2015 is already set to be a great year for Clearswift in terms of recognition as we are very pleased to announce that we have been shortlisted again for three awards in the SC Magazine Awards Europe 2015.

This year we are up for Best Security Software for Clearswift’s Adaptive Redaction, Best Email Security and Management for Clearswift’s Secure Email Gateway and Customer Service Department of the Year for our fantastic customer service team.

Read on, for the first of the three stages of advice – each broken into five simple steps - which you could implement today.

This week there was an announcement of a new vulnerability in contactless pay cards. In the UK, is restricted to a maximum £20 per transaction, when dealing with foreign currency, the restriction is 999,999.99 in the currency of your choice.

We take a look at the repercussions of the recent leak of sensitive information from the Australian Federal Police Department (AFPD).

As many of you will have seen in the media last week Paddy Power announced a leak of almost 650,000 client’s details, dating back to 2010.

Social Apps for Work - the fine line between professional and social communications

The recent article in V3 warns of an apparent lack of knowledge about encryption technologies, which is causing many companies to mishandle sensitive data.

The Australian Government has passed amendments to the Privacy Act 2012, changing the Australian landscape, which will affect the way in which privacy within the country is regulated from 12th March 2014. There will be 13 new principles introduced and a number of these principles are significantly different from the current existing standards.

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.

Last week saw The Open Group conference take place in London. In conjunction with this was The Jericho Forum’s announcement that after ten years they were declaring success and sunsetting.

Credit card fraud in 2012 cost $5.55 billion worldwide. But there are other problems - is the way you handle credit card information sufficient?

In today’s electronic world, we concentrate on ensuring information held on computers remains secure, but in doing so we frequently forget ‘old-style’ data loss – that which occurs through misplaced or forgotten papers.