Something caught my eye recently. It was an email in PMM (Personal Message Manager – a component of the Clearswift Secure Email Gateway ) where you can look at what email has not been delivered to your Inbox, as the product has recognized it as being spam or (potentially) newsletters. There was one particular email that caught my eye as it appeared to have come from ‘[email protected]’. In...

As part of our ongoing blog series explaining some of the many acronyms and pieces of jargon that bedevil the cybersecurity industry, we turn our attention to optical character recognition technology, or OCR as it is commonly known. Clearswift added OCR functionality to all of its core email and web security products to help organizations combat the risk posed by the millions of image files that...

A famous front cover of The Economist in 2017 declared that the 'world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data.' The value of data has indeed increased significantly. Organizations rely on data and data analytics for almost every facet of their operations and use it to make insightful decisions to help move the business forward. Many have invested in the tools and solutions - AI, CRM...

The rise of globally dispersed workforces and new work from home requirements are placing extraordinary pressure on every organization’s cybersecurity. And wherever there is upheaval, so cyber criminals thrive. Alongside the devastating health and economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, we have also seen an escalation in cyber-attacks. A recent CISO/CIO survey , looking at cybersecurity...

Unsurprisingly the defense industry requires the most secure information sharing environment in the world, but what implications does this have for ensuring the effective mitigation of cyber risks? There is something of a paradox between the need for complete information governance in the defense sector and the rise of IoT, BYOD, cloud computing and the democratization of data in today’s blurred...

When considering cybersecurity policies and risk management, protection from phishing, ransomware, and other Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are usually top of mind. Data loss protection usually makes the list as well. However, one area of risk that can be overlooked is supply chain cybersecurity attacks. Trusted partners are vital to organizations but the cyber risks they pose can be just as...

The Greek philosopher Plato wrote that “the beginning is the most important part of the work.” The great American statesman, scientist, and philosopher Benjamin Franklin similarly emphasized the importance of planning when he stated that “by failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” It is unfortunate that many cybercriminals heed their advice today. The number of threats continues to...

It’s been said that the first ransomware attack took place as far back as 1989. Delegates who’d attended the World Health Organization AIDS conference in Stockholm were sent floppy discs containing malicious code that installed itself onto MS-DOS systems. After each machine was booted up for the 90th time, the trojan hid all the directories and encrypted the names of all the files on the drive...

When it comes to cybersecurity, any organization is only as strong as its weakest link. It may have invested in the best email security solutions , information security , web security solutions , and Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) on the market. It may also have trained its employees to recognize and react to cyber-attacks and put in place the processes to deal with social engineering lures...

Odds are, files and documents in your organization are not sitting in a folder on a desk or in a filing cabinet in the office. On the contrary, they are sitting on the cloud or computer desktop, and they are being transferred over email. The convenience of sending documents quickly with a few clicks has transformed the speed of business. But, like all things digital, convenience comes with risks...

How do you work out the weakest link in your team? Who is that employee most likely to fall prey to the socially engineered scams that are making billions of pounds for cyber criminals on the black market? Pertinent questions in the aftermath of the recent Kaspersky Lab report that revealed more than 100 banks, financial institutions and e-payment systems in over 30 countries had been targeted by...

Knowing what your employees are up to, enables you to strengthen your security policies. We all make mistakes at work from time to time. And sometimes we do things we know we shouldn’t. In the fast paced modern world, it’s easy enough to send an email to the wrong person or end up taking company information home. Often the consequences will be a bit of embarrassment, but every now and again they...

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...

What’s the most effective way for organizations to protect themselves against spam emails in 2021, how does anti-spam software work, and what are the features you need in an anti-spam software solution?

Data breaches and data loss, including the loss of sensitive information, are scary scenarios, and while no one can guarantee a cyberattack will not happen, there are ways to protect your organization’s data. We take a look at the top five tips for protecting your sensitive data.

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You might remember as a child, there was a revelation…invisible ink. Stepping forward to today, there is now a new type of phishing which uses invisible ink, or as it’s also called, ‘zero font’, as a means to beat the spam and phishing filters. Anti-spam / phishing filters work in several different ways; they look for specific words or phrases and there is then a statistical element. If there are...