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Cyber Security News Update – Week 27 of 2020

by Brad Slavin | Jul 5, 2020 | Email Hosting

The FTC is coming down hard this week on those who didn’t protect victims but should have. The first case is the claim against Kohl’s for failure to provide information to identify theft victims fast enough so they could limit the damage.

From Scamicide, “Kohl’s Department Stores failed to provide information to victims of identity theft at Kohl’s when requested by many people. In response, the Federal Trade Commission brought legal action against Kohl’s. Kohl’s agreed to pay a $220,000 penalty to the FTC.” Way to go FTC. (more…)

What You Need to Know About How COVID-19 has Impacted Email Hosting

by Brad Slavin | Jun 30, 2020 | Email Hosting

It’s difficult to try and quantify how COVID-19 has impacted business. New ways of doing business, like work from home (WFH), have emerged to affect every aspect of daily business life. COVID-19 and WFH combined have had a ripple effect on other aspects of business like bring-you-own-device (BYOD) and the adoption of cloud services as a standard part of business. And through all these recent changes, one thing is clear: people still use email predominantly to communicate with each other.

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Be on the Lookout for These Forthcoming Phishing Scams

by Brad Slavin | May 22, 2020 | Email Hosting

Sometimes, phishing scams are so obvious you anticipate seeing them before you actually see them. And many of these are the direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The first phishing scam to be on the lookout for is anything associated with a “contact-tracing” app. Contact tracing is a “method used by scientists to slow the spread of infectious outbreaks. During the pandemic, anyone sufferers might have been in prolonged contact with will be traced. Those contacts may then be asked to self-isolate.” The first country to produce an app to do this was the UK.

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The Frightening Math of Security Awareness Training

by Brad Slavin | Aug 29, 2019 | Email Hosting

It’s everywhere you turn. Advertisements for security awareness training. The last line of defense. The human firewall.

There’s nothing wrong with training your employees to recognize security exploits. We recommend it. But it should be one part of a holistic defense-in-depth approach to security. Why is that? Because the math of having employee awareness training be your only line of defense is frightening. How frightening?

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The Top Three Email Based Threats And How To Avoid Them

by Brad Slavin | Sep 6, 2018 | Email Hosting

Email threats come in a variety of forms. With over 90% of security threats beginning with some form of email attack, it is imperative that organizations educate their users on these forms of attack, get better email hosting and take steps to harden their networks against them. Three of the most commonly seen broad categories of email threat are Phishing, Ransomware, and Domain Name Spoofing.

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Enterprise Information Archiving with Cloud-Based Services

by Brad Slavin | Jul 23, 2018 | Email Hosting

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.

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Office 365 Outlook Email Search has Limitations

by Brad Slavin | Jul 11, 2018 | Email Hosting

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.

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Domain Name Forgery is Alive and Well – Find Out How to Protect Yourself

by Brad Slavin | Apr 22, 2018 | Email Hosting

Cybercriminals are forging domain names to trick unsuspecting users

Not sure what a IDN forgery is? Click here and take a look at your browser’s address bar… go ahead, I’ll wait.

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Business Email and Regulatory Compliance for Beginners

by Brad Slavin | Mar 5, 2018 | Email Hosting

What is data privacy and how it impacts your organization’s email

Billions of emails are sent every day, many of which contain sensitive data. This sensitive data is often like low-hanging fruit for cybercriminals and disgruntled employees. The ease in which personally identifiable information PII is exploited demonstrates why ensuring data privacy is the concern of every business.
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Don’t Trust That Email – Phishing Scams Are Big Business

by Brad Slavin | Feb 16, 2018 | Email Hosting

Cybercriminals know your inbox is far from secure.

Cybercrime is bigger business than you might realize. In today’s cybersecurity environment, keeping corporate data safe requires more than just teaching employees to look out for suspicious emails. You need to be proactive in creating and maintaining a tight perimeter defense around your key processes and treat every IT position in your company as a cybersecurity position.
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Hosted Email for Business Rebranding

by Brad Slavin | Dec 18, 2017 | Email Hosting

We are officially releasing the new branding for our hosted email service which was part of the Nettica acquisition three years ago. All customers have been safely transitioned to the new platform where we offer a huge array of new features for business branded email hosting. The old platform served us very well and grew our hosted email service to tens of thousands of customers but it did not offer some of the more scalable features that we needed to keep your email spam free and secure.
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Which is Better for Your Business – G Suite or Office 365?

by Brad Slavin | Sep 12, 2017 | Email Hosting

A comparison of business features and pricing. How Do I Choose the Right Productivity Suite for My Business?

We have a bottom line up front approach to our writing. We don’t want to save the best until last, we put it right up front and then provide you the reasoning behind our choice. However to make a good decision, it’s important to ask multiple questions about your business and how you plan to use the productivity suite. (more…)

New Feature: Proactive Queue Notifications

by Brad Slavin | Aug 22, 2017 | Email Hosting

Today we are rolling out a much anticipated new feature to help manage and monitor your email flow more effectively, Proactive Queue Notifications.

The Proactive Queue Notifications system sends an email to the domain administrator when we detect messages that have not been delivered to your servers within a predefined threshold. These notifications will provide you with information on how to remedy the alert and will be sent to both the primary and secondary email addresses that are configured in your client portal https://portal.duocircle.com/clientarea.php?action=details
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G Suite: How it Measures up for Enterprise

by Brad Slavin | Aug 15, 2017 | Email Hosting

Google is aiming directly at Microsoft Office 365 with its latest product, G Suite (formerly Google Apps for Work). Earlier this year, Google announced a milestone in the number of businesses that use G Suite:

“G Suite achieved a significant new customer milestone last quarter,” he said. “More than 3 million paying businesses are now using G Suite to collaborate smartly and securely in the cloud.”

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Should Your Company Pay for Antivirus on Personal Devices and Home Computers?

by Brad Slavin | Jul 18, 2017 | Email Hosting

In a BYOD culture who pays for this protection?

The need for end-to-end organizational security is greater than ever. People throughout organizations are often working outside of the office, using personal mobile devices and home computers to access corporate apps, networks, and assets.  Just head to a Starbucks or Coffee Shop during the week day and see the number of users working remotely. The challenge is that personal devices and home computers introduce security challenges that aren’t always easily resolved. (more…)

The 9 Ways You Benefit from Moving Mail to the Cloud

by Brad Slavin | Apr 12, 2016 | Email Hosting

A recent study by Microsoft reveals that more than 75% of customers anticipate using the cloud extensively in the next few years. Savvy business owners can capitalize on this trend by adopting cloud technology into both their services and infrastructure. To help you decide if incorporating this technology is the right decision for your business, read our list of the top 9 cloud benefits:
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