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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...

Securosis Research Paper: Defending Against Application Denial of Service Attacks

Application Denial of Service (AppDoS) attacks introduce another level of complexity to ensure that critical web applications are available and operational. Defending against AppDoS requires a multi-faceted approach that typically starts with a mechanism to filter attack traffic. It also requires significant...

Old Techniques, New Channel: Mobile Malware Adapting PC Threat Techniques

Consumers see the advantage of accessing banking capabilities from their mobile device. However, today's mobile devices lack security to stay ahead of the evolving mobile threat landscape. Cyber criminals will continue to target the mobile channel with sophisticated attack techniques and new emerging techniques in the...

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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...

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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...

Security Analytics: A Required Escalation In Cyber Defense

In this white paper, noted industry analyst Richard Stiennon examines the emerging requirement in the ongoing arms race with threat actors. Despite years of investment in multiple layers of security defenses, every organization is still wide open to targeted attacks. It is practically impossible to stop all possible...

10 Things Your Firewall Should Do Next

Please note: This white paper is written in Korean. Undoubtedly, your network is more complex than ever. Your employees are accessing applications, using personal or work devices, but corporate risk and security factors are often ignored. Your business is a target?, Are you prepared in the best possible way? The...

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...

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IT Security: Midsize Organizations Face Enterprise-Caliber Threats

The number of cyber attacks against midsize companies has doubled in the last year. And cost per employee is more than three times that of larger companies. While midsize organizations often lack the sophisticated defenses of large enterprises, many fail to recognize their vulnerability and are overconfident in their...

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2014 Report: State of Security Operations

As the incidence and cost of cyber crime have escalated, organizations have responded by establishing security operations centers (SOC) to detect and counter cyber attack, and assure compliance with industry guidelines. But how capable are SOCs, and where is the greatest opportunity for improvement? HP Security...

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Security for a Faster World

Cybercrime is becoming increasingly sophisticated and it often surpasses the security capabilities of even large corporations. This document presents: A maturity model that will help you determine how secure you really are; 5 security questions every CIO should be able to answer; A new approach based on...

You Are the Target - But You Don't Have To Be with Effective Authentication

In its latest executive brief, security industry analyst Frost & Sullivan examines why any organization can be a target, and how robust authentication is a proven strategy for reducing your vulnerability. The insightful content focuses on: Why even secure passwords aren't enough; What makes an organization a...

One Step Ahead: End-to-End DDoS Defense for Financial Services

Motivated by idealistic and monetary goals, well-organized hacker groups have set their sights on financial institutions and are attacking with a vengeance - armed with institutional intelligence and striking with unprecedented persistence. Because of this, every financial services company - whether a multi-million...

Why Passwords Aren't Strong Enough - Making the Case for Strong Authentication

In this paper, RSA examines the need for strong authentication. They explore the return on investment in order to help organizations make an informed decision when contemplating their strategic move toward more effective security. This white paper explores: The threat landscape; True costs of password...

Securing the Organization: Creating a Partnership Between HR and Information Security

Securing infrastructure is one of the most critical issues facing business and governments today worldwide, as it becomes conventional wisdom that the health of the collective cyber community is vital to the growth and stability of the global economy. As an outgrowth of that realization, it is becoming widely accepted...