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WannaCry Fallout: What the Ransomware Epidemic Means for the Future of Business

Cyber security is now an agenda item in the boardroom, not just the IT department, in the wake of May’s Ransomware attack and the countdown to GDPR compliance well underway. In May, multiple organizations including the NHS, Spain’s Telefónica and Deutsche Bahn were struck with what is arguably the world’s most publicized cyber-attack. Within a day, the ransomware cryptoworm...
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What Can Businesses do to Keep Secure in the Mobile Working Revolution?

The age of mobile working continues to gather pace.  More people than ever before are working from home or on the move, rather than in the traditional office environment. This isn’t surprising. Businesses are becoming increasingly digital and as such, can provide staff with increased opportunities to work outside the office. It isn’t just businesses that are leading the mobile...
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Cyber Security Incidents: Insider Threat falls in UK (to 65%) and Germany (to 75%) post GDPR, but US risk increases (to 80%)

Theale (UK) 19th July, 2017 – New research by data security company, Clearswift, has shown that year on year cybersecurity incidents from those within the organization, as a percentage of all incidents, have fallen in the UK and Germany, two countries currently now under the ruling of GDPR. However, in the United States, a country outside of the direct jurisdiction, threats are...
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Clearswift Announces Technology Partnership with London Digital Security Centre

Theale (UK) 8 June, 2017. Clearswift has announced its partnership with the London Digital Security Centre, an initiative to make London the safest place for businesses to innovate online. Founded by the Mayor of London as a joint venture with the Metropolitan Police and City of London Police, the Centre is tasked with helping businesses protect themselves from digital crime....
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Security vs. Productivity: The Office Macro Dilemma

There is no doubt that macros are being increasingly used to execute malicious code around the world and we have all know what impact it can have on an organization when they strike. But sometimes team members just need to run macros to get their work done. So, what do you do? As a security professional, you want to prevent macros from running because it's safer and you don’t...
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Silver Winner: Clearswift's Secure Email Gateway for Office 365™

Clearswift was recognized at the 13th Annual 2017 Info Security PG’s Global Excellence Awards® for the industry’s first and most effective layer of signature-less Office 365 inspection and sanitization of evasive threats, delivering highly secure email without delay.
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Clearswift Wins Info Security PG Awards for Adaptive DLP, Office 365™ Email Security and Advanced Threat Prevention

Clearswift was recognized at the 13th Annual 2017 Info Security PG’s Global Excellence Awards® for its unique ability to prevent evasive cyber-attacks and data breaches through its game-changing Adaptive DLP, Office 365 Email Security and Advanced Threat Prevention solutions. Clearswift’s award-winning cyber security innovations are built around its unique layer of inspection...
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Cyber Security Predictions for 2017

Cyber attacks dominated the headlines in 2016. The tentacles of cyber threats span the globe and every industry; cyberwarfare involving critical infrastructure services, massive data breaches where troves of emails and data were stolen, and blackmarket ransomware attacks that have taken over control of critical IT systems - only to be released after the ransom sums were paid. ...
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Data Harvesting Opens the Door to More Ransomware Attacks

We all know about the much publicised 2014 Yahoo hack that saw 500 million accounts compromised, wiping $350 million off the value of the company. In fact, it wasn’t a good year for anyone with a vested interested in keeping their social security number, address, email or first pet’s name out of the clutches of the dark side. If you add up the number of data breaches in 2014...
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Clearswift and GeoLang Announce Technology Partnership

UK companies Clearswift Ltd and GeoLang Ltd today announced their technology partnership that will enable a new solution through the integration of Clearswift’s Adaptive Data Loss Prevention products with GeoLang’s information access security broker (IASB) platform “Ascema”.
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Clearswift to Discuss the “END of Ransomware Attacks” at Orlando and Atlanta Tech-Security Conferences

Ransomware and morphed forms of embedded malware are creating havoc for IT security organizations. Weaponized invoices, resumes and other malicious documents are distributed through compelling social engineering campaigns to evade existing email security gateways and sandbox analysis. Organizations are scrambling to find an immediate solution and have turned to Clearswift (see...
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Document Sanitization and Redaction Safety Net for The Forgetful User

Policies written. Tools provided. Training conducted. As IT leaders, you have sufficiently enabled your users to properly sanitize and redact their documents before sharing outside the organization, but what happens when they forget? Worse, what happens if they intentionally ignore the policy and process altogether? No longer can the sanitization and redaction of documents for...
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Clearswift Wins Best Healthcare & Wellbeing Award!

We are pleased to share news that Clearswift was announced the winner of Very Important Benefits (VIBs) ‘Best Healthcare and Wellbeing Strategy Award’ for our approach to employee health and wellbeing! The VIBs are dedicated to championing the reward strategies of organizations of all sizes and sectors, and their providers.  The finalists were hand selected by a best of breed...
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Clearswift’s Adaptive DLP Wins Top CEO World Award

Clearswift takes home the Gold Award for its Adaptive Data Loss Prevention innovation and transformative leadership.  Gold Winner – New Products, Upgrades, and Innovations – Security Services - ARgon for Email Gold Winner - Most Innovative CEO - Security Services: Heath Davies, Chief Executive Officer, Clearswift Gold Winner - Executive of the Year - Security Services: Dr....
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Clearswift sees 70% growth in its ‘Advanced Threat Protection’ Solution

Organizations look to a more effective layer of sanitization to defend against advanced malware and the resurgence of ransomware. Advanced malware attacks evading traditional perimeter defenses have exploded this past year enabling cybercriminals to steal sensitive data or hold it hostage for a hefty ransom. As a result, organizations across the spectrum from healthcare,...
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Give All Your Secrets to the Intern?

I recently spoke at an information security conference for Lawyers in Manchester. It was a good event, and there were lots of interesting discussions while there. However, it has been in some of the follow-up meetings, with more in-depth conversations that the penny has dropped over one particular issue –access to information. Both legal firms and accountancy firms hold...