Email hosting allows a rented space to any organization for storing and transmitting their emails. Email hosting offers numerous advantages over free email services such as Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo mail, etc. Organizations can maintain the confidentiality of their data or information by using an email hosting service. With a professional email hosting, the user also gets full administrative power over the given email space, email security features, and its overall performance.
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?
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.
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.
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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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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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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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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Phishing scams are more common than you might think. In fact, a typical user at business receives an average of six malicious emails per day ranging from innocuous to dangerous. Most time these threats are caught by the spam filter, but spam filtering alone is not always effective because between 2013 and 2016, American businesses faced a staggering $500 billion in losses due to phishing scams. This led to an extensive FBI investigation of over 22,000 reported phishing scams, and these are just the ones that people took time to report.
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…)
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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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.”
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…)
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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