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Unlocking Business Success: The Five Pillars of User Risk Mitigation

When desktops ruled the enterprise, employers may not have claimed to have absolute control over their workers' usage of technology and data, but they surely could contain it. Whether overtly or tacitly, leadership has now empowered its employees. Thanks to mobility, the cloud and other advancements, workers decide...

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The Cost of an Unintentional Insider Threat

The term Insider Threat brings to mind the malicious employee, motivated by either money or politics to steal data that can be sold on a black market or used to damage the organization's reputation. According to a Ponemon report, unintentional employee negligence severely diminishes the productivity of the...

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A Business Case for Funding Your Insider Threat Program

The insider threat is a dangerous risk to government agencies and their most sensitive data. Monitoring the behaviors internally and identifying corrupt situations based on access, roles and actions is not a luxury government agencies can afford to go without. Read our detailed white paper on building a case to...

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Superman or Superthreat? A Privileged User Risk Whitepaper

Privileged users are typically associated with a company's IT department and can include database administrators, network engineers, IT security practitioners, etc. However, across an organization there may be other privileged users that should not be overlooked. A privileged user can be anyone from account managers...

Tackling the D.C. Security Skills Crisis

The scale of the global IT security skills crisis is well documented. But what is its direct impact on cybersecurity with the government agencies of Washington, D.C.? Dan Waddell, Managing Director, North America at (ISC)² discusses the problem - and a new way to address it. "Cloud security is one of the skills...

Revealing Security Performance Metrics Across Major World Economies

Does your organization have sensitive data stored across the globe? Learn how understanding the global cyber threat landscape can help evaluate the potential risks of doing business in certain nations in this report. How do some of the most prominent nations on the international stage differ in cybersecurity...

Anatomy of a DDoS Attack

Ransom-based attacks are in the spotlight now, but Trey Guinn - head of solution engineering at CloudFlare - has discovered an interesting disconnect. "There are more attackers sending out ransom notes than are actually doing attacks," Guinn says. "We have seen many of these ransom notes go out, but it's clear in how...

The CASB Challenge: APIs or Proxies?

In recent months, Cloud Access Security Broker solutions have emerged as a defacto, mandatory control. Rohit Gupta founded Palerra in 2013 with a vision of enterprises embracing the cloud. And that's happened. But with cloud ubiquity has come a new reality, he says. "Enterprises recognize that there is a...

Making the Complex Simple: An Analysis of Multi-factor Authentication

Despite understanding the need for multifactor authentication, many financial institutions struggle with the complexity of implementing effective solutions. "Let's talk about what this complexity looks like...The average MFA initiatives have been ongoing for six years. On average, four point solutions are deployed...

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Web Applications are At Risk for Cyber Attacks

When web applications are breached, enormous amounts of sensitive business data can be lost. These types of attacks can occur at organizations of all sizes and levels of IT sophistication, and can affect tremendous amounts of data. Web applications are popular targets because they are accessible to almost...

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The Urgency for Security Assessment and Policy Compliance

As mobility and the global network infrastructure expands, the need for security assessment and policy compliance is essential. Download this interview with Wolfgang Kandek of Qualys for insight on: The top challenges for IT decision makers with current vulnerability management (VM) and compliance What is...

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Protect Your Business Resources

Connecting with the global Internet exposes your company network to many threats. Savvy criminals can use the Internet to break into your network, sneak malware onto your computers, extract proprietary information and abuse your IT resources. You can prevent most of these attacks by using a...

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Importance of Real-Time Visibility

As technology proliferates beyond traditional systems and networks into mobility and cloud, the lines around securing such expanded technology are becoming blurred. Security threats are coming in from all angles, and IT must stay ahead of any vulnerabilities before they occur. Download this interview with...

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Avoid Targeted Attacks Against Your Company

As a mid-sized or smaller organization, there is a lure of feeling safety in obscurity. "We're too small to be a target for cyber attacks" is a common refrain used to justify a lax network security posture. Unfortunately, it's a refrain that may come to haunt you. The truth is your company doesn't have to be...

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Why Companies Struggle with Switching to a Cloud Service Provider

Data is the currency of the digital age and the lifeblood of organizations, so strategies to protect corporate data are growing in importance and are now a topic of C-suite consideration. In a recent survey conducted by IDG Research Services, investing in cloud services ranks as the second priority (55%)...