Resources

On-Demand Webinar

Spam Mechanisms in the Secure Email Gateway

This first webinar in a series of five spanning Best Practices for using Clearswift's Secure Gateways covered the more than 15 configurable spam mechanisms in the Secure Email Gateway (SEG) appliance with a choice of local or global policy. Listen as Dr. Steve Jeffery, Lead Solutions Engineer at Fortra, discusses the spam rules, where they get evaluated, URL detection, and message sanitisation...
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How Fortra's Clearswift Secure Email Gateway Aligns to NCSC's Email Security Guidelines

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...
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March Madness Challenge for Cybersecurity Professionals

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...
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Microsoft's Defender for Identity – Is it Enough?

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.
Video

What's New with Clearswift V5.4.3?

Learn about the V5.4.3 Clearswift updates, what's on the roadmap for Clearswift features, and how to voice your feature priorities.
Guide

Augmenting Existing Security Infrastructure

Today, all organizations have information security technology in place, but much of it is centered on ‘traditional’ security applications. For example, anti-virus as part of an endpoint security solution, firewalls, and intrusion detection/prevention systems on the network.
Datasheet

Clearswift Secure Exchange Gateway

The Clearswift Secure Exchange Gateway (SXG) helps to safeguard against inappropriate or critical information being distributed internally and subsequently leaving an organization. Underpinning both policy and compliance requirements, the Clearswift SXG detects malware and inappropriate file types and identifies violations in conversations based on an easily defined policy based rules. Data Loss...
Datasheet

Clearswift Malware Protection

The Clearswift Secure Gateways provide a number of ways to eliminate the risk of malware entering or proliferating around an organization.The primary methods of malware detection will be performed through the use of Sophos and Avira Anti-Virus (AV) software. In recent real-world testing conducted by AV-Test in May-June 2023, both anti-virus vendors scored perfect scores against zero-day malware...
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...
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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...
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The Unthought About Risks of Encryption

We hear a lot about encryption in this day in age, particularly around it being the panacea for compliance with data protection regulations. It’s true it can be a component of an information security and compliance strategy, but there are a variety of different encryption options available on the market today, so care needs to be taken with selecting the right solution to ensure it doesn’t turn...
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Has Your Multifunction Printer Become A Data Loss Risk? Consider DLP For Images.

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...
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Microsoft Deal Is a Start, But More Needs to be Done to Protect the NHS from Cyber Threats

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...
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Need to Know, or Really, Really Need to Know?

From the latest set of statistics released as part of the Clearswift Insider Threat Index, the one that really caught my eye, was the fact that 35% of employees say they have access to information above their pay grade.