Why you need Integrated Cloud Email Security (ICES)

Tony MasonEmail Security, Microsoft 365 Security, Security Awareness & Phishing

In their 2021 Market Guide for Email Security, industry analyst Gartner introduced the acronym ‘ICES’, which stands for integrated cloud email security. They also predicted that these platforms would make up 20% of anti-phishing solutions by 2025, up from 5% in 2021. You might also see the acronym ‘CAPES’ used to describe these platforms as well. This was coined by … Read More

40% of Organisations Not Doing Enough to Protect Office 365 Data.

Tony MasonData Protection, Microsoft 365 Security

Companies could be putting themselves at risk by relying exclusively on Office 365 Data Security, according to Barracuda. Barracuda’s latest report found that 40% of IT organisations surveyed don’t use third-party backup tools to protect Office 365 data. The report questioned more than 1,000 IT professionals, business executives, and backup administrators. They explain why it is a big risk to … Read More

Black Friday Scam

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Black Friday & Cyber Monday Scams This week sees the return of the phenomena of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. These marketing events are significantly driving up the increase in online sales in the run up to Christmas.  2017’s Cyber Monday was the largest online shopping day in history and was mobile’s first $2 billion day. This weekend has become … Read More

In-house or hosted email: Making the case for the Cloud

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Deciding between in-house or hosted email options is one of the most important decisions a business can make. Email forms the heart of how most people communicate today and nowhere is this more apparent than in the workplace. The broad availability and adoption of broadband has meant email has quickly risen to overtake both the traditional telephone and the more … Read More

Welcome to our blog!

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Hello, welcome to our blog which we hope you will enjoy reading. We’d like to tell you a little bit more about S3 and how we came about.