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Best Practices For Protection Against Phishing, Ransomware, and Email Fraud

Organizations have been victimized by a wide range of threats and exploits, most notably phishing attacks that have penetrated corporate defenses through targeted email attacks launched from compromised accounts, as well as sensitive or confidential information that accidentally was leaked through email. A survey...

Demonstrating HIPAA Compliance

At its core, HIPAA compliance is simply about maintaining patient privacy by ensuring the appropriate access to and use of patient data by your users. Electronic Health Record (EHR) solutions provide detail around when patient data is accessed, but without visibility into what users do with sensitive patient data...

HIPAA Compliance: What The Healthcare Industry Needs To Know

At its core, compliance for HIPAA is simply about maintaining patient privacy by ensuring your users appropriately access and use patient data. Electronic Health Record (EHR) solutions provide detail around when patient data is accessed. The challenge, however, is the lack of visibility into what users do with...

The Do's and Don'ts of Reporting to the Board

CISOs increasingly are summoned to present to their Boards of Directors. But too often these presentations fail to frame the right topics with the right metrics. Download this eBook on addressing the Board and learn about: Common challenges security and risk teams face when reporting to the Board; Key areas of...

Case Study - Western Carolina University

North Carolina has made a bold and exciting promise to its residents: Beginning in fall 2018, the North Carolina Promise Tuition Plan will dramatically reduce tuition costs at three state universities. Western Carolina University (WCU) is one of these schools, and it expects the promise of $500 tuition to boost...

How Secure Is Your Business?

Security used to be simple. You could put up a firewall, make the perimeter impenetrable, and all was protected. It's not so simple anymore. Malware travels with legitimate traffic to breach perimeters and spread throughout the customer's environment exposing sensitive data and costing them lost revenues. Protect...

ACI Specialty Benefits Supports its Growth With VMware Technologies

The global economy has created huge opportunities for ACI Specialty Benefits (ACI). Once focused on providing employee and student benefits solutions to the U.S. market, ACI is now applying its expertise worldwide. Through acquisitions and organic growth, ACI's business has expanded to cover over 12 million lives...

2018 Vulnerability Review: Key Facts From a Global Information Security Perspective

The annual Vulnerability Review analyzes the evolution of software security from a vulnerability perspective. Secunia Research at Flexera monitors more than 55,000 applications, appliances and operating systems, and test and verify the vulnerabilities to provide global data on the prevalence of vulnerabilities, while...

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): What You Need To Know

The GDPR regulation will be enforced beginning May 25, 2018 and for many organizations, the initial transition to GDPR compliance is likely to be a lengthy and challenging process that will require regular reevaluation based on continued reassessment of the risks. The role of network security in preventing...

Inherent Security Challenges of Multi-Cloud Adoption

In just a few short years, the cloud market has exploded. It has transformed from a fringe platform utilized by courageous companies on technology's leading edge into a cloud-first, standard, go-to approach for running all sorts of business-critical systems. According to IDC, nearly 50% of IT infrastructure spend will...

Managing Business Risks in the Cloud

As more data moves to the cloud, and cyberattacks multiply, organizations need to adopt an alternate paradigm of security. This alternate paradigm of security does not try to fight the attacks but assumes that attacks are going to go through and works on preventing exposure. A key step is to segment all networks...

How Automating Third-Party Risk Management Helps Financial Institutions Address New Regulatory Requirements

Financial institutions have long been aware of the need to manage risk in third- and fourth-party vendors, and most have a formal program for managing that risk. Yet an existing third party risk management (3PRM) program may not address today's increased levels of outsourcing and new global regulatory...

How to Build a Scalable & Sustainable Vendor Risk Management Program

Defending your organization from risk means confronting the potential security vulnerabilities that are present in your third party network. Deloitte reports that 83% of today's business leaders lack confidence in third party vendor risk management processes. Why? Because traditional VRM methods are no match for the...

Simplifying Advanced Attack Detection

Despite the millions of dollars companies invest in cybersecurity programs, advanced persistent attackers constantly devise new means of breaking into corporate environments. How can deception technology offer a new alternative? The key to deception technology is to deter lateral movement inside a network. On each...

The 2018 Threat Impact and Endpoint Protection Report

Ransomware is a multi-billion dollar business with the number of new ransomware variants continuing to grow quarter-over-quarter. Despite the many security offerings available, organizations continue to fall victim to ransomware attacks. Download this report, where we surveyed businesses across all industries to find...