Google has introduced a new security warning system to flag potentially malicious incoming email messages in Google at Work's Gmail Inbox. This is in addition to Google's existing efforts to keep known "spam" out of users' Inboxes.

Users will see a question mark flag in place of the sender’s profile photo (or corporate logo/avatar) if Google cannot authenticate a message's sender. These messages will still appear in the user's Inbox. Google automatically uses two separate methods to attempt to authenticate a message's sender - Sender Policy Framework (SPF) or the DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) standard.

The new "question mark" flag joins the already-existing "exclamation point" flag Google uses to denote "spam" messages. Google will continue to flag emails it detects as spam with an exclamation point, as it always has. Messages marked as spam automatically bypass the Gmail Inbox and are labeled as "Spam."

The new warning are available to users accessing their Gmail messages via a desktop/laptop computer or an Android mobile device. The security feature is not yet available for iOS mobile devices.

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• Thinking about moving your practice "to the cloud"?
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• Want to get more out of the Gmail (and other Google Apps) you're using in your practice?

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