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Email security check
Find out whether criminals could send email that looks as though it comes from your school, and whether email to you travels safely. Checked against the DfE cyber security standards.
Check your school's email
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What this checks
It reads the public settings for your school's email domain and checks them against the DfE cyber security standards: whether criminals can send email that looks as though it comes from the school, and whether email to the school travels encrypted. Each result says what we found in plain English, and what to ask your IT provider to change.
- Who may send email as the school (SPF), signing (DKIM) and spoofing protection (DMARC)
- Encrypted delivery: MTA-STS, TLS reporting, and a test connection to your own mail servers
- Signed DNS (DNSSEC), and the optional brand logo record (BIMI)
The check only reads public information and connects to your mail servers the way any sending mail system does. It never sends an email. We keep a record of each check: the domain, the result and who ran it.