He recently spared some time for CRN to voice his opinion on the matter.
The recent phishing attacks targeting Commonwealth Bank and now St George customers raise serious questions about the effectiveness of today's emails filters.
Why is spam targeting bank customers slipping through traditional spam filters?
Businesses must change tactics to effectively deal with constantly evolving security threats.
The phishing threat we are witnessing now moves very quickly and changes almost hourly. Even as we combat one variant, another springs up.
Traditional on-site solutions are almost archaic in relying on updates or new hardware - they just cannot keep pace with evolving threats.
Success in the battle against this new variant of spam can only be fixed by software-as-a-service (SaaS) email filtering.
SaaS email filtering allows businesses to free up IT resources and focus on more strategic, high value IT projects, while reducing internal costs of managing and processing spam. And with lower volumes of email traffic, server utilisation and bandwidth are minimised.
The channel plays a vital role in educating businesses on the benefits of SaaS email filters.
Businesses that embrace a Saas solution for email filtering realise immediate ROI.
Not only does it allows businesses to free up IT resources to focus on more strategic, high value IT projects, SaaS reduces internal costs of managing and processing spam.
What do you think? Do you agree or disagree with what McDonald is saying? Or have off the shelf security products worked well for your customers?
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