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What Is a Phishing Attack? Types, Defenses & Prevention

Phishing attacks are all too common and can make a company lose millions of dollars. To protect against this scam, a company must have the right protocols and software in place. What is a phishing attack? A phishing attack is a social engineering attack, where an attacker mimics a trusted company or person to steal private information such as login or financial data. These attacks usually come...
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Is Your Enterprise Ready for the Latest LockBit Ransomware?

Ransomware is a pervasive and persistent threat. It comes in many different forms and guises and constantly evolves, making it very difficult for organizations to protect themselves. A current example of this can be found with the emergence of LockBit 3.0.LockBit 3.0 is the latest version of LockBit ransomware and has a range of new features, including Zcash payments and a bounty program. It's a...
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How to Prevent Business Email Compromise Attacks

How can you prevent business email attacks? Is training enough? We'll walk you through solutions and tips to protect your enterprise email from these attacks. Why is business email compromise such a problem? Business email compromise (BEC) attacks are sophisticated scams that target specific individuals with believable emails asking for funds to be transferred. These attacks can cost a company...
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What's new in version 5.2 of the Clearswift Secure Gateway?

Get an overview of the new features found in the upcoming V5.2 release of the Secure Gateway and gain an understanding of the new features, which include a new phishing detection feed and support for IPv6 in the Secure Email Gateway.
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Secure Email Gateway Cloud Sandbox

Upgrade your existing Fortra's Clearswift Secure Email Gateway (SEG) appliance with the next-gen Cloud Sandbox from Sophos. This network sandbox offers state-of-the-art machine learning to provide an additional layer of security against ransomware and targeted attacks, but without any more systems to manage.Enterprise-grade protection that’s deployable in minutes with seamless integration into the...
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Using Fortra's Clearswift Secure Email Gateway Appliance to Enhance Data Security in Microsoft 365

For many organizations, Microsoft 365 is the ideal collaboration tool, providing a convenient platform for employees to share information and communicate daily. Microsoft offers different tiered packages to suit a variety of customer requirements. Its Microsoft 365 E5 package provides platforms for mid- and larger-sized enterprises, with the lower-tiered packages (e.g., E1 and E3) offering fewer...
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Clearswift URL Filtering

General Features Categorizing 99.9% of the active web, enabled by a Global Feedback Network of hundreds of millions of users worldwide More than 55 million sites categorized with 10 million new sites added and 10 million dead sites removed each year Coverage representing billions of web pages from around the world Over 100 categories using automated categorization technology (machine...
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Ryuk, REvil, and Clop – How to Prevent Ransomware in Your Organization

Cybersecurity trends ebb and flow according to a range of factors. Yet there has been one consistent (and persistent) threat over the past few years – ransomware, the practice of demanding payment to return stolen data.Ryuk, REvil, NHS, Clop, Cezar, Pubg, Webroot, and Cryptolocker are just some examples of ransomware that have been prevalent – there are others, and there undoubtedly will be more...
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Heads up! New Canadian Data Privacy Act is Around the Corner

The time to prepare to meet soon-to-be-enacted Canadian data privacy regulations is now. Around the world, the awareness of the need to protect the privacy rights of individuals, including the access, transparency, and security of personal information has never been higher.
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Managing Critical File Transfers

For those wanting to collaborate on a sensitive document, there are a variety of cloud-based solutions that enable this - for sharing a file or simultaneously editing a document. Use of cloud solutions is also required if large files need to be shared.
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How to Prevent Data Exfiltration

To mitigate the threat of data exfiltration, organizations deploy data loss prevention software tools at key egress points – email, web (cloud), and the endpoint. The security software provides visibility of the data being shared (who is sending what to whom) and allows controls to be put in place that prevent sensitive data from leaving the organization and malware from getting in.
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Today’s Email Encryption Options. Which One is Right For You?

Email encryption is the process of encrypting or disguising the content of email messages, protecting sensitive information from being read by anyone other than the intended recipient. With the continual evolution and enforcement of data protection laws, email encryption is more necessary than ever before to protect sensitive data from being exposed unauthorized and to mitigate the risk of data breaches occurring.
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How to Enhance Data Loss Prevention in Office 365

Office 365 is a powerful collaboration tool, but can organizations be sure it provides the level of DLP capabilities required in today’s ever-morphing threat environment? Discover the benefits of pairing Clearswift with your Office 365 deployment.
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New Encryption Guidance Published by UK’s Information Commissioner

The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office published update guidance on encryption on 3rd March 2016, amidst concerns that there was a general lack of understanding of how and when to use encryption. It is the lack of appropriate technical measures, such as the use of encryption that has led to a significant number of fines issued in the UK since 2010. There is a risk of bigger fines with the introduction of the new General Data Protection Regulation. Organisations need to be prepared!