As email marketing turns 40, more than 90% of companies report fraudsters have impersonated their brand in phishing attacks targeting their customers. Can a new standard known as BIMI be the answer?Forty-years-old and still the center of attention, despite younger competition. It's true: Email marketing's hotter than ever. But it's also facing a growing threat from brand impersonation scams. Can a...

You’ve seen headlines like "Facebook and Google were Scammed Out of $100 Million" and "Equifax's Massive Data Breach Has Cost the Company $4 Billion So Far." Despite significant investments in email security solutions, the threat from an endless barrage of spear-phishing attacks, business email compromise (BEC) schemes, account takeover-based attacks (ATOs) and other advanced email threats that...

Recent Dark Web activity points to a boom in assaults against financial services organizations and their customers—and why advanced email attacks via business email compromise remain cybercriminals’ preferred point of entry A 150% increase in cyberattacks in recent months may have financial services organizations focusing on protecting corporate systems while ignoring their Achilles heel—advanced...

Clearswift’s Adaptive Data Loss Prevention (A-DLP) solution has the ability to inspect all content coming in and going out of the organization – whether through email or the web – to prevent any sensitive information being shared or exposed unauthorized. The document sanitization and adaptive redaction features ensure that GDPR compliance is upheld by scanning all emails and documents flowing in and out of the business, detecting and removing only the critical information which could cause a data breach.

As the number of highly-targeted, fraud-based email attacks on employees continues to rise, what if there was a way to forecast when the next one will hit their inboxes? As it turns out, there very well may be.In case there was any remaining doubt that data science is cool, recent analysis from Agari researchers studying emerging patterns in email fraud may forever put that doubt to rest.In fact,...

Don't look now, but a growing number of phishing attacks are luring in your customers—by impersonating your brand.As if all the spear-phishing attacks against your company weren't bad enough, just wait until you see the scams targeting your customers with email messages appearing to come from your brand.With impersonation attacks surging in recent months, some are wondering: Is DMARC email...

An inadvertent and unfortunate consequence of the new GDPR rules is that the right to erasure is now free to submit meaning it is much easier to have your data removed. With our research revealing that only 34% of organizations have actually successfully completed a ‘right to be forgotten’ (RTBF) request, there is a potential to weaponize the regulation, giving hacktivists a new opportunity to drain a company’s resources and grind the business to a halt.

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) as a technology has been around for a long time. It inspects images for text and then decodes them. While the human eye is fantastic at recognizing text, be it upside down or at an angle, it is computationally intensive to do this by machine on a regular basis. However, new algorithms now exist to deal with skew (angled text) as well as being able to handle multiple languages. The latest versions of Clearswift’s email product portfolio – the SECURE Email Gateway (SEG), SECURE Exchange Gateway (SXG) and ARgon – have a new cost option for OCR to mitigate this risk.

Cloud storage services and file sharing apps such as Dropbox, Box, Microsoft OneDrive and Google Drive are so widely adopted by employees—knowingly or unknowingly by their IT departments—that most don’t think twice about using them to share corporate information.

It’s finally here, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is now in full effect. Is that a sigh of relief I hear? Well, it shouldn’t be too heavy a sigh, there’s still work to be done. The first thing to remember is that just because it’s the 25th May, doesn’t mean GDPR efforts are over. In fact, there should be a bigger push than ever to ensure your organization is compliant and remains compliant going forwards.

DMARC builds on two earlier email authentication standards: SPF (Sender Policy Framework) and DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail). DMARC was a critical development because both of these earlier standards, while effective, contain important gaps.Why is DMARC Important?Unless you’re one of the rare people on the planet that doesn’t use email for business and personal communications, you know that...