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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...

Perception Versus Reality: Mobile Security Gains Traction as Enterprises Embrace New Technology

Mobile security is often the target of unrealistic criticism. The truth? Mobile is, in fact, a more secure computing platform than traditional PCs and provides organizations with methods to address security needs - both for today and tomorrow. Leveraging mobile device certificates, organizations can make VPN or...

Securing Executives and Highly Sensitive Documents of Corporations Globally

Every week brings new stories of companies damaged by the breach of sensitive information. For IT professionals up against the significant challenge of keeping corporate networks and information secure, top level executives and board members present unique requirements. These highly mobile individuals typically have...

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...

Nine Critical Threats Against Mobile Workers

Criminals, hacktivists and hostile governments are targeting mobile devices at unprecedented rates, exploiting the weakest link in the corporate network to steal enterprise information. These cyber criminals understand that the quickest way to corporate data is through mobile workers' unsecured endpoints. Download...

Sponsored by Sourcefire Network Security

Buyer's Criteria for Next-Generation Network Security

Next-generation network security devices provide comprehensive contextual awareness and deeper analysis of network traffic. This complete contextual awareness, combined with security automation, provides the visibility and agility necessary to keep pace with today's fluid IT environment, increasing network speeds and...

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...

GRC Reference Architecture

Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) represents a business oriented approach to establishing ownership and accountability throughout the organization to improve decision making. While this may seem straightforward, establishing a GRC program within an organization is not a simple task. It is also not a new...

Building an Intelligence-Driven Security Operations Center

The openness of today's networks and the growing sophistication of advanced threats make it almost impossible to prevent cyber attacks and intrusions. And even with the rise in cyber attacks with debilitating effects continue to impact the everyday operations of organizations industry-wide, security teams face ...

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...

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

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...