After years of negotiations, the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) will come into effect on 25 May 2018, replacing the 22-year-old EU Data Protection Directive. At its core, the GDPR aims to put EU residents in control of their personal data. It regulates how their data is collected, processed, stored, deleted, transferred, ...

Business email compromise (BEC) is a simple attack that is confounding some of the most advanced companies in the world. Since the FBI began tracking BEC attacks in 2015, more than 22,000 organisations worldwide have fallen victim to them, losing an estimated $3.08 billion. You can stop BEC attacks though a combination of people, process ...

So your organisation has decided to migrate to Microsoft Office 365. While you’ll likely benefit from its cloud collaboration capabilities, you might want to ask more about what Office 365 means for security, compliance and e-discovery. It’s no surprise that 91% of targeted attacks start with email. From phishing to malware, email makes it easy ...

After years of negotiations, the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) will come into effect on 25 May 2018, replacing the 22-year-old EU Data Protection Directive. At its core, the GDPR aims to put EU residents in control of their personal data. It regulates how their data is collected, processed, stored, deleted, transferred, ...

The Proofpoint Quarterly Threat Summary captures threats, trends and transformations seen within Proofpoint customer base and in the wider security market. Each day, Proofpoint analyze more than 1 billion email messages, hundreds of millions of social media posts, and more than 150 million malware samples to protect organizations from advanced threats. That gives Proofpoint a ...

Advanced threats are shifting once again, and you and your company will likely become the target of a new type of threat. Carefully planned and researched, impostor emails target specific people in your company. Either you become the target of this attack or you become the unwitting victim. Impostor emails do not use malware or ...

Join the many Google Postini customers who have seamlessly migrated to Proofpoint’s best-in-class email security solutions. Looking for alternatives to Google’s Message Security (aka Postini) email security solution? Learn how Proofpoint can better defend your organization from spam, viruses and data loss while significantly reducing your email security costs. Download this complimentary whitepaper Comparison Guide: ...

Advanced threats are shifting once again, and you and your company will likely become the target of a new type of threat. Carefully planned and researched, impostor emails target specific people in your company. Either you become the target of this attack or you become the unwitting victim. Impostor emails do not use malware or ...

Phishing is more than 20 years old, but still represents more than 90% of targeted attacks. The reason is simple: it works. Nearly one in four people who receive a phishing email open it, and more than 10% click on the malicious link or open the weaponised attachment that the phishing email contains. An attacker ...

With rapid business adoption of social media as a core public communication channel, organizations are increasingly exposed to an array of internal and external security risks. Fraudulent Facebook accounts impersonate major brands to sell counterfeit products. Bogus LinkedIn profiles trick employees into divulging sensitive data. Corporate Twitter accounts are hijacked to defame the brand and ...