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Advanced Attacks Require Federal Agencies to Reimagine IT Security

Today's threat landscape has never been more challenging for federal agencies. Governments face a growing torrent of cyber attacks that are growing increasingly sophisticated, stealthy, and dangerous. Legacy signature-based solutions and file-based sandbox analysis cannot detect these advanced attacks, let alone stop...

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New Security Challenges for State and Local Governments

Never before have state and local governments been expected to do so much with so little. Even as budgets remain tight in a post-recession environment, tech-savvy citizens demand higher levels of service, they want to pay taxes by credit card, renew their driver's license online, and check traffic from their...

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Five Reasons Your Small or Midsize Business is a Prime Target for Cybercriminals

Cyber attacks are growing more sophisticated and, more often than not, target small and midsize businesses (SMBs). One unlucky click - a malicious email attachment, a link to a legitimate but compromised website - could result in a costly data breach that drains your bank account and customer trust. This paper...

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The Top 10 Mistakes Incident Responders Make Combating Advanced Threats

Whether they work for an up-and-coming start-up or an industry giant, security response teams are under siege as never before. Today's cyber attacks are sophisticated, relentless, and devastating, costing U.S. businesses $8.9 million a year each on average. Attacking in multiple stages across multiple vectors,...

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Taking a Lean-Forward Approach to Combat Today's Cyber Attacks

Today's cyber attacks have changed radically from just a few years ago. No longer are they the sole province of opportunistic crooks, online vandals and digitial "hacktivists." Today, advanced cyber attacks are the weapon of choice for organized criminal enterprises and nation-states. This white paper...

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How Data Centers are Becoming Unwitting Accomplices in Advanced Cyber Attacks

If information is the lifeblood of today's digital economy, data centers are the heart. These mini-metropolises of silicon, metal, and cable are as essential to modern business as steel, motors, and coal were to the last great industrial revolution. In addition to their vital role in most business processes, data...

DDoS and Downtime: Considerations for Risk Management

Proactive DDoS threat mitigation may be one of the easiest and most cost-effective tactics for minimizing financial risk associated with IT-related downtime. This paper draws on Verisign's DDoS mitigation expertise to examine the threat of DDoS in the context of IT availability and enterprise risk management. The...

DDoS Mitigation: Best Practices for a Rapidly Changing Threat Landscape

Given the extraordinary and rapid changes in the DDoS terrain, traditional DDoS mitigation tactics are no longer sufficient to protect an organization's critical web systems. Verisign has identified a set of best practices that enables organizations to keep pace with DDoS attacks while minimizing impact on business...

DDoS Malware: A Research Paper

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) malware and tools threaten an organization's Internet-facing systems. This technical brief covers DDoS-enabled malware and several DDoS-specific tools, their capabilities and the network indicators they generate while performing the attack methods. It includes new attack vectors...

IT Security by the Numbers: Calculating the Total Cost of Protection

Humorist Franklin P. Jones may have said it best: "When you get something for nothing, you just haven't been billed for it yet." These are wise words of warning for businesses counting on so-called "free" IT security software. This eBook helps you calculate the true cost of protecting your business infrastructure,...

Protect Your Organization from Cyberthreats

Hardly a day goes by without the discovery of a new cyberthreat somewhere in the world! But how do you keep up with new malware and evolving tricks by cybercriminals? Download this white paper to have access to a wealth of IT security intelligence, including: A concise overview of malware and tactics; Common...

Global Application & Network Security Report

Change is headed your way whether you're prepared or not. DoS/DDoS attacks are the weapon of choice for cyber-hacktivist groups and are increasing in severity and complexity. But don't press the panic button just yet. The 2013 Global Application and Network Security Report provides insight to help detect, mitigate and...

Protect Online Businesses and Data Centers Against Emerging Application & Network Threats

Cyber activists and financially motivated attackers are getting sophisticated - launching prolonged, multivulnerability attack campaigns. No single tool or solution is effective against the broad range of attacks that target every layer of the IT infrastructure - the network layer, the servers layer and the...

Enterprise Mobility Management: A Data Security Checklist

Secure file sharing, syncing and productivity solutions enable mobile workers to access the files they need from any source at any location easily and securely, while ensuring that all file access and file sharing complies with the organization's policies and any applicable industry regulations. These solutions impose...

Securing the Organization: Creating a Partnership Between HR and Information Security

Securing infrastructure is one of the most critical issues facing business and governments today worldwide, as it becomes conventional wisdom that the health of the collective cyber community is vital to the growth and stability of the global economy. As an outgrowth of that realization, it is becoming widely accepted...