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The Assessment · lesson 1 of 3

Posture, domain by domain

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Produce the assessment table for a mixed estate and rank every finding.

Assumes you have read What a brief always omits.

Eleven domains, four surfaces, one table. The assessment method from the previous course, applied — and the output is a grid where every cell is a query result.

The estate

DomainIdentityIntegrityTransportTier
calderandvoss.comp=none, rua unread. SPF ok. No CAA. No transfer lock, shared login.UnsignedNo MTA-STS, no TLS-RPTCritical
cv-industrial.comp=none. No CAA.Signed, RRSIG expired — SERVFAIL at validating resolversn/a while it does not resolveCritical
.de and .co.ukUnknown. Records not under our control.UnknownUnknownHigh
4 parked domainsNo DMARC, no SPF, no null MXUnsignedn/aCritical
2 parked domains with MXSame, plus mail is receivable as the brandUnsignedn/aCritical
The 2024 CNAMETarget does not resolve; claimable status unknownCritical until disproved

What ranks where, and why

CRITICAL, in this order:

1  Shared registrar login, no MFA, no transfer lock
   Undoes every other remediation. One hour to fix.

2  cv-industrial.com does not resolve
   A live outage. Validating resolvers get SERVFAIL,
   which includes a large share of the internet.

3  The 2024 dangling CNAME
   If the target is claimable, somebody can obtain a
   valid certificate for a calderandvoss name.

4  Six parked domains, completely open
   Anyone can send as any of them. Two can receive.

5  p=none on the primary
   Anyone can send as the company today.

Note that the unsigned primary domain does not appear in that list. It is a gap and nothing is currently exploiting it, and signing a zone the team cannot operate would introduce an outage mode they have already demonstrated with the marketing domain.

The expired signature is the finding that will surprise people

cv-industrial.com looks like the best-configured domain in the estate — it is the only signed one. It is also the only one that does not resolve for a validating resolver, and nobody has noticed because the people who would complain are using resolvers that do not validate.

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