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Breaking Down Five 2018 Breaches — And What They Mean For Security In 2019

Originally published on CENTRACOMM.net. Big hacks and data leaks are nothing new, but this year has seen a surge in reported breaches. The reason for this might be simple: After the EU general update to data protection regulation (GDPR) came into place in May, firms are more likely to report attacks. But it also demonstrates that the huge amounts of data collected by companies is not immune to...
Press Release
Press Release

The Brexit Threat: Chaos, Confusion and Con Men

Originally published on infosecurity-magazine.com . Brexit presents a unique opportunity for hackers as, similarly to con men, they thrive on confusion and chaos – something that today’s political uncertainty provides in spades. Most people think of hacking as using malicious code for some nefarious purpose – be it stealing data or installing malware – but many often forget that in order to upload...
British Airways
Blog
Blog

Paying the Piper: What We Learned From the British Airways Fine

Sat, 06/15/2019
Protecting your data using Clearswift’s Secure Web Gateway solution and Secure ICAP Gateway deployed in both forward- and reverse-proxy modes and used to mitigate advanced threats on web pages. It also helps keep your business compliant.
Compliance
Web Security
Press Release
Press Release

Cyber Security Commentary On The DDOS Attacks On Telegram During Hong Kong Protests

Originally published on informationsecurity.report . As part of our experts Comments Series, Dr Guy Bunker, CTO at Clearswift Cyber Security commented below on the subject of the recent use of DDOS attacks on the messaging app Telegram, which the founder of Telegram states was a concerted state-sponsored attack intended to disrupt the Cantonese anti-extradition protests. Dr Bunker discusses the...
Cyber threat images
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Blog

Next Generation Cyber Threats: Images

Fri, 05/31/2019
Traditional Data Loss Prevention (DLP) technology provides protection against the traditional threat of someone trying to send a file to an unauthorized individual, but it required a step change to enable Adaptive Data Loss Prevention with Deep Content Inspection (DCI) to address threats such as ransomware that is delivered embedded in innocuous-looking documents. Clearswift delivered our first...
Advanced Threat Protection
Data Loss Prevention
Blog
Blog

From Pesky to Dangerous - Image-based Spam

Tue, 05/21/2019
Those of you that can remember back to 2006 may recall that High School Musical was the highest selling album of the year. “We’re all in this together” was one of the most popular songs played at the time and, some would say, a pesky tune that would stick in your head. It also happened to be the same time when image-based spam was at its peak, another pesky occurrence that was hammering our...
Data Loss Prevention
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Blog

The Top 5 Cyber Threats that Brexit Brings

Tue, 05/14/2019
Our data shows that 53% of firms are increasing their cybersecurity budgets in preparation for a rise in threats once we leave the EU. Businesses anticipate that Cybercriminals will seek to use confusion to their advantage, whether that is through malware attacks or targeted phishing campaigns to coerce critical data or financial gain from organizations.
Advanced Threat Protection
Data Loss Prevention
Email Security
Endpoint Protection
Web Security
Data security
Blog
Blog

Fighting the War at Home: How Your Employees are Your Greatest Asset in the Battle Against Data Loss

Tue, 04/02/2019
Sun Tzu once stated that: “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting” and two and a half thousand years later his rhetoric stands the test of time, as today we are seeing this ancient ideal applied in the most modern of battlegrounds: the fight against cyber-crime. To tackle both the malicious and accidental data loss threat, organizations need to have preventative technology...
Data Loss Prevention
Email Security
Web Security
Cloud Security
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Blog

A Business World in the Clouds

Fri, 03/22/2019
Safeguarding Against the Security Pitfalls of Cloud-Based Platforms Majority of us are intimately familiar with the concept of ‘the Cloud’, the seemingly omnipresent information sharing and storage solution. But how much do you know about the security systems that defend it? Most of you may already be using cloud-based programs such as GoogleDocs, DropBox or, more commonly, Microsoft 365 – the...
Cloud Security
Data Loss Prevention
Email Security
Microsoft 365

Enhancing Cyber Threat Protection in Microsoft 365

Enhancing Cyber Threat Protection in Microsoft 365 clearswift_admin Mon, 02/11/2019 - 08:58
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has recently published an advisory report that explores the ways M365 can be compromised by malicious parties, explaining how cybercriminals can use compromised M365 accounts to obtain financial profit. Integrating advanced threat prevention and data protection features to a M365 platform can enhance the existing security capabilities it offers. Clearswift...
Email Security
Microsoft 365
Blog
Blog

Cutting Out the ‘False Positive’ with Lexical Expression Qualifiers

Thu, 12/20/2018
When it comes to traditional Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions, the ‘false positive’ is frequently the downfall. This is where an event is triggered by a policy in error. For example, a 16-digit number could be a credit card number, or it could be a reference number. If one is mistaken for the other, then this gives rise to a false positive. All DLP events need to be investigated, so the false...
Data Loss Prevention