Ransomware and other malware attacks are on the rise. The cyber criminals are getting more sophisticated. They are not only targeting production systems and data but also the data protection environments businesses depend on to protect against just such situations.
Realizing that preventing ransomware may not be...
This document provides you with an understanding of common cybersecurity tests and assessments organizations can use to evaluate their security posture and the distinctions between them. It will help you more accurately determine which assessment may be appropriate for your organization's needs.
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Organizations of all sizes and across all industries need to prepare for, respond to and recover from complex and large-scale security incidents.
The ten tips provided in this white paper will help you to:
Minimize the duration and impact of a security incident;
Prioritize changes to enhance the security of...
No matter the size of your organization, advanced cyber-attacks represent a credible threat to your organization.
Security analyst firm Securosis and Dell SecureWorks collaborated on this guide to help:
Gather intelligence;
Mine for threat indicators;
Respond to alerts;
Break the attack process.
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are prevalent and growing, especially in the financial services industry. According to a Ponemon Institute survey, 64% of banking IT professionals reported a DDoS attack in 2012, and 43% expected attacks to increase in 2013. Yet the same survey found that only 30% of...
BYOD cannot be avoided - nor should it be. The benefits to organizations, including increased agility, efficiency and collaboration, are too valuable to ignore. At the same time, organizations must appropriately secure BYOD environments against threats such as malware, theft and malicious insiders.
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While the complexities of threats are increasing daily businesses network traffic continues to increase with overall performance being compromised leaving companies assets exposed. Not only is the amount of traffic increasing, but overall funnel for web based content has out grown your traditional firewall leaving you...
Today's intrusion prevention systems (IPS) provide advanced security intelligence and the ability to identify and block malware before it can enter your network so that you can defeat these sophisticated evasion techniques. To be effective, your IPS should be able to perform each of the functions listed in the...
Protection and performance go hand-in-hand for Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs). Organizations should not have to sacrifice throughput and productivity for security. Outdated firewalls pose a serious security risk to organizations since they fail to inspect data payload of network packets. To address this deficiency,...
This whitepaper defines the differences between Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) and "commodity threats," reviews the types of advanced threat actors and the stages of advanced threat attacks and recommends specific steps for strengthening your defenses against advanced threats.
Effective IT security organizations...
40 million consumers will be using mobile banking this year, but protecting confidential data on mobile devices presents special challenges. For example, most mobile devices don't delete data in the same way that laptop computers do, increasing the risk that confidential data could be accessed if the mobile device is...
Maintaining adequate data security is challenging for investment firms and banks, which must grapple with a widening array of security and regulatory issues. With attacks leading to losses in the hundreds of millions of dollars, many financial firms are seeking - and finding - help in the battle against online...
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