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 pass right by major AV scanning solutions.

There’s a bewildering volume of data in modern business. IDC has predicted that by 2025, there will be 175 zettabytes of data in the world, a figure that's almost impossible to conceive. While this data will not be of interest to many people, there will be some that is highly prized indeed. Data has become highly valuable IP for many organizations, and the need to keep it...

File Synchronisation and Sharing (FSS), or Cloud Storage solutions such as Dropbox, Onedrive, and Google Drive, enable individuals to sync and share documents, photos and other files across multiple platforms and devices. The success of Cloud Storage is largely driven by the consumer adoption of mobile devices and mobile workers requirements to access documents anywhere on any...

From the latest set of statistics released as part of the Clearswift Insider Threat Index, the one that really caught my eye, was the fact that 35% of employees say they have access to information above their pay grade.

According to National Journal, “The Office of Personnel Management announced last week that the personal data for 21.5 million people had been stolen. But for national security professionals and cybersecurity experts, the more troubling issue is the theft of 1.1 million fingerprints.”

According to TATA Tele Business Services' blog in 2023, ". . .data loss prevention (DLP) has seen remarkable growth over the years and shows no signs of slowing down. . .and will continue to adapt and stay relevant." When we talk about data loss prevention, there are two major categories that DLP covers: DLP to stop sensitive data from being inadvertently accessed when an...