Preview the latest global phishing benchmarking results and expert security awareness recommendations from Fortra's Terranova Security 2023 Gone Phishing Tournament.

Is your organisation ready to tackle the new challenge of QR code phishing, also known as quishing? In this TechNewsWorld article, Dr. Steve Jeffery discusses the latest carrier of choice for payloads via email.

How will the digital risk and email security landscape evolve in 2024? In this VM Blog article, Eric George discusses the industry's future and shares his seven predictions for 2024.

In early 2023, Microsoft launched Defender for Identity which aims to offer visibility by helping to identify threats and provide actionable reports on attacks. But M365 security is not completely adequate for the modern enterprise and must be augmented by other data security solutions.

Threats in corporate inboxes hit new highs with a quarter of all reported emails classified as malicious or untrustworthy. 99% of these threats were email impersonation threats, such as BEC and credential theft lures, that lack attachments or URLs delivering malware payloads. Cybercriminals continue to bypass traditional email security tools and reach end users by impersonating individuals...

Following a multi-layered approach to phishing defense is a good idea, but using what you have close to home is best when it comes to a sensible security posture. In practice, a robust security awareness training program is key to instruct employees on what to look for when trying to spot phishing emails that may have landed in their inboxes.

Through a layered approach utilizing a comprehensive solution as the primary defense, Fortra fills major gaps in email platform security by protecting users from external threats and safeguarding your sensitive data from being leaked both inside and outside your organization.

In this post, we discuss the industries most prone to attack on social media, and the top threat types found on those platforms.

In Q3, credit unions nearly overtook national banks as the top targeted industry on the Dark Web, according to recent data from Fortra’s PhishLabs.

Insider threats may not get as much attention as the outsider threats. Outsider threats are overwhelmingly malicious in intent. Organizations must protect their data with a strong barrier, because the “bad guys” are on the outside. However, inside the walls of an organization can be a disgruntled employee wanting to cause harm or an employee incentivized from outside the organization. Then of...

Office 365 is a powerful collaboration tool, but can organizations be sure it provides the level of DLP capabilities required in today’s ever-morphing threat environment? Discover the benefits of pairing Clearswift with your Office 365 deployment.

The motivations for APT attacks are many and varied. Nation-state sponsored, industrial espionage and targeted attacks are primarily designed not to cause disruption, but to steal information.

Whether you are a subscriber to the Inbox Zero mode of email management or prefer to let your unread emails rack up to hundreds or even thousands, there can be little doubt about the sheer volume of email communication.

In July 2019, leading financial organization Capital One received an anonymous e-mail revealing some bad news: “There appears to be some leaked data of yours in someone’s Github.” This leaked data was revealed to be the personal details of about 106 million individuals across the US and Canada, mostly consumers and small business owners that have applied for credit card products, including their...

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...

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...