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Anti-Spoofing Email Update
Part of OIIT’s function is to ensure the e-mail messaging services continuously function at the highest levels for NSU stakeholders. OIIT also promotes the use of mass e-mail for University business when using e-mail is the most effective communications channel. In order to continue to protect e-mail as a messaging asset, an additional security measure will be added to the NSU messaging services. The new security measure that will be applied will govern a practice known as e-mail spoofing.
What is Spoofing?
Spoofing is the practice of sending mail from a specific source, using the messaging domain of another source. i.e. Lpounds@yahoo.com bounces mail off nova.edu and becomes lpounds@nova.edu as the sender. Spoofing can be useful, for example when allowing a vendor to send e-mail as @NOVA.EDU to all NSU employees requesting them to complete an employee survey.
What Does Spoofing Cause?
Spoofing is harmful when used by senders masquerading as NSU to hide their identity to enable spam or phishing e-mail messages.
An excessive amount of e-mail use causes harm because it conditions recipients to ignore messages from excessive e-mail senders. In severe mass e-mail cases, internet service providers (Comcast, U-verse, etc.) and email providers (Gmail, Yahoo, etc.) block the sender’s e-mail domain from sending to their recipients.
The effort to limit spoofed e-mail to only approved senders (known NSU affiliates), provides for more reliable e-mail delivery, preserves the NSU email system as trusted senders and denies untrusted senders from using NSU email for spam and phishing activities.
What is NSU Doing?
OIIT and University Relations will be enabling anti-spoofing rules on all NSU email on August 1, 2016. This measure will effectively block all unknown and unapproved senders from spoofing the @NOVA.EDU e-mail messaging domain, unless the sender is registered with OIIT. This affects only senders from foreign domain sources sending as @NOVA.EDU. This measure will not affect existing NSU e-mail users.
For Assistance?
If you need to use NSU e-mail messaging services from outside sources, i.e. spoof @NOVA.EDU please contact SSS@nova.edu. Notifying OIIT of these needs now will ensure your approved e-mail messaging sources are continued successfully. For more information regarding, mass e-mail or other approved e-mail messaging services, please refer to the NSU e-mail policies at the web link below.