MailGuard Partners Blog

‘Always be closing’ – that’s the ABC of sales according to our elite sales hit squad, so we asked them for their top 3 sales tips for partners heading into the slow down in the year-end period.

Responding to questions from customers, a MailGuard partner recently asked this question. For those of you who may be unfamiliar, Litigation Hold is one of the eDiscovery features in Exchange Online.

Celebrating the fact that MailGuard was recognised as an official Microsoft Gold Partner earlier this year, we launched a Spring Promotion in September.

It’s officially silly (shopping) season. As crazy hot sales and year-end promotions start to fill inboxes, here are some tips you can share with your clients to help them reduce the risk of online fraud and stay cyber secure this festive season. 

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.