Using cloud service providers to replace on-premise servers isn't a new thing. In recent years the big players, Microsoft, Google and Amazon have grown their services to the point that they...
Although the types of attacks that cybercriminals are capable of launching these days vary wildly, email is still the number one way they gain access to networks.
As an administrator, you're the place the buck stops, so one of the the highest priority items on your list of responsibilities should be finding an email security vendor you can rely on.
If you use Microsoft Exchange, MDaemon or another on-premise email server, SecurityGateway from Texas-based MDaemon technologies should absolutely be on your radar.
Out of the box it'll provide you with highly effective protection against viruses, spam, phishing and spyware, plus short term retention for users, and in this latest release we see enhancements in the very topical area of Data Leak Prevention (DLP) and the addition of basic message archival.
Microsoft have invested tens of millions in their hosting centres, surely as an Office 365 user your data is safe right?
Think again.
An important point that's all too often overlooked by businesses moving to Office 365, is that the responsibility for your data does not lie with Microsoft.
They operate a shared responsibility policy, which means it's the uptime of the service they're concerned with.
There are no provisions for restoring your messages or mailboxes if they're somehow compromised, the backups they have are purely for disaster recovery.
In this post I'll look at this and other reasons you should be giving some thought to the 'what if?' question...
Planning a move from on-premise Exchange? MailStore is a fantastic email archiving product, and one of the main things that makes it so good is its ability to be able to...