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For many people, the introduction to the world of digital forensics might come through popular culture. For decades, movies, television, and even video games have delved into the world of hackers exploiting computer systems and the crime-solving computer sleuths working to stop them. But of course that’s not really a realistic depiction of t...
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Don’t Let Departing Employees Turn into Insider Threats
While ransomware attacks and data breaches are justifiably scary, insider threats are far more common—and far more damaging—than most people know. Culprits like the “London Whale,” who cost JP Morgan over $7 billion, and the Yahoo research scientist who stole over half a million pages of IP after taking a job from a competitor make hea...
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VDI Challenges for a Secure Remote Workforce
In order to support the growing number of remote employees in today’s workplace, IT teams first looked to leverage legacy tools like VDI and DasS. Something that allow workers to go home and still be productive while keeping the company’s data secure. In this ebook we will explore: Retrofitting existing tools Challenges with DaaS and ...
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MDM, now for Laptops: The future is Secure BYO-PC
With an increasingly mobile workforce, flexibility is what employees have come to expect. They want flexibility with where they work and what type of device they want to use. In fact, having flexibility in when and where you work is the #1 requested employee benefit. We’ve already allowed employees to use one smartphone for work and personal...
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8 reasons teams fall short on AD Forest recovery
In a live survey at a recent conference of Active Directory professionals, over half the respondents answered that they don’t have an AD Forest recovery solution. Yet ransomware is on the rise and threat actors are only getting more aggressive and sophisticated in their attacks. There’s no argument that AD is a tier zero resource that ...
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8 reasons teams fall short on AD Forest recovery
In a live survey at a recent conference of Active Directory professionals, over half the respondents answered that they don’t have an AD Forest recovery solution. Yet ransomware is on the rise and threat actors areonly getting more aggressive and sophisticated in their attacks. There’s no argument that AD is a tier zero resource that p...
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Views from the C-Suite: Why Endpoint Management is more critical than ever before
Cyber threats like ransomware are increasing, and endpoints are more varied, numerous, and distributed than ever before. By following the strategies outlined in Views from the C-suite: Why endpoint management is more critical than ever before, security teams can reduce the risk of cyberattacks and ensure that when attacks occur, they can be contai...
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Why a holistic approach to managing risk is key to solving complex IT problems
Cybersecurity and reliability risks cannot be managed by working in silos, although operations and security teams have historically strained relationships as they work on the same systems while having different priorities. In this Intellyx report, commissioned by Tanium, one analyst explores why building a common engineering approach is the key to...
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Why a holistic approach to managing risk is key to solving complex IT problems
Cybersecurity and reliability risks cannot be managed by working in silos, although operations and security teams have historically strained relationships as they work on the same systems while having different priorities. In this Intellyx report, commissioned by Tanium, one analyst explores why building a common engineering approach is the key to...
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Creating the right habit for cyber hygiene success
Preventing risks and breaches through cyber hygiene across endpoints is safer than remediation. And if done well, it can become a lightweight part of the way enterprises operate. This Intellyx report, commissioned by Tanium, explores why organizations shouldn’t overlook the preventative warning signs and guardrails a robust cyber hygiene pra...
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Managing M&A Risk
When it comes to corporate deal-making, risk lurks around every corner. The potential for overpaying, miscalculating synergies and missing potentially serious deficiencies in a target company is high because when you buy a company, you buy its data. To optimally manage cyber risk in the mergers and acquisitions process, acquiring organizations nee...
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Gartner Hype Cycle for Endpoint Security, 2022
The annual Gartner Hype Cycle for Endpoint Security tracks the innovations that aid security leaders in protecting their enterprise endpoints from attacks and breaches. The technologies and practices in this space are being shaped by two trends: the continued growth in increased complexity of ransomware and endpoint attacks and the sustained remot...
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Gartner Hype Cycle for Endpoint Security, 2022
The annual Gartner Hype Cycle for Endpoint Security tracks the innovations that aid security leaders in protecting their enterprise endpoints from attacks and breaches. The technologies and practices in this space are being shaped by two trends: the continued growth in increased complexity of ransomware and endpoint attacks and the sustained remot...
