Katana Technologies has appointed Advantage as one of the
first New Zealand resellers of PowerDMARC, a powerful
solution that monitors and protects domains from cybercrime
attacks through email.

DMARC, which stands for
“Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting &
Conformance” is an email authentication policy and
reporting protocol.

Spammers and phishers are getting
more sophisticated in their attacks, and email is a way to
spoof well-known brands, including companies and even
government departments, compromising user accounts, stealing
passwords, bank account, and credit card information. Users
often cannot tell a real message from a fake one, and often
when the message appears to come from a senior trusted
person in an organisation, people will respond to requests
that they might otherwise not trust.

According to a
report by Verizon, 94% of data breaches in 2019 started with
attacks targeting people via email. An FBI statement said
that the business email compromise cost in 2019 was at least
$1.7 Billion!

“Signing
a founding partner like Advantage is a great step towards
seeing increased adoption rates of DMARC across the
region,” says Steve Rielly, Founder of Katana
Technologies. ”Initial customer trials are showing
immediate value by highlighting both known and unknown
issues with email security and delivery rates, and how to
fix them right away.

“PowerDMARC’s platform is
lightweight and efficient, which is everything a partner is
looking for in a solution to show great return to value for
the clientele, and we are seeing immediate success with
Advantage.”

Steve Smith, Regional Executive for
Advantage, noted “We have trialled this solution with
clients who have been surprised to find that they have been
the subject of actual and attempted email spoofing attacks.
We are delighted to have been appointed a partner for this
solution which is another weapon in our armoury of services
to protect New Zealand businesses and
government.”

About PowerDMARC

PowerDMARC is
a cloud-based SaaS, so there is nothing to install. Users
can leverage the services immediately.

It provides
24/7/365 email spoofing visibility and prevention and can
decrease fraudulent email delivery by over
99%.

Features include PowerSPF, which tells receiving
servers which emails are coming from authorised and
unauthorised IP addresses and how to deal with them. Power
Take Down allows you to remove unauthorised IP’s. It
provides forensics with encryption and includes support for
STS-BIMI and MTA so users can make TLS encryption mandatory
for every email.

About Advantage

“Advantage
has over 35 years of experience in the New Zealand IT
market, providing enterprise-class solutions across almost
all market segments including government, medical, retail,
financial and legal,” says Regional Sales Executive, Steve
Smith. “We are a technology-driven organisation that
focuses on a true partnership with our clients – their
success is intrinsically linked to ours.”

“To
achieve this goal in today’s IT landscape, we maintain a
level of flexibility and agility that few providers can
rival. Our focus is on building scalable and secure
solutions for customers that rely on highly connected IT
services. Everything we do is secure by design and generally
incorporates one or more of our security services which are
often no longer optional in today’s environment. All
services that we provide can be fully managed,
customer-managed, or jointly managed, based on the
customer’s requirements and internal resources.

For
more information on Advantage, visit: https://Advantage.nz
or go to LinkedIn.

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