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eBook | The Ultimate Cyber Skills Strategy Cheat Sheet

No one needs more stats about the skills gap in cybersecurity; many organizations are obviously facing challenges in recruiting, skilling, and retaining security professionals. We haven’t written this cheat sheet to tell you what you already know. Instead, we will outline a realistic strategy for workforce-wide...

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eBook | Aligning Cyber Skills to the MITRE ATT&CK Framework

In order to keep pace with hackers, you need to learn like hackers. That’s why when it comes to guidance on building detection and response programs, MITRE ATT&CK® – which has a strong adversarial focus – trumps traditional frameworks such as the Diamond Model (which lacks technical depth), and Lockheed...

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Osterman Research: Cyber Crisis Response – Fit For Today’s Threat Landscape?

Cyber crisis response and preparedness is on everyone’s lips, yet organizations’ efforts are failing to adapt to modern threats. While table top exercises have long been considered an essential tool in preparing organizations to face cyber crises, they’re now rapidly falling into obsolescence. So what’s the...

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The Psychology of Cyber: How Micro-Drilling Enhances Crisis Response

'Mega breaches' might sound dystopian, but they're becoming an all too familiar feature of the modern cyber crisis. Yet organizations are still relying on traditional techniques to prepare and exercise their workforces' cyber crisis response. Enter micro-drilling: the modern alternative to tabletop exercising. In...

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The Quick & Dirty Guide to Cybersecurity Training

Cybersecurity training: from dry-as-dust videos to cutesy animations of hapless office workers to streams of green code on a black screen. The variety out there is staggering, and it’s hard to know where to start – or what's really going to work. Luckily, the most effective forms of training – for all teams,...

Signals in Security Report 2021

In 2020, the predictable economics of the past disappeared during an increasingly chaotic year. The pandemic reshaped society and impacted countless people. Organizations adapted quickly enabling employees to collaborate remotely. Businesses reconfigured their operating model enabling them to serve customers safely....

Augmenting Your Microsoft Office 365 EOP and ATP Email Security Infrastructure

Download our white paper to learn how Abnormal Security can supplement the native security capabilities of O365 and close the security gap in your email infrastructure.

Capturing Your Share of Financial Services Customers in the Digital Age

Providers have traditionally used deterministic data such as credit histories and scores in determining the suitability of an applicant. The problem is that deterministic data was never intended to assess fraud risk or verify identities but rather to gauge creditworthiness. Moreover, Gen-Z and younger millennials may...

How to Reduce False Declines

Because merchants often overcompensate by declining any transaction they deem suspicious of fraud, they actively harm both their bottom line and the consumer experience. Balancing revenue and fraud prevention without negatively affecting customers is vital if merchants wish to stay in the game. Download this eBook...

Synthetic Identity Theft

Fraudsters that do not look like fraudsters are challenges that companies around the world battle against. These synthetic identities are hard to detect and appear real because they are created using attributes of legitimate customers. Download this e-book to learn how companies need to: Recognize the drawbacks...

Online Banking in Canada: How are Canada’s Top Banks Balancing Security and User Experience for Online Customers?

How easy is it to open and manage a bank account online in Canada? iProov’s research suggests that Canadian banks are making onboarding unnecessarily slow and complex for customers. Key opportunities to make online banking simple and secure are being missed. In our report, iProov puts 5 of the largest Canadian...

Critical Capabilities for IT Vendor Risk Management Tools

The market for IT vendor risk management tools includes products and services that automate processes in the vendor risk management life cycle. CyberGRX has received the highest score for the second year in a row from Gartner for their VRM Solution with rich assessment data. Don't just take our word for it, read...

A Simple Guide to DDoS Mitigation

To stop the DDoS mayhem, companies continue to invest heavily in deploying the most advanced hybrid mitigation solutions; however, attackers still manage to bypass them and create business disruptions. The underlying problem is that companies do not ensure that every part of their DDoS mitigation posture is...

Cyber Security and Compliance Guide for Financial Services

The financial services industry is a high-value target for cyber criminals and securing data is a significant challenge for the financial services firms. This is not surprising given the vast amounts of sensitive data - customer transactions, account information and private personal data - that banks, payment card...

Protecting Financial Institutions from DDoS Attacks

Financial Institutions have long been a target for cyber criminals. But with most financial transactions now executed online and with DDoS attacks increasing in volume and intensity, there is a huge and growing potential for disruption in this sector. This white paper outlines best practices for mitigating DDoS...