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Leverage Security Intelligence for Financial Services Institutions

Financial services organizations are primary targets for increasingly sophisticated - and numerous - security attacks. In fact, a 2012 Ponemon Institute study revealed that 64 percent of US retail banks surveyed experienced a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack during the previous 12 months. In September 2012...

Leverage Security Intelligence for Government Agencies

Detecting advanced cyber threats, exceeding compliance mandates and preventing insider data loss are top priorities for governmental organizations. And adhering to the continuous monitoring guidelines mandated by governmental actions like FISMA can consume thousands of staff hours per year submitting monthly,...

IT Executive Guide to Security Intelligence

Security intelligence, built upon the same concepts that have made business intelligence an essential enterprise technology, is the critical next step for organizations that recognize the importance of information security to their business health. This is especially critical on today's smarter planet, where...

2015 Cyberthreat Defense Report

The Cyberthreat Defense Report began the process of looking beyond headline-grabbing breaches and the nth stage in the evolution of cyberthreats to better understand the perceptions, concerns, and priorities of the IT security professionals charged with defending today's networks. Representative findings from that...

Four Reasons Not to Nuke

Many organizations still cling to the rigid practice of re-imaging every infected machine. However, the costs of re-imaging often outweighs the benefit. Learn why you should adopt an alternative approach to re-imaging to remediate threats. This eBook explores how you can: Generate custom remediation signatures...

Demonstrating the ROI of Breach Prevention to Non-Technical Executives

You understand the intricacies of today's threat landscape, and the difficulties your organization faces when attempting to prevent, investigate and remediate targeted attacks, but how do you explain that difficulty, and subsequent cost, to senior leadership? Often the best tactic is to speak to them in a language...

The Accidental Trojan Horse: How Consumer Cloud Programs Lead to Security Breaches

The stereotypical image of a cybercriminal is a malicious user actively trying to break down corporate security. In reality, most data breaches begin on the inside - and most of them are accidents. When employees use unsecured consumer cloud services, they're throwing open the gates and letting unauthorized users in...

Distributing Confidential Documents

An insurance company in the United States is using Enhanced File Transfer (EFT) to distribute to their customers insurance documents that contain the customer's personal information, such as Social Security numbers and birth dates. EFT is integrated with one of the company's internal systems, which generates a PDF...

Securing Sensitive Payment Information Key Challenges and Opportunities

For the security teams tasked with safeguarding sensitive payment information, significant challenges and opportunities continue to arise. Once sensitive payment assets started being managed in digital format, those assets needed to be secured; that's one thing that hasn't changed over the past decade. However,...

Stop Targeted Email Attacks

Today's security landscape is scarier than ever due to a dangerous new breed of targeted attacks. Organizations are blind to advanced threats that cloak themselves by using a variety of means and methods to escape detection. Targeted or spear-phishing email attacks have become the preferred method to gain a foothold...

Cybercriminals Use What Works

Cybercriminals are increasingly using spear-phishing emails to get users to click malicious links or to open malicious file attachments, laterally moving across target networks, maintaining persistent access to breached networks, and using other techniques more typical of threat actors. While the concept of using...

Detect and Respond to Targeted Attacks

Many organizations are not aware of the targeted attacks and advanced threats that readily breach existing security defenses. Today's attackers conduct advance reconnaissance on their targets, in order to custom-design advanced malware attack methods that are specifically designed to evade detection. To protect data,...

Countering Common Enterprise Risks

Cybercrime now costs the average US enterprise $12.7 million annually. Increasing volume and complexity of compliance requirements is attracting executive attention, with 47% of companies increasing their compliance staff and 45% of companies increasing their compliance budget. Download this infographic to...

Infographic: WAFS vs. Traditional File Replication Tools

Efficiently transmitting mission-critical modeling and design files between multiple teams in worldwide offices is instrumental to the success of today's architecture, construction and engineering professionals. But as projects span across the globe, a smarter set of secure data exchange tools are required to bridge...

Are You Ready to Respond?

In spite of the best efforts of the cyber security industry to protect computer networks, breaches still happen, causing millions of dollars in damage, tainting the reputation of corporations, and causing end users to lose confidence in the security of their personal information. Given that new reality, it's not...