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365 tenant monitoring – securing the cloud
The Challenge: Breaches can happen at any time. How do you ensure breaches don’t compromise your network? What happens if you accidently stumble across a malicious website, exposing you to malware? How do you prevent, detect and recover from human error? The...
Managed multi-factor authentication
The Challenge: In The Explosive Increase in Ransomware Attacks, Chalkline said Ransomware was by no means new, but with a national lockdown keeping workers away from their usual office environment, Cyber Criminals saw a new wave of unprotected and unaware victims to...
Outbound mail-flow security (DMARC, DKIM, SPF) – reporting to protect impersonation
The Challenge: You receive an email from a client, there is something strange about it. Do you open it? What if your client received an identical email pretending to be from you? Both you and your client open the identical email from the Cyber Criminal, launching...
M365 Backup – it’s now about multi cloud
The Challenge: What if your system crashes and your data disappears or is not acessible? In Remote working: The importance of cybersecurity Chalkline discussed how transferring data across multiple devices makes it vulnerable as increased movement increases the...
Email AI Security – the future of security
The Challenge: Phishing is on the rise and Cyber Criminals are regularly attempting to compromise your accounts. The number of ransomware attacks increased by 62% between 2019 and 2020. What exactly is Phishing? Effectively, you are attacked and often, sent a spoofed...
Email gateway security – the first line of defence
The Challenge: Imagine the security guard at your Head Office, Email gateway security manages and filters content before allowing emails to be received into your inbox. Before entering your company, every email is managed and filtered for: Email-borne viruses spread...
Will your financial firm be Net Zero Carbon ready by 2050?
Energy efficiency and the race to having Net Zero Carbon Emissions has been trending over the past 6 months. The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) during November 2021 really brought into sharp focus the challenges facing the world over Climate...
The Explosive Increase in Ransomware Attacks
In 2021, Ransomware was big business. Seemingly every month, major headlines told of malicious attacks on notable business colossi, including Polish video game studio CD Projekt Red, PC manufacturer ACER, and insurance company AXA. They made for explosive headlines,...
Our New Year’s Resolution for 2022: to be more sustainable
We thought we’d start the year as we mean to go on and that’s by becoming a more considerate and sustainable business. Chalkline is now a Living Wage employer The Living Wage commitment will see everyone working at Chalkline receive a minimum hourly wage of...
Hybrid working: the 3 security risks you need to be aware of
Forty percent of employers expect more than half of their workforce to work from home once the pandemic ends, according to CIPD. This is in stark contrast to pre-pandemic levels, where only five percent of employees worked from home regularly. This has led to a desire...
3 steps to hybrid working success: what you need to do now
'The future we envision for work allows for infinite virtual workspaces that will unlock social and economic opportunities for people, regardless of barriers like physical location. It will take time to get there, and we continue to build toward this.' – Andrew...
Modern, secure authentication with AuthenTrend [partnership]
We are excited to announce our partnership with security key provider AuthenTrend. We have partnered with AuthenTrend to provide a selection of authentication hardware, including the ATKey.Pro (USB dongle) and ATKey.Card (credit card sized), to allow them to pick the...