So, 22% of participants think that daily RUA reports are a waste of time.
  We looked at this for DMARCbis but rejected the idea of an
exceptions-only reporting option.    I still do not understand why.

Assuming that RUF is only enabled when RUA is enabled, 65% of domains that
request reports believe that RUF data is useful enough to merit processing,
and half of those may be paying someone to produce the information.

Although a lot of domain owners think RUF reporting is useful, can we
presume to know their needs, when they don't seem to be participating?

The domains that I expect to benefit from RUF reports are large
organizations which are common targets of impersonation, and also have a
complex email environment.  That combination means that it can be difficult
to distinguish between Shadow IT, forwarding, mailing lists, benign
impersonation, and malicious impersonation.   I hear only silence from
those organizations and the vendors to which they have delegated their
email security.

Doug




On Mon, Jun 16, 2025 at 4:46 AM Alessandro Vesely <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri 13/Jun/2025 17:56:11 +0200 Dotzero wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 13, 2025 at 10:26 AM Alessandro Vesely <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> If ruf= indicates something, I looked at the records of DNSWL
> subscribers:
> >>
> >> /var/lib/rbldns/domain.list: 23488 records
> >> 16945 DMARC records (72.00%)
> >> 13154 rua           (56.00%)
> >>   8622 ruf           (36.00%)
> >
> > Ale, can you show the top 10 or 20 domains (and number of domains
> pointing
> > to them) receiving the RUF reports? I have a feeling it skews  towards
> > intermediaries such as Agari, Valimail and Dmarcian.
>
>
> Interesting question.  I re-ran those queries looking at the tag values:
>
> /var/lib/rbldns/domain.list: 23488 domains
> 16882 DMARC records    (71.88%)
> 13284 rua              (56.56%)
>   6830 rua private only (29.08%), (51.42% of ruas)
>     18 rua w/o mailto:  ( 0.08%), ( 0.14% of ruas)
>   8730 ruf              (37.17%)
>   4987 ruf private only (21.23%), (57.12% of rufs)
>     18 ruf w/o mailto:  ( 0.08%), ( 0.14% of rufs)
>
> Here the "private only" means no external third parties are used.  More
> than
> half of the admins are that wise, but I'd have expected a significantly
> higher
> percentage for ruf.
>
> There are 1800 different third parties, top ones are as follows:
>
>        rua                          |      ruf
>    656 emaildefense.proofpoint.com  |  644 emaildefense.proofpoint.com
>    620 vali.email                   |  279 forensics.dmarc-report.com
>    476 dmarc.postmarkapp.com        |  276 for.dmarcanalyzer.com
>    425 dmarc-reports.cloudflare.net |  112 fr.dmarcian.com
>    342 rep.dmarcanalyzer.com        |  100 inbox.ondmarc.com
>    293 mxtoolbox.dmarc-report.com   |   98 ruf.agari.com
>    204 ag.dmarcian.com              |   83 fr.eu.dmarcian.com
>    188 ag.eu.dmarcadvisor.com       |   78 ruf.powerdmarc.com
>    171 dmarc.service.gov.uk         |   76 ruf.easydmarc.eu
>    168 ag.eu.dmarcian.com           |   73 ruf.easydmarc.us
>    121 dmarc.brevo.com              |   72 fr.eu.dmarcadvisor.com
>    108 inbox.ondmarc.com            |   68 in.mailhardener.com
>    105 in.mailhardener.com          |   58 dmarc.barracudanetworks.com
>    100 rua.agari.com                |   49 fr.glockapps.com
>     87 rua.easydmarc.eu             |   48 dmarcinput.com
>     85 rua.powerdmarc.com           |   47 mailinblue.com!10m
>     80 rua.easydmarc.us             |   39 ruf.dmp.cisco.com
>     75 ag.us.dmarcian.com           |   37 fr.us.dmarcian.com
>     69 inbound.dmarcdigests.com     |   36 fo.dmarcly.com
>     67 dmarc.cyber.dhs.gov          |   35 dmarc.everest.email
>
>
> Best
> Ale
> --
>
>
>
>
>
>
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