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MDR use cases, ripped from the headlines
Ransomware attacks, breaches, untamed AI and geopolitical cyber strife are a daily feature in the news, and all are use cases for Managed Detection and Response (MDR). This eBook explores how MDR can be used to reduce or prevent the mayhem seen in the headlines by: • Speeding up the time from intrusion to detection and response • Doing so with low...
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Securing Critical Infrastructure: Exploring Global Perspectives on OT Security Challenges and Effective Solutions
TXOne Networks’ Insights Into ICS/OT Cybersecurity 2022, written in collaboration with research done by Frost & Sullivan, breaks down major developments in cybersecurity of the last year and analyzes how these will affect organizations, governments, and the market in the near future. This report will cover in depth: The expansion of the...
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Generative AI: Understanding the AppSec risks and how DAST can help
AI generators: Understanding the AppSec risks and how DAST can helpAI text- and code-generating tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT can help developers write code faster and more efficiently, but carefree reliance on these tools could expose your organization to a range of risks. Superficially valid suggestions can result in vulnerable code that...
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Two Steps to Mitigating Cross-Tenant Risk
Learn how to assess the risks of cross-tenant attacks and how to double down on your cloud security to make your environment even more secure with this two-step infographic from Wiz
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CISO Secrets Revealed: Cloud Security Best Practices eBook
Enterprise adoption of the cloud during the past five years has been “staggering”, according to Pete Chronis, CISO of Paramount. However, this rapid adoption has revealed a troubling problem: silos within organizations, which create barriers between key players like CISOs, DevOps, andengineering teams. Wiz brought together leading CISO...
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Proof-Based Scanning: No Noise, Just Facts
If a web vulnerability can be exploited, it cannot be a false positive. This is the guiding principle behind the Invicti Proof-Based Scanning. Automated and detailed proof of exploitability enables organizations to avoid manually verifying scan results and take control of their web application security at scale. Dig into the comprehensive feature ...
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Web Application and API Security Buyer’s Guide
Stop compromising on web app security! Build a complete application security program that covers every corner of every application – without hiring an army of security experts. This Buyer’s Guide will help you evaluate web application security tools to find the one that’s right for you. Download this guide to learn: What effective fea...
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Invicti AppSec Indicator: Tuning Out the AppSec Noise is All About DAST
In the chaos generated by alert overload, inefficient communications, and inadequate toolchains, how do development and security practitioners deal with it all? Download this report and learn more about: The real-life effectiveness of existing AppSec processes The anticipated spending trends for security initiatives Tried-and-true ways to prove R...
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Controlling the chaos: The key to effective incident response
The inherent chaos of incident response stems from the fact that cybersecurity incidents are unpredictable and complex, involving multiple systems and malicious activity. They require a rapid response to prevent damage, creating a high-pressure environment. Incident response teams must quickly analyze the situation, identify the cause, and then ac...
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2023 Miercom NGFW Security Benchmark
Blocking attacks in the first 24 hours is critical. Miercom recently tested the top four enterprise firewalls, challenging each with a wide range of malware and phishing attacks. Check Point led, achieving a nearly 100% block rate and ultra-low 0.1% False Positive Detection. See how all four vendors ranked.
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NGFW Firewall Security Benchmark 2023
Learn how the top four enterprise firewall vendors performed in Miercom’s recent network security efficacy testing. Miercom, a leading independent network testing organization, challenged all four vendor solutions with a wide range of malware, phishing, and attack vectors. Read how Check Point, Palo Alto Networks, Cisco, and Fortinet rated i...
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NGFW Firewall Security Benchmark 2023
Learn how the top four enterprise firewall vendors performed in Miercom’s recent network security efficacy testing. Miercom, a leading independent network testing organization, challenged all four vendor solutions with a wide range of malware, phishing, and attack vectors. Read how Check Point, Palo Alto Networks, Cisco, and Fortinet rated i...
