Tuesday 20 June 2017, Auckland, NZ. SMX, Australasia’s leading cloud email security and managed messaging service provider, has launched a new integration
service which enables the full suite of SMX email security and management services to be integrated into virtually any third-party cloud email
service.
SMX CEO Ian McDonald says the new SMX service has compelling business benefits for organisations of all sizes, and is of
particular value to mid-sized organisations using Microsoft Office 365 or Google Apps and who need industry-leading
threat protection alongside sophisticated email management – including high capacity cloud archiving with unlimited
email storage.
“While Microsoft Office 365 and Google’s Gmail have basic email spam and virus filters, our new SMX service creates a
defence in depth strategy for email security and enables those users to immediately switch on enterprise-grade inbound
and outbound email filtering, archiving, and market-leading data loss protection, including anti-phishing and whaling
capabilities,” McDonald says.
SMX Vice President of Business Development David Frazer says the new SMX integration service can be implemented within a
matter of minutes, without any disruption to an organisation’s operations. The new service runs on any cloud hosting
environment and can also be deployed to on-premise infrastructure.
“As Microsoft Office 365 gains maturity as a viable platform across all types of businesses, SMX has been receiving a
growing volume of enquiries from Microsoft Office 365 customers looking to upgrade their email threat protection and
management,” Frazer says.
“They want more sophisticated whitelisting and blacklisting tools. They want access to SMX’s anti-phishing and whaling
modules and defences against new threats, such as Cyberlocking. They also want cloud email archiving with local hosting,
forensic authentication, and no limits on the amount of storage or the duration.
“Microsoft Office 365 customers are particularly interested in SMX’s SmartRules® content management and data loss
protection application. SmartRules® is highly effective against the increasing proliferation of whaling attacks, while
preventing sensitive data leaving the organisation. The new service allows administrators to create users with varying
roles and permissions, allows them to configure the service and ‘drag & drop’ SmartRules®; all in a single dashboard.
“We are receiving similar enquiries from users of other cloud platforms such as Gmail, Google Docs and Salesforce. There
is a particular issue with a potential Salesforce vulnerability due to shared IP addresses, which this service solves,”
Frazer says.
The new SMX integration service is available now from SMX resellers or direct from SMX.
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