Malcovery, Agari team up to tackle modern email security threats

As part of the agreement, both companies will mutually refer each other’s existing solutions and will establish a Rapid Response Program to be offered by Agari to prospects and customers as a quick start cybersecurity service to organizations that have recently been the victim of a phishing incident. Key to this offering will be Malcovery’s Today’s Top Threats (T3) offering, an actionable intelligence solution that detects spam and malware threats. In addition, the vendors will share their vast volume of threat data for improved analysis and early identification of emerging threats.

Malcovery has announced its ‘RedHanded Alliance Program’ earlier this year, an association of strategic channel, technology and MSSP partners who together provide significantly broader security protection than what historically has been applied at the edge of a network. In the last six months, the Alliance has added IBM, Internet Identity (IID), Radiance, PPMA, and Bishop Technologies to the group.

Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) was created by a group of organizations including Agari, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo! and JP Morgan Chase to reduce the potential for email–based abuse. DMARC standardizes how email receivers perform email authentication using the SPF and DKIM mechanisms and has been widely adopted by email providers, currently protecting 60 percent of the world’s online mailboxes.