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Zero-Day Threats: How Cloud Email Security Can Mitigate Risks

By Q3 2024, organizations encountered credential theft in nearly 50% of all email security threats they handled, while malware grew by 4% which is the highest amount of volume since Q1. Learn how cloud-based solutions can help detect and prevent zero-day attacks like malware and more.
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Top Threats to Cloud Email Security and How to Mitigate Them

A summary of common threats faced by cloud email systems beyond malware and data breaches, this blog provides actionable tips and best practices for businesses to protect their email systems.
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Email Protection Strategies for Modern Enterprises

Modern enterprises need to be able to identify the tactics being used by cybercriminals in email attacks, especially those leveraging advanced technologies like AI. Find out what's at stake and how today's email security solutions can help mitigate these evolving attacks.
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Harrowing Tales of Social Engineering Attacks from the Trenches

The social engineering attacks that businesses are seeing today – from hiding payloads in files to commit fraud, to quishing and smishing – and what can be done about them.
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Harnessing Data Science and AI in Cybersecurity

In this Solutions Review article, Ravisha Chugh from Fortra explains how companies are harnessing data science and AI technologies in their cybersecurity initiatives.
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Understanding DMARC Reports

Why is it so important to analyze DMARC reports? Well, it makes it so organizations can detect malicious emails and prioritize source configuration, all of which is crucial for maintaining their email security.
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How to Defend Against Stegomalware

Stegomalware is still a relatively unknown term but is becoming more widely leveraged in malware. So you need to know about this semi-low-tech, yet innovative tactic that is imperceptible to the human eye.
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What You Need to Know About Stegomalware

It all sounds like the stuff of Sherlock Holmes or “Mission Impossible”, but steganographic malware, or stegomalware for short, is a real thing that broadly describes a host of tactics used to hide data in plain sight.
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Preventing Email Leaks in Business Environments

By understanding email data leaks, their value to attackers, and their root causes, organizations can stay savvy and set up the right tools to thwart many email-targeting attempts.
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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 365's Good. Clearswift's SEG Makes It More Secure.

Microsoft 365 has certainly become a mainstay. In order to stay safe and secure, Fortra's Clearswift Secure Email Gateway provides an additional needed layer to Microsoft 365.
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Stolen Credit Union Data on Dark Web Hits High in Q4

In Q4, Dark Web activity targeting Credit Unions reached its highest count in five consecutive quarters, according to Fortra’s PhishLabs. Attacks on Credit Unions jumped significantly during the second half of 2022, with threat actors advertising stolen card data from these institutions almost as frequently as National/Regional Banks. Data tied to financial institutions is considered especially...
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Paying the Piper: What We Learned From the British Airways Fine

Protecting your data using Clearswift’s Secure Web Gateway solution and Secure ICAP Gateway deployed in both forward- and reverse-proxy modes and used to mitigate advanced threats on web pages. It also helps keep your business compliant.
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Fighting the War at Home: How Your Employees are Your Greatest Asset in the Battle Against Data Loss

Sun Tzu once stated that: “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting” and two and a half thousand years later his rhetoric stands the test of time, as today we are seeing this ancient ideal applied in the most modern of battlegrounds: the fight against cyber-crime. To tackle both the malicious and accidental data loss threat, organizations need to have preventative technology...