Samuel Chenard is CEO and co-founder of Palisade, where he works with IT teams and managed service providers on email authentication and deliverability. He leads Palisade’s reproducible public-DNS research into DMARC, SPF, BIMI, and MX deployment, including the 2026 study behind this proposed article.
Publishing a DMARC record is only the beginning. New data show that many domains lack enforcement or reporting, exposing a gap between adopting email authentication and operating it effectively enough to detect problems and deter impersonation. more