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Building the Business Case for Quantifying Cyber Risk
It’s the cybersecurity question every executive and board member wants — and needs — to have answered: How much will it cost if a cybersecurity risk materializes and causes a breach? Provide the answer with confidence by tying cyber threats to business impact using cyber risk quantification. Cyber risk quantification is a powerful method for...
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11 Ways to Streamline SEC Cybersecurity Compliance
Cyber attacks are increasing in volume, sophistication, and severity, and the federal government has taken notice. Now, they’re taking action — most recently in the form of new cybersecurity rules from the Securities and Exchange Commission. In “11 Ways to Streamline SEC Cybersecurity Compliance with Risk Cloud,” we explore a var...
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Empowering Data Security: DSPM and Beyond
Secure data in an increasingly complex cloud landscape with Data Security Posture Management (DSPM). From locating sensitive data to prioritizing security risks and offering actionable solutions, DSPM provides a comprehensive, agile defense strategy. Elevate your organization’s data security; explore our white papers to learn more.
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The Data-Driven Imperative
Elevate your data security with our essential white paper. Gain insights into creating a data-driven culture, establishing effective data governance, and ensuring ethical data use. Learn how to build a comprehensive data protection strategy that can help your organization thrive in a fast-paced, data-centric world. Download now to stay ahead of th...
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The 2023 Buyer’s Guide to Next-Gen SIEM
Trying to decide which SIEM is right for your enterprise? Devo’s done the hard part for you. Download the 2023 Buyer’s Guide for Next-Gen SIEM to compare leading SIEM vendors. The 2023 buyer’s guide compares and contrasts four SIEM vendors — Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Google Chronicle, and Devo — across six key categories: 1. De...
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Threat Detection and Response in the Cloud: Make a Difference with Multi-signal MDR
As organizations migrate their assets to the cloud, in-house security teams can become overwhelmed and be unclear on how to tackle their new environment. Paul Wagenseil shows you how multi-signal MDR providers can help deploy and manage cloud-native security tools like Cloud Security Posture Managment (CSPM) and Cloud Workload Protection Platform ...
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Journey to the Autonomous SOC
Introducing automation into your SOC lets your analysts focus on the most critical threat detection, hunting, and response activities. Threat actors are faster and more sophisticated than most SOCs. Coupled with an explosion of data (and resulting attack surfaces), many SOC teams are discouraged and burnt out. Download this eBook to learn more a...
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Scaling ITRM: The Promise and Challenges of Risk Quantification
Get ready for the SEC’s new Cybersecurity Risk Management, Strategy, Governance, and Incident Disclosure mandate. The “Scaling ITRM: The Promise and Challenges of Risk Quantification” ebook explores the existing barriers to risk quantification and the myths surrounding them. It also explains why every moment without risk quantifi...
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Digital Risk Report 2023
“Digital Risk Report 2023: Pervasive Risk, Persistent Fragmentation, and Accelerating Technology Investment” takes a comprehensive look at how companies are using digital risk management to achieve stronger resilience, better performance, greater assurance, and more cost-effective compliance.
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Optimizing Testing and Evidence Collection Through Automation
Control testing and evidence collection is often a time-consuming, burdensome process for compliance teams, auditors, and stakeholders alike. Teams can save time and improve consistency and accuracy with automation. Learn some key considerations and best practices for getting started in this article.
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Browser security in the enterprise: What’s changed and how to adapt
Browser security in the enterprise is not what it was just a few years ago. With the increased risks that come with a distributed hybrid workforce, enterprise security teams need to adapt quickly. Using Google Chrome Enterprise as an example, this eBook explains what features are essential to protect the enterprise against today’s attacks, i...
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Forrester Total Economic Impact of Tanium
Curious about the core benefits of the Tanium platform? Tanium commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study to examine the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying the Tanium platform.Explore the benefits, costs, and risks associated with this investment, from the perspective of...
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Protecting the IT attack surface while advancing digital transformation
What does it take to achieve excellent attack surface management in the age of digital transformation?Protecting complex attack surfaces is difficult and often requires cyber tools that have complementary capabilities. Good cyber hygiene, effective configuration management that enforces cybersecurity policies, and continuous monitoring of cyber to...
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The Inside-out Enterprise: Redefining IT SecOps for the Remote-First Workplace
Enterprise IT teams are adapting to a new IT landscape with a workforce mostly or entirely remote indefinitely. More applications and storage are moving to the cloud. And cybercriminals, watching these changes unfold, are focusing their attention on new targets and new forms of attack.The inside-out enterprise: redefining IT SecOps for today’...
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The Ultimate Guide to Cyber Hygiene
Effectively coordinating software and patch deployments across an environment requires that IT ops and security teams be aligned, collaborative and accountable. This requires that key systems be in place and shared workflows be clearly defined. Learn the crucial role that cyber hygiene plays in this process in the ultimate guide to cyber hygiene. ...
