Every year or so, it seems there's a headline along the lines that email is dying out. The reality is quite the opposite. Sure, email is used differently than ten or even five years ago, but email will continue to be used as a tool for communicating. With emails' continued use, we'll need to stay vigilant against spam, email spoofing, phishing attacks, and other security risks. Email security threats are on the rise, and one breach can have devastating consequences for companies, large and small. We'll look at the best practices for enterprise email security to keep your business and data safe. Email Encryption Email encryption is one of the most critical factors for secure email. Encryption scrambles the content of an email message, making it unreadable for anyone that…
Email scamming has become a $12,000,000,000 industry over the last few years, and this number continues to grow yearly. These are serious crimes, and individuals fall for these scams every second. You will receive an email that appears to be from a legitimate company such as Amazon, American Express, Norton, etc. The email will ask you to sign in to your account, and the login screen will resemble the company's login page. Once signed in, the scammers then scan your emails for login information, bank account information, credit card information, account logins, and other personal information. Why Do Most Cyberattacks Begin with an Email? Almost everyone in this entire world has an email account, and many companies post their email accounts online. Many businesses publish employees' work emails on their…
This document explains how to set up Microsoft Outlook 2016/2019 with MXGuardian Hosted Email. For demonstration purposes, we will be using a fictitious email account: martha@quiltdesigns.com. Please use your actual email address and password in place of this one. Note: These instructions are only for MXGuardian Hosted Email. If you are using MXGuardian Email Security with your own hosting, you do not need to make any changes to your Outlook settings. Starting Outlook for the first time and getting MXGuardian Email on Outlook 2016/2019 If you are starting Outlook for the first time and you don't have any email addresses configured yet, you will see a series of screens that walks you through setting up an email account. Follow these steps if you are setting up Outlook for the first…
While cyber security is an important thing for everyone to understand, it’s even more important for businesses and large organizations with greater amounts of personal, financial, and business data at their disposal. As one of these cybersecurity threats, ransomware continues to plague businesses all over the globe, leading them to question how to prevent ransomware and to determine what are the best ways to deal with it if it does happen. In this article, we’ll be answering these questions, giving businesses the best insight into ransomware and how to best protect your business from cyber threats. What is Ransomware? Ransomware is a type of cybercrime that uses malicious software to infect a computer and restrict access until a ransom is paid to unlock it. Think of it as a kidnapping…
Ransomware is one of the biggest threats to your business online. It’s a type of malware that uses encryption to hold your precious data and information at ransom. Learn what to do so you are protecting your business from ransomware. It’s often designed to spread throughout your entire network, servers, and databases, so it can take down your entire organization. The threat of ransomware continues to spread, costing businesses billions of dollars every single year. What is Ransomware? Ransomware is a form of cybercrime that uses malicious software to infect a computer and restrict access until a ransom is paid to unlock it. Think of it as a kidnapping situation, but instead of a person, your data is held hostage. The FBI recommends not paying the ransom, since there’s no…
Protect your business and block email threats before they reach your network using MXGuardian's spam filtering technology, expertly designed to work with your existing email. Start Your Free Trial Comprehensive Spam Filtering Technology With a majority of businesses conducting their day-to-day and high-level communications through various modes of technology, spam and email filtering is a necessary process that protects against major threats, including malware, phishing, and ransomware. With MXGuardian's complete security software, you'll receive immediate email threat protection with speciality features designed to keep your business, employees, and customers safe at all times. These days, spam is more than just a nuisance that wastes productivity. Spammers have become more sophisticated. A data breach due to hacking occurs every 2 days. (Source: Privacy Rights Clearinghouse) Multi-Layer Content Analysis Protect your information…
Updated: May 25, 2018 MXGuardian, LLC ("MXGuardian") creates software and services to filter email based on content ("Services") and operates web sites located at mxguardian.com and mxguardian.net (collectively, the "Site"). This Privacy Policy ("Policy") is intended to describe the kinds of information that we may collect on the Site, how we use and share that information, how we protect that information, how you can exercise your rights, how we make changes to this Policy, and how you can contact us if you have any questions about this Policy. Scope of this Policy This Policy applies to individuals that subscribe to and use any MXGuardian service, as well as individuals that do not subscribe to or use any MXGuardian service but may have sent or received emails to or from users…
