The Covid-19 pandemic has undoubtedly changed working patterns for good. What are the implications for public sector organizations and what can they do to improve their cybersecurity posture?

We live and work in an era with more collaboration than ever before. Organizational structures are flatter, the world is smaller, and it is commonplace to work together with colleagues, partners, customers, suppliers, and many other stakeholders on a wide variety of projects. Furthermore, technology has emerged that makes such collaboration easy. It is as straightforward to...

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 into a nightmare resulting in non-compliance.

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.

The recent data breaches emphasize the danger facing data-storing companies and emphasizes the need for a more comprehensive attitude towards data security.

To mitigate risks, organizations should take a number of risk mitigation steps that both improve employee mindset around handling sensitive data as well as to enforce rules that ensure unwanted sensitive data acquisition is reduced.

As new threats are introduced into the cyberscape as well as evolved traditional threats, businesses need to be more prepared than ever for a data breach and have the latest tools in place to mitigate risks.

Clearswift’s Adaptive Data Loss Prevention (A-DLP) solution has the ability to inspect all content coming in and going out of the organization – whether through email or the web – to prevent any sensitive information being shared or exposed unauthorized. The document sanitization and adaptive redaction features ensure that GDPR compliance is upheld by scanning all emails and documents flowing in and out of the business, detecting and removing only the critical information which could cause a data breach.

Cloud storage services and file sharing apps such as Dropbox, Box, Microsoft OneDrive and Google Drive are so widely adopted by employees—knowingly or unknowingly by their IT departments—that most don’t think twice about using them to share corporate information.

It’s finally here, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is now in full effect. Is that a sigh of relief I hear? Well, it shouldn’t be too heavy a sigh, there’s still work to be done. The first thing to remember is that just because it’s the 25th May, doesn’t mean GDPR efforts are over. In fact, there should be a bigger push than ever to ensure your organization is compliant and remains compliant going forwards.