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Critical Capabilities for Enterprise Data Loss Prevention

IT security leaders deploy enterprise data loss prevention (DLP) for three major use cases: regulatory compliance, intellectual property protection and increased visibility into how users treat sensitive data. New research evaluates DLP products for these three use cases, based on nine critical...

Anatomy of a Hack Disrupted

Organizations can no longer rely simply on signature-based scanning of machines to identify malware. Polymorphic malware takes on an infinite number of forms; and has a purpose in mind that always involves taking something from you. This whitepaper explores how one organization used a comprehensive approach to...

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SIEM: The New Force Multiplier Powered by Actionable Intelligence

CISOs and security analysts alike complain that security information and event management (SIEM) technology has not fully lived up to its promises. Even with SIEM systems in place, enterprises still suffer from alert fatigue, and security teams armed with SIEM event and flow data still miss untold numbers of attack...

The Vendor Risk Management Solution Guide

As enterprises continue to outsource more aspects of their operations to third parties, they expose themselves to more shared risk. It can be a staggering responsibility. Most organizations understand the need to automate vendor risk management activities to keep up with increasing scope and scrutiny. Yet they...

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Advanced Endpoint Protection: Strategic Guidance When Replacing Antivirus

Replacing traditional antivirus (AV) with advanced endpoint protection (AEP) products may not be the best decision for every organization. If you do decide to switch, determining which AEP product is the best fit can be challenging as claims of capabilities and value differ between products. This guide provides...

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Breach Detection Systems: Product Selection Guide

Breach detection systems (BDS) are security products that offer timely detection of threats. When evaluating these products, customers must take into account traditional factors, such as security effectiveness, deployment options, performance and administrative capabilities. Since cybercriminals prize new threats...

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Global Adoption of Encryption; Is it Inevitable?

Encryption keeps data confidential, but we're left unprotected from threats that may be embedded in the data. In fact, encryption actually conceals these threats and adds network performance burdens for organizations that wish to inspect encrypted traffic. The first in a series on encryption, this technical brief...

Cybersecurity: The New Metrics

"How secure are we?" That's one of the most common questions asked by boards and senior managers. But security and technology leaders do not always have ready answers, says Jacob Olcott of BitSight Technologies. Are they even using the right security metrics? In an interview about cybersecurity metrics, Olcott...

Who Has Access to Sensitive Data? The Need for Better CISO & Staff Communication

The following brief will analyze data from over 700,000 customer devices using SolarWinds® MSP Risk Intelligence technology. The goal in sharing this data is to escalate the urgency for CISOs to improve communication with their businesses. The collected data answers: What sensitive data do organizations typically...

Data Breach Risk Brief

The following brief will analyze data from over 700,000 customer devices using SolarWinds® MSP Risk Intelligence technology. The goal in sharing this data is to escalate the urgency for CISOs to improve communication with their businesses. The collected data answers: What sensitive data do organizations typically...

Threat Hunting - Open Season on the Adversary

In 2016, three absolute facts were made relevant when it comes to security: 1) an organization cannot prevent all attacks; 2) an organization's network is going to be compromised; and 3) 100% security does not exist. This means that adversaries will breach your organization's protection � if they haven't already. The...

Focus on Human Nature to Respond More Effectively During a Breach

To execute an effective breach response, organizations must consider the significant role that human emotions can play during a crisis. The most thorough preparation pre-breach won't matter if your response team is derailed by emotions like denial, tunnel-vision, and anger. Continue reading to better...

Turn the Tables on Infection Dwell Time

There is an infinite amount of malware code at attackers' disposal yet a finite number of skilled security staff able to deal with the volume of noise they create daily. If the last year of unending breach headlines is a barometer, it's safe to assume that legacy approaches to security will not cut it in this new...