MailGuard Partners Blog

On May 25, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into effect.

GDPR aims to incentivise the protection of personal data that is held by companies and organisations.

To celebrate the end of financial year 2018, we’re going to give our top Managed Services partners a gift to say “thanks!”

Want to get a $300 Visa Prepaid card and go on a spending spree on us?

Head over to the MailGuard incentive page and find out how: www.mailguard.com.au/eofy18

Game, set, match

CyberRisk have taken out first place in MailGuard’s 2018 Q3 Reseller Partner competition.

"Cybersecurity needs to be taken seriously… Cybercriminals are becoming more sophisticated and small businesses are particularly vulnerable. Many small businesses have successfully blended their physical and virtual shopfronts to establish sustainable operating models... Cybercriminals now are attacking small businesses very regularly. They know the big guys have really cool systems and they know the little guys haven't.”

In the IT industry, we have an appreciation for the importance of cybersecurity; it’s the essential element that protects our systems from attack so they keep working smoothly. If it’s working well, cybersecurity is in the background, ever present but unobtrusive. For most people using a computer, cybersecurity should be virtually invisible, so it’s sometimes hard to explain to non-tech people how important it is.

I’m very pleased to announce that MailGuard is now an official launch partner of Microsoft Azure Australia Central. 

Our email filtering technology is now hosted on Microsoft's secure public cloud, which is certified by the Australian Signals Directorate.

Email, e-commerce and cloud-based platforms enhance and optimise daily business activity, but they've also created a host of challenges in terms of security. Large-scale data breaches of companies are becoming a regular occurrence, resulting in massive numbers of sensitive data records being compromised.

‘Alone we will fail,’ was the message from Alastair MacGibbon, Head of the Australian Cyber Security Centre and keynote speaker at MailGuard’s 2018 Cybersecurity Awareness Luncheon.

On Tuesday 6 March, MailGuard collaborated with PWC and Microsoft to bring together CEOs and cybersecurity experts in a forum focussed on the rise of cybercrime and the challenges it presents for business.

In today’s global online marketplace, businesses can find customers, manage workforces and accept payments more easily than ever before and that’s great news, as long as everything works smoothly. 

Talking to businesspeople about risk management is a vital part of what we do in the cybersecurity industry but while people in management roles have no difficulty seeing the financial hazards that cybercrime presents, the technicalities are often a sticking point.