White Papers

This Year's Global Threat Report: What to Know for 2019

The year's CrowdStrike® Global Threat Report offers one of the industry's most comprehensive reports on today's most damaging cyberattacks and dangerous adversaries. It contains valuable insights into the evolving threat landscape and includes recommendations that will help you be better prepared for the security...

Stop an Impending Attack: Use a Threat Graph to Analyze Cyber Events

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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The 6 Business and Security Benefits of Zero Trust

Assuming that every user, request, and server is untrusted until proven otherwise, a zero trust solution dynamically and continually assesses trust every time a user or device requests access to a resource. But zero trust offers more than a line of defense. The model's security benefits deliver considerable...

The Regulatory Climate Around the World: Best Practices for Global Compliance

The extra-territorial scope of Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is much more applicable to the new global digital markets of the 21st century, and many other countries, regions and states are following the core principles of GDPR and introducing new data protection and data privacy requirements, such...

Do the Benefits of Personal Devices at Work Outweigh the Drawbacks?

The embrace of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) programs by employers and employees, which is transforming workplaces everywhere, brings with it a complex mix of benefits, costs and risks. This is the summary of key findings from a recent survey conducted by Corporate Counsel Business Journal and AccessData, to explore...

Supplementing the Security Limitations in Office 365

While Office 365® offers a significant and useful set of productivity, collaboration and other services, it is not the only solution that most organizations will need to satisfy their archiving, data security, encryption, and in particular, their e-discovery requirements. Download this detailed Osterman Research...

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The Hole in Your Layered Enterprise Security and How to Fix It

Many companies that have adopted a layered security strategy still fail to protect their Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure, a critical Internet protocol that was never designed with security in mind. Read this white paper to learn why integrating a DNS-based solution with layered enterprise...

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The 4 Benefits of VPN Elimination

VPNs were created for the networks and business environment of yesterday but what worked 20 years ago cannot be trusted today. Your VPN is cumbersome and time consuming from a management and performance perspective. But what you might not want to concede is that VPNs, by their very nature, pose a...

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8 Steps to Zero Trust

Use this step-by-step guide from Akamai's CTO, Charlie Gero, to build an inclusive and concrete zero trust architecture, intended to help enable safe application access in a cloud-native world. Easily transition to a perimeter-less environment with this prescriptive process, phasing applications in one at a time and...

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Enforce a Zero Trust Security Model in Today's Hostile Environment

As companies leverage new cloud and DevOps workflows to build their digital business, security has not kept pace. Traditional perimeter security was never designed for today's reality. Download this whitepaper on a new security paradigm for today's hostile environment: zero trust. Learn why under this...

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Moving Beyond Perimeter Security: A Comprehensive and Achievable Guide to Less Risk

Traditional hub-and-spoke networking architectures, and the castle-and-moat they utilize, aren't amenable for today's burgeoning cloud-and-mobile world. A zero trust and access model is the solution: Every machine, user, and server should be untrusted until proven otherwise. But how do you achieve...

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Protecting Your Network from Malware

Existing security controls are outmatched - at best static and reactive. Current layers likely aren't protecting you against all attack vectors, like the vulnerable back door that is recursive DNS. And security mechanisms that frustrate, impede, or disallow legitimate users, devices, or applications will...

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Adopt DNS Best Practices to Proactively Protect Against Malware

Malicious actors are increasingly utilizing the recursive DNS infrastructure to launch damaging phishing attacks, malware and ransomware campaigns, and data exfiltration against companies. Proactively protecting your company against such threats at the DNS control-point, as opposed to retroactive...

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Cybercrime by the Numbers

It's likely not a matter of if, but when your company will fall prey to targeted attack involving malware, ransomware, data exfiltration, or phishing. In fact, 70% of organizations reported a security incident that negatively impacted their business in the past year. Learn more about the realities of...

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5 Must-Ask DNS Questions

Cybercriminals are using the open and unprotected nature of the Domain Name System (DNS) to launch damaging phishing attacks, malware and ransomware campaigns, and data exfiltration against companies. How are you proactively protecting your network and users from these targeted threats? Download this whitepaper...