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  • 20 February 2009
    Successful collaboration: removing encrypted web traffic risks Trust is a key factor in any business process and definitely one of the most important factors in the ability to conduct business safely and securely via the Internet. This short paper looks at HTTPS - Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Socket Layer - also referred to as SSL, which helps to provide a secure and trusted communication relationship when using the Internet. And, why it is important to define how it's used to enable safe web browsing within your organisation.
  • 17 February 2009
    Protecting against the leading causes of data breach With the trend of large scale data breaches continuing, a 2008 Clearswift survey of over 1,000 IT and security professionals found that 94% of those polled agreed their data loss incentives was viewed as “important”, “very important” or “imperative” to their organization. Yet, the same poll found that since the introduction of data protection standards, 57.2 % of organizations could only increase their annual IT budget by a mere 10% or less to accommodate the demands of Data Loss Prevention (DLP). This whitepaper demonstrates how organizations can prevent the four leading causes of data breach.
  • 17 February 2009
    Demystifying Web 2.0 Nearly all Web 2.0 applications started life as consumer-focused services, only later finding their way into the enterprise. In fact, it’s now evolving into Enterprise 2.0 – the application of Web 2.0 technologies to workers using network software within an organization.
  • 01 June 2008
    Information Assurance: A Game of Hide and Seek in the Public Sector Recent research from Clearswift and other security technology leaders like Symantec suggests that, when it comes to IA in the public sector, there's a major fault line emerging between operational objectives and public expectations - and that we're in danger of permanently harming public trust if we don't do something radical about it.
  • 01 November 2007
    10 Essential Steps to Email Security Every enterprise has to find a balance between security and the ability to carry on conducting business freely. This short guide is about finding that balance. By following some basic principles, there’s no reason you can’t let legitimate business email move into, out of and within your enterprise while stopping the things that cause damage: viruses, spam, spyware, trojans, phishing, Denial of Service attacks, the loss of sensitive data and the collection of illegal, immoral and just plain offensive material.
  • 01 October 2007
    Email Security: beyond the hype and hyperbole Every business depends on email and the Internet. But reading the press, it's tempting to believe that the risks sometimes outweigh the benefits. Viruses, phishing, spyware, spam, trojans, worms, pornography, hate mail and the like are presented, particularly by the press, as some sort of remorseless digital plague sent down from on high to damage businesses everywhere.
  • 01 October 2007
    Policing Web Usage: Securing the Back Door It was all over the papers. Over 200 civil servants in a single department had been caught downloading porn. They had downloaded more than two million pages during an eight month period, including eighteen thousand images of child pornography. Sixteen people were fired, one was prosecuted and the department’s reputation was badly damaged. In another case, a software organization had to cease its development program because a contractor had stolen its source code – using webmail from inside the corporate network. All these cases, and many more like them, share a common theme: organizations suffering serious damage to their reputation or financial well being due to their employee’s misuse of the web.
  • 01 October 2007
    Protecting Against Web 2.0 Threats In the last few years’ people have started using the Web in new and different ways. The Internet is evolving from a collection of information and ecommerce sites into a platform for the next generation of applications and business services facilitating real collaboration and sharing. Called Web 2.0 by Tom O’Reilly of O’Reilly Media in 2004, the new world is characterized by a wave of new jargon, brands and web-based experiences: MySpace. FaceBook. Wikipedia. Flickr. Twitter. YouTube. Mashups. Blogs. Newsfeeds (See our Demystifying Web 2.0 Guide for more information on the whole Web 2.0 phenomenon).
  • 01 October 2007
    A Comprehensive Approach to Web Filtering Not all the content available on the Internet is good. Not everything that a search robot could be programmed to find would be appropriate in an organization, a lot of available content is not work related. It diverts employees from what they should be doing. Or corrupts data within the network. Or covertly allows siphoning off of company confidential information. There are real and definite risks in allowing everything that is on the Internet into your organization.
  • 01 October 2007
    10 Essential Steps to Web Security This short guide summarizes ten steps to web security. Do them all, and you’ll be better protected than 98% of enterprises out there. But the target never stands still. More than the steps listed here, it’s important to focus on the principles behind the steps, including: policy, vigilance, simplification, automation and transparency.

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