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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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Weaponizing GDPR: When Right to Be Forgotten (RTBF) Gets Ugly

Fri, 06/22/2018
An inadvertent and unfortunate consequence of the new GDPR rules is that the right to erasure is now free to submit meaning it is much easier to have your data removed. With our research revealing that only 34% of organizations have actually successfully completed a ‘right to be forgotten’ (RTBF) request, there is a potential to weaponize the regulation, giving hacktivists a new opportunity to drain a company’s resources and grind the business to a halt.
OCR
Blog

Has Your Multifunction Printer Become A Data Loss Risk? Consider DLP For Images.

Sat, 06/16/2018
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) as a technology has been around for a long time. It inspects images for text and then decodes them. While the human eye is fantastic at recognizing text, be it upside down or at an angle, it is computationally intensive to do this by machine on a regular basis. However, new algorithms now exist to deal with skew (angled text) as well as being able to handle multiple languages. The latest versions of Clearswift’s email product portfolio – the SECURE Email Gateway (SEG), SECURE Exchange Gateway (SXG) and ARgon – have a new cost option for OCR to mitigate this risk.
Email Security
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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
Blog

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
Press Release

GDPR Downfall: 45% of employees have accidentally shared key information in emails to unintended recipients

Theale (UK) 2nd May, 2018 – New research by data security company, Clearswift, has shown that 45% of employees have mistakenly shared emails containing key data with unintended recipients, including personal information (15%), bank details (9%), attachments (13%) and other confidential text (8%). The research, which surveyed 600 senior business decision makers and 1,200...
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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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#1 Cyber Security Threat: Protecting Your Organization Against Email Based Attacks

Tue, 03/20/2018
On Friday 12th May last year, a global ransomware attack, aptly named WannaCry, infected over 200,000 computers in at least 100 countries. It began with an email at roughly 8:30am London time. By midday, employees at Spain’s mobile operating giant Telefónica were being shut out of their work terminals and in the UK, emergency services were being pulled and hospital facilities...
Email Security
Blog

Clearswift Wins Gold and Silver at 2018 Info Security Products Guide Global Excellence Awards

Mon, 03/19/2018
This week, the winners of the 14th annual Info Security Products Guide Global Excellence Awards were announced, with Clearswift being recognized for its achievements as a leading innovator in the data loss prevention arena. These prestigious global awards identify cybersecurity and information technology vendors with ground-breaking products, solutions, and services that are...
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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
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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
Cybersecurity
Blog

Preparing for the Inevitable: A Guide to Handling a Data Breach

Thu, 12/21/2017
Cyber-attacks and data breaches are now so widespread that it isn’t a matter of ‘if’ but ‘when’ your organization gets hit. According to the UK Government’s latest Cyber Security Breaches Survey, nearly seven in ten large businesses identified a breach or attack in the past year. When taking into consideration all sizes of businesses in the UK, nearly half had suffered a breach...
Advanced Threat Protection
Data Security
Email Security
Blog

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
Press Release

Right to be Forgotten: 75% of employees likely to exercise rights under GDPR

New research by data security company, Clearswift, has shown that 75% of employees are likely to exercise their right to be forgotten (RTBF). The principle, also known as ‘right to erasure’, dictates that an individual can request their data to be removed or deleted when there is no compelling reason for a business to continue processing that information.
Press Release

Clearswift signs hosting contract with zsah Ltd

Clearswift, a global cybersecurity innovator and data loss prevention specialist, and zsah Ltd, a leading UK owned hosting company, have announced a partnership that will allow Clearswift customers to host their award-winning SECURE Email Gateway and SECURE Web Gateway products in UK data centers, thereby helping customers comply with increasingly stringent data protection requirements and the upcoming GDPR regulations.
Press Release

GDPR readiness: Education sector rivals technology industry in race towards General Data Protection Regulation compliance

Theale (UK) 19th October, 2017. New research from leading information security company Clearswift has shown that the education sector is rivaling technology for the top spot when it comes to GDPR preparedness. The research surveyed 600 senior business decision makers and 1,200 employees across the UK, US, Germany and Australia. When asked whether firms currently have all of...