Attention all users of Valimail Enforce Enterprise—we’ve got a great new feature to share with you: the Senders Continuous Protection Report.
How often does your organization change (or audit) sending services? How can you protect against subdomain hijacking (sometimes called “subdomailing”) and ensure that you’re eliminating outdated connections to sending platforms that are no longer needed? Here’s how this new report can help you with all of this and more.
What is the senders continuous protection report?
Users can audit sending platform usage, denoting which platforms are actively being utilized to send email messages today and which ones are no longer active. The Senders Continuous Protection Report allows easy usage auditing to show which email service provider (ESP) platforms, marketing automation systems, business email tools, and any other email message-sending platforms have no email volume.
Protect against domain hijacking by determining which sender platforms are no longer in use. You’ll be able to avoid “dangling DNS” by revoking authorization for those now-unnecessary senders in your email authentication configuration, and thus, you’ll have no worries about whether or not an out-of-date platform lets a domain expire to be potentially purchased and repurposed by a bad actor.
If you’re managing multiple domains, you may have run into or even inherited legacy domains with confusing and complex Sender Policy Framework (SPF) configuration, linking to sending platforms you may not even be utilizing today. Even worse, there can be dangling SPF references to sending platforms (or their domains) that no longer exist. This is exactly the kind of exploit that a bad actor looking to engage in “subdomain” is looking for.
With the Senders Continuous Protection Report and our new DKIM Continuous Protection Report, our clients are able to proactively audit every domain’s email authentication settings and prevent your domains from being exploited due to outdated or weak DKIM keys, forgotten sending services, or orphaned SPF records.
How to use the new report
We summarize and break down all of the sending services we’ve ever tracked for your domains and show you if they’ve been most recently used within the last 30 days, in the last 1-3 months, or longer than 3 months ago, or if we’ve never identified any email volume sent from that service for your domain going back to May 2024.
At a glance, you’ll see all of the identified sending services and the amount of email volume we’ve tracked from this platform in the past 30 days. Filter by your preferred sending domain, specific sending platforms, or last seen date. You’re also able to export the output to CSV if you’d like to make it available for offline analysis.
Try it now or learn more
This report is available today for all Valimail Enforce Enterprise users. Open it by looking in the left-hand navigation menu inside of Valimail Enforce, and selecting “Senders” under the “Continuous Protection” section. You can also find a Knowledge Base article with more information here.)
If you’re not an Enforce Enterprise user or not using Valimail Enforce at all today, contact us for a demo and to learn more.
