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Ransomware on the Rise: An Enterprise Guide to Preventing Ransomware Attacks

Ransomware is on the rise. According to the FBI, an average of 4,000 ransomware attacks happen per day. Today's businesses are routinely choosing to pay hefty ransoms rather than lose access to their intellectual property, patient records, credit card information, and other valuable business data. Simply put,...

Out with the Old, In with the New: Next Generation Antivirus

Did you know that Ransomware was cited as the leading attack by 55% of respondents in the 2016 SANS Financial Services Survey? On the other hand, ransomware is the second most common attack, reported in the 2016 SANS Healthcare Survey. Rather than dying, antivirus is actually growing up. Today, organizations look to...

IDC Whitepaper: Big Data, Good Data, Bad Data - the Link Between Information Governance and Big Data Outcomes

The outcome of any big data analytics project, however, is only as good as the quality of the data being used. As big data analytics solutions have matured and as organizations have developed greater expertise with big data technologies he quality and trustworthiness of the data sources themselves are emerging as key...

From RATs to Bots: Lessons Learned from Studying Cybercrime

Banking Trojans. Targeted attacks. Ransomware. These are among the latest manifestations of cybercrime. But who are the top cybercrime groups, and what security lessons can we derive from their latest attacks? "This is definitely one of the most interesting years with regards to the criminal evolution," says Eward...

Next Generation Endpoint: Hype or Hope?

In the world of endpoint security and antivirus, there is a need to shift away from using signatures as the primary method for malware prevention. No less than 37 new endpoint security products have emerged in the past five years, each claimed to address the changing landscape. But how do you know who to use, when to...

The Thriving Malware Industry: Cybercrime Made Easy

The malware industry supplies all the components cybercriminals need to easily perpetrate malware-driven financial fraud and data theft. In today's virtual world, the scope of organizations vulnerable to malware-driven cybercrime is quite broad. In addition to banks and credit unions that are subject to online...

The Healthcare Industry & Need for a New Cybersecurity Strategy

From ransomware to targeted social engineering attacks, the threats to healthcare entities have changed enormously. Isn't it time for healthcare's cybersecurity strategy to change too? Aaron Rinehart, the Chief Enterprise Security Architect at Optum, has never seen an industry with quite the urgent cybersecurity needs...

What's Required in Your Next Generation IPS Solution?

The threat landscape certainly has changed in recent years. But can you say the same about the traditional intrusion prevention system."The biggest problem with IPSs today is that organizations are trying to fight today's threats with yesterday's solutions," says Bertone, who serves as CTO of Fidelis Cybersecurity....

5 Ways to Maximize the Value of Security and Monitoring Tools

Return on investment is an important factor for evaluating the value of your security infrastructure. This informative white paper, 5 Ways to Maximize the Value of Security and Monitoring Tools, guides you through the most cost-effective solutions, including the role of a visibility architecture in your...

Best Practices for Monitoring Virtual Environments

As enterprise IT teams look into moving their critical workloads from on-premises traditional data centers into virtualized, software-defined data centers (SDDC), or even public clouds, they often face a number of important questions: How can we ensure the availability, reliability, and performance of our mission...

Ixia 360° Security

Download this white paper to find out how the four pillars of security can be optimized. Security is much more than layers of defense. It starts at the innermost core of your network. Whether your business builds products or simply relies on them, you need to decide at what point your application is 'good enough to...

Who Has Access to Sensitive Data? The Need for Better CISO & Staff Communication

The following brief will analyze data from over 700,000 customer devices using SolarWinds® MSP Risk Intelligence technology. The goal in sharing this data is to escalate the urgency for CISOs to improve communication with their businesses. The collected data answers: What sensitive data do organizations typically...

Digital Transformation in Financial Services

This new whitepaper from Akamai Technologies illustrates the priorities and challenges financial institutions face as they progress along their transformational journey. Download this whitepaper to examine: While financial services institutions recognize the need for investment in user experience and mobile...

The Revised Directive on Payment Services

Over the past three decades, there have been a great number of technological changes in the financial services world and regulators have struggled to keep up with them. The following white paper discusses the evolution and consequences of the Payments Service Directive and how regulation has gotten more complicated as...

Healthcare Cybersecurity: The New Strategy

From ransomware to targeted social engineering attacks, the threats to healthcare entities have changed enormously. Isn't it time for healthcare's cybersecurity strategy to change, too? That's the premise of Optum's Aaron Rinehart. Rinehart, the Chief Enterprise Security Architect at Optum, comes from a...