Feature Tip: Data Leaks on the Rise for Many Businesses

Data leaks can occur in many ways, but the most common cause is insider threats from within the business. With the pandemic changing the way we do business, data leaks are on the rise. Recent reports indicate that businesses using Office 365 have seen a 67% increase in data leaks since March 2020. Data Leak Prevention (or Data Loss Prevention or DLP) is the practice of detecting and preventing the transmission of sensitive data outside of your network, and is a standard feature in SecurityGateway for Email Servers. Watch this video to learn more.

If you're a key decision maker in healthcare, government, finance, or any other highly regulated industry, how trusting are you of your employees to protect your company's most valuable asset - its data? Now that businesses have had over a year to adjust to remote work, they've had to put more trust in employees when it comes to the handling of personally identifiable information (PII) of their customers. This has led to a number of data breaches, HIPAA & GDPR violations, and many other incidents. 

These key figures were reported earlier last year, and certainly by now these statistics have increased.

• Around 25% of email data breaches were caused by employees inappropriately sharing data
• Over 85% of employees are sending more emails as they continue to work from home
• About two-thirds of IT leaders have reported data leaks via email since the transition to remote work as a result of the pandemic

Data leaks can occur in many ways. The most common causes of data leaks are insider threats from within the business, hackers who have obtained access to compromised accounts, and users who fell victim to successful phishing and social engineering attacks.

By now, you may have heard about the critical Log4Shell vulnerability found in the widely used Java library log4j (more info here). While many products and services are reportedly affected, we can confirm that MDaemon Email Server and SecurityGateway™ secure email gateway are NOT affected by this vulnerability.

The First Email Sent

Ray Tomlinson reportedly sent the first network message from computer to computer on October 29, 1971. His development work on the evolving ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), a government-funded network to connect various research facilities, would be the perfect environment for his experiment.

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We’re pleased to announce the release of MailStore 13.2. This update comes with a significant boost in performance, resulting in a sizable increase in the maximum number of users supported in MailStore.

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If your business has ever suffered an email outage, then you know the importance of having some kind of backup plan if the mail server goes offline. To help protect against email downtime, MDaemon can be configured in a multi-node cluster.

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Security Gateway Outperforms Top Competitors

If you spend lots of time, resources, and money on your email gateway, have you considered MDaemon Technologies' own Security Gateway? Easy to use and feature-rich, Security Gateway can be quickly deployed on premise or in the cloud, and works with MDaemon Email Server, Office 365, Microsoft Exchange, and other email solutions.

MDaemon's more cost-effective solution beats Microsoft Exchange’s reliability with less effort