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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
Social Media
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Like, Share and Destroy: How to Protect Your Business From the Social Media Threat

Thu, 11/22/2018
Social media is now the window to any business. 83% of organizations use social media as a marketing tactic, making it the most popular marketing tool. It is updated far more regularly than any website and businesses build a following based on publishing engaging content regularly. While businesses see the importance of using social media to quickly build their brand and reputation, there has been little emphasis on the downside to this. How social media can destroy a company’s reputation in an instant.
Web Security
Cyber Threat
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Cyber Threats & Technology Tips That Your Business Can’t Ignore

Sun, 10/21/2018
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.
Advanced Threat Protection
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Data Loss Prevention
Email Security
Web Security
Insider Threat
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GDPR and the Insider Threat: How New Regulations are Changing Our Data Handling Habits

Mon, 07/30/2018
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.
Compliance
Data Loss Prevention
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Cloud Storage, File Sharing Apps and GDPR: This Could Get Ugly Fast!

Mon, 06/04/2018
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.
Cloud Security
Compliance
Web Security
GDPR
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The GDPR Deadline is Here – So What Next?

Fri, 05/25/2018
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.
Compliance
Data Loss Prevention
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GDPR - It’s Not Just for Europe: Protection of Data at the World Cup in Russia, Tokyo Olympics, and Beyond

Mon, 04/30/2018
With the World Cup in Russia this summer and the Olympics in Tokyo in 2020 further down the line; organizations conducting business around the event will face unprecedented challenges with cybersecurity and data protection. With the rise in data breaches in recent times, it might not be too strong to say that the success of these major international events relies upon the whole country being data security conscious. Everything from local hotels to travel agents and tour operators will process increasingly large quantities of customer data, including credit card details, making them ripe targets for cybercriminals. This personally identifiable data (PII) will include EU citizen data and so will need to be protected as per the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Compliance
Data Loss Prevention
Data Security
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Smoke and Mirrors: The Key to Snaring a Cyber-Criminal

Fri, 02/23/2018
Understanding your enemy is the first step to defeating them; a sentiment often touted by generals and commanders on the battlefield, but just as applicable to cybersecurity. Comprehending how cybercriminals operate, the techniques they use and the weapons available to them enables organizations to better defend themselves.
Compliance
Data Loss Prevention
Are you ready? Clock
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Getting Ready for GDPR: Key Actions to Ensure Your Organization is Compliant

Tue, 01/30/2018
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the EU’s largest and most significant cross-border regulation comes into effect in May 2018. Organizations and businesses operating in the EU are racing to make changes and implement new technologies in order to become compliant. With varying performance across sectors in the race to GDPR readiness, you don’t want to be left in the...
Compliance
Data Loss Prevention
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...
Compliance
Are you ready? Clock
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The Never-Ending Learning Curve

Fri, 06/06/2014
Not so long ago I wrote two blog posts on the Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL. In one of them I alluded to the fact that we have not seen the end of it, unfortunately I was right.
Web Security
Content Inspection
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Inside Out, Outside in, Inside in...

Tue, 01/14/2014
Threats from outside the organization are still happening, but it's the threats from within which are causing a greater challenge. Not just employees but third parties who have access to internal systems and information.
Email Security
Web Security
European Union Law diploma
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EU Regulations - The Latest Instalment to Protect European Data

Thu, 11/07/2013
Blog by Kevin Bailey, Head of Market Strategy. They say that there is no smoke without fire and the proposed EU Data Protection Regulation (EU DPR) that will supersede the previous EU Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC maybe the fire from which a lot of smoke and hot air has been expelled from Belgium over the past 2 years.
Compliance
Data Loss Prevention