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Lightning Can Strike Twice: Marriott International Suffers Second Data Breach

It feels like only 18 months ago that international hotel group Marriott was subject to a data breach in which hackers stole the records of 339 million guests. That’s because it *was* only 18 months ago, and yet despite Marriott being fined almost £100m by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), it has fallen victim to another significant...
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Clearswift – Staying Safe and Secure Throughout the Coronavirus Pandemic

We are clearly living in uncertain times right now. The coronavirus (COVID-19) situation is changing rapidly on a day-to-day basis, so we wanted to take this opportunity to address what it means for Clearswift and Fortra as a global organization and an employer, and how it might impact on our customers, prospects and partners. Human safety and the health of our employees is, of course, our...
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Clearswift and GoAnywhere Demonstrate Award-Winning File Transfer Technology at RSA

The RSA Conference (RSAC) has long been regarded as one of the information security industry’s biggest and most high-profile gatherings and this year’s event in San Francisco’s Moscone Center from 24 to 28 February 2020, promises to be no different. The delegate and exhibitor lists read like a ‘who’s who’ of information security, with the great and good of the sector in attendance to listen to...
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Healthcare Orgs Continue to Suffer Security Headaches

Originally posted on infosecurity-magazine.com Excerpt: Cybersecurity challenges and risks within the healthcare industry has been endemic in recent years. In 2017, we saw the devastating impact the WannaCry attack had across the NHS, whilst various pieces of research and reports further highlighted just how vulnerable the healthcare industry has been when it comes to data security. Read the full...
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67% of healthcare organizations suffered a cybersecurity incident in the last 12 months

15 January 2020, Theale, UK – New research by data security provider Clearswift , a Fortra Company, revealed that 67% of healthcare organizations have experienced a cybersecurity incident in the past year, highlighting the serious threat that data breaches and malicious attacks pose to the UK’s health-related data. The research, which surveyed senior business decision makers within healthcare...
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Moving on From Encryption – The Case for eDRM

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.
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Clearswift Wins DLP Award at Computing Security Excellence Awards

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 offering. Big Threats...
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Clearswift’s Secure Email Gateway Wins Gold at Golden Bridge Awards

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, executives and...
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Defense in Focus: With New Technology Comes New Risk

In any industry, the strive for digital transformation brings with it risk as well as opportunity. This is no more apparent than in the defense sector where several high-profile incidents have exposed vulnerabilities in areas such as email applications and other connected IoT devices.
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Cybercrime in a post brexit era, will hackers explout our political turmoil

Originally published on teiss.co.uk . Dr. Guy Bunker, CTO at Clearswift, discusses the impact Brexit has had on attitudes towards cyber security spending. In the Brexit era, political uncertainty offers an exceptional opportunity for cybercriminals to exploit the chaos permeating the UK. For many employees, an element of confusion leads to a lack of confidence. And a combination of confusion and...
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Microsoft Is About to Delete All Your Old Accounts After Just Two Inactive Years

Originally published on forbes.com . I've covered the extent to which cyber risk is an inside threat before. And last year, research from Clearswift suggested that the "true insider threat" which added inadvertent and malicious threats from the extended enterprise makes up 65% in the U.K. and 80% in the U.S of all cybersecurity incidents. And the issue is worse at home. Over-simplified passwords...
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70% of financial companies suffered a cyber security incident in the last 12 months

Nearly half (43%) of security incidents within the financial sector are caused by employee failure to follow company data protection policies. Other key causes of security incidents include introduction of malware and viruses via 3rd party devices (32%), file and image downloads (25%) and employees sharing data with unintended recipients (24%). Financial organizations rank data loss prevention...
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Capital One Data Breach: A Reminder to Lock Your Back Door

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 products, including their...