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Organisational culture change: why you literally need to watch your language

How can HR make an organisational culture change succeed and stop a toxic culture from developing? Monitoring your business emails helps. Find out why.

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Backing up Microsoft Teams? There’s a better way to preserve your chats.

Want to preserve your Microsoft Teams conversations completely and securely, and find the bits you need quickly? Read why archiving beats backing up Teams.

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Are you ready for the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA)?

Financial services make the world go round. So it’s important that we keep them up and running, meeting customers’ needs even when we’re dealing with cyber attacks. Read about a new act meant to protect them, and how email archiving can help you comply with the law. What

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TTDSG: Germany’s new data privacy law

Germany has a new data privacy law: TTDSG (Telekommunikations-Telemedien-Datenschutz-Gesetz). Find out how it affects your business emails.

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UK GDPR and EU GDPR Statement

This statement sets out FCS (UK) Limited and the FCS group of companies’ (the “Group”) approach to Data Protection, in line with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (“UK GDPR”) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (“DPA”) and where applicable the General Data Protection Regulation ((EU) 2016/679) (“EU GDPR”

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2021 Round-up

We’d like to thank our customers and partners, who helped us end the year on a high. This December, Cryoserver was voted one of the Top 10 Cloud Vendors in Britain’s Reseller Choice Awards – for the third year running.

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Log4J Vulnerability Announcement

UPDATE: 16/12/2021 1030hrs Cryoserver is also not vulnerable to the https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-45046 variant - as we are not using the affected version of Log4J.

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Release Notes

v9.6.0 We are pleased to announce Version 9.6.0 is now available.  v9.6.0 enriches the Cryoserver Email Archiving Solution based on customer enhancement requests and product improvements. Some highlights from the recent version 9 releases: * Cryoserver supports searching user emails based on GUID. * Graph API

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Employee email blunders: how to stop them causing reputational damage

These employee email mistakes caused reputational damage to organisations. Find out how to prevent it happening to yours.

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Could your emails be used as evidence?

Need old business emails to support a court case or legal tribunal? First you have to ensure their authenticity. Find out how you can.

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POPIA and Email Data: How to Comply Affordably

How does POPIA apply to personal data in emails? Read about your organisation’s POPIA responsibilities and how to comply with them easily and affordably.

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No email archiving? Here’s why you need it urgently

Some IT managers think dedicated email archiving is a nice-to-have solution their organisation can’t really afford. But when they end up in sticky situations like those described here, it becomes something they can’t afford to do without. Do you think an email archiving solution is a luxury your

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Cloud email archiving: why now’s a good time for it

Increasingly, Cryoserver on-premises customers are switching to our cloud solution. There are many good reasons to do this: from improving accessibility for a flexible workforce, to saving money and reducing hassle. Here’s the case for moving now. How have you been managing to keep your business going in the

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6 email productivity tips for working from home

Remote working could soon become a permanent option for many of us. It does present some challenges though, particularly with email. Here are ways you can overcome them and work more effectively with emails from home. When you’re physically distant from your colleagues and convenient office systems, email becomes

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What is email journaling and why do you need it?

When people talk about keeping emails, they can use three terms: backing up, archiving, and journaling. Some use the words interchangeably, not realising that these are three distinct processes. You can save your organisation time, money and trouble by understanding their different meanings. Backing up, archiving, and journaling Email backup

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Exchange Server Vulnerabilities

Tens of thousands of Exchange servers are at risk from four zero-day vulnerabilities. Find out if yours is, and what you can do.

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California’s privacy laws, CCPA and CPRA

CCPA and CPRA increase Californians’ privacy rights. Learn how they impact business and how to stay compliant with email archiving.

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New Zealand Privacy Act 2020

New privacy laws are in force across New Zealand. They affect all organisations, including those based overseas that are doing business in the country. If you’re in charge of your organisation’s data, find out about the changes and how you can safeguard personal information compliantly.

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Australia Privacy Act 1988 reforms & GDPR

Australia’s proposed Privacy Act reforms could affect all organisations. Find out how to keep yours compliant with email archiving.

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How to Export PST Files in Outlook

Like to free up valuable space on your mail server? Then back up Outlook emails by exporting PST Outlook files.                                           You might never have heard of a Personal Storage Table. It’s more commonly known as a PST, a file format used to back up messages, calendar details, and tasks.

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How To Add a Signature In Outlook

It’s good business practice for your emails to include a signature. This usually contains, at the bare minimum, the sender’s name, and may include other details, such as their position in the organisation, their email address and their phone/mobile number.

