Email Security Blog
Harden Google Workspace for Education with Trustifi: Mail-Flow, Journaling, and API Tips
Introduction Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 often coexist across districts and universities. You might run faculty in one platform and students in another, or operate both during migrations. This mixed reality creates gaps if mail routes, journaling, and APIs are...
Stopping Phish at the Gate: How AI-Powered Inbound Shield Protects Google Workspace for Education
Why inbound email threats require special attention in education Email is still the primary path into your district or campus, so phishing, business email compromise, and ransomware often begin in the inbox. Google Workspace for Education provides strong native protections,...
QR Code Phishing, The New Email Threat Hiding in Plain Sight
Introduction What is QR code phishing QR code phishing, often called a quishing attack, is a social engineering tactic where attackers embed malicious QR images in emails or attached documents. When a user scans the code, they are taken to a...
FERPA in the Inbox: A Practical Guide to Email Compliance for Schools & Universities
Introduction Student privacy sits at the heart of K to 12 and higher education. Every day, staff send grades, schedules, financial aid details, and counseling notes through email. These messages, and the attachments that ride along, are often education records...
Deepfake Phishing Scams, How AI-Generated Voices and Video Fuel BEC Attacks
Introduction AI has supercharged phishing. Attackers now generate realistic voice and video that imitates leaders, vendors, and colleagues, then deliver these lures across email, chat, and live meetings. This blend is often called cross channel business email compromise, or BEC....
Step by Step Guide for Implementing DMARC
Introduction DMARC works with SPF and DKIM to verify that messages using your domain are really from you. SPF ties a sending IP or host to your domain, DKIM adds a cryptographic signature that proves the message content and domain,...
How DMARC, SPF, and DKIM protect your domain from spoofing
Introduction Brand protection starts with sender authentication. DMARC, SPF, and DKIM work together to prove that a message really comes from your domain, and that it has not been altered in transit. This topic matters now because phishing volume keeps...
The limitations of MFA and how to strengthen it
Introduction Multi factor authentication raises the bar for attackers, yet it is not a silver bullet. In the context of email, MFA blocks many direct credential abuse attempts, but gaps remain around people, legacy technology, and recovery paths. Attackers aim...