One of the most powerful tools in your marketing toolkit is outbound email. Email can raise awareness of your the products and services you offer, and educate potential customers as to why you would be the right choice for their needs. Of course, email can sell, but it can also educate and illuminate.
Moving from a traditional on-site email server to a cloud-based solution is essential for businesses wishing to lower their costs of system management, IT resources and reducing the capital expenditures associated with an in office mail server.. The benefits of cloud-email and systems are evident: near 100% uptime, no software upgrades or maintenance tasks for administrators and the latest features and innovations seamlessly deployed into your accounts.
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A typical ransomware attack attempts to access corporate data or systems, block authorized access to them, and hold them hostage until the organization pays a ransom of some form. This is a violent form of attack on a corporation: the trend is growing in popularity and the threats are becoming more and more sophisticated.
Malicious URLs that deliver ransomware payloads or weaponized attachments are the usual method by which hackers attempt to exploit the perimeter defenses and to hold an organization’s data for ransom. These typically arrive in an email during a phishing, spear phishing, or whaling attempt.
Microsoft Outlook is one of the leading and most used productivity applications. But Outlook’s e-mail archiving capabilities alone may not be sufficient to support an organization’s complex archiving and compliance needs.
An increasing number of organizations are choosing cloud-based archiving through a third party to meet the increasing need for storage volume, search and retrieval capabilities, and legal compliance needs.
Organizations of all sizes are facing a growing volume of data that must be securely archived, yet accessible and comply with regulatory constraints.
Enterprise cloud email solutions can decrease the overhead of on-site solutions, both in terms of management and hardware costs. The centralized storage and management of cloud-based solutions can also help organizations more easily achieve compliance goals, as well.
Traditional Enterprise Archiving solutions are costly and difficult to manage. As the quantity of email and attachments increases in the enterprise, infrastructure and management costs must continue to expand in order to meet the need. Successfully maintaining the security and integrity of the data can impact your users’ ability to search and retrieve the data. Building adequate search and retrieval solutions bear its own costs, which place an additional burden on already stressed IT infrastructures.
The overwhelming majority of attempts to compromise the security of business information today being with a phishing attack. By relying on the misplaced trust of users, phishing, spear-fishing, and whaling attacks gain access to confidential data: users click a link, open an attachment from a “trusted source,” respond to a social engineering attempt, or are otherwise tricked into revealing such information.
Spear phishing is an exceptionally difficult form of exploit to defend against. In a spear phishing attack, an employee is duped into sharing credentials or other confidential information by representing the email as being from a trusted source. They may be tricked into clicking on a malicious link, opening a weaponized attachment, or visiting a dangerous web site.
One of the most dangerous attacks facing companies today is spear phishing. A spear phishing attack is one in which the sender of an email represents themselves as someone known and trusted by the user in order to gain access to sensitive or private information.
Every day, organizations around the world are subjected to a ransomware attack. Ransomware attacks can take many forms, in fact, the variety and ingenuity of these attacks increases as the business community becomes more aware of the challenges and adept at meeting them. But all forms of ransomware follow the same basic pattern: an employee receives an email containing an attachment. (more…)
Every day, there is an increasing number of phishing and spear fishing threats, which cause disruption and damaging loss of revenue to companies worldwide.
These scams are crafted with the sole purpose of getting your employees to reveal passwords, security credentials, business secrets, and other information which would otherwise remain secure. So-called phishing scams are responsible for the vast majority of hacking attacks against corporations and individuals today.
Microsoft Office 365 Outlook is a cloud-based solution compare to traditional hosted mail, and while it provides many benefits over traditional on-site solutions, it fails to provide sufficient tools to meet the stringent legal compliance requirements that many organizations now face.
Office 365 does provide for the basic functionality quite well: journaling, litigation and in-place hold and the ability to manage retention duration policies compare to your own email hosting. But more and more organizations find themselves needing more than that. An enterprise email hosting must provide all of the above, and more: it must handle e-discovery and compliance requests.
An organization’s ability to search email quickly and easily is vital to corporate success. Email archives hold vast amounts of information that holds untold value to the organization.
If the ability to search and retrieve that information is hampered by the in-place archiving email solution, a better solution must be found before operations are severely compromised. But with the increasing volume of corporate communications, traditional archive storage mechanisms with on-site hardware that maintain searchability and guarantee regulatory compliance are becoming prohibitively costly and time-consuming to manage.
Email continues to be the single most effective means of internal and external business communication.
Almost all business today is conducted over email because it is easy to retain a record of communications and also it is simply more convenient when all messages come right to your desk. Unlike incompatible chat applications that can run on a variety of platforms, everyone can communicate over email.
As the awareness of threats becomes more widespread, hackers and spammers are upping their game in an attempt to gain access to valuable information. Today’s phishing threats are becoming increasingly sophisticated and complex.
Phishing, spear phishing, and whaling scams take advantage of your employees trust by masquerading as trusted sites or individuals. When successful, these scams gain access to corporate information, passwords, account numbers, security credentials – anything the attacker wants.
The quantity of archived email in the typical business organization is growing by leaps and bounds. Business is increasingly turning to software solutions managing their archiving needs, but it can be a challenge in and of itself to make the right decision as to the provider of that software solution.
Email is often referred to as the lifeblood of any organization. Without the ability to search and retrieve information in a timely manner, decision making and normal day to day operations can grind to a halt. The ability to quickly and easily search for and find information in archived storage is vital to the ongoing success of any corporation.
Employee email volume has a way of growing without bound, and your organization’s email storage must grow and scale with this volume. Traditional on-site email storage is expensive both to provision and maintain.
As the volume of spam emails continues to rise exponentially, email spam services have become an essential part of an organization’s overall email management plan. Mail filtering service must become smarter and more sophisticated in order to deal with the need to keep spam out of inboxes and control the costs of removing spurious traffic from email servers.