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How Fortra's Clearswift Secure Email Gateway Aligns to NCSC's Email Security Guidelines

Tue, 03/12/2024
Working in cybersecurity is one of the most challenging roles in the organisation. Not only are you tasked with keeping the business and its data safe and secure, but you must do so in the face of ever-increasing professionalism and sophistication on the part of cybercriminals. There are more threats than ever before, and the consequences of a data breach are more significant too. In recent Fortra...
Compliance
Email Security
Encryption
March Madness
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March Madness Challenge for Cybersecurity Professionals

Mon, 03/11/2024
Let the "madness" begin! The NCAA Basketball tournament is different for everyone. Some experience madness after a gut-wrenching triple overtime victory by their alma mater, while others after a buzzer-beater shot from half-court by a 16th-ranked Cinderella underdog that instantly knocks out one of your final four selections. However, to me there is nothing more maddening, in the delightful sense...
Data Loss Prevention
Email Security
Web Security
Are Microsoft Advanced Analytics enough?
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Microsoft's Defender for Identity – Is it Enough?

Thu, 09/07/2023
In early 2023, Microsoft launched Defender for Identity which aims to offer visibility by helping to identify threats and provide actionable reports on attacks. But M365 security is not completely adequate for the modern enterprise and must be augmented by other data security solutions.
Email Security
Microsoft 365
Datasheet
Datasheet

Clearswift Managed Email Security Service

Fortra's Clearswift offers an affordable and effective managed Email Security service that enables the highest level of protection, a reduction in day to day management overhead, but keeps you in control. Clearswift Managed Service customers are effectively offered all the benefits of an advance email security system with management, monitoring and logfile access, but without the effort of hosting...
Email Security
Datasheet
Datasheet

Adaptive Redaction: Structural and Document Sanitization

What is sanitization? Sanitization involves cleansing or purging files of dangerous hidden content. That content can be either active (for example, malware), or informational (such as hidden properties). An example of harmful code could be an invisible and malicious script on an otherwise legitimate web page or embedded into a document. Remediation for this requires structural sanitization. An...
Email Security
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Capital One Data Breach: A Reminder to Lock Your Back Door

Tue, 08/13/2019
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...
Advanced Threat Protection
Data Loss Prevention
Email Security
Web Security
OCR
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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...
Email Security
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Microsoft Deal Is a Start, But More Needs to be Done to Protect the NHS from Cyber Threats

Mon, 08/21/2017
Following the recent WannaCry attack that affected so many organizations, both public and private, across the globe, many firms are now taking steps to protect themselves from potential threats in the future. One establishment in the UK that the WannaCry attack had ramifications for was the NHS. The incident meant multiple hospitals across England and Scotland had to cancel procedures after vital...
Data Loss Prevention
Email Security
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Security vs. Productivity: The Office Macro Dilemma

Mon, 05/08/2017
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 have to work until 3...
Email Security
Lock
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Winning at RSA Conference 2016

Wed, 03/02/2016
RSA Conference 2016 - Clearswift is all powered up for a huge three days of demonstrating our truly game changing adaptive DLP solution...
Data Loss Prevention
Data Security
Email Security
Content Inspection
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New Email-Embedded Malware Getting Through Major AV Scans

Mon, 12/14/2015
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...
Email Security
Microsoft 365
Cybersecurity
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The Pitfalls of Handling Credit Card Details

Tue, 10/08/2013
Credit card fraud in 2012 cost $5.55 billion worldwide. But there are other problems - is the way you handle credit card information sufficient?
Data Loss Prevention
Data Security
Email Security
Information Security
Web Security