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MailStore version 12 is now live and includes some great new features that will help tighten up security for all MailStore installations. In our opinion the best new feature is the brand new 'Mailstore Gateway' service that will make archiving Office 365 and Google G Suite mail much simpler to configure allowing you to use Journaling as the main archive method.

Since the introduction of GDPR and related regulations an increasing number of BackupAssist customers are looking to tighten up security on their backups especially backups using the File Archiving engine by enabling encrypted zip backups. To help meet these requirements the BackupAssist developers have increased the privacy of encrypted File Archiving backups in BackupAssist 10.4.

SecurityGateway v6

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.

SecurityGateway v4.0The mail remains the access to point to your business for cyber-criminals. As an IT administrator, you are blessed with unenviable task that the vast majority of cyber criminals can get access to your Well, up until today, the answer would have been SecurityGateway, the email software firewall from Texas-based email security specialist, the software firewall that sits between your Exchange, MDaemon, Kerio or Smartermail server, and your router, protecting your organisation from spam, viruses, spoofing, phishing and more. In this post, we take a whistle-stop tour of the new features. As always, this is just our highlights, a comprehensive list of all new features and enhancements can be viewed in the SecurityGateway Release Notes.

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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...