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2023 Miercom NGFW Security Benchmark
Blocking attacks in the first 24 hours is critical. Miercom recently tested the top four enterprise firewalls, challenging each with a wide range of malware and phishing attacks. Check Point led, achieving a nearly 100% block rate and ultra-low 0.1% False Positive Detection. See how all four vendors ranked.
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PKI Problems: 7 Reasons Why Teams Struggle with PKI and Certificate Management
Whether public key infrastructure (PKI) is your passion or it’s something you wouldn’t touch with a 39-and-a-half-foot pole, it’s without a doubt become critical to the security of your organization. A rare few companies have an in-house expert or even an entire team dedicated to PKI, but for most, it’s more of a “hot...
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2023 State of Machine Identity Management
For the third consecutive year, Keyfactor and The Ponemon Institute have collaborated on the State of Machine Identity Management report —an in-depth look at the role of PKI and machine identities in establishing digital trust and securing modern enterprises. This year’s report provides an analysis of 1,280 survey responses from security lea...
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CSPM Buyers Guide
Gartner has defined a new category of security tools called Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) to help organizations tackle the wide range of security needs that come with migrating to the cloud and scaling their infrastructure. CSPM is a solution that continuously manages cloud security risk and provides compliance assurance in the cloud. W...
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SANs Multi-Cloud Survey
SANS research has shown that more organizations are using multiple cloud providers. Multicloud adoption can be driven by a variety of factors, such as competitive differentiation, mergers and acquisitions, and more. This whitepaper contains the results from the SANS 2022 Multicloud Survey, including multicloud adoption trends, how adoption decisio...
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2023 State of Cloud Security
Wiz’s State of the Cloud 2023 report provides analysis of trends in cloud usage such as multi-cloud, use of managed services and more. In addition, the report highlights notable cloud risks based on insights from 30% of Fortune 100 enterprise cloud environments.
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The Cloud Security Workflow Handbook
A practical guide to transforming security teams, processes, and tools to support cloud development. Organizations of all sizes and industries, from small businesses to large enterprises, are adopting more cloud to realize the benefits of scalability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness for their business. At the same time, the cloud has led to th...
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2023 Edge Ecosystem
Annual AT&T Cybersecurity Insights Report. The 2023 report will focus on the edge ecosystem. The core report focuses on connecting and securing the entire edge computing ecosystem; transport infrastructure, endpoints, operating systems, application workloads, production monitoring/management/mitigation/runtime. The 2023 AT&T Cybersecurity ...
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The Power of Purple Teaming
Security teams know the key to catching and stopping attacks early is to understand how their adversaries think. But many are behind the curve, according to a survey (conducted by CyberRisk Alliance and sponsored by PlexTrac) among 315 security influencers and decision makers in the U.S. and Canada. When it comes to stopping ransomware attacks in...
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Hack Your Pentesting Routine
Security teams face the challenge of communicating clearly in an ever-evolving landscape of threats, tools, and expectations. The offensive security methods that worked just a few years ago may no longer be meeting the needs of all stakeholders. If you are eager to find ways of improving your internal processes and your client satisfaction, the 10...
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Converged Network Security Platforms: A Buyer’s Guide
Cloud-based security is here to stay, but customers aren’t always happy with what they get. Paul Wagenseil breaks down the different forms of converged network security, explains what to expect and outlines how to choose the right solution for your organization.
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Identity and Access Management: Can security go hand-in-hand with user experience?
Organizations are pushing ahead with security measures to ensure only the right users can access the right information under the right conditions. But such efforts are challenged by Shadow IT (i.e., employee use of technology not supported by IT) and solutions that hobble the user experience. That’s according to new research from CyberRisk Alli...
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Why Traditional Cybersecurity Certifications and Training Need Disruption
There’s no shortage of cybersecurity training and certifications for security professionals, yet programs available today are focused on session completion, not outcomes. This outmoded approach to training doesn’t translate to measurable improvements in cybersecurity knowledge, skills, and judgment that lead to long-term resilience. Pe...
