Your Sender Policy Framework (SPF) Risk Exposure | UpGuard

This report explains the Sender Policy Framework (SPF), highlights risks from missing or misconfigured SPF DNS records (including spoofing, delivery of malicious emails, and reputational damage), lists common UpGuard findings such as SPF not enabled, syntax errors, and permissive mechanisms (+all, ?all, ~all, ptr), and provides remediation steps: create/validate a TXT SPF record, use explicit mechanisms (a, mx, include) with -all, avoid ptr, and implement DMARC to monitor and enforce email authentication.