Startups outpace established businesses on domain security

A new report from domain registrar CSC finds that that ‘unicorns’ -- privately owned start-ups or relatively new innovative companies with a valuation of over $1 billion -- have a higher score than the Forbes Global 2000 companies in five out of eight domain security capabilities. The report analyzes security posture based on adoption of key domain security features like type of registrar, registry lock, certificate authority authorization (CAA) records, DNS redundancy, DNS security extensions (DNSSEC), sender policy framework (SPF), DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), and domain-based message authentication, reporting, and conformance (DMARC). It compares the domain security practices of the… [Continue Reading]