In our last post, we discussed how to get your brand logo into the correct format for BIMI/VMC. This post will tackle the next step: how to set up DMARC for your organization. What is DMARC? DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance) is an email authentication, policy and reporting protocol that allows organizations to […]
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Getting Ready for BIMI: Prep Your Logo
In today’s post we’ll go into detail on the first step you need to take to get ready for Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI): How to get your logo into SVG format. Preparing your logo: creating the SVG To prepare for acquiring a VMC — and general BIMI-readiness — your logo must be in […]
Perils of DIY Private PKI
Many choose to construct and manage their own Public Key Infrastructures — a DIY PKI if you will. For smaller organizations and internal solutions, a DIY PKI may be manageable. Yet as modern enterprise networks grow and expand into new niche areas of technology, their PKI becomes ever harder to manage. Understanding what it takes […]
DigiCert Supports VMCs for Gmail’s BIMI Pilot; Company Logos in Emails Take an Important Step Forward
Learn more about what you can do to get BIMI-ready Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI) is a new standard in pilot that allows companies to display a logo on authenticated emails. The Gmail pilot is the first actual implementation of BIMI with the use of Verified Mark Certificates (VMCs). This enables Gmail to present […]
Working with Delegated OCSP Responders and EKU Chaining
It was reported recently that due to a technical flaw, it is possible for some Certificate Authorities (CAs) to create valid OCSP responses for certificates that they did not issue and do not control. This creates an issue for the CAs that operate and maintain these certificates. While this is a complicated issue, this blog […]
Taking a Data-Driven Approach Towards Compliance
In the realm of operating as the world’s largest global certificate authority (CA), how does DigiCert stay on top of compliance while issuing millions of public certificates in any given year? This includes identifying and remediating issues as we discover them to assure continual improvement and tight compliance. Understanding problems with certificates requires an inspection […]
DigiCert Agile Adoption Case Study
In July 2017, DigiCert was a mid-tier Certificate Authority and web security company with about 250 employees. About 40 of those employees were in Software Development, and they all sat within shouting distance of each other on a single floor of an office building in Lehi, Utah. By December of 2017, DigiCert had exploded to […]
How Website Seals Affect User Trust
Users don’t give their data to sites that they don’t trust. Website seals let your customers know that your site is secure and that their information is safe.
The Value of Authentication
A decade ago, shopping was an easy and relatively worry-free activity: select the items you want, put them in your cart, check out. Today’s Internet shoppers are still using carts, but now they need to worry about whether the store is trustworthy, and if it is safe to pay for the items they selected without […]