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Incident Response Guide
What’s the best way to stop a cyberattack from turning into a full breach? Prepare in advance. Often, after an organization experiences a breach, they’ll realize they could have avoided a lot of cost, pain, and disruption if they had an incident response plan in place. This incident response guide will help you to: Define the framewor...
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Webinar On-Demand: Why Organizations are Adopting MDR Services
Learn what MDR is, how it works, and why so many organizations are rapidly adopting it. As cyberthreats increase in complexity, many organizations are struggling to keep up. MDR services provide 24/7 threat hunting delivered by experts that help you stay ahead of the attackers. In this session, Sophos security experts will explore what MDR do...
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Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Services Buyers Guide
See how the different MDR providers stack up. Understand the key benefits of implementing a MDR service as part of your cybersecurity strategy Get an overview of the key considerations when choosing a MDR service Compare the leading vendors including Sophos, Carbon Black, Huntress, Perch, Arctic Wolf, eSentire, Expel, Rapid7, Red Canary, Sentinel...
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Stemming the rising tide of fraud with machine learning and AI
Today, successful fraud attempts outnumber those that are stopped.* This makes security and risk experts wonder, “How can we turn the tide?” The answer lies in machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, which gather and analyze huge vast amounts of historical data to find identify fraudulent patterns and suspi...
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Third-Party Risk: More Third Parties + Limited Supply-Chain Visibility = Big Risks for Organizations
While data breaches are commonplace, occasionally there’s an attack so audacious that its impact reverberates long after the initial jolt. Such was the case with the SolarWinds supply chain breach, in which a nation-state surreptitiously inserted eavesdropping malware into an Oklahoma soft­ware maker’s IT performance management solutio...
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Prioritizing security without sacrificing customer experience
Trust can harm a business’ reputation, and how Telesign aids businesses in building and maintaining client trust. Futurum is an independent research, analysis, and advisory firm dedicated to digital innovation, market-disrupting technologies, and industry trends. In this study, you will learn about: Challenges faced by enterprise organizat...
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Wanted: A Few Good Threat Hunters
At a glance, the threat hunting landscape in 2023 seems awash in contradictions. Human ingenuity and insight are essential to steering threat hunting investigations, yet technologies like advanced analytics and automation are integral to conducting these searches. When done right, threat hunting is proactive, methodical and unhurried, yet many sec...
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Launching MDR: How to Configure, Deploy and Optimize
In the first and second installments of this 3-part series, we explored what MDR is all about and how companies can identify the right MDR vendor to meet their threat hunting and remediation needs. With these foundations established, this final installment offers guidance for organizations with the process of finally activating their MDR services....
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Invicti’s 2022 ESG Report: Automated Application Security Testing for Faster Development
Invicti’s 2022 ESG Report: Automated Application Security Testing for Faster Development Many organizations are modernizing application development processes to speed up release cycles and innovation. ESG interviewed enterprise cybersecurity leaders to learn how they are adapting their application security strategies as they undergo business...
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Invicti AppSec Indicator: Tuning Out the AppSec Noise is All About DAST
Invicti AppSec Indicator: Tuning Out the AppSec Noise is All About DAST In the chaos generated by alert overload, inefficient communications, and inadequate toolchains, how do development and security practitioners deal with it all? Download this report and learn more about: The real-life effectiveness of existing AppSec processes The anticipated...
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Building a technology strategy for managing third party risks
Technology can be a key driver of an organization’s operational risk foundation. The overall efficiency of your overall third-party risk management (TPRM) program can be determined by how well you use technology to evaluate and manage risk. You need to know which capabilities to look for in a TPRM solution –– and how to navigate common tech ...
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State of Ransomware Readiness 2022
Two-fifths of organizations have experienced significant downtime because of ransomware attacks. Ransomware has become one of the primary threats to organizations of all types over the past few years. It has become so widespread and costly that many insurance companies are even reconsidering payouts and excluding some forms of ransomware attacks f...
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AI and Cybersecurity: The Promise and Truth of the AI Security Revolution
With the modern threat landscape becoming more complex daily and the application of AI growing more advanced, AI and its associated disciplines are fast becoming essential cybersecurity tools. And the need for AI in cybersecurity — or more particularly in the near term, machine learning (ML) — will only rise from here. Security professionals must ...
