White Papers in Governance & Risk Management

Case Study: Streamlining User Access Reviews

With advanced automation, over 90% of manual tasks were streamlined, significantly reducing the time required for access review and certification processes while enhancing compliance and governance efforts.

Insider Risk Management: Adapting to the Evolving Security Landscape

According to the 2022 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, insider threats and credential-based attacks comprise the majority of security breaches (over 90%) impacting organizations. Insider attacks involve malicious and negligent activity against an organization that originate from people who have been granted...

A CISO’s Guide to Defender Alignment

A mature cybersecurity program is not necessarily an effective one. And while many companies conflate maturity with efficacy, the CISO knows that when it comes to information security, there is a significant difference between the two. Most of the time, maturity means there are systematic processes in place that...

Preparing for the SEC Cybersecurity Disclosure Proposed Rules

The SEC has come out with a wide range of proposed rules covering topics such as climate risk disclosures, SPACs, and now cybersecurity disclosures. In addition to cybersecurity incident disclosure, the SEC has also proposed to require enhanced and standardized disclosure on registrants’ cybersecurity risk...

Splunk Data Security Predictions 2022

Our security experts predict an action-packed year, and suggest you buckle your seatbelt. Get the latest on key trends, including: Ransomware + supply chain = big new challenges. Are cloud providers too ripe a target? Threat intel is in for a makeover. Most of what you need to know about security you’ve...

Forrester Consulting Study: The Total Economic Impact™ Of Guardicore, An Akamai Technologies Company

Complex IT ecosystems coupled with fragile security protocols leave companies vulnerable to security attacks. As companies move towards Zero Trust, microsegmentation solutions help protect against unknown exposures on the network. Organizations are continuously responding to changes in the cybersecurity landscape and...

Tried and Tested Best Practices for Active Directory Security

Threat actors are focusing a lot on Active Directory today as it is a path for them to reach an organisations key data & applications. The versatility of Active Directory makes it a crucial target for hackers. Organisations learn new ways on how to protect this valuable target and mitigate the risks. Organisations...

Faster IV&V and Acceptance Testing in Defense Programs Best Practices Checklist

Download in order to reduce the time and effort needed to address risks attributed to exploitable software.

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...

2020 Asset Management Trends: As IT Complexity Increases, Visibility Plummets

IT infrastructure barely resembles what it looked like just five years ago. More than half of all VMs now reside in the cloud, employees turn to an average of four devices to conduct work, and IoT devices will exceed all other devices within just three years. Together, this increased complexity is putting enormous...

Government Agencies: 10 Reasons to Get on the Container Storage Bandwagon

The Future Is Here; Go With It Industry analysts see a major shift to software-defined storage (SDS), with SDS overtaking conventional storage by 2020. Container-based or container-native storage (CNS) is a big part of that move. Government agencies and organizations are better off accepting and adopting the...

Cybersecurity: One of Healthcare's Leading Business Risks of 2018

CynergisTek's 2018 report aggregated ratings from security assessments performed at hundreds of healthcare organizations in 2017 to reveal an average 45% conformance with NIST Cybersecurity Framework (NIST CSF). The report found that of the NIST CSF five Core Elements, organizations had the lowest ratings in detecting...

Research Finds Only 45% Compliance with NIST CSF Controls

CynergisTek's 2018 report aggregated ratings from security assessments performed at hundreds of healthcare organizations in 2017 to reveal an average 45% conformance with NIST Cybersecurity Framework (NIST CSF). The report found that of the NIST CSF five Core Elements, organizations had the lowest ratings in detecting...

The Convergence of Healthcare Innovation and Compliance

With advances in big data, artificial intelligence, machine learning and more, healthcare is primed to innovate. But do HIPAA, GDPR and other regulatory standards inhibit the ability to innovate? This whitepaper discusses healthcare's complex convergence of innovation and compliance. While this is a very...

Take Inventory of Your Medical Device Security Risks

With the advent of technology in personal healthcare - internet connected glucose monitors, intravenous blood pressure monitoring, personal best friend emotional bots - a lot of highly sensitive data that's rampantly traversing the airwaves. The impact of this data getting in the wrong hands is just starting to be...