In 2016, many partners and advisors jumped on the CSP train. Microsoft made no bones about the impending Doomsday of its advisor program, nudging them to CSP, while small email hosters appreciated the perks of being able to offer Office 365 too without all of the overhead. However, as more partners are able to offer Hosted Exchange and Office 365, competition for new business—and to keep old business—becomes stiffer as margins are bled out.
For the fourth straight quarter, malicious email and Web-borne traffic has increased, according to the Q3 Global Security Report conducted by researchers at AppRiver. This uptick in traffic has been linked to an increase in IoT botnets, which have the ability to blast malware campaigns to the corners of the earth by leveraging the power of their many connected, but unsuspected wireless devices.
The telecom industry is shifting. While profits for voice are dwindling, profits for the cloud are on the rise. Microsoft has taken note of this trend.
When Hurricane Hermine threatened the southeastern United States, AppRiver once again activated its free Digital Disaster Preparedness Service (DDPS).
Ransomware and phishing attacks threaten businesses of all sizes, according to AppRiver’s Quarter 2 Global Security Report.
Office 365 makes life easy. Better yet, your customers really do need it. But they also need IT security solutions that address every malware and compliance issue under the sun to avoid costly data and productivity loss, fines and lawsuits. Being able to offer your customers both makes you the one-stop shop for all of their productivity and IT security needs. Here are five solutions that can help you grow your margins when you pair them with Office 365.
Whether it’s the medical, insurance or real estate industry, federal regulations have turned the paper “trail” into a four-lane highway. That’s why the time is ripe for MSPs to offer electronic signature solutions that offer the perks of paperless convenience, while maintaining the integrity of a verifiable signature.
Every quarter, AppRiver releases its Global Security Report, the latest spam and malware findings from the previous quarter. The company’s Q1 2016 report, released in April, has confirmed that the levels of malicious email traffic during Q1 have already eclipsed all of 2015’s levels of 1.7 billion, with 2.3 billion malicious email messages (1.7 billion occurring in March alone).
Microsoft’s Service Provider License Agreement (SPLA) partners are facing mounting pressure to re-evaluate their business models as hyperscale cloud providers enter the market.
It’s hard to comprehend: 944 million malicious messages in one year. At least, that’s what our team of security analysts thought until we filtered 705 million malicious messages in one month alone.