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The State of Email Security 2022
Businesses around the world continue to find themselves in the crosshairs of a torrent of new cyberattacks. While the big picture is unquestionably grim, not all is doom and gloom. Get valuable insights from your peers on how to combat cybersecurity threats in the sixth annual State of Email Security report. With insights from 1,400 security profe...
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Defending Against Phishing
Phishing is the most common type of cyber fraud, with the number of incidents nearly doubling between 2019 and 2020, according to the FBI. Recent research shows that in 2021, phishing was the second most expensive type of cyberattack, surpassed only by business email compromise (BEC). Malefactors can be extremely sophisticated and use different ty...
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Finding the way to zero trust
If zero trust is so great, why isn’t everyone using it? That’s the general sentiment we’re hearing from our infosec audience regarding efforts to implement zero trust. They see zero trust as more important than in past years, but still not as urgent as competing priorities. Some have begun laying the groundwork for zero trust, but find their effor...
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Buying MDR: 5 Steps to Determine Needs and Choose Your Solution
In the first of a 3-part eBook series, we focused on what MDR is and how it can help companies address their threat hunting and remediation needs. With that foundation established, this second installment offers guidance for organizations looking to make a purchase, including: Buying considerations Questions to ask within your organization to est...
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Checklist: 5 data-driven ways to prevent pre-paid card fraud
Prepaid cards have made cashless payments possible worldwide, presenting opportunities for both retailers and consumers and offering new ways for businesses to pay employees securely. But they are also highly susceptible to fraud. According to a recent Federal Trade Commission Report, prepaid gift card fraud accounted for $103 million in losses in...
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Organizations Seek SSE Solutions to Help Ease Pain of Remote Work
CRA’s research into organizations’ network security indicates that challenges persist at every turn: from phishing to misconfigurations, from remote workforces to insufficient IT security staff. In response, organizations have deployed multiple security solutions, but respondents often described these as disjointed and ineffective, lea...
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5 Challenges to securing public cloud infrastructure
A recent CyberRisk Alliance Business Intelligence study of how organizations are managing cloud security revealed that the number of cloud assets/workloads is growing among companies, with 55% of respondents running up to 50 assets/workloads in the public cloud and 56% on hosted clouds; on average respondents maintain 66 assets in either public or...
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The Automated Phishing Identification & Response Buyer’s Guide
End users report many emails they “think” could be malicious, resulting in a lot of alert noise security teams must analyze. The question: how to effectively manage that volume of traffic and stop email threats that are truly malicious from reaching your employees’ mailboxes in the first place. A Security Orchestration, Automatio...
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The HIPAA Bible: Everything you need to know about compliance
Companies that store or process Personal Health Information (PHI) are scrambling to get HIPAA compliant but have no idea where to begin this uber complicated process. Download this whitepaper and learn how you can get HIPAA compliant 90% faster.In this whitepaper, you will: Get an outline of a HIPAA self-assessment, the HIPAA process and insights...
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The SOC 2 Bible: Everything you need to know about compliance
SaaS companies are scrambling to get SOC 2 compliant, and fast. But why? Because demonstrating information security reduces sales barriers, boosts customer trust and ensures the protection of sensitive data.But getting SOC 2 compliant is super complicated and eats up loads of time for employees. Moreover, many organizations lack the knowledge and ...
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The Harsh Realities of Cloud Security: Misconfigurations, Lack of Oversight and Little Visibility
Some businesses have relied on the cloud for years, while others have recently migrated to the cloud because of the pandemic. Regardless of their experience, most respondents from CRA Business Intelligence’s September 2022 Cloud Security Survey recognize that despite the appeal of cloud, there are many security risks and vulnerabilities. And...
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4 key incident response challenges & how to overcome them
Security teams are under tremendous strain amid ongoing pandemic disruptions, burnout, and geopolitically motivated cyberattacks. According to VMware’s eighth annual Global Incident Response Threat Report, 65% of defenders state that cyberattacks have increased since Russia invaded Ukraine. The report also shines a light on emerging threats ...
