CAS-003 · Question #2
A security administrator wants to allow external organizations to cryptographically validate the company's domain name in email messages sent by employees. Which of the following should the security…
The correct answer is D. DKIM. DKIM allows receiving mail servers to cryptographically verify that an email was authorized by the domain owner by validating a digital signature attached to the message.
Question
A security administrator wants to allow external organizations to cryptographically validate the company's domain name in email messages sent by employees. Which of the following should the security administrator implement?
Options
- ASPF
- BS/MIME
- CTLS
- DDKIM
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- D89% (34)
Why each option
DKIM allows receiving mail servers to cryptographically verify that an email was authorized by the domain owner by validating a digital signature attached to the message.
SPF specifies which IP addresses are authorized to send mail for a domain but does not cryptographically sign the message body or headers.
S/MIME provides end-to-end encryption and signing of message content between individual users, not domain-level cryptographic validation.
TLS encrypts the SMTP transport session between mail servers but does not provide domain-level cryptographic validation of the message itself.
DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) works by having the sending mail server sign outgoing messages with a private key, while the corresponding public key is published in DNS as a TXT record. External organizations can retrieve that public key and validate the signature, cryptographically confirming the message originated from the legitimate domain owner.
Concept tested: DKIM for email domain cryptographic validation
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/office-365-security/email-authentication-dkim-configure
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