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Almost Two-Thirds of Financial Services Firms Have Suffered a Cyber-attack in the Last 12 Months

5 November 2020, Theale, UK – 65% of large Financial Services (FS) firms have suffered a cyber-attack in the last 12 months, according to new research today from data security provider Fortra . Research with CISOs and CIOs reveals 45% of FS firms have seen increased cybersecurity attacks since Covid-19 42% say securing the remote workforce has become a main cybersecurity objective, 47% have...
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Cyber crime and FS: blocking the path of least resistance

Originally published on financierworldwide.com . Virtually every company – from small-scale enterprise to multinational – is a potential victim of cyber crime. The financial services (FS) sector in particular is an obvious target, given the sensitive data and the trillions of dollars routinely handled by financial institutions (FIs). According to Boston Consulting Group’s ‘Global Wealth 2019...
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Coronavirus pandemic offers the public sector a chance to ‘reset’ its cybersecurity

Originally published on openaccessgovernment.org . Alyn Hockey, VP of Product Management at Clearswift, explores how the coronavirus pandemic means public sector organisations can press a ‘reset’ button on their cybersecurity practices, and allow them to be more secure in the future The pressure that the coronavirus pandemic has placed on the UK public sector – and indeed its equivalents all over...
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Fortra Supports Remote Employees with Free Collaboration Tools

Fortra announced today a new way of supporting remote employees during a time of global crisis. While many organizations are struggling to secure sensitive data transfers with a suddenly remote workforce due to COVID-19, Fortra is providing free access to its secure file sharing and collaboration software for 90 days.
Blog

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...