Every email platform has vulnerabilities. Open source, open core, proprietary: none are exempt, and none ever will be. So asking how many CVEs a platform has tells you remarkably little about how secure your environment actually is. The more useful question is what happens after a vulnerability is found. How quickly does the vendor assess […]
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End of support: when an IT milestone becomes a business risk
Most organizations know the end-of-support date for their email platform. Far fewer treat it as the day their risk changes. The date sits in a lifecycle spreadsheet, gets handed to the infrastructure team, and becomes a question of extension contracts and upgrade windows. That made sense when email was a utility running in the background. […]
When email becomes a sovereignty decision
For most of the last decade, enterprise procurement has run on autopilot. A requirement comes up, a shortlist forms, and one of a handful of familiar names, often Microsoft, usually wins by default. Familiarity and perceived low risk have done a lot of the deciding. That’s starting to change. In a recent piece for IT Europa, Zimbra CRO […]