2017 saw an unprecedented rise in ransomware and spear phishing. Many companies running older anti-spam or email security systems found themselves in an extremely vulnerable spot. The legacy solutions didn’t have the horsepower or smarts to fend off these new types of attacks thus allowing the threats to float right into many users email boxes...
In the “olden” days people would either host their email or run antiquated protocols, such as Pop3, and there was a great feeling in doing so. That mail server was safe and sound in that small closet, next to the filing cabinet, just waiting to overheat. Even better, it didn’t really matter when you lost...
“Now-a-days dual factor authentication is available, for most services, for free. Many of us have dual factor authentication on services such as our Gmail or Facebook. Google takes it a step further by offering their own free dual factor authentication system (Google Auth) that can be implemented into several third party apps.” When talking...
Don't Let Scammers Bypass your Security Before we go into our Best Practices, let’s define “Phishing” so we are all on the same page. “Phishing is defined as the illegal attempt to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details (and occasionally, indirectly, money), often for malicious reasons, by masquerading as a...
Microsoft launched their cloud computing platform initially back in 2011, but it wasn’t until early 2013 that they launched multiple plans aimed at both home and business users. Now that it has been 2 years since their stable release, and with the buzz around cloud services continuing to gain more and more traction, it’s time...
Gmail is adding functionality to email that will help catch it up to the 21st century We’ve spoke about it before; the difference between IMAP and POP email protocols, and as of June 24th, 2014, Google is revolutionizing the way that we communicate via email. The technology that we use in email now (IMAP), was...
In a previous article we spoke about the differences between the POP and IMAP protocols for email. To dig deeper into the benefits of a solution such as Gmail, we first want to examine common problems that businesses run into when utilizing POP email. POP Email Solutions While on their face value, having your email...
The question seems fairly straightforward, why use Gmail over any POP email services? The best place to start is to differentiate between the different emails protocols, or how we receive, store and access our messages. Email Protocols “THE DOWNFALL TO POP MAIL IS THAT IF YOU LOSE YOUR PHONE OR YOUR COMPUTER CRASHES, YOUR...
Frustrated with your Email? There are a number of quick tips to test for connectivity before you call in IT to troubleshoot your exchange server. There are times when troubleshooting Outlook connectivity can be quite simple, and then there are other times where the process can get very complicated, very fast. We will go over...
AWWWW I Got a Bounce Back on my Email… Why Does This Happen? In this day and age, we expect email just to work. I mean when thinking about it logically it just makes sense – we can video chat someone on our phones, we can text pictures to our families; how is it...
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