78% of domains have a DMARC record. Only 42% are at enforcement. Just 9% have actually moved to p=reject. The hawk closes that gap — domain by domain, all the way to 100% authentication.
Your domain name is your firm's reputation made digital. When it's spoofable, that reputation belongs to anyone.
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BEC LOSSES, FBI IC3 2024
Source: Valimail 2026 State of DMARC Report (Feb 2026) · EasyDMARC 2026 Adoption & Enforcement Report · FBI IC3 Annual Report 2024.
Get every domain we touch to p=reject. Not "monitoring." Not "quarantine." Reject. Your clients don't trust their inbox — they trust your domain name. When a spoof clears the inbox claiming to be from you, that trust is what gets spent.
FBI IC3 · Reported BEC Losses · 2024
Every successful spoof of your domain is a withdrawal from a reputation account that took years to build. The next legitimate email from your firm gets read with a fraction of a second of hesitation that wasn't there before — multiplied across every client inbox, that's the cost nobody puts on the IC3 report.
BEC is the second most profitable scam in cybercrime. It doesn't need malware, exploits, or sophisticated infrastructure — just a spoofed "From" address and someone moving fast.
DMARC at p=reject stops domain spoofing at the inbox. Without it, your domain is a free-to-use tool for impersonators targeting your clients, your vendors, your staff.
Sources: FBI IC3 Internet Crime Report 2024; PSA I-091124-PSA. As of April 2025.
For two decades email authentication was a "best practice." In the last 24 months it became a market access requirement. Here's where the floor is now — and where it's going.
Feb 2024 · Google & Yahoo Bulk Sender Mandate
Senders pushing 5,000+ messages per day to Gmail or Yahoo were required to publish a DMARC record (p=none minimum), align SPF or DKIM, and honor one-click unsubscribe. Non-compliance meant deferrals and outright rejection.
May 2025 · Microsoft Outlook / Hotmail
Microsoft applied bulk-sender authentication requirements to Outlook.com, Hotmail, and Live properties — closing the last major gap where unauthenticated bulk mail could still land in inboxes.
Nov 2025 · Gmail Hard Reject
Per Google's reporting, sender requirements have already driven a 65% reduction in unauthenticated messages reaching Gmail — roughly 265 billion fewer unauthenticated messages in 2024 alone.
2026 → Forward
The Valimail 2026 report shows enforcement plateauing at 42%. That plateau is where attackers are camping. Closing the 36-point Enforcement Gap is now a competitive trust signal — and a regulatory tailwind for industries with explicit duties of care.
Domain authentication is not a technical curiosity. For attorneys and CPAs, the rules of professional responsibility and applicable safeguards regulations have been pulling in this direction for years. We translate the rule into the DNS record.
ABA MODEL RULES OF PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT
Confidentiality and competence aren't optional, and the ABA's formal opinions have been clear since 2017: technological competence is a duty, not a virtue. DMARC enforcement maps directly to three rules.
IRS · FTC SAFEGUARDS · PCI DSS
Tax preparers are explicitly named in federal information security obligations. The rules are not aspirational — they are referenced by examiners, by insurers, and by the IRS itself.
Most "email security" products are licensed scanners with a UI bolted on. The hawk's tools are purpose-built around the way real BEC investigations actually work — header forensics, alignment analysis, and policy posture, in language a partner can hand to a client.
The path from "no DMARC" to p=reject is not a switch you flip. There's a name for the disciplined sequence we use to get there without breaking a single piece of legitimate mail.
We watch every IP that sends as your domain. We map every legitimate sender. We move methodically through the policies. The hawk is patient — because you can't afford for us to be reckless.
Enter any domain. We'll pull its actual DMARC and SPF records from public DNS in real time and tell you, in plain English, whether you are protected, partially protected, or wide open.
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Founder · Operator · Baltimore, Maryland
A career sysadmin and managed services professional in the Baltimore area. Andre built and deployed TracerHawk — and the operational architecture that powers it — as a working production system before incorporating the company that operates it.
The architecture, methodology, and tooling are his own. The vision is to bring enterprise-grade email infrastructure intelligence to the small business market that has historically been priced out, talked down to, or ignored entirely.
You will not be passed to a junior account manager. You will work directly with the operator who built the platform.
A no-cost, no-obligation assessment of your current DMARC, SPF, and DKIM posture and a written report — the same report we'd hand a managing partner. No sales theater, no scare tactics. Just a clear-eyed read on where you are and what it would take to get to p=reject.