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The New Gold Rush: Cryptocurrencies are the New Frontier of Fraud

The alluring promise of gold inspired almost half-a-million to risk it all and rush to California in the mid-20th century in hopes of striking it rich. Although gold mining was fruitless for the most part, cunning opportunists profited off of desperate '49ers by selling synthetic gold or mines of no real value. A...

An Inside Look at Online Carding Courses for Cybercriminals

As customers spend more and more money online each year, the opportunities for fraud increase in parallel; experts project a loss of $24 billion to payment card fraud by the end of 2018. Payment card fraudsters rely on a sophisticated ecosystem and support network that provides a wide range of credit card details,...

Demonstrating HIPAA Compliance

At its core, HIPAA compliance is simply about maintaining patient privacy by ensuring the appropriate access to and use of patient data by your users. Electronic Health Record (EHR) solutions provide detail around when patient data is accessed, but without visibility into what users do with sensitive patient data...

As Learning Hinges on Devices and Apps, Challenges Increase.

IBM explore how to understand and unify endpoint management in education environments with an intelligent, cloud-based solution. This education focused whitepaper outlines and explores: A new curriculum for computing in schools; Common IT challenges for educational institutions; Ongoing management...

SSH Study: U.S., U.K. and Germany Executive Summary

A recently published 2017 survey of over 400 security professionals in the U.S., U.K. and Germany measured how well their organizations implemented security controls for SSH keys. The results show that most organizations are underprepared to protect against SSH-based attacks, with fewer than half following industry...

4 Steps to Protect SSH Keys: Stop Abuse of Privileged Access

SSH keys provide the highest level of access rights and privileges for servers, applications and virtual instances. Cyber criminals want this trusted status and invest considerable resources into acquiring and using SSH keys in their attacks. Even though SSH keys are the credentials that provide the most privileged...

Physical and Virtual Devices: How Cybercriminals are Exploiting Machine-to-Machine Communications

"Machines" as we know them are going through an identity crisis. Our increased dependence on them is so profound that even the definition of machine is undergoing radical change. The number and type of physical devices on enterprise networks has been rising rapidly, but this is outstripped by the number of...

The Evolution of MDM: Progression and Process

Simple MDM features are no longer sufficient in meeting today's complex enterprise data security requirements. And as the lines between smartphones, tablets and other endpoints continue to blur, UEM allows IT administrators to consolidate management of all device types, regardless of form factor, platform or OS...

A Smarter Way To Secure and Enable Endpoints

While alternative solutions provide incomplete coverage across computing platforms, MaaS360 delivers cognitive UEM across all endpoint types including smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktops, devices designed for the IoT, ruggedized devices and wearables. Download this security data sheet to learn about: A smarter...

Why Organizations Need to Invest More in Testing Their Own Defenses

If you want to anticipate a prospective hacker's moves, then you'd better be able to think like one. Whether corporations like it or not, they're actually being tested by cyber criminals as we speak. Download this whitepaper on ethical hacking and learn: The definition of then term "cyologist"; Why we need to...

Going Beyond Windows OS: Malware Protection for Mac OS & Mobile Android and iOS Platforms

Yes, malware commonly targets the Windows operating system. But if you limit malware analysis to Windows OS, you're leaving gaping vulnerabilities, says Christopher Kruegel of Lastline Inc. Here's how to maximize your analysis. One common limitation of malware analysis is that organizations focus too much of their...

Skills Shortage: Assessing the True Impact

The global cybersecurity skills shortage is real, and it's deeply impacting organizations' abilities to implement and manage new technology tools. But worse, it's also affecting how organizations assess their adversaries. What does the security team need to do? What requires protecting in the business? Where is it,...

2017 State of IBM i Security Study; Don't Leave Your Data Vulnerable

Another day, another data breach in the news. Ransomware at a hospital, the latest IRS breach, a phishing scam at Snapchat . . . you tune out the details. For every breach that makes headlines, dozens of other organizations have had data stolen or corrupted by hackers...or even their own users. Cyberthreats become...

A New Approach to Endpoint Security Software Testing

Security product testers have architectured their test suites to adhere to the technologies of the past 10 years. However, as endpoint security and the threat landscape continue to evolve, so must testing suites evolve as well. Advanced methodologies and a more robust testing criteria are essential to keep...

The 15 Endpoint Security Providers that Matter Most and How They Stack Up

The endpoint security market is growing because more security professionals see the endpoint security suite vendors as a way to address their top challenges. What's more, security pros increasingly trust providers in this space to act as strategic partners, advising them on top endpoint security decisions. The...