White Papers

Advanced Technology, NIST Best Practices and Automation: Prevent an Inside Job

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) at NIST has created a series of free resources touting best industry practices that utilize the latest technology, automation and system controls to guide industry professionals through minimizing their cyber risks and identifying threats. These practices go a...

Steer Your Course: Keep One Successful Phishing Attack from Sinking your Organization

Phishing is one of the most devastating threats hitting organizations every day. It's the most dangerous and costly cyber threat across the globe. Just one successful phishing attempt against your employees provides the foothold that cyber criminals need to access your entire corporate network. A joint study...

Case Study: Empowering Employees to Mark Suspicious Phishing Emails

Employees at Mesa Systems, a residential, commercial and logistics-based transportation solutions provider, were being tricked with highly sophisticated spear phishing emails causing much confusion in the workplace and a ton of overhead for the IT Department. So what did they do? This case study reviews how Mesa...

Phishing Thrives During Rising Tide of Cybersecurity Threats

Phishing attacks continue in 2018 to be very successful, regardless of all of the training employees have received. Threatening every organization around the world, attackers consider phishing a go-to technique to gain access to the network because it yields great success. With limited IT staff, budget constraints and...

Office 365 & Gmail Security Measures for SMBs in 2018

Cyberattacks and damages due to email breaches dramatically increased again this past year. The FBI estimates $5 billion in losses worldwide as email continues to be a primary attack vector for the initial compromise, with business email compromise accounting for $676 million in losses alone in 2017. As SMB...

Redefining Insider Threat Programs with Risk-Adaptive, Dynamic Data Protection

A Shift Toward a Human-Centric Approach to Information Security Every IT security department's job, to protect data, has become more challenging as the security perimeter has dissolved with the adoption of cloud applications. The traditional threat-centric approach is to apply rigid policies to a dynamic...

The Definitive Guide to Micro-Segmentation

The explosive growth of IP networking has let a genie out of the bottle. The more an organization or nation is connected to the internet, the more vulnerable it becomes. The challenge is finding the right balance between "can" and "should" - the fact that we can connect every person, server, app, and cloud vs. the...

Embracing Cross-Border eCommerce: Fraud Trends in Different Geographies

Cross-border eCommerce sales are set to reach $627 billion by 2022, with the highest growth rate projected in regions outside of North America and Western Europe. Yet US merchants are not capitalizing on the growth of these global markets. Only 42% of surveyed US merchants said their eCommerce website accommodated...

Curbing CNP Fraud in Online Consumer Electronics Sales

The global eCommerce market is booming and consumer electronics are leading the way. This year, online consumer electronics sales are expected to reach $108.4 billion in the US alone. Online sales present new challenges, including a rise in Card Not Present (CNP) fraud. Download this infographic which aims to help...

Disputing Chargebacks: How To Avoid Turning Away Good Business

While most online businesses recognize the importance of preventing chargebacks, there is less emphasis on merchant's ability to dispute and overturn certain chargebacks, to protect their hard-earned revenue. This guide on chargeback disputes provides actionable tips for identifying candidates for dispute, gathering...

Securing your SWIFT Environment: Overcoming Top 3 Challenges

As of January 1, 2018, all SWIFT customers had a deadline to self-attest to their compliance with the new SWIFT Customer Security Program (CSP), designed to respond to the wave of cybercrime that began with the Bank of Bangladesh breach back in February, 2016 and has swept across the world over the past two years. If...

How to Build a Micro-Segmentation Strategy in 5 Steps

Deployed at the network layer, segmentation was first developed to improve network performance. But as cybersecurity experts have realized that a "perimeter only" approach to security is not working, it has become increasingly clear the micro-segmentation is foundational to data center and cloud security. ...

Predictive Mobile Threat Defense: Stay Ahead of Attackers

Modern enterprise mobile security provides pre-emptive threat defense, runs on predictive intelligence and crowd wisdom, and delivers a noninvasive employee experience. As the connected world becomes more connected by the day, cyber threats have been retooled to attack ubiquitous mobile endpoints. While attack...

Three Secrets to Becoming a Mobile Security Superhero

How to Select, Implement and Succeed with Mobile Threat Defense As more workplaces become 'everywhere' workplaces, cyber threats and attacks increasingly target mobile devices. Through the eyes of many business leaders, opening a presentation or other document on a mobile device is hardly different from doing the...

The Criteria for Selecting A Managed Security Provider

Most businesses have trouble keeping up with today's constant barrage of cyber threats. Many are turning to MSSPs (managed security services providers) to protect their networks cost-effectively and reliably. But choosing an MSSP requires thought and research. Not all offer the same levels of protection, so you...