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> (or using cloud mail providers)

Why? I don't see moving to a cloud solution being much better. The cloud service itself would be the single point of failure and would be just as vulnerable to a zero day. The organization would have even fewer risk mitigation options like NAT, firewalls, etc.

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As someone who surveys different organizations networks day in and out, the amount of unpatched and out of date Exchange servers (and other internet facing services) I see is ridiculous. Most sysadmins don't have a tangible idea of the risk they take when they set this stuff up. At least Office 365 is patched and monitored on a regular basis and has actual security teams tasked with looking for potential exploits.

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