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EMOTET Reloaded: Inside the Cybercriminals’ Supply Chain
New research from the VMware Threat Analysis Unit delves deep into the most recent waves of Emotet, providing insight into the exploitation chains and inner workings of the deployed botnets. The analysis maps Emotet’s dynamic infrastructure and the future threats it poses. This SC Media eBook explores the findings and maps out strategies sec...
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Keeping Your Emails Secure: Who Does it Best?
The number one cause of all breaches is email, at a whopping 90%. As such, email security services are under duress to identify threats before they happen. With email-borne attacks increasing dramatically over the last few years, and the sophistication rising along with it, email security is under scrutiny. In this report, Avanan researchers analy...
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SANS 2022 Security Awareness Report Managing Human Risk
The 2022 SANS Security Awareness Report® analyzes data provided by more than a thousand security awareness professionals from around the world to identify and benchmark how organizations are managing their human risk. This data-driven report provides actionable steps and resources to enable organizations at any stage of their Awareness program to ...
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The Importance of Prevention, Not Detection, in Email Security
In 2016, Avanan pioneered the concept of securing Microsoft 365 via API. Back then, customers needed to be educated about this novel approach. Now, it’s becoming mainstream, with scores of new companies popping up all the time, claiming to provide superior security via API. Learn why: In the booming API email security space, there are two m...
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Leveraging the SANS Security Awareness Maturity Model® to Effectively Manage Human Risk
Measure Your Program Maturity With over 80% of breaches involving the human element, it’s clear that people are now the primary attack vector for cyber attacks globally. Through a coordinated effort by over 200 security awareness officers, the Security Awareness Maturity Model® has become the industry standard which organizations use to not ...
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The Path to Successful, Secure Cloud Migration
Many organizations continue to manage their business operations on-premises, requiring infrastructure maintenance, software upgrades and valuable labor hours. However, digital transformation continues to accelerate with cloud migration as a key component. Things like ‘cloud mandates’ basically mean, ‘get out of the maintenance business and c...
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All About MDR: What it Is, How to Optimize
Managed detection and response (MDR) provides organizations with threat hunting services and responds to threats once they are discovered. Security providers provide their MDR customers access to their pool of security researchers and engineers, who are responsible for monitoring networks, analyzing incidents, and responding to security cases. But...
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EMOTET’s Bundles of Evil
VMware’s Threat Analysis Unit saw several changes to the Emotet botnet over the course of six months. Here are some examples of its evolution, as outlined in the team’s report, “Emotet Exposed: A Look Inside the Cyberciminal Supply Chain”.
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Zero Trust: The perfect solution for the perfect security storm
We’re experiencing a classic example of the perfect storm. Never have organizations faced so many challenges in protecting their data resources, and never have they needed to be more suspicious of users and devices trying to access their networks.This helpful guide explores the ins and outs of the zero-trust model and how it’s uniquely...
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Gartner Hype Cycle for Endpoint Security, 2021
As the global remote workforce settles into permanence, and cyber threats like ransomware and phishing tactics become more sophisticated, security leaders are examining their current security tools and strategies. Trends of the past, like the castle and moat approach to enterprise security, are steadily becoming unsustainable or altogether irrelev...
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A new class of converged endpoint platforms for a better breed of IT SecOps
Today, CIOs must manage and secure millions of dynamic, diverse, and globally distributed endpoints located across cloud and hybrid networks. These endpoints face a growing wave of cybersecurity attacks. It’s becoming more clear that using legacy point tools that were designed to work in small, static environments, and are failing in today&#...
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Protecting the IT attack surface while advancing digital transformation
Digital transformation is never done. To survive and to thrive, organizations must continue innovating, launching new products and services and optimizing old ones. As a result, every organization’s attack surface will continue to change and, likely, grow.Learn how Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and business leaders can keep up with the...
