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=====Securing your email ===== | =====Securing your email ===== | ||
- | It is vital to secure | + | If you use email โ and, let's face it, how many lawyers do not? โ it is vital that you secure |
- | You are probably communicating a lot of sensitive information by email, and email is likely to be the system used to reset passwords on other accounts. | + | You are probably communicating a lot of sensitive information by email, and email is likely to be the system used to reset passwords on other accounts. At the very least, secure your email. However, you should also consider if email is the right tool at all โ there are [[email_alternatives|alternatives]] which may offer security more appropriate to the risk. |
If your email account gets compromised, | If your email account gets compromised, | ||
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An example of an SPF record, for domain example.com, | An example of an SPF record, for domain example.com, | ||
- | example.com. | + | example.com. |
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- | There are a number of tools to help you generate your domain' | + | There are a number of tools to help you generate your domain' |
===DKIM === | ===DKIM === | ||
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+ | DKIM โ DomainKeys Identified Mail โ is a mechanism for signing and verifying messages. | ||
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+ | As with [[# | ||
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+ | What you will need to do will depend on your email server or service provider, so either check the manual or help pages, or get someone who knows what they are doing to help. | ||
===DMARC === | ===DMARC === | ||
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+ | DMARC โ Domain-based Message Authentication, | ||
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+ | Because it builds on SPF and DKIM, get those in place first, before you look at implementing DMARC. | ||
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+ | As with [[# | ||
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+ | From a security point of view, setting your DMARC reject to suggest to recipients that they should reject messages from your domain which fail SPF and/or DKIM checks offers the best security. It requires you to make sure that your SPF and DKIM records are correct and up to date as, otherwise, " | ||
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====Enable two-factor authentication if you use webmail ==== | ====Enable two-factor authentication if you use webmail ==== |
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