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How Fortra's Clearswift Secure Email Gateway Aligns to NCSC's Email Security Guidelines

Tue, 03/12/2024
Working in cybersecurity is one of the most challenging roles in the organisation. Not only are you tasked with keeping the business and its data safe and secure, but you must do so in the face of ever-increasing professionalism and sophistication on the part of cybercriminals. There are more threats than ever before, and the consequences of a data breach are more significant too. In recent Fortra...
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Email Security
Encryption
March Madness
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March Madness Challenge for Cybersecurity Professionals

Mon, 03/11/2024
Let the "madness" begin! The NCAA Basketball tournament is different for everyone. Some experience madness after a gut-wrenching triple overtime victory by their alma mater, while others after a buzzer-beater shot from half-court by a 16th-ranked Cinderella underdog that instantly knocks out one of your final four selections. However, to me there is nothing more maddening, in the delightful sense...
Data Loss Prevention
Email Security
Web Security
Are Microsoft Advanced Analytics enough?
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Microsoft's Defender for Identity – Is it Enough?

Thu, 09/07/2023
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.
Email Security
Microsoft 365
Office 365 Security
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How to Enhance Data Loss Prevention in Office 365

Fri, 09/03/2021
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.
Data Loss Prevention
Microsoft 365
Heartbleed Bug
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New Encryption Guidance Published by UK’s Information Commissioner

Fri, 09/03/2021
The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office published update guidance on encryption on 3rd March 2016, amidst concerns that there was a general lack of understanding of how and when to use encryption. It is the lack of appropriate technical measures, such as the use of encryption that has led to a significant number of fines issued in the UK since 2010. There is a risk of bigger fines with the...
Data Loss Prevention
Data Security
Email Security
data exfiltration
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How to Prevent Data Exfiltration

Fri, 09/03/2021
To mitigate the threat of data exfiltration, organizations deploy data loss prevention software tools at key egress points – email, web (cloud), and the endpoint. The security software provides visibility of the data being shared (who is sending what to whom) and allows controls to be put in place that prevent sensitive data from leaving the organization and malware from getting in.
Data Security
Lock
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Capital One Data Breach: A Reminder to Lock Your Back Door

Tue, 08/13/2019
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...
Advanced Threat Protection
Data Loss Prevention
Email Security
Web Security
Lock on Keyboard
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The Unthought About Risks of Encryption

Mon, 08/05/2019
We hear a lot about encryption in this day in age, particularly around it being the panacea for compliance with data protection regulations. It’s true it can be a component of an information security and compliance strategy, but there are a variety of different encryption options available on the market today, so care needs to be taken with selecting the right solution to ensure it doesn’t turn...
Managed File Transfer
Email Security
Cyber threat images
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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
Inspect
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‘Discovering’ Critical Data Stored On The Endpoint

Thu, 11/08/2018
Clearswift’s Endpoint DLP (Data Loss Prevention) solution leverages the same Deep Content Inspection Engine (DCI) which is used in its core SECURE Gateway products. The DCI can be used to scan saved files (referred to as data at rest (DAR)) on various endpoints, to identify potential data breach risks or non-compliance with company policy. For example, there may be spreadsheets containing PCI or...
Data Loss Prevention
Endpoint
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Clearswift Endpoint Data Loss Prevention

Mon, 11/05/2018
Learn about the three key components to endpoint data loss prevention; device control, content transfer control and encryption, and discovering critical information at rest.
Data Loss Prevention
OCR
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Has Your Multifunction Printer Become A Data Loss Risk? Consider DLP For Images.

Sat, 06/16/2018
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) as a technology has been around for a long time. It inspects images for text and then decodes them. While the human eye is fantastic at recognizing text, be it upside down or at an angle, it is computationally intensive to do this by machine on a regular basis. However, new algorithms now exist to deal with skew (angled text) as well as being able to handle...
Email Security
Email Security
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Right to be Forgotten Requests: How to Ensure Your Business Doesn’t Grind to Halt

Fri, 12/01/2017
GDPR is the most comprehensive data protection legislation to date and it's revolutionizing the information security landscape. The impending enforcement of the regulation is forcing organizations to understand, and transform, the way they collect, process and store data. One of the most challenging aspects of the legislation is the ‘right to be forgotten’ (RTBF), the ruling that dictates...
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