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September Was Insider Threat Awareness Month

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...
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Photo Security: Why a Picture Is Worth a Thousand Files

Communication through photos and short videos have now become commonplace with applications like Instagram and TikTok. While this popular use of imagery feels safe, many may not realize that photos can also be used to inconspicuously share data or carry out a ransomware cyberattack. Explore the threats of steganography and why ignoring it can be a significant email security mistake.
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The Four 'C's of Security

Why the Three 'C's of Cybersecurity is arguably missing a very important 'C,' and why it is vital to an solid cybersecurity solution.
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Data Privacy Day - Education and Inspiration

Dependency on the internet for communications and business are at an all time high, and so are cyberattacks. We discuss how you can protect your organization's sensitive information.
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Secure Email Gateway Cloud Sandbox

Upgrade your existing Fortra's Clearswift Secure Email Gateway (SEG) appliance with the next-gen Cloud Sandbox from Sophos. This network sandbox offers state-of-the-art machine learning to provide an additional layer of security against ransomware and targeted attacks, but without any more systems to manage. Enterprise-grade protection that’s deployable in minutes with seamless integration into...
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Using Fortra's Clearswift Secure Email Gateway Appliance to Enhance Data Security in Microsoft 365

For many organizations, Microsoft 365 is the ideal collaboration tool, providing a convenient platform for employees to share information and communicate daily. Microsoft offers different tiered packages to suit a variety of customer requirements. Its Microsoft 365 E5 package provides platforms for mid- and larger-sized enterprises, with the lower-tiered packages (e.g., E1 and E3) offering fewer...
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New Encryption Guidance Published by UK’s Information Commissioner

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...
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Today’s Email Encryption Options. Which One is Right For You?

Email encryption is the process of encrypting or disguising the content of email messages, protecting sensitive information from being read by anyone other than the intended recipient. With the continual evolution and enforcement of data protection laws, email encryption is more necessary than ever before to protect sensitive data from being exposed unauthorized and to mitigate the risk of data...
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Improving Control of Regulated ITAR Information

The United States Government has substantially increased action against organizations and individuals responsible for breaches of the International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR). This poses challenges for global defense corporations as data related to specific technologies may need to be transferred over the Internet or stored locally outside of the United States, in order to make business...
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Automating the Provision of Trust Certificates Using Clearswift’s Trust Manager

Email is still the preferred method of business collaboration in use. With the growth of sensitive content being shared legitimately between organizations and the pressures to ensure data is being sent in a secure fashion, the use of email encryption is almost essential. Multiple analysts show the email encryption market growing with a 20+% CAGR from 2018-2025. Encryption Options There are a wide...
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Clearswift Secure Exchange Gateway

The Clearswift Secure Exchange Gateway (SXG) helps to safeguard against inappropriate or critical information being distributed internally and subsequently leaving an organization. Underpinning both policy and compliance requirements, the Clearswift SXG detects malware and inappropriate file types and identifies violations in conversations based on an easily defined policy based rules. Data Loss...
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Clearswift Secure Email Gateway

Powerful Email Security with Real-Time Protection Around the world, defense agencies, governments, and financial institutions rely on Clearswift’s award-winning, on-premise Secure Email Gateway (SEG) to provide the highest level of protection for email, transforming it from a high-risk communication channel to one that is safe and secure. With deep content inspection capability and powerful...
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Clearswift Managed Email Security Service

Fortra's Clearswift offers an affordable and effective managed Email Security service that enables the highest level of protection, a reduction in day to day management overhead, but keeps you in control. Clearswift Managed Service customers are effectively offered all the benefits of an advance email security system with management, monitoring and logfile access, but without the effort of hosting...
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Clearswift Malware Protection

The Clearswift Secure Gateways provide a number of ways to eliminate the risk of malware entering or proliferating around an organization.The primary methods of malware detection will be performed through the use of Sophos and Avira Anti-Virus (AV) software. In recent real-world testing conducted by AV-Test in May-June 2023, both anti-virus vendors scored perfect scores against zero-day malware...
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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 sanitization. An...
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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 each other, third...
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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 sender to recipient Non...