Tag: Email security

You’re working late Thursday evening as a contractor for a powerful government agency. You stumble across classified documents uncovering a surveillance program that invades the privacy of millions of citizens. Your heart races as you decide to expose this to the masses and enlist the help of a...

When people leave the company, change roles, or departments get closed, oftentimes you’ll need to keep the messages and mailbox contents that accumulated while those accounts were in service. To do this used to be fairly simple for organizations that were running Exchange Server on premises...

Most organizations with more than 10 or 20 people on staff that are running either Exchange Server on premises or Office 365 in the cloud have mailboxes that are shared on some level. These scenarios could include the following: An executive or manager that generally handles his own tasks but...

Exchange email security is a huge front to defend. There are now so many attack surfaces that it can be hard to decide how to start. Here are a few things that you might want to consider when thinking about your Exchange infrastructure security setup. This is by no means a full list. 1. Full...

Using shared mailboxes in Office 365 can facilitate communication in team projects. However, giving multiple users access permissions for the same mailbox increases the risk of security incidents and leaks of sensitive data. Non-owners with access rights can, unintentionally or maliciously, forward...

Mailbox Move Request is the process of moving a mailbox from its source mailbox database to a target mailbox database. Target mailbox database can be either on the same server or on a different server or even in a different domain/forest.  Mailboxes are moved for various reasons like transitioning...

Reseeding is a process of updating the failed mailbox database to be in sync with the Active mailbox database. This has been greatly improved in Exchange 2013. Some of the new and interesting features in Exchange 2013 is Automatic Reseed and multiple databases per volume. AutoReseed is purposed...

We continue the “Deep Dive” series. In it you might find the answers to some of your technical questions. The industry experts will provide their insights on several topics and research some new features of most popular applications. Don't miss out on the article about Administrative Audit...