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Ben Westlake
IT Project Engineer
I work across Microsoft 365, Azure,
networking, security and infrastructure
to design, build and improve systems
that need to work reliably.
I document what I build, why I build it,
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27 August 2026 · Email & Domain Security · 6 min read

MTA-STS: Is Your Business Email Protected in Transit?

Email security is about more than passwords and MFA. MTA-STS helps protect email while it travels between mail systems, and it is something you can check on your own domain.

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