A Cyber Resilience Kit for Every Business: Why Partners Must Lead in an Era of Uncertainty

“Be ready to survive for at least 72 hours before help arrives.”
— EU Crisis Management Commissioner Janez Lenarčič, April 2025

This was the stark advice issued to European residents last week, urging them to assemble emergency kits to last through infrastructure outages caused by cyberattacks, sabotage, or conflict. The message is sobering, but not surprising. Governments are now publicly acknowledging the need to prepare not if, but when critical systems go offline.

If that’s how countries are planning for disruption, what are your clients doing?

As partners and trusted advisors, we must ask: What does a ‘72-hour resilience plan’ look like in a digital business context—and how do we help our clients prepare for it?

A Wake-Up Call: Resilience Starts with Communication

The EU's survival kit recommendations—covering essentials like food, water, and radios—are practical responses to physical disruption. But for businesses, the threat of disruption is increasingly digital: cyberattacks, ransomware, supply chain breakdowns, or infrastructure outages can paralyse an organisation’s ability to communicate, operate, and recover.

At the heart of that disruption? Email.

It’s no coincidence. 91% of cyberattacks still start with email, and advanced ‘zero zero-day’ threats continue to bypass legacy filtering solutions, including Microsoft Defender and third-party tools like Mimecast and Proofpoint.

Cyber Resilience Is More Than Just Filtering

MailGuard’s core filtering service is world-class—backed by over $35 million in R&D and proven via Microsoft metadata to detect and block threats hours (sometimes months) faster than other vendors.

But the businesses relying only on that first layer are still exposed when the unexpected happens. A phishing attack that takes down infrastructure. A ransomware outbreak that cripples mail servers. A disaster that isolates teams from corporate systems.

That’s why partners must advocate for full-spectrum protection—and that includes continuity and recovery.

🛠 Your Client’s Digital Resilience Kit

Every business should have a digital equivalent of the EU’s 72-hour emergency kit. Here’s what that looks like for email operations:

✅ MailGuard – Advanced Email Filtering

Stops zero zero-day phishing, BEC and ransomware attacks that others miss.

✅ MailGuard Live – Email Continuity

Keeps email flowing during outages. Provides up to 60 days of browser-based access to live mailboxes.
→ More on MailGuard Live

✅ SafeGuard – Secure Email Archiving

Maintains forensically intact, real-time searchable archives for compliance, incident recovery and legal discovery.
→ More on SafeGuard

Partners Must Lead This Conversation

Clients don’t always know what resilience looks like. That’s why they rely on you.

As a MailGuard partner, you’re uniquely positioned to:

• Identify gaps in current DRP/BCP frameworks
• Provide practical steps to implement continuity and compliance solutions
• Offer bundled protection beyond filtering—without adding complexity
• Position cyber resilience as a business continuity and risk governance imperative

This isn’t just about ticking a compliance box. It’s about safeguarding operations, maintaining trust, and ensuring businesses can communicate through any disruption—malicious or otherwise.

Final Word

The EU is asking citizens to plan for life without power, water, or internet for 72 hours. Businesses, too, must be ready to operate without their primary systems—and that means having email resilience built in.

With MailGuard, that’s not only possible—it’s simple. But it’s up to you, our partner network, to guide clients toward that future.

📩 Want help designing a ‘Cyber Resilience Stack’ for your clients?
Contact your MailGuard Partner Manager or email us at expert@mailguard.com.au for tailored support and solution packaging.

Keeping Businesses Safe and Secure

Prevention is always better than a cure, and one of the best defences is to encourage businesses to proactively boost their company’s cyber resilience levels to avoid threats landing in inboxes in the first place. The fact that a staggering 94% of malware attacks are delivered by email, makes email an extremely important vector for businesses to fortify.

No one vendor can stop all email threats, so it’s crucial to remind customers that if they are using Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, they should also have a third-party email security specialist in place to mitigate their risk. For example, using a specialist third-party cloud email solution like MailGuard.   

For a few dollars per staff member per month, businesses are protected by MailGuard's specialist, zero zero-day email security. Special Ops for when speed matters!  Our real-time zero zero-day, email threat detection amplifies your client’s intelligence, knowledge, security and defence.

MailGuard provides a range of solutions to keep businesses safe, from email filtering to email continuity and archiving solutions. Speak to your clients today to ensure they’re prepared and get in touch with our team to discuss fortifying your client’s cyber resilience.

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