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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Preparing for the Inevitable: A Guide to Handling a Data Breach

Thu, 12/21/2017
Cyber-attacks and data breaches are now so widespread that it isn’t a matter of ‘if’ but ‘when’ your organization gets hit. According to the UK Government’s latest Cyber Security Breaches Survey , nearly seven in ten large businesses identified a breach or attack in the past year. When taking into consideration all sizes of businesses in the UK, nearly half had suffered a breach or attack. The...
Advanced Threat Protection
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Microsoft Deal Is a Start, But More Needs to be Done to Protect the NHS from Cyber Threats

Mon, 08/21/2017
Following the recent WannaCry attack that affected so many organizations, both public and private, across the globe, many firms are now taking steps to protect themselves from potential threats in the future. One establishment in the UK that the WannaCry attack had ramifications for was the NHS. The incident meant multiple hospitals across England and Scotland had to cancel procedures after vital...
Data Loss Prevention
Email Security
Cybersecurity
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WannaCry Fallout: What the Ransomware Epidemic Means for the Future of Business

Tue, 08/08/2017
Cyber security is now an agenda item in the boardroom, not just the IT department, in the wake of May’s Ransomware attack and the countdown to GDPR compliance well underway. In May, multiple organizations including the NHS, Spain’s Telefónica and Deutsche Bahn were struck with what is arguably the world’s most publicized cyber-attack. Within a day, the ransomware cryptoworm known as WannaCry...
Advanced Threat Protection
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Security vs. Productivity: The Office Macro Dilemma

Mon, 05/08/2017
There is no doubt that macros are being increasingly used to execute malicious code around the world and we have all know what impact it can have on an organization when they strike. But sometimes team members just need to run macros to get their work done. So, what do you do? As a security professional, you want to prevent macros from running because it's safer and you don’t have to work until 3...
Email Security
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Winning at RSA Conference 2016

Wed, 03/02/2016
RSA Conference 2016 - Clearswift is all powered up for a huge three days of demonstrating our truly game changing adaptive DLP solution...
Data Loss Prevention
Data Security
Email Security
Content Inspection
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New Email-Embedded Malware Getting Through Major AV Scans

Mon, 12/14/2015
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...
Email Security
Microsoft 365
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The Pitfalls of Handling Credit Card Details

Tue, 10/08/2013
Credit card fraud in 2012 cost $5.55 billion worldwide. But there are other problems - is the way you handle credit card information sufficient?
Data Loss Prevention
Data Security
Email Security
Information Security
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