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IoMT and Cybersecurity: What You Need to Know

Discover why medical devices, legacy systems and IoT in healthcare are this year's biggest security threats. The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) has disrupted the future strategy of healthcare organizations and market segments as we know it. Security breaches have become a major concern for providers, and with...

Machine Identity Protection for Dummies eBook

Businesses spend billions each year on identity and access management, but almost all of this money is spent on protecting the digital identities of humans - usernames and passwords. On the other hand, businesses spend almost nothing on protecting machine identities, even though our entire digital economy hinges...

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Defending IoT-Powered Smart Cities: Las Vegas Case Study

In recent years, Las Vegas has become a prototypical smart city. Between its fully autonomous vehicles and its array of IoT sensors, the city aims to embrace innovation without compromising the security of its 650,000 residents and 42 million annual tourists. Yet local governments know that internet-connected...

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Cyber Defense for Local and State Governments

Much like private companies, state and local governments of all kinds are going through a digital transformation at an unprecedented pace: migrating sensitive data to the cloud, installing internet-connected infrastructure, and offering services powered by smart devices. At the same time, cyber-criminals are also...

2019 Predictions: Machine Learning, IT Operations, Security & IoT

When examining a data-driven future, embracing new developments around artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), IT operations, security and IoT is key. The goal: to generate positive outcomes from your data. Pulling together insights from thousands of customer and our dedicated research teams, our...

A CISO's Guide to Protecting Your Business from DDoS Outages

With the explosion of poorly secured IoT devices being regularly herded into larger and larger botnets, it's hardly a surprise that DDoS attacks are now so common and damaging. What is surprising, is that many companies still lack adequate protection against these attacks, especially in an era when Internet...

Security Pros and Cons on Different Cloud Types: SANS Analysis

As cloud computing services evolve, the cloud opens up entirely new ways for potential attacks. Cloud systems and images have operating system and component vulnerabilities just like those in the enterprise. For example, Heartbleed, Shellshock and other major bugs can affect cloud systems, and there are new issues to...

IoT Security: What Are Your Hidden Challenges?

ForeScout commissioned Forrester Consulting to see if organizations can adequately and accurately secure their networks with the rise of IoT-connected devices. While 76% agreed that they are rethinking their security strategies due to IoT security concerns, risk tolerance with IoT is shockingly high as well. View the...

Know your IoT Security Risk: How Hackable is Your Smart Enterprise?

Industry attention has narrowed in on the threat of commonly known IoT devices and their potential safety implications to the home, but there is as much - if not more - to consider when exploring IoT threats in the enterprise. Research into seven common enterprise IoT devices revealed that their core technologies,...

IoT Attack Handbook

A Field Guide to Understanding IoT Attacks from the Mirai Botnet to Its Modern Variants The infamous Mirai IoT botnet was responsible for some of the largest and most distributive DDoS attacks in recent history. Commanding hundreds of thousands of IoT devices, it sent shock waves through the security marketplace...

Mobile Security Redefined: Specific Strategies to Proactively Stop Attacks

Organizations are focused on protecting traditional devices - laptops, desktops - but at each one of those endpoints is a user who has at least one and typically more than one mobile device. You may also have devices in the field to interact with customers and prospects or use IoT tools. This means that about half of...

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Cyber AI & Darktrace Cloud: Securing New Computing Models, Applications, Users, and Devices

With 90% of organizations expected to have hybrid cloud infrastructure by 2020, the migration to the cloud is here to stay. Yet the reality is that digital environments can be a security blind spot for many organizations who struggle with the limited visibility and control, especially as their existing security tools...

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Machine Learning in the Era of Cyber AI

Amidst an era of evolving cyber-threats, legacy security approaches are being replaced by applications of machine learning and AI. While machine learning has the power to transform cyber defense, the challenge of getting it to work at scale, in a variety of dynamic data environments, without human intervention, is not...

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Darktrace Discoveries 2018: From the Latest Ransomware to IoT Attacks

From never-before-seen ransomware to industrial IoT hacks, attackers are increasingly employing new attack methods and exploiting every entry point to infiltrate corporate networks. Moreover, insiders bring another layer of uncertainty to every organization - so how do security teams catch what's lurking within their...

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...