Phishing protection is big business. There are many providers out there using advanced technologies to protect companies of all sizes. And these technologies are needed, because as research has shown, phishing protection education alone will not protect your company. Now it has come out that one of the larger email security firms, Cofense (formerly PhishMe), is […]
Easy Office 365 Tenant Migrations
We regularly help businesses migrate from one Office 365 to another Office 365 tenant. A verycommon use case involves the transition between (or within) email providers or splitting out business units or the migration of tenants between organizations. Microsoft warns that a new Office 365 tenant may be inaccessible for as long as 24 hours […]
If Your Email Server Stops Accepting Emails How Long Will it Take You to Find Out?
Servers go down. And when they do it can negatively impact your business, from lost productivity to lost customers. You don’t want that to happen. Monitoring email is not as simple as checking to see if the port responds, you have to validate that the entire mail flow is functioning. So, how do you find […]
The One Big Drawback of Using SaaS Providers and What to do About it
We live in a software-as-a-service (SaaS) world. It’s great being able to pay a monthly fee and have some other companies handle your organization’s services for you. There are all kinds of companies that provide SaaS services. There are companies that take care of customer service (e.g., Zendesk), marketing campaigns (e.g., SendGrid) customer relationship management […]
Stop Making Hackers’ Job Too Easy
It’s a common folklore that the greatest cyber-attacks in history are pulled off by genius hackers using clever hacking techniques to exploit a zero-day vulnerability on some obscure back-room database server. The reality is very different. According to a recent study by security firm Centrify, “74 percent of respondents whose organizations have been breached acknowledge […]