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Five Steps to Achieve Risk-based Application Security Management

Typically, IT and business management have no visibility into the overall state of application security. Activities for assessing, prioritizing and remediating application vulnerabilities are ad hoc, fragmented, and carried out at low levels in the IT security organization. Quality assurance and software development...

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State of Mobile App Security

Mobile has become a cornerstone of the global economy; use of mobile applications continues to grow rapidly. The concept of there being an app for everything has only moved further away from being a joke, and closer towards becoming a reality. Staggering statistics across various reports indicate that mobile apps,...

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Ponemon: 2015 Cost of Data Breach Study (US)

What truly affects the cost of a data breach? This year's study examines the costs incurred by 62 U.S. companies in 16 industry sectors after those companies experienced the loss or theft of protected personal data and then had to notify breach victims as required by various laws. It is important to note the costs...

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Security Essentials for CIOs: Ensuring a more secure future

In August of 2012, a group called "Cutting Sword of Justice" claimed responsibility for an attack using the Shamoon virus on 30,000 work stations at the Saudi oil giant, Aramco. The virus corrupted files and left machines unusable, shutting down the company's administration for a week. For CIOs, Shamoon and other...

New Forrester Report on Vulnerability Risk Management

Exploiting vulnerabilities in applications, browsers, and operating systems is often the first step in compromising a target. But despite increased investment, security and risk professionals continue to struggle with remediation. A new analyst report takes a look at the current state of vulnerability risk...

2015 DDoS Impact & Response Study

DDoS attacks may be out of the headlines, but they have hardly disappeared as a significant business concern. In this new 2015 DDoS Impact & Response Study of organizations in the U.S. and UK, we find: 55% of respondents say they have experienced as many or more attacks as in the past year; 60% say the attacks...

RISK: How To Secure Your End of Life Servers

The End of Support (EOS) of Microsoft Windows Server 2003 in July 2015 will put millions of enterprise servers at risk. If your organization uses Microsoft Server 2003, the EOS will introduce serious security risks unless you are fully prepared to migrate to a new platform or put compensating controls in place....

How You Can Secure Your Physical & Virtual Servers Without Degrading Their Performance

Cloud computing and virtualization have transformed the way organizations should view server security. Although organizations have considerable interest in endpoint and network security, the modern datacenter, which includes physical and virtual servers and can also encompass cloud environments, remains a valuable but...

Forrester Report: Best Practices For Public Cloud Security

Security is, justifiably, a top concern about public cloud environments. Application developers are migrating to the cloud for the agility and speed that the cloud can provide. One thing that developers often do not account for in their cloud usage is the security of that cloud. It is up to cloud managers, with...

Is Antivirus Dead? Not So Fast.

Wondering whether antivirus is still relevant? Not sure whether you should purchase or renew your antimalware solution? Don't be fooled. ESET security researcher, Aryeh Goretsky, says today's security challenges demand a combination of defenses in addition to anti-malware, including encryption and multi-factor...

How to Evaluate Antivirus Software

While there's no "one size fits all" solution for every company, you can make the right choice for yours by evaluating your needs and getting free trials from multiple providers. Before you buy, read this expert opinion to get tips from ESET security researcher, Aryeh Goretsky, on selecting the best antivirus...

10 Mandatory Functions - New Generation Firewall

Please note: This white paper is written in Russian. Employees are constantly introducing new applications and technologies, unintentionally opening the door to new threats. Secure authorization applications will be most effective in a systematic and consistent definition of the tasks and scenarios of their use,...

Protecting Financial Services Networks from the Inside-Out

Advanced Threats are taking advantage of the typical flat Internal Network of Financial Services firms. Once through the border defense, there is little to stop their spread and eventual extraction of valuable targeted assets. Because traditional firewalls have been architected to slower speeds of the Internet Edge,...

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Strengthening Networks and Endpoints with Behavior-Based Protection

To help protect against the latest advanced threats, many organizations have opted to augment their traditional perimeter defenses (firewalls and anti-virus tools) with point solutions focused on threat detection. But these point solutions often target a single threat vector, leaving the organization exposed to other...

Operational Risk Management: A Guide to Harness Risk with Enterprise GRC

Today's business environment is fraught with risk. Economic, technology and market conditions affect organizations on a daily basis. The constantly changing "risk landscape" is a discussion point in headlines, industry forums, media outlets and board rooms - the disappearing perimeter to defend, the hackers, thieves...