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2020 Round-Up

Highlights, trends, and a heads-up or two Well, this year has been unusual, hasn't it? I wonder how many emails in your Cryoserver archive start something like "Hope you're keeping well in these unprecedented times . . ." Cryoserver has been fortunate. 2020 has been good to us in a number of ways:

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Cryoserver voted Top 10 Cloud/SaaS vendor

Email archiving provider Cryoserver won a Top 10 Cloud/SaaS vendor award at Britain's Reseller Choice Awards Gala, held virtually, on December 10 in London. Cryoserver is the only email archiving provider in the Top 10, a group which includes global leaders such as AWS and Microsoft. It won the

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Know your data purpose.

Knowing the original purpose for which you obtained personal data is the key to unlocking the conundrum that is data retention.  We know all too well, having advised many, that businesses are struggling with the concept of data retention, what they should retain, for how long, what they should delete

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How to Migrate to Office 365

Planning to migrate your email to Microsoft 365/Office 365? Here are the standard steps - plus a big money-and-time-saving tip Migrating email to Office 365, or Microsoft 365 as it’s now known, may seem daunting at first. But if you break the process down into smaller parts, or

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How to Archive in Outlook

Want to free up space on your mail server? First you’ll need to archive Outlook emails. Here’s the standard way to do it manually, followed by an even easier way. “What does archiving emails do in Outlook?” people ask me. The simple answer is, it prevents your Outlook

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How Does Email Archiving Help With Disaster Recovery?

In the event of a disaster, every business must keep company operations running and recover quickly from the event. This is known as business continuity. Business continuity and disaster recovery are vital processes a company must do in the event of a disaster. The way to achieve both is down

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Outlook vs Gmail: Which is Better for Business?

Microsoft Outlook and Gmail are two of the most popular email services in the world. Outlook has over 400 million users and Gmail boasts over 1.5 billion users. While these numbers mostly relate to how many people use the personal email services worldwide, it’s their business email offerings

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Covid-19 Update

As MD of Cryoserver, I wanted to write to you directly to keep you informed of the steps we have taken in response to the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic. To begin with, I wanted to say all the team at Cryoserver are safe and hope that you and your families are

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How Quickly Will You Recover From a Cyber Attack?

Emails are the lifeblood of business processes. It is the main communication between an enterprise and its clients, with vital, and sometimes sensitive information being shared between parties. That is why it’s important to protect business emails from cyber attacks.  Protecting emails goes far beyond spam filtering of phishing

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Why Should You Migrate to a Cloud-Based Archiving Solution?

According to Statista, the cloud computing market is worth an estimated $236bn as its use has seen a huge growth in the last decade. You won’t be surprised to find out that the email archive has also moved into the cloud in recent years. An on-premise cloud email archive

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6 Limitations of Office 365

With 120 million business users of Microsoft Office 365 worldwide, the service is trusted by many companies. There are many advantages of Office 365 including access to emails and files so you can work from anywhere in the world on any device, all loaded into cost-effective packages. However, Office 365

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Remote Working and Email Trends

The recent Coronavirus crisis has seen remote working come to the forefront of people’s minds. Where possible, businesses have ensured their employees can work from home to continue their daily job, allowing the business to function despite the world slowly going into lockdown. With many organisations taking advantage of

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Migrating to Office 365

Many businesses have been using Microsoft related products for years without moving to cloud, but this stance is changing. According to ZDNet, there are over 120 million users of Office 365, as many businesses migrate to the cloud platform. Migrating to Office 365 is the way forward for businesses, but

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How to Best Manage FOI Requests

Freedom of Information requests are a key element of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Any public body could be given an FOI request at any time, which can be a logistical nightmare if the right measures aren’t in place. This blog takes you through how best to manage

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Email Archiving vs Backup: What's the Difference?

It’s important to know the difference between an email archive and email backup because many still confuse the actions and purpose of either one. In fact, there are major differences that can have a significant impact on your business. So which should your company be using? Find out as

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Where Do Emails Go That Are Archived?

Cleaning up an email inbox is an admin job everyone must do at various times. While for some it may be a boring job, it’s a rather important one. Not only does clearing your inbox free up space, but it can also allow you to keep on top of

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Email Archiving and Cyber Security

Email archiving and cyber security aren’t always considered linked by business owners. Most companies look into email archiving first to save space on existing inboxes and servers as part of an email retention policy. However, there are features of email archiving that form part of your cyber security strategy.

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The Ultimate Guide to Email Archiving

With 124.5 billion business emails being sent every day and the average office worker receiving 121 emails every day, storing all email content is unfeasible. With a further 200 billion emails believed to be spam, there is far too much email being stored on servers. This is where email

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Everything You Wanted to Know About Email... But Were Afraid to Ask

Emails have become a part of everyday life, at work and at home. With 293 billion emails sent a day, they are a vital communication tool. Users on average have 1.75 email accounts with separate accounts of personal and home. While you may use emails all the time, you’

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