shockingly, this happens for every verified malicious email that is reported by an employee.<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">31% of US customers were attacked with pandemic-themed phishing emails.<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The year 2020 has seen slower DMARC adoption as compared to the 85% growth in 2019<\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Scammers send 3.1 billion emails from spoofed domains every day<\/b>,<b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">according to Forbes<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. In fact, over <\/span><b>90% of cyber attacks are attempted with emails<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Email scams have cost $26 billion over the last 6 years, says <\/span><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ic3.gov\/media\/2019\/190910.aspx\"><b>FBI<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dmarc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/DMARC-YoY-Growth-2020q4-1426x900-1.png\" alt=\"adoption \u2013 dmarc.org\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(Source: DMARC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>The Rapidly Increasing Email-based Attacks<\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">The Media Post published an article on June 09, 2020. It discussed how cybercriminals have leveraged COVID-19 to increase email spoofing attacks.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>It stated that the U.S. leads have expected an increase in the web and email spoofing attacks with 55% on alert. This was followed by the UK with 54% and Saudi Arabia and UAE with 53%<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">The article also discussed how security researchers surveyed 1,025 IT decision-makers. 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color: #000000;\">In this ongoing pandemic, emails have become the prime vector for attempting cyber crimes. Cyber threat actors exploit emails by spoofing email domains of legitimate sources to launch phishing, ransomware, and other cyber attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There has been a huge spike in impersonation attacks such as BEC attacks. Whereas, there was a<strong> 30% increase in the first 100 days of the occurrence of COVID-19.<\/strong> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even in our blog \u2018<\/span><span style=\"color: #183994;\"><b><a style=\"color: #183994;\" href=\"https:\/\/threatcop.com\/blog\/cybersecurity-in-the-middle-east\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Middle East Hit By A Wave Of Phishing Attacks In Q2 Of 2020<\/a><\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019, we discussed how email-based attacks have become more sophisticated.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Organizations need to understand the cruciality of implementing standard email authentication protocols. <span style=\"color: #183994;\"><a style=\"color: #183994;\" href=\"https:\/\/threatcop.com\/blog\/prevent-email-spoofing\/\"><strong>Email spoofing<\/strong><\/a><\/span>, spamming, <span style=\"color: #183994;\"><a style=\"color: #183994;\" href=\"https:\/\/threatcop.com\/blog\/bec-attack\/\"><strong>BEC attacks<\/strong><\/a><\/span>, phishing attacks, etc., are on the rise due to a lack of security practices and policies.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">In this new normal where employees are still working remotely, IT decision-makers should take the necessary initiatives. They should employ standard email authentication protocols like DMARC, <span style=\"color: #183994;\"><a style=\"color: #183994;\" href=\"https:\/\/threatcop.com\/blog\/spf-and-dkim\/\"><strong>SPF, and DKIM<\/strong><\/a><\/span> primarily.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>How must Organizations Secure their Email Domain?<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Organizations can secure their email domain against domain forgery by <span style=\"color: #183994;\"><a style=\"color: #183994;\" href=\"https:\/\/threatcop.com\/blog\/how-to-implement-dmarc\/\"><strong>implementing a DMARC<\/strong><\/a><\/span> configuration tool. For this, TDMARC is the most trusted industry-leading email authentication and anti-spoofing tool.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This tool is developed and designed to monitor all three outbound email authentication protocols i.e. DMARC, SPF, and DKIM. <\/span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/threatcop.com\/tdmarc\"><b><span style=\"color: #183994;\">TDMARC<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> secures the email domain against email spoofing, spamming, BEC attacks, etc.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 1.7431em;\">TDMARC Offers Following Features:<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Customizable Threat Summary:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Get the email domain threat summary at any time as per your requirement.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Email Channels Insight:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Gain full insight into email channels, including third-party emails and abuse.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>SMART DMARC:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Set DMARC in a click-through TDMARC dashboard without the need to revisit the DNS.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>SMART SPF: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alter IPs and email sources in the SPF record through the dashboard sans the need to visit the DNS.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Alerts &amp; Reports:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Recieve automated alerts and reports of threat details through emails.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>IAM (Identity Access Management):<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Control user access to critical information within the organization.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent security findings have revealed that 80% of Fortune 500 companies have been vulnerable to email-based attacks. The reason is the slow adoption of DMARC in the H1 of 2020.&nbsp; DMARC stands for \u2018Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting &amp; Conformance\u2019. It is a standard email authentication, policy, and reporting protocol. It secures email domains against cyber [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dmarc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Only 20% of Fortune 500 Firms Employed DMARC | Threatcop<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The DMARC adoption rate is growing but many organizations still lack protection. 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