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Glossary: Security Monitoring and Automation

Authentication-Results

Also written: Authentication-Results:

An email header your own mail server adds on arrival, giving the results of its SPF, DKIM and DMARC checks. On Jo's fake invoice it showed spf=fail and dmarc=fail.

Where the book teaches it

Related terms

SPF (Sender Policy Framework)DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail)DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance)email headers