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Cyber Security News Update – Week 7 of 2021

by Brad Slavin | Feb 10, 2021 | Email Hosting

Effective use of cybersecurity tools and regular security patches helps minimize cyber threats to an extent; however, no strategy is one-hundred percent foolproof, as suggested by the following headlines on recent cybersecurity issues. Read on to know how malicious actors pick their victims and how you can learn from others’ mistakes to make sure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your digital assets remain intact! (more…)

Dedicated IP V/s Shared IP: Which One Best Fits Your Organization?

by Brad Slavin | Feb 7, 2021 | Email Hosting

IP or Internet Protocol is the domain address of every active domain on the internet. It is a 32-bit number that is formatted in four 8-bit fields and separated by periods. A single IP can host more than one domain, meaning IPs form the closest point from where one can separate traffic. Businesses can consider the reputation, resource utilization, and stability to assess the impacts of adequate traffic separation and allocate the resources effectively.

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Why SMEs Must Consider Going With Dedicated Email Services

by Brad Slavin | Jan 9, 2021 | Email Hosting

Most businesses consider emails as the most effective tool for marketing their products and services. Online banks, e-commerce stores, user verifications, and paid adverts require valid email addresses for a smooth functioning business. Executives in the digital industry know that a few minutes of delay in sending an email can create panic in their customers’ minds.

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What Inadequate Email Security Could Mean For Your Business

by Brad Slavin | Nov 27, 2020 | Email Hosting

Email is an indispensable means of communication in the business sector, as it enables people to share information in no time. People share all kinds of details in an email, including office documents, personal information, and sometimes, even financial information. Even though email is a boon to many as a communication tool, it comes with its own set of risks. Imagine what will happen if your banking credentials or critical office documents get into the hands of adversaries and malicious actors.

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Cyber Security News Update – Week 47 of 2020

by Brad Slavin | Nov 21, 2020 | Email Hosting

Passwords protect our cellphones and applications but what happens underneath this so-called anti-phishing protection is beyond the comprehension of internet users. The following headlines will astound you if you believe cyber adversaries will target anyone but you

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Cyber Security News Update – Week 36 of 2020

by Brad Slavin | Sep 5, 2020 | Email Hosting

Talk about an oldie but a goodie. What would you say if I told you criminals have resorted to one of the oldest scams there is? Stealing checks out of mailboxes. Do people still send checks through mail? Apparently, they do.

From Scamicide, “criminals around the country are stealing mail with checks in them from U.S. Postal Service mailboxes, ‘washing’ the checks to remove the name of the person or company to whom the check was made out and then writing in their own name.” The solution to this of course is simple. Stop sending checks in the mail.

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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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Amazon Order Confirmation Trojan

by Brad Slavin | Feb 16, 2019 | Email Hosting

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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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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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