Danger: Authenticating e-mail can break it

The promise of e-mail authentication is too good to ignore, but if it is implemented incorrectly it will break a company’s mail system instead of fixing it, experts have cautioned.

“Deploy smart. Don’t just do it,” Erik Johnson, a secure messaging executive at Bank of America, said in a presentation at the Authentication Summit in Chicago on Wednesday. “If you just do it, you may just break it.”

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