After the fallout of the recent Capital One and Equifax data breaches, Clearswift commissioned a survey into the financial services sector to find out the extent of financial companies’ data protection capabilities. Worryingly, the results highlighted that 70% of financial enterprise organizations have experienced a cyber security incident in the past 12 months. This finding (among others uncovered by our survey) highlights an increased industry need for financial organizations to shift gears and speed up the innovation and deployment of effective risk-mitigation strategies to address the latest cyber threats.

Counterfeit activity increases every year during the pre-holiday shopping blitz -- most notably Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Christmas and Hanukkah. Arm yourself with defenses now to combat ever-evolving counterfeiting methods during peak retail shopping season.

In Q3, credit unions nearly overtook national banks as the top targeted industry on the Dark Web, according to recent data from Fortra’s PhishLabs.

In this post, we discuss the industries most prone to attack on social media, and the top threat types found on those platforms.