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Growing the Security Analyst

In the fight against cyber bad guys, having smart, skilled good guys is critical. But even as businesses increase their reliance on security analysts, they face a serious workforce shortage as they attempt to find and hire the talent needed. The solution: grow your own. This business white paper coaches IT leaders on...

Q2 2014 State of Infections Report

This "State of Infections" report discusses the state of the enterprise under attack and trends in threats seen in the second quarter of 2014. Key findings in this report include: The rise of ransomware; The relationship between the size of an enterprise and its infection rate....

The State of Advanced Persistent Threats

Enterprises are unprepared to deal with APT attacks. According to a new Ponemon Institute study, APTs are changing the threat landscape, rendering current security controls ineffective. In Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) and targeted attacks, attackers use a myriad of tools and techniques to breach into an...

Corporate Cybercrime Trends: Employee Endpoint Exploitation

Cybercriminals are leveraging vulnerabilities of the Internet, browsers, operating systems, and applications to secretly and proficiently gain access to corporate information assets. Compromising employee endpoints with malware has become the preferred method; a far simpler path into the corporate network than a...

Stepping up the Battle Against Advanced Threats

The primary approaches used to fight advanced threats over the past several years simply aren't effective. Traditional methods such as user education, vulnerability patching, and malware detection have failed to protect enterprises against the current threat landscape. Attackers continuously develop sophisticated...

Making a Business Case for Online Fraud Detection

Most organizations that enable users to perform Web transactions (e.g. banks and ecommerce sites) have implemented security controls to address online and mobile fraud. These controls fall into two buckets: transaction-focused intelligence, which looks for anomalous actions, and device-focused intelligence, which...

A Modern Framework for Network Security in Government

Governments around the world are undergoing change. Whether reducing data center footprints, virtualizing existing services to reduce costs and "go green", or advancing security strategies to thwart advanced attacks in the field or at home, governments are demanding more from their cybersecurity solutions today....

Connected Governments and Agile Militaries: Meeting the Security Requirements of Today's Evolving Governments

Governments around the world are undergoing change. Whether reducing their data center footprints, virtualizing existing services to reduce costs and "go green", or advancing security to thwart today's advanced attacks in the field or at home, governments have different requirements of their cybersecurity solutions...

Protecting Your Mid-Size Business from Today's Security Threats

Security breaches in large enterprises make the headlines, but 55 percent of small and mid-size businesses have also experienced a data breach. And 60 percent of small businesses fail within six months of falling victim to a cyber attack. This e-book examines the security challenges unique to mid-size...

The Importance of Reputation

A study by Verizon finds 86 percent of security breaches come from the outside. Spotting cyber attacks in your network means identifying the signature of known threats. Reputation data takes that one step farther by identifying communications coming from or going to known bad actors based on their...

Threat Intelligence and Incident Response: A Study of U.S. and EMEA Organizations

Threat Intelligence and Incident Response: A Study of U.S. and EMEA Organizations, sponsored by AccessData, surveyed 1,083 CISOs and security technicians in the United States and EMEA about how their companies handle the immediate aftermath of a cyber-attack and what would help their teams more successfully detect and...

Survey: Web Threats Expose Businesses to Data Loss

Webroot commissioned a study to gauge the prevalence of web-borne attacks, their consequences and how IT pros are responding. Among the results: the vast majority of companies surveyed experienced one or more types of web-borne attacks in 2012. The survey report also includes recommendations - such as deploying a...

Data Privacy and Trust in the Mobile World

Does your mobile app help or hinder your ability to build trust with users? This paper delves into the results of a study published by the Digital Trust Initiative, which sought to correlate how brands can build trust with consumers in the digital space. Some of the lessons learned include: Most consumers do not...

Controlled Unclassified Information: 5 Steps to a Successful CUI Compliance Plan

By December 6, 2011, all federal agencies must develop a compliance plan for how they will identify and protect Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). Is your agency ready? In this white paper, Patricia Hammar, executive secretary of the CUI Presidential Task Force, provides expert advice on developing a CUI...

Business Risk and the Midsize Firm: What Can Be Done to Minimize Disruptions?

Lengthy downtime, data losses, and security breaches can harm business results, bringing business to a halt: stopping the flow of orders, reducing sales revenue, and interfering with the supply chain. These downtimes could potentially impact a company's ability to compete with other organizations that were unaffected,...