I own a business. We hit 9 years in September. When we started we did O365. At that time, a business as small as us had to go with a Microsoft “partner” because MS wasn’t going to deal with a business as small as us. We were immediately “man in the middle” hacked. We’d been in business 3 months and someone was grabbing our incoming emails and replying as if they were us. We had no idea. They changed payment terms and re-routed our checks as direct payments to some digital accounts in Miami (USA). I have no doubt that it was our Microsoft “partner” that set us up with O365 and Lync (this was a long time ago). When we pressed Microsoft about it they became totally unresponsive or nasty. We lost about $25,000 dollars right at the very beginning of our business. It was a very dark time for me. But, honestly, that was the best $25K I ever spent. Talk about “attack Surface”.!!! Now I do Fastmail, Nextcloud a nd other self hosted services. I am absolutely convinced that losing $25k was an absurd bargain. People on O365/ SharePoint/Teams get hacked every fucking day. But they don’t tell you about it.
I own a business. We hit 9 years in September. When we started we did O365. At that time, a business as small as us had to go with a Microsoft “partner” because MS wasn’t going to deal with a business as small as us. We were immediately “man in the middle” hacked. We’d been in business 3 months and someone was grabbing our incoming emails and replying as if they were us. We had no idea. They changed payment terms and re-routed our checks as direct payments to some digital accounts in Miami (USA). I have no doubt that it was our Microsoft “partner” that set us up with O365 and Lync (this was a long time ago). When we pressed Microsoft about it they became totally unresponsive or nasty. We lost about $25,000 dollars right at the very beginning of our business. It was a very dark time for me. But, honestly, that was the best $25K I ever spent. Talk about “attack Surface”.!!! Now I do Fastmail, Nextcloud a nd other self hosted services. I am absolutely convinced that losing $25k was an absurd bargain. People on O365/ SharePoint/Teams get hacked every fucking day. But they don’t tell you about it.