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Analytics-Driven Security in Government: Breaking Down What You Need to Know

The cyberthreat landscape is rapidly changing. As attacks continue to increase in volume and sophistication, agency defenses also must evolve. In order to do so, many agencies are moving toward a more holistic, analytics-driven approach to security. By gaining an end-to-end view of what's happening inside an agency...

Investigation or Exasperation? The State of Security Operations

Cyberattacks are top of mind for organizations across the globe. In fact, 62 percent of firms are being attacked at least weekly and 45 percent are experiencing a rise in the number of security threats. But do organizations have the processes in place to investigate and effectively respond to these incidents? IDC...

IDC Analyst Connection: Digital Business and Cloud Deployments Accelerate Need for IT Infrastructure Monitoring

IT infrastructure monitoring has long been the foundation for managing systems and application performance, availability and reliability. Today, monitoring solutions are needed more than ever due to huge increases in infrastructure scale and complexity, growth in cloud architecture deployments, and demands for a...

Don't Break the Bank: Achieve SWIFT & Other Compliance Quickly and at Scale

Compliance regulations such as SWIFT and GDPR can be challenging to understand and implement. Many of these regulations have cybersecurity requirements that are focused on protecting critical banking infrastructure with aggressive timelines - and without disrupting the very business-critical systems you're trying to...

Threat Landscape Report Q2 2018

This quarter's finds uncover some very interesting cyber security trends and examples of malware developers, leveraging agile development, IoT devices used for cryptojacking, and vulnerability exploitation. Learn more about the threat intelligence behind this report and how you can prevent cyberattacks in your...

Automated Security Management: Visibility, Context and Automation

As global enterprises tackle the complexities of cloud-first deployments, changing threat and regulatory landscapes, and merging IT and operational technology (OT) networks, implementing a security strategy without any gaps has become an overwhelming challenge. As such, organizations are increasingly automating...

SANS Report: How Visibility of the Attack Surface Minimizes Risk

As the threat landscape evolves in today's networks, information security teams are scrambling to keep up. Attackers are using new and stealthy methods to infiltrate organizations and steal data, and the complexity of most environments makes it easier than ever for attackers to compromise assets and send malicious...

Vulnerability and Threat Trends: 2018 Mid-Year Update

If 2017 was the year of ransomware, 2018 looks likely to go down as the year of cryptominers. Malicious cryptomining made up nearly a third of attacks in the first half of 2018 - a statistic held by ransomware in the last half of 2017. This report examines this phenomenon - plus leading vulnerabilities published in...

Why Legacy Security Architectures Are Inadequate In A Multi-Cloud World

Cloud services are a pillar of a digital transformation, but they have also become a thorn in the side of security architects. As data and applications that were once behind the enterprise firewall began roaming free-on smartphones, between Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, and in the cloud-the threat...

The NOC and SOC Divide Increases Risk While Breeding Inefficiencies

We're in an era of fastpaced digital transformation that broadens the attack surface, increases workloads, and pushes the complexity of security management to new heights. All while, the threat landscape is becoming increasingly more difficult to defend against. While operational teams in the Network Operations...

The Pitfalls of Traditional Web Application Security

Unprotected web-based applications are often the easiest point of entry for hackers and are vulnerable to a number of attack techniques. Traditional technologies, including firewalls and intrusion prevention systems (IPS), cannot provide complete protection from these threats. Web application firewalls (WAFs) have...

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Stopping Breaches with Threat Graph

One of the biggest challenges in stopping data breaches lies in sifting through vast amounts of data to find the proverbial "needle in the haystack" - the subtle clues that indicate an attack is imminent or underway in your organization. As modern computer systems generate billions of events daily, the amount of data...

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Make Better Security Decisions with Cyber Threat Intelligence

Bolster Defenses, Hunt Down Adversaries, Investigate Incidents and Make Better Security Decisions While once considered a "nice to have," Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) is now widely considered an essential weapon against breaches. A recent study by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) found that 72 percent of...

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The Five Essential Elements of Next-Generation Endpoint Protection

The endpoint security market continues to expand with vendors old and new marketing their solutions as "next-generation" game-changers. However, closer inspection reveals that many new solutions have been built on old platforms which still rely heavily on signature-based detection and obsolete architecture. Navigating...

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Best Practices to Avoid Falling Victim to Ransomware

The global rise of ransomware has created a new, grim reality for organizations of every vertical and size. Adversaries are not only launching ransomware attacks against a wide range of industries, they are consistently evolving their tools, tactics and procedures (TTPs) to foil your organization's best cybersecurity...