Clearswift has recently been approached by a number of top cybersecurity teams and organizations to help them address an increasing threat of ongoing attempts to deliver embedded malware hidden in email attachments that is automatically activated by malicious scripting code. The sophistication and continuous morphing of delivery methods have made it so these new malware variants go undetected and pass right by major AV scanning solutions.

There’s a bewildering volume of data in modern business. IDC has predicted that by 2025, there will be 175 zettabytes of data in the world, a figure that's almost impossible to conceive. While this data will not be of interest to many people, there will be some that is highly prized indeed. Data has become highly valuable IP for many organizations, and the need to keep it...

From the latest set of statistics released as part of the Clearswift Insider Threat Index, the one that really caught my eye, was the fact that 35% of employees say they have access to information above their pay grade.

As many of you will have seen in the media last week Paddy Power announced a leak of almost 650,000 client’s details, dating back to 2010.

The blurring of work and life boundaries that exist on devices, both with the changes to the law on flexible working and the general rise of BYOD, means that it’s far too easy to send information to the wrong person via email – and then be penalised for it.

Threats from outside the organization are still happening, but it's the threats from within which are causing a greater challenge. Not just employees but third parties who have access to internal systems and information.

Blog by Kevin Bailey, Head of Market Strategy. One of the easiest ways to stop attacks on information is to close down the shutters, build impenetrable firewalls, stop all access and return to the world of the chalk and blackboard.

Last week saw The Open Group conference take place in London. In conjunction with this was The Jericho Forum’s announcement that after ten years they were declaring success and sunsetting.

Credit card fraud in 2012 cost $5.55 billion worldwide. But there are other problems - is the way you handle credit card information sufficient?

Following on from our recent acquisition news, I’m excited to share more news today. In the latest release of our award-winning Secure Web and Email Gateways we have added a world first: Adaptive Redaction technology. This is another step on our journey toward being a leader in the Information Governance space.