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Datasheet

Adaptive Redaction: Structural and Document Sanitization

What is sanitization? Sanitization involves cleansing or purging files of dangerous hidden content. That content can be either active (for example, malware), or informational (such as hidden properties). An example of harmful code could be an invisible and malicious script on an otherwise legitimate web page or embedded into a document. Remediation for this requires structural...
Email Security
Datasheet

Encryption for the Public Sector

Encryption for the Public Sector With an ever-growing need for secure business communication and collaboration methods, email remains the primary channel for information sharing. However, the challenge for many in the public sector, including Government departments, local government, government agencies and public bodies, is how to share and receive information securely with...
Email Security
Datasheet

Clearswift Email Encryption

Fortra's Clearswift Secure Email Gateway appliance provides a number of options to secure email sent over the Internet through the use of encryption. Securing messages by encryption ensures that messages have: Confidentiality – generally messages can’t be read by the wrong person Integrity – the message is intact and can be shown to have not been modified by anyone from...
Email Security
Public Sector Cybersecurity
Blog

Public Sector Cybersecurity Priorities in 2021

Wed, 02/03/2021
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?
Data Security
Managed File Transfer
Email Security
Microsoft 365
Moving on from encryption
Blog

Moving on From Encryption – The Case for eDRM

Fri, 12/06/2019
Enterprise digital rights management (eDRM or Information Rights Management, IRM) has had a rocky start to life. While it’s been around for the last 20 years and is seen as the next step on from encryption, it just hasn’t made it into mainstream use.
Email Security
Encryption
Blog

Clearswift Wins DLP Award at Computing Security Excellence Awards

Mon, 11/25/2019
Today, we are thrilled to announce our 2019 Computing Security Excellence Award win for Data Loss Prevention (email and web) – the second consecutive win for us at the awards! The Computing Security Excellence Awards celebrate the highest quality cybersecurity products, so it’s fantastic to see our Adaptive Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solution recognized for its market-leading...
Data Loss Prevention
Email Security
Blog

Clearswift’s Secure Email Gateway Wins Gold at Golden Bridge Awards

Thu, 10/10/2019
The winners of this year’s Golden Bridge Awards were announced last week, and we are delighted that Clearswift’s Secure Email Gateway was recognized in the ‘Email Security Innovation’ category.  The coveted annual awards program celebrates global, cross-industry business achievements and honors the world’s best in organizational performance, products and services, innovations,...
Email Security
Lock
Blog

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...
Advanced Threat Protection
Data Loss Prevention
Email Security
Web Security
Lock on Keyboard
Blog

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 into a nightmare resulting in non-compliance.
Managed File Transfer
Email Security
British Airways
Blog

Paying the Piper: What We Learned From the British Airways Fine

Sat, 06/15/2019
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.
Compliance
Web Security
Blog

The Top 5 Cyber Threats that Brexit Brings

Tue, 05/14/2019
Our data shows that 53% of firms are increasing their cybersecurity budgets in preparation for a rise in threats once we leave the EU. Businesses anticipate that Cybercriminals will seek to use confusion to their advantage, whether that is through malware attacks or targeted phishing campaigns to coerce critical data or financial gain from organizations.
Advanced Threat Protection
Data Loss Prevention
Email Security
Endpoint Protection
Web Security
Data security
Blog

Fighting the War at Home: How Your Employees are Your Greatest Asset in the Battle Against Data Loss

Tue, 04/02/2019
Sun Tzu once stated that: “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting” and two and a half thousand years later his rhetoric stands the test of time, as today we are seeing this ancient ideal applied in the most modern of battlegrounds: the fight against cyber-crime. To tackle both the malicious and accidental data loss threat, organizations need to have...
Data Loss Prevention
Email Security
Web Security
Cloud Security
Blog

A Business World in the Clouds

Fri, 03/22/2019
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,...
Cloud Security
Data Loss Prevention
Email Security
Microsoft 365
Blog

Enhancing Cyber Threat Protection in Microsoft 365

Mon, 02/11/2019
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has recently published an advisory report that explores the ways M365 can be compromised by malicious parties, explaining how cybercriminals can use compromised M365 accounts to obtain financial profit. Integrating advanced threat prevention and data protection features to a M365 platform can enhance the existing security capabilities it offers. Clearswift’s bolt-on solution for M365 be seamlessly implemented to enable deep content inspection of all email traffic through the platform – inbound, outbound and internal – in both email messages and attachments.
Email Security
Microsoft 365