DHS Orders Federal Agencies to Use DMARC, HTTPS

  • 17 October 2017
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By Eduard Kovacs on October 17, 2017 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a binding operational directive requiring all federal agencies to start using web and email security technologies such as HTTPS, DMARC and STARTTLS within the next few months.
 
Within the next 30 days, agencies will have to develop a plan of action for implementing the requirements of Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 18-01.
 
Agencies have been given 90 days to configure all Internet-facing email servers to use STARTTLS, a protocol command that allows clients to indicate that they want unprotected connections upgraded to a secure connection using SSL or TLS.
 
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Good to see BlackBerry taking the necessary steps to patch and protect.

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