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Accelerate Application Speed and Agility for Business Innovation and Growth

This paper examines how VMware and Intel have worked together to deliver network virtualization capabilities that leverage software and hardware innovation to provide a wide range of business and operational benefits to enterprises that need their networks to be every bit as agile, flexible, secure, and elastically...

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Top Reasons That Make Virtual Networking a Wise Investment

Virtualizing the network is an essential step in moving from a hardwired, hardware-centric IT infrastructure to software-defined data centers. Download this guide to understand the dollars and cents reasons that make virtual networking a wise investment. You'll learn: How quickly organizations typically break...

Implementing Cloud Native Security: Shift-Left to Increase Effectiveness

Cloud security trends like “shift-left security” and “DevSecOps” refer to new strategies and paradigms that help organizations keep workloads secure in the age of cloud-based, scale-out, constantly changing applications and infrastructure. Many in IT, security, and development probably understand what these...

Cloud Security Blind Spots: Detecting and Fixing Cloud Misconfigurations

Identifying and fixing security gaps in a cloud architecture may not appear very different from doing the same for on-premises environments. But there are a variety of nuanced differences that can be easy to overlook. If you fail to appreciate and account for them, these misconfigurations can cause security blind...

The Essential Guide to Digital Risk Protection

Within the last few years, digital transformation and Cloud services have increased the complexity of IT infrastructure, making you reliant on multiple third parties to keep your data safe. The threat landscape has also increased in breadth and depth with more attacks, more kinds of attacks and more targeted...

How to Reduce Digital Risk in a Post-COVID World

Businesses that have had to support virtual services and remote workers have taken bold digital transformation steps during the pandemic. The momentum they’ve achieved, as a result, will be difficult to let go. Securing the changes already implemented as well as the changes yet to come in the ‘next normal’ is...

Simplify to Secure

Stuck on the cybersecurity treadmill? Download Cisco's report, Simplify to Secure, to find out why your organization should strive for integrated cybersecurity and learn practical steps you can take to accomplish it.

Using the MITRE ATT&CK Knowledge Base to Improve Threat Hunting and Incident Response

Threat hunting and incident response are critical roles of security operations center (SOC) analysts. With the ever-rising sophistication of new and emerging attacks, analysts need an edge to stay ahead of adversaries. This paper describes the MITRE ATT&CK framework including: What the model offers to SOC...

Top 10 Use Cases for User and Entity Behavior Analytics

Attacks have become increasingly sophisticated, and often are invisible and undetectable by legacy security solutions. You read about these successful data breaches almost on a daily basis. Security analysts do what they can with legacy tools, but these tend to swamp analysts with alerts that are difficult to...

Definitive Guide to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Security

Kubernetes brings some specific security requirements to the table. For a managed Kubernetes service like GKE, users have three main layers that require action: the workloads running on the cluster, the cluster and its components, and the underlying GCP services on which the cluster depends, and more. Lack of...

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Blueprint for a Future Ready Workforce: A 3-Stage Approach

It's not news that the digital economy is changing all the rules for IT, which has to deliver the infrastructure and apps that business stakeholders demand. And they have to do it fast without compromising security. That's why it so important to have a modern data center. Learn what defines a modern data center and...

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Forrester: Tension Between IT and Security Professionals Reinforcing Siloes and Security Strain

Although IT and Security teams shoulder the responsibility of many mission-critical tasks in organizations, they often are not aligned under a unified strategy. To assess how a common IT and security strategy can break down silos across the two teams, VMware commissioned Forrester to survey 1,400+ manager level and...

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Replace AV Buyer’s Guide

Today’s businesses face a unique set of security challenges. You need security that works and is easy to implement and manage, but you’re working with a limited budget and resources. Many organizations know their current antivirus solution has gaps but don’t know where to begin in the search for something...

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COVID-19 Continues to Create a Larger Surface Area for Cyberattacks

COVID-19 has exacerbated preexisting cyberthreats, from counter incident response and island hopping to lateral movement and destructive attacks. These attacks are ratcheting up existing geopolitical tensions. Organizations, most of which depend on VPNs and other traditional network security infrastructure, may not...

13 Email Threat Types to Know About Right Now

According to Gartner, “Through 2023, BEC attacks will continue to double each year to over $5 billion and lead to large financial losses for enterprises.” In today’s rapidly evolving environment, traditional email security solutions aren’t enough to protect businesses anymore. You must also effectively...