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Growing the Security Analyst

In the fight against cyber bad guys, having smart, skilled good guys is critical. But even as businesses increase their reliance on security analysts, they face a serious workforce shortage as they attempt to find and hire the talent needed. The solution: grow your own. This business white paper coaches IT leaders on...

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Unified Data Protection for Physical and Virtual Environments

This IDC Executive Brief will discuss the evolution and challenges of data protection for virtual environments and how a modern data protection solution can enable both virtualization professionals and storage managers to perform successful backups, but more importantly guaranteed restores. Download this white...

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Protect Against Targeted Attacks With Security Intelligence

Targeted attacks are the new frontier for security professionals and show the increasing sophistication of cyber criminals. They are multilayered attacks that require structured research by cyber criminals about their potential victims, such as finding out their email addresses, job titles and job functions, areas of...

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Modernizing Data Protection With Backup Appliances

Transformation of the backup infrastructure is the next frontier for IT and storage managers. Backup is an area where architectures are only slowly evolving, and "never touch a running system" is the mantra in many organizations. However, the transformation of the IT infrastructure that is happening in most IT...

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Preparing for Future Attacks

Recent malware incidents have shown how costly and damaging cyber attacks can be. Such attacks may not necessarily be successful, but when attackers do find their way inside an organization's systems, a swift, well-prepared response can quickly minimize damage and restore systems before significant harm can be caused....

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A Manifesto for Cyber Resilience

Some regard the security risks that follow the digital revolution as acceptable trade-offs, more cautious ones are left out in the cold. The digital revolution calls for us to stay open to opportunities, and remain alert for threats. Closing oneself off to something good because of latent threats is impractical. All...

Q2 2014 State of Infections Report

This "State of Infections" report discusses the state of the enterprise under attack and trends in threats seen in the second quarter of 2014. Key findings in this report include: The rise of ransomware; The relationship between the size of an enterprise and its infection rate....

The State of Advanced Persistent Threats

Enterprises are unprepared to deal with APT attacks. According to a new Ponemon Institute study, APTs are changing the threat landscape, rendering current security controls ineffective. In Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) and targeted attacks, attackers use a myriad of tools and techniques to breach into an...

Corporate Cybercrime Trends: Employee Endpoint Exploitation

Cybercriminals are leveraging vulnerabilities of the Internet, browsers, operating systems, and applications to secretly and proficiently gain access to corporate information assets. Compromising employee endpoints with malware has become the preferred method; a far simpler path into the corporate network than a...

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....