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Threat Intelligence: Critical in the Fight Against Cyber Attacks, But Tough to Master
Threat intelligence has long posed a conundrum. Any program using robust, reliable data sources should help reduce response times and prevent existing and emerging threats from penetrating networks and databases. But without proper mechanisms to manage the volume and velocity of threat feeds, security analysts are easily overwhelmed, and security ...
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The Harsh Realities of Cloud Security: Misconfigurations, Lack of Oversight and Little Visibility
Some businesses have relied on the cloud for years, while others have recently migrated to the cloud because of the pandemic. Regardless of their experience, most respondents from CRA Business Intelligence’s September 2022 Cloud Security Survey recognize that despite the appeal of cloud, there are many security risks and vulnerabilities. And...
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Ransomware Ready: Orgs Fight Back with More Aggressive Strategies and Technology
Many organizations continue to struggle with ransomware and attackers have a clear edge today. Organizations continue to struggle at detection and response. But the news isn’t all bad: Most respondents are taking additional steps that should prove helpful in their defense against ransomware in the years ahead. Those are among the takeaways o...
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Guide: Machine Learning Applied in Bot Detection
Explore the possibilities for applying machine learning (ML) in bot detection and cybersecurity with this guide from DataDome’s team. Guide includes: • How ML is Used for Good & Bad in Cybersecurity• How to Apply ML in Bot Detection• How to Build, Train, & Monitor ML Models• 2 Real-Life Examples of ML Applied to Bot Protection
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Bot Security Guide to Proxies
Proxies enable users to change their IP addresses. However, they can also be used by bad actors to scale bot attacks and help bad bots stay anonymous. So how can you identify and flag proxies before they harm your business? Find your answer in this guide and learn how to: – Define proxies and types of proxies – Identify the differences...
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HACK YOUR PENTESTING ROUTINE
Security teams face the challenge of communicating clearly in an ever-evolving landscape of threats, tools, and expectations. The offensive security methods that worked just a few years ago may no longer be meeting the needs of all stakeholders. If you are eager to find ways of improving your internal processes and your client satisfaction, the 10...
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2022 Identity and Security Trends
Between evolving cyberattacks and executive orders, last year exposed new levels of uncertainty across the security landscape. Data shows us these challenges are only projected to grow — and now’s the time to mobilize. Loaded with expert insights and the latest industry analytics, our new eBook presents the TOP TEN trends for identity & ...
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Ponemon Report: The State of Enterprise Identity
With a wave of unexpected challenges flooding the cybersecurity landscape, many enterprises are reassessing their view of identity security and the ever-present role it plays in mitigating risk and ensuring regulatory compliance. This inaugural research study by Saviynt and the Ponemon Institute examines enterprise risk associated with identity &a...
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Making the Move to Modern IGA: Expert Insights to Transition Your Legacy Identity Governance & Administration Platform
Identity isn’t what it was a decade ago. Changes in the technology & regulatory landscape, user behavior, and organizational priorities have transformed it from a compliance-oriented discipline to a business enabler — and often a board-level initiative. This eBook showcases proven guidance on preparing, implementing, and evaluating an IG...
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Beyond the Vault: Cloud-Powered PAM
Across the globe, enterprises are racing towards cloud migration. To ensure secure access for remote workforces, identity and PAM platforms have a responsibility to keep pace. This eBook decodes the history of PAM and its password vaulting roots and highlights how modern enterprises can achieve Zero Trust with a cloud-first solution.
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Security Essentials 101 for Datacenters
Learn how datacenters are driving high performance and agility, while also delivering rock solid security. Download the guides to high performance security for hybrid datacenters, including the use of SecDevOps, AI/ML, and autonomous threat prevention. And, learn about your peers’ top priorities from IDC’s industry surveys.
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Phishing by Industry Benchmarking
As a security leader, you’re faced with a tough choice. Even as you increase your budget for sophisticated security software, your exposure to cybercrime keeps going up! IT security seems to be a race between effective technology and clever attack methods. However, there’s an often overlooked security layer that can significantly redu...
