MailGuard Partners Blog

Cybercrime and data breaches are headline news daily, and 91% of all cyberattacks start with a phishing email. Are you giving your clients the best protection? 

To support its partners, who may be trying to kick-start a security practice, or just looking to start a conversation with a client, MailGuard has created CyberReady. The portal is just the beginning, and you can check it out here: www.mailguard.com.au/partner-portal

It’s official, MailGuard is super proud to boast that we are now a Microsoft Gold Partner. In a sign of how fast we’re moving, it was only in June that we were celebrating Silver status, but hey, that’s old news. Now it's official, in September MailGuard was recognised as a Microsoft Gold Partner! 

Exciting news about Azure Australia Central (AAC): after lengthy preparation and testing, Microsoft’s secure public cloud infrastructure, is fully operational and the first users are online.

MailGuard Lite

We’ve been working for a while now on a pilot project for Microsoft CSP Partners that’s going to take our integration with the Microsoft ecosystem to the next level. MailGuard Lite is designed to give users all of the powerful features of MailGuard’s advanced threat protection in a more streamlined format (with pre-set options).

There has been a 2500% increase in the sale of cybercrime kits on the dark-web since 2016, said Angus Taylor MP, Australian Minister for Law Enforcement and Cyber Security in a recent interview.
Taylor expressed his concern about this surge in online criminal activity. He noted that there has been “a high take-up of digital technologies” by Australian companies, but about 30% of smaller companies have inadequate cybersecurity measures in place. 

Since the early days of the internet, when Nigerian Prince scams started appearing, email has been exploited by hackers and criminals.

Data from FBI reports shows that email-based attacks like CEO fraud and phishing are now the most costly cybercrime categories.

itro is a Melbourne based company who help small to medium enterprises achieve better IT outcomes and pride themselves on giving plain-English IT Support.

Operating since 1999, itro has successfully helped hundreds of customers to manage customised IT solutions for their companies.

“We can go from 52,000 customers and a few thousand sellers to 17 million partner sellers and 75 million buyers around the world… that’s the opportunity ahead of us.

“I recruited MailGuard 2 years ago... a cybersecurity solution that sits on Azure and uses Office 365… We helped MailGuard move into 12 additional countries and form significant partnerships... At Insight UK alone, they’ve identified over 150,000 Office 365 users for MailGuard.”

MailGuard is proud to announce that we’ve been certified as a Microsoft Silver Partner.

MailGuard’s Silver Partner status is a gratifying recognition of our commitment to excellence within the Microsoft Partner ecosystem.

Silver Partners are certified as achieving proven expertise in specialized areas of business and as such form an elite tier of the Microsoft partnership system.  

To celebrate the end of financial year 2018, we decided to give our top Managed Services Partners a gift to say thanks!

5 industrious Partners each generated $3,000+ in new MailGuard revenue before 25 June and won a $300 Visa Prepaid card:

• ASV Computing Solutions
• Commuserv
• Connected Platforms
• Finrea
• Telstra Business Centre Box Hill