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Context-Based Authentication & Fraud Protection for Mobile Devices

Mobile devices - smartphones and tablets - are powerful computers that are increasingly used for commerce and financial transactions. Consumers will spend $235 billion through mobile transactions, making mobile devices a very lucrative channel and the next frontier for cybercriminals to exploit. The threats against...

Not Your Father's IPS: SANS Survey on Network Security Results

With cyber attacks on the rise, many organizations rely on intrusion prevention systems (IPS) to detect and stop attacks in their networks. But to counter increasingly sophisticated threats, IPS is now evolving into next-generation intrusion prevention systems (NGIPS). What drives the need for these new systems? And...

Sponsored by Sourcefire Network Security

Key Benefits of Application White-Listing and How to Achieve Them

Application white-listing is the number one strategy in Australia's Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) list of 35 Strategies to Mitigate Targeted Cyber Intrusions; it is deemed an essential control. Application white-listing gives administrators visibility and control over applications that are allowed to communicate...

Mobility on Hold: Get Back on Track with Mobile Risk Mitigation

Mobile banking continues to gain momentum, growing faster than any other delivery channel to date. Many financial institutions want to expand capabilities in the mobile channel, but are concerned about security. Given the evolving threats, mobile innovation has outpaced the industry's appetite for deploying new...

The Bot Threat

Some of the most serious threats networks face today are "bots," remotely controlled robotic programs that strike in many different ways and deliver destructive payloads, self propagating to infect more and more systems and eventually forming a "botnet." Download this white paper and learn how: Bots work; To...

Mapping Security for your Virtual Environment

Is management of a virtualized environment a major concern? Does your business need a technology that helps you secure your virtual environments? With the growing popularity of virtualization in enterprise data centers, you need a virtual security solution that allows you to confidently adopt virtualization...

25 Years of Vulnerabilities: 1988-2012

What has been the most important type of vulnerability in the last 25 years? What percentage of total vulnerabilities did this represent? Which browser truly had the most critical vulnerabilities? In this research, Yves Younan, senior research engineer with Sourcefire's Vulnerability Research Team (VRT), answers these...

Implementing DSD'S Top 35 Mitigation Strategies

Simple fact - governments across the globe have been victims of attacks in one form or another. The frequency of these attacks has varied and the motives range from a self-deluded intention of doing good for society, to monetary or political gain or for no other reason than to demonstrate the ability to pull off such...

Real-Time Malware Protection for Financial Institutions

Financial institutions and businesses involving Internet banking, online brokerage, alternative payment solutions or e-commerce websites in particular face a growing number of targeted attacks. These online banks and their customers are the targets of focused hacking attempts from fraudsters who are constantly trying...

Sponsored by Webroot

Malicious Mobile Apps: A Growing Threat in 2013 and Beyond

With the exploding use of mobile devices and BYOD, mobile apps represent a major new threat. This infographic reveals some surprising facts about malicious mobile apps, including where they come from, what they do and what other IT pros are thinking about them. Below are some key highlights: 73% of IT pros expect...

Sponsored by Webroot

Web Threats - Is Your Company Exposed?

This infographic gives a quick visual representation of some of the key findings of recent Webroot research on web security in the U.S. and UK. The findings highlight the significant costs that web threats pose to businesses - such as increased help desk support - and the risks especially for companies with no web...

Sponsored by Webroot

Mobile Browsing - Is Your Company at Risk?

This infographic gives a quick visual representation of some of the key findings of recent Webroot research on web security in the U.S. and UK. As cybercriminals increasingly exploit vulnerabilities in mobile browsers and apps, companies with mobile workforces face new challenges in protecting users and critical data....

Sponsored by Webroot

Survey: Remote Users Expose Companies to Cybercrime

Webroot conducted research on web security in the U.S. and the UK. As remote users expand the security perimeter, the majority of companies reported significant effects in the form of increased help-desk time, reduced employee productivity and disruption of business activities. The impacts of web-borne attacks are...

Sponsored by Webroot

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...

Sponsored by Webroot

Managing Web Security in an Increasingly Challenging Threat Landscape

The rise of mobility, BYOD and social networking is increasingly driving cybercriminals to exploit vulnerabilities in browsers and mobile apps. Every day more than 30,000 mostly legitimate websites become infected with malware. From drive-by downloads to spear phishing to XML injection, web-borne threats represent a...