
The latest version of SecurityGateway Email Firewall is now available, for detailed information about what’s new in this new version, please go here.
The latest version of SecurityGateway Email Firewall is now available, for detailed information about what’s new in this new version, please go here.
The BackupAssist Classic cloud backup addon historically supported 3 different backup destination types – Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure and WebDAV. This would give users the option to perform file and application backups to remote cloud based destinations by simply configuring a compatible backup container. Technically this works well but can be a bit overwhelming for customer who don’t already have either a Microsoft Azure account or Amazon AWS Account and are happy to ignore 99.9% of the features those accounts provide and focus on just the creation of backup storage. WebDAV is more used for remote NAS support so is only an option for customers with suitable hardware.
Continue readingMicrosoft have announced that in the last few days four separate vulnerabilities in the Exchange Server platform have been identified. Unfortunately, it would seem these have already been used by hackers to steal the mailbox content of many thousands of Exchange Server installations.
The detail in these vulnerabilities indicates that only the on-premise versions of Exchange Server are affected, so users of Cloud based Microsoft 365 products can breathe a sigh of relief. However, as on-premise Exchange Server is still a widely used platform the impact is considerable.
Continue readingOne of the most overlooked areas of email security is your own domain reputation. Unlike most email security solutions, Reputation is focused on you as the sender’s ability to send email to recipients and to stop spammers from spoofing you and claiming to send email as your domain.
We have received several reports over the weekend that customers email has been flagged as spam by some receiving mail servers.
Bounce backs included errors such as:
<– 554 The IP Address of the sender (1.2.3.4) was found in a DNS blacklist database and was therefore refused.
<– 550 Email blocked by bl.spamcop.net (in reply to RCPT TO command)
On closer investigation it appears there was a system outage at the Cisco SpamCop DNS-based blocking service and the underlying cause was that the spamcop.net domain name had failed to be renewed.
More information on this issue can be found at the following link:
https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/01/in_brief_security/
Since MailStore Version 13 it is now possible for Microsoft 365 customers to tighten up their security by utilising Microsoft’s Modern Authentication integration.
But what changes have been made and how easy is it to convert a MailStore installation over from using Basic Authentication?
Before we begin lets first look at the two modes of Authentication with Microsoft and how they differ.
Continue readingOne of the more recent and often somewhat overlooked security features within MDaemon is Location Screening. This can be viewed as an IP level firewall but one that is blocking IPs based on their country of origin.
If you are new to SecurityGateway or indeed have been using it for years, there is always something new to learn about the software. With the fantastic help from Brad Wyro over at MDaemon there is now a selection of tutorial videos you can sit back and watch in your lunch break to get up to speed on the product. Continue reading
Ever wondered about becoming MailStore certified but haven’t yet gotten around to it?
Perhaps you’re already certified but would like to bring your knowledge up to date
following the latest major release?
Now is the perfect opportunity to address that! Continue reading
The latest version of SecurityGateway Email Firewall is now available, for detailed information about what’s new in this new version, please go here.