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Using Security Metrics to Drive Action

In this ebook, 33 security experts were asked how they communicate security program effectiveness to business executives and the Board. They share their recommendations and best practices. If you're a security professional, you'll find their insights indispensable for helping you better communicate with business...

IT Executive Guide To Security Intelligence

Security intelligence is the act of gathering every available piece of information passing through an organization's network in order to better understand who's doing what with whom. This white paper discusses how security intelligence addresses these shortcomings and empowers organizations from Fortune Five...

The Business Value of an IT Security Analytics Platform

What if there were a 10% likelihood that your annual revenue could take a 6% hit from a security breach? Unfortunately, this is exactly the reality faced by companies using a tool-based approach to security monitoring and analysis. Leaders take a very different approach to security monitoring and analysis, an...

Why Are Retailers So Vulnerable to Cyber Attacks?

First, many retailers operate in siloed, legacy IT environments without a uniform security policy. This outdated IT infrastructure opens up risks and vulnerabilities for advanced cyber threats. Second, highly distributed and hybrid retail environments, combined with new endpoints-like kiosks, BYOD, IoT, mPOS and...

Top 10 Things to Look for in a Cloud Security Solution Provider

Searching for the right cloud security provider can often be confusing and challenging. Many providers appear to be the same at first glance, offering customers similar metrics and promises while more often than not the information you need to make a real comparison is not readily available. This white paper...

The Intelligent Hybrid Security Approach

Old-school cybersecurity approach has proven to be futile, and many organizations and high-profile events-including the recently convened G20 Summit-are opting for the new approach because of the vulnerabilities that have been exposed by recent, high-profile attacks. Advanced threats are multilayered and...

Ignoring Risks from Same-day ACH Will Cost You Big

Same-day Automated Clearing House (ACH) payment processing became a reality. While this represents a terrific opportunity for banks to be responsive to their customer's requirements for faster ACH payments, plus the ability to attract new customers from banks who choose not to offer the same level of responsiveness,...

Lessons Learned from Studying Cybercrime

Who are the top cybercrime groups, and what security lessons can we derive from their latest attacks and attack vectors? Download this interview to explore: The evolution of cybercrime groups; The latest attacks, including ransomware and account takeover; Fox-IT's latest threat intelligence on who the...

Is Your Organization Prepared for Today's Sophisticated Cyber Threats?

While PCI DSS compliance is an important piece of the security checklist, it's not enough to protect retailers from sophisticated Cyber-attacks that fall outside of the cardholder data environment (CDE). With more sales traffic over more channels than ever before, hackers have more opportunities to launch advanced...

2017 Cyber Threat Checklist: Are You Prepared?

With sophisticated cyber threats more prominent than ever before, PCI DSS compliance is not enough to protect retailers from cyber-attacks that fall outside of the cardholder data environment (CDE). Are you prepared to defend against today's advanced cyber threats? Download this whitepaper for a checklist on how to...

Why Can't We Solve Phishing?

We know why phishing works; we know how it works. And yet the schemes still work, and they're only getting more effective. How can we stop phishing? Jim Hansen of PhishMe has some ideas, and they just might surprise you. Hansen, COO of anti-phishing vendor PhishMe, says it isn't about throwing more technology at...

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Streaming Prevention: Breakthrough Prevention That Stops All Forms of Attacks

For decades, the foundation of the AV industry has been malware prevention, from the earliest signature-based methods to modern, machine-learning-AV products. Clearly, just stopping malware is not sufficient. Download this whitepaper to learn a breakthrough endpoint security technology that applies a fundamentally...

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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,...

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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...

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Replace Your Antivirus (AV) Checklist: It's Time to Replace Your Antivirus

Nearly half of organizations have been struck by ransomware in the past year, which is opening eyes to how ineffective traditional antivirus is at stopping modern attackers. As security teams begin evaluating next-gen antivirus (NGAV) products as a replacement, they need guidance. This checklist will help you assess...