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6 Best Practices to Prepare for Security Compliance Audits
Depending on your business’s size, industry, and compliance needs, it will be subject to third-party audits. Businesses will typically choose to undergo a third-party audit with the goal of achieving or maintaining a security certification, such as SOC 2 (I and II), ISO, or PCI DSS. Get six best practices to help you prepare in this article....
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Strategies for Staying Ahead of Third-Party Risk
While organizations have drastically increased their use of third parties, third-party risk management (TPRM) maturity hasn’t kept pace. This ebook from AuditBoard and RSM, Third-Party Risk Management: Trends and Strategies to Help You Stay Ahead of the Curve, translates current TPRM trends and lessons learned into actionable ideas to help y...
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Checklist: How to Choose Security Compliance Technology
Struggling to juggle numerous compliance requirements, frameworks, stakeholders, and workflows? The right technology can help bring order to the chaos. To ensure your team finds a solution that meets their needs, get this checklist of key features to consider.
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Horizon3.ai For MSSPs
Organizations increasingly need to assess the current state of their security. As a result, MSSPs are in the unique position of capitalizing on this demand when adding autonomous penetration testing to their portfolio. Learn how to build high-value, high-margin business on top of the NodeZero™ platform to deliver increasing value.
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Vulnerable ≠ Exploitable: A Lesson on Prioritization
For MSSPs, manual penetration tests are time consuming, expensive, and often provide limited value to their customers. And when compared to autonomous pentesting results, manual approaches often lack accuracy and coverage. Learn how NodeZero™ provides an alternative security assessment approach that helps grow sales, improves retention, and increa...
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The CIO’s Guide to BYO-PC
Why Secure BYO–PC is the future, how to build a formal program, and what tools can help you bring it to life and when to avoid virtual desktops. In this Ebook, you will learn about: Why it’s time to embrace Secure BYO–PC How to build a Secure BYO–PC program Questions you must ask yourself when building your hybrid work plan Take the next st...
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The State of Ransomware 2023
In this report, learn how experiences of ransomware have evolved over the last 12 months, and the impact ransomware now has on organizations. Discover: Which organizations experienced the highest rate of attack over the last year The root causes of attacks How often data is encrypted, and how often organizations pay the ransom to get it back The ...
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Easy prey: The danger of vulnerable endpoints and devices
Respondents from our audience are focusing their endpoint security efforts on the idea that end users can’t be trusted to keep the bad guys out. Multifactor authentication and strong password enforcement top the list of resulting controls, requiring users to submit extra proof that they are who they say they are to weed out imposters; explore deta...
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Using MDR to Protect Endpoints from Ransomware
As organizations settle into the era of “work from anywhere,” security teams find themselves awash in more endpoints than they can keep track of – an ocean of devices the bad guys can easily target. This eBook connects the endpoint challenge to larger trends identified in the 2023 State of Ransomware Report and how Managed Detection an...
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Threat Intelligence: Eyes on the enemy
Respondents hunger for threat intelligence tools to boost incident response. The challenge, along with the usual skills and budget shortages — it’s difficult to integrate various security products and data feeds. Failures on this front degrade the quality of the data they receive. This report covers those concerns and more, and offers ...
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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 keepi...
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Ransomware ready: How multi-signal MDR can bolster your ability to detect and respond
Recent surveys by CRA Business Intelligence paint a grim picture of security professionals bracing for the next ransomware attack. Their ability to detect and respond to malicious behavior early enough to prevent downtime and business disruption is moderate at best. Highly targeted sectors such as education, healthcare, and financial services part...
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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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Mitigate Cyber Risk Guide
All companies are on a journey to advanced identity security – most just don’t know it yet. SailPoint’s horizons of identity security report defined the core capabilities of five distinct horizons of identity security, from beginning to advanced, dependent not only on technical capabilities, but also on the company’s strategy, op...
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Horizons of identity security
Every human, bot and machine now needs a digital identity to navigate the world of rapidly evolving technologies including the metaverse, decentralized finance, crypto and Web 3.0 Business leaders across industries have realized that next-generation digital identity will be essential to enable seamless collaboration with business partners, boost o...
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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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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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Strategies for Building Cohesive Security Programs
Traditional security programs often fail due to their reactive nature and inability to keep up with rapidly evolving cyber threats, leaving organizations vulnerable to sophisticated attacks and breaches. In the current landscape, a cohesive security program is crucial for not only surviving but thriving amidst the relentless wave of advanced attac...
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Secure Coding Culture Playbook
The gap between Application Security teams and developers is a common challenge in many organizations. Application Security teams are responsible for ensuring the security of software applications, while developers focus on writing code and delivering new features. This eBook maps out pragmatic strategies you can implement to help close the divide...
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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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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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Vulnerability management: A maelstrom of moving targets
Security professionals responding to a CRA Business Intelligence survey have encountered multiple challenges in their quest to achieve solid vulnerability management. Some struggle to get adequate executive buy-in and funding, while others find their efforts complicated by a glut of legacy technology accumulated during mergers. Those doing the bes...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Basics of Digital Forensics
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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