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Security Culture Report 2022—Global Trends in Security Culture
The 2022 KnowBe4 Security Culture Report is the largest study of its kind, measuring organizations’ security cultures and surveying more than 530,000 employees across 2,910 organizations worldwide. The report offers unique insights which allow organizational leaders to better understand how employees view security within their organizations....
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Building a Security Awareness Program to Help Defend Against Cyber Extortion and Ransomware
Due to the rise in sophistication and volume of cyber extortion and ransomware, the time is now to bulk up your defenses against these threats. You cannot achieve these improved defenses by deploying shiny “anti-ransomware” technology alone. A defense-in-depth model with multiple layers of control is needed. Building a security culture...
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Endpoint Protection Best Practices to Block Ransomware
66% of organizations were hit by ransomware in the last year. Is your endpoint protection solution optimally configured to protect against these devastating attacks? Read this guide to: Learn how ransomware attacks work Discover the six endpoint-protection best practices all organizations should deploy Get top security tips to help keep ransomwar...
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Top Five Reasons to Use MDR Services
Organizations are increasingly turning to managed detection and response (MDR) services to detect and neutralize advanced, human-led attacks that technology solutions alone cannot prevent. However, the proliferation of cybersecurity solutions on the market can make it difficult to understand exactly what MDR is, how it fits with your wider cyberse...
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Four Key Tips from Incident Response Experts
Know in advance how to respond to a critical cyber attack. This guide highlights the biggest lessons everyone should learn when it comes to responding to cybersecurity incidents. Understanding these key tips from incident response experts will help give your team advantages when defending your organization. Read more to be better prepared when def...
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Tackling phishing, impersonation and brand exploits
There’s no doubt that cyber-attack tactics have evolved. Deception is now the name of the game rather than brute forcing access to networks and devices. Increasingly sophisticated attackers are hoodwinking their targets and phishing attacks are up 54%, with impersonation attacks growing by an even more substantial 67%. Phishing makes up a si...
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Teaching Good Security Behaviors with Seinfeld
Poor password hygiene. Employee naivete. Misuse of personal email. Even with today’s most advanced protection, organizations remain vulnerable because of one key factor: human error. But there is hope. Research shows that training that is entertaining and humorous is proven to increase employee engagement and lead to deeper embedding of cruc...
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Threat Hunting Essentials: How To Craft An Effective Process
Threat hunting has become a critical exercise in the fight for stronger security. But as the threat landscape continues to change, hunting techniques must also adapt. This eBook explores that changing landscape and offers guidance to help organizations get started with threat hunting and ramp up exercises with maximum effectiveness. This will incl...
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Work from Anywhere: Security That Makes It Possible
The new normal of the post-pandemic world is that people will split their work hours between their homes, offices, and wherever they may travel. To support Work from Anywhere (WFA), organizations need robust, unified security controls. But each of these locations present unique challenges that require different security solutions. This eBook will ...
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How we did it: Detection and prevention of a dependency confusion attack
Tactics of adversaries to infiltrate the software supply chain have grown more sophisticated. Among them: co-opting the names of submissions in public code, with the ultimate goal being to use counterfeit code to compromise networks. How can organizations recognize pockets of risk that may exist within their own development efforts? What preventat...
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External Attack Surface Management (EASM): From Understanding to Implementation
With the ever-increasing volume of exposure and attacks, security decision makers are increasingly eying External Attack Surface Management (EASM) to better define where their attack surface is and better defend it. But confusion persists over what EASM entails and how best to implement it. This eBook defines it and offers a roadmap for how best t...
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CIAM 101: Securing access and improving experiences for customers
Customer identity and access management (CIAM) enables organizations to securely capture and manage customer identity and profile data, as well as control customer access to applications and services. But how does it work and what must security teams know when considering investments to secure customer access and experience? This eBook will explor...
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Zero Trust Adoption Faces Ongoing Headwinds
Zero trust is widely accepted as a powerful tool to secure complex IT environments and reduce attack surface. Yet adoption levels remain relatively low due to the challenges companies face with implementation, according to a recent survey conducted by CRA Business Intelligence, the research and content arm of the cybersecurity data and insights co...
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