On Wed, 30 Jul 2024, John Levine via mailop wrote:
It appears that Jaren Angerbauer via mailop <[email protected]> said:
$dayjob is Proofpoint -- I have been heavily involved with this. We have
gone to great lengths to raise awareness with customers and get them to
correctly configure their systems. Ultimately up to them though, despite
our warnings of potential consequences for not doing this.
Our response to Guardio's article:
https://www.proofpoint.com/us/blog/threat-insight/scammer-abuses-microsoft-365-tenants-relaying-through-proofpoint-servers-deliver
Sounds like it's the usual problem -- once the mail seems to work, no
amount of nagging will get them to change anything until it visibly
breaks.
Maybe the problem is that having bought in an outside service there is
no one left in-house with the technical experience* to do anything beyond
the day-to-day stuff ?
* or, at least a job spec that would let them know about and fix the issue.
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Andrew C. Aitchison Kendal, UK
[email protected]
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