Email is in the frontline in the war on cybercrime. It is often the primary access point to the outside world and brimming with valuable data, so protecting it has never been more important.Organizations have traditionally looked to the IT channel to…
Read MoreQuestion: what’s happened between this year’s IP EXPO Europe and last year’s? Answer: the security arms race has gone into overdrive.Twelve months seems a short time, but in that period attacking techniques have matured markedly – now hackers are reg…
Read MoreMalicious email attachments are a critical threat to businesses as they can easily bypass existing defences as part of sophisticated spear-phishing attacks. For example, a macro in a Word document could run when the file is opened and deploy malware …
Read MoreWhen it comes to enterprises finding innovative ways to neutralize widespread email-based attacks, I’ve made the case before that it's employees – the same “weak links” who unknowingly click on malicious email URLs and attachm…
Read MoreIn tennis, you never want to commit an unforced error. These are the worst kind of point-costing blunders a player can commit – the completely avoidable, self-inflicted ones that have nothing to do with the skill of the opponent or the excellence of …
Read MoreIt was reported earlier this month that Russian hackers accessed President Barack Obama’s email system inside the White House. When asked to comment on the attack, Deputy National Security Advisor, Ben Rhodes, said: “We do not believe that our c…
Read MoreHalf the problem with protecting your enterprise from every hacker, phisher, visher and botnet herder is the helpful part of human nature, that wants to be…helpful. We’ve known for a very long time that the vast majority of successful cyber-attacks r…
Read MoreCustomers are increasingly trading in their old, bloated, expensive on-premises email archives for cloud services. Over time, these last-century technologies will take their place in the history of computing – the world, technology and the needs of c…
Read MoreThis time last year futurologists were predicting the gentle evolution of the Big Data trend. Few would have predicted how dramatic the resurgence of security has been.Sure, there was a drumbeat of public security breaches like Snowden in play, but t…
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