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Stepping up the Battle Against Advanced Threats

The primary approaches used to fight advanced threats over the past several years simply aren't effective. Traditional methods such as user education, vulnerability patching, and malware detection have failed to protect enterprises against the current threat landscape. Attackers continuously develop sophisticated...

Leveraging Metadata for a Proactive Defense

All too often network security professionals are forced into an escalating workflow-an arms race remediating alerts (indicators of attacks) as they come in, instead of proactively hunting for the adversary-who is likely already in your network. Resource and time constraints, as well as a lack of visibility and the...

Making a Business Case for Online Fraud Detection

Most organizations that enable users to perform Web transactions (e.g. banks and ecommerce sites) have implemented security controls to address online and mobile fraud. These controls fall into two buckets: transaction-focused intelligence, which looks for anomalous actions, and device-focused intelligence, which...

Securely Accelerate Your Mobile Business

As consumers expect a better mobile engagement experience, teams look to improve employee productivity, and BYOD takes hold within the enterprise, the business must deal with a consistent dilemma, accelerating business initiatives while mitigating risk. No longer is a device only security solution adequate, often...

Why Strong Authentication is a Must for All Users

The trends impacting business today-cloud adoption, increased mobility, rise of social media and the increased amount of online data sharing- make the need for strong authentication more important than ever. The IT department can no longer firmly establish a network perimeter and rely on simple username and...

A Modern Framework for Network Security in Government

Governments around the world are undergoing change. Whether reducing data center footprints, virtualizing existing services to reduce costs and "go green", or advancing security strategies to thwart advanced attacks in the field or at home, governments are demanding more from their cybersecurity solutions today....

Connected Governments and Agile Militaries: Meeting the Security Requirements of Today's Evolving Governments

Governments around the world are undergoing change. Whether reducing their data center footprints, virtualizing existing services to reduce costs and "go green", or advancing security to thwart today's advanced attacks in the field or at home, governments have different requirements of their cybersecurity solutions...

Protecting Your Mid-Size Business from Today's Security Threats

Security breaches in large enterprises make the headlines, but 55 percent of small and mid-size businesses have also experienced a data breach. And 60 percent of small businesses fail within six months of falling victim to a cyber attack. This e-book examines the security challenges unique to mid-size...

The Importance of Reputation

A study by Verizon finds 86 percent of security breaches come from the outside. Spotting cyber attacks in your network means identifying the signature of known threats. Reputation data takes that one step farther by identifying communications coming from or going to known bad actors based on their...

Survey: Web Threats Expose Businesses to Data Loss

Webroot commissioned a study to gauge the prevalence of web-borne attacks, their consequences and how IT pros are responding. Among the results: the vast majority of companies surveyed experienced one or more types of web-borne attacks in 2012. The survey report also includes recommendations - such as deploying a...

Patch Management 101: How to Prevent High-Risk Security Breaches

Managing and administering software updates remains one of the most challenging, tedious and resource-intensive tasks an IT Department undertakes on a daily basis. The constantly evolving software landscape makes patch management an important consideration for all IT decision makers, regardless of the organization...

Kroll Advisory Solutions 2013 Cyber Security Forecast

Kroll Advisory offers its annual look at what to expect in the coming year, with a bit of a twist: This year's list highlights four unexpected cyber issues that organizations are not talking about, but should be. We explain these unexpected cyber forces to be reckoned with, and offer recommendations for what you...

Risk Management: Cyber Insurance & Your Data Breach Response Plan

Almost daily, online accounts are hacked, external hard drives are stolen, thumb drivers are lost and backup tapes are trashed. In all these instances, personal information is at risk of being accessed and misused. This white paper outlines the appropriate measures entities should take before a cyber-event occurs...

Security as a Business Risk - How Data Breaches Impact Bottom Lines

Security is a business risk which must be accounted for in every organization's enterprise risk management plan. This white paper illustrates how to view data breaches from a business risk perspective by using real world examples and details the major consequences of these breaches, including: Negative effects of...

Data Privacy and Trust in the Mobile World

Does your mobile app help or hinder your ability to build trust with users? This paper delves into the results of a study published by the Digital Trust Initiative, which sought to correlate how brands can build trust with consumers in the digital space. Some of the lessons learned include: Most consumers do not...