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Calculating the Cost: Email Threats & Financial Risks

When deciding whether to invest in an email security solution - and which solution to opt for - businesses need to understand the extent of the costs they risk incurring if they have either no or inadequate protection in place. Symantec.cloud provides industry-leading email security capabilities that enable businesses...

Email Archiving: Top Ten Myths and Challenges

Recovering deleted emails and locating old business records are two of the most cited reasons for needing an easily searchable email archive. This white paper discusses some of the top challenges businesses can face when deciding to implement an email archiving solution and what to consider before moving forward....

SaaS Saves Money & Improves Operations

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) continues to gain traction over traditional on-premise software licensing models as organizations aggressively seek more cost-effective, flexible and robust computing solutions. Few would argue that SaaS holds a lot of promise as a cost-effective and robust model for...

Protect Personally Identifiable Information (PII) as if Your Business Depends on It

Virtually every business acquires, uses and stores personally identifiable information (PII) about its customers, employees and partners. These organizations are expected to manage this private data appropriately and take every precaution to protect it from loss, unauthorized access or theft. Misusing, losing or...

Gain a Competitive Edge: A Case Study on Cloud-based Email Encryption Solutions

A top concern for most financial institutions is how to add new members and strengthen current customer loyalty, especially when faced with competition from larger institutions and behemoths like Walmart. Read about how Altra Credit Union differentiated themselves with exceptional customer value, and increased their...

The Financial Institution's Guide to Securing Information - and Trust

From making payments online to depositing checks via iPhones and communicating through Facebook, financial institutions have introduced many new services to make their customers' lives easier. To maximize the impact of trends such as mobility and social media while minimizing their risk, institutions must be...

The Best Defense: Protecting Financial Data from External and Internal Threats

Whether it's from treacherous insiders stealing data or malicious cybercriminals hacking into company resources, financial institutions face risk from both inside and outside the organization. While each side of the coin poses unique threats, the financial sector can minimize the double-sided risks with very similar...

Mitigating Insider Threats With Internal Monitoring

Given the threat and compliance environments, Internal Segmentation (also known as internal firewalling) is a growing trend that requires organizations to improve their internal monitoring of data. These solutions control data within the corporate network and actively enforce data access policies for internal staff...

Segmenting Cardholder Data to Meet PCI Requirements

Segmenting in-scope PCI resources from an organization's IT infrastructure using traditional methods is quite challenging. Many have struggled with firewalls as a means of internal segmentation by inserting them in front of in-scope systems. While firewalls are a widely accepted technology for the Internet perimeter,...

Best Practices for Building a Holistic Security Strategy

Attacks on online banking are escalating in scale and scope, and cyber criminals have developed numerous technologies and techniques to bypass many existing controls financial institutions have in place. Online business owners and information security experts need to proactively address this wide variety of threats,...

Rethinking Check Fraud: Taking a New Approach to an Old Fraud Type

Invisible to many is the fact that check fraud is growing despite decreasing item volume. Accounting for more than half of the $2 billion in deposit account fraud losses that U.S. banks suffered in 2008, check fraud presents a relatively easy attack vector for increasingly sophisticated and well organized...

Cyber 2020: Asserting Global Leadership in the Cyber Domain

How should the United States respond as global competitors expand their influence over the Internet and build cyber capabilities? An analysis of the Internet in 2020 shows that the United States must develop a strategy that focuses on more than technology to retain its cyberpower status. Read this white paper and...

Card Compromises - New Risks & Best Practices

The payment card industry is constantly challenged by a shifting terrain of fraud attacks. In recent years, attention has focused on massive breaches of cardholder data occurring through retailers and other institutions. But we're now seeing an abrupt rise in the incidence of card compromises resulting from attacks on...

The State of IBM i Security 2010

Did you know that a large percentage of systems are not configured correctly for proper security? Is yours one of them? The PowerTech annual State of IBM i Security Study has found: 77% of libraries have the Default Create Authority set to *CHANGE, giving the average user change rights to newly created files...

Reducing PCI Compliance Costs and Effort with SafeNet Transparent Tokenization

Tokenization is gaining increased adoption in a range of organizations and industries. By effectively taking PCI data out of scope, tokenization presents a host of benefits, helping organizations both boost security and reduce PCI compliance efforts and costs. This paper offers a detailed look at tokenization and...