GMAIL is the largest email platform in the world, and Google has officially announced a hugely important change for it, one that we should all know about because it's meant to protect us against phishing attacks. .
GMAIL will allow companies to be verified in the platform, and the emails coming from them will have an official logo chosen by the companies, so that when people receive an email with such a logo they must know that it does not come from to an attacker.
"Organizations that authenticate their email using Sender Policy Framework (SPF) or Mail Keys Identified Mail (DKIM) and implement DMARC can provide their validated business logos to Google via a Verified Markup Certificate (VMC). BIMI uses trademark verification authorities, such as certification authorities, to verify logo ownership and provide proof of verification in a VMC. Once these authenticated emails have passed the other anti-abuse checks, Gmail will start displaying the logo in the existing avatar slot.”
