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Meeting Stringent HIPAA Regulations: Your Guide To Safeguarding Patient Data

Since March 2016, the OCR has been increasingly aggressive in bringing enforcement actions against healthcare organizations who have had PHI compromised through data breaches. Get this guide to learn the important aspects of the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and how an appropriate...

The Definitive Guide to Data Classification for Data Protection Success

InfoSec professionals will perennially be challenged with more to do than time, budget, and staffing will allow. The most effective method to address this is through prioritization, and in the case of your growing data, prioritization comes from data classification. In this guide you will learn what classification...

SSL: Enterprise's New Attack Frontier - Are Your Blind Spots Secure?

Secure sockets layer (SSL) and transport layer security (TLS) have become an integral part of the internet, and adoption rates have skyrocketed. More than 45% of websites are encrypted today (up from 30% in October 2015) and 40-50% of enterprise traffic is encrypted, compared to just 25%-35% in 2013. This growth...

Transforming the Approach to Phishing Detection and Protection

A new phishing site pops up targeting your online banking customers. Many of the end users who land on the page won't realize they're about to disclose their login or payment card information and help fraudsters conduct both online and cross-channel fraud. 2016 saw on average more than 400,000 phishing sites each...

There is No Silver Bullet: Why a Multi-layered Approach to Endpoint Security is a Must

The security landscape changed dramatically with the maturation of crypto-ransomware. Not only did this new type of malware bring about a more lucrative business model for attackers, it also spurred the adoption of many so-called 'next-gen' endpoint security techniques. While these techniques bring impressive new...

Beyond Next-gen: Defining Future-ready Endpoint Security

The notion of "next-gen" is now promoted by some providers of endpoint security software as a way to improve the efficacy of protecting endpoints from compromise, given the prominent role endpoints play in cybersecurity attacks, the ways in which mobility and cloud apps have expanded the attack surface area, and the...

Delivering A Top-Notch Customer Experience

As digital banking has become mainstream, it has changed not only how consumers interact with banks, but also their expectations and definitions of speed, service and security. Delivering a top-notch customer experience while maintaining strong cybersecurity is a must in attracting the next big wave of customers...

The Shifting Panorama of Global Financial Cybercrime

In the global panorama of financial cybercrime, one year might bring little change, with the same types of malware continuing to target the same geographies, while the next can be very active. That was certainly the case 2016, with some countries seeing a marked rise in the attention of cybercriminals. Download...

Is Next Generation Intrusion Prevention Right for You?

While attackers continue to innovate, traditional intrusion prevention systems (IPS) have stood still, generating low-value alerts for security teams as attackers slip past in pursuit of high-value targets. Organizations have countered by piling more and more equipment on the network hoping to solve the problem....

Adopting Office 365 Without the Pains

Making the right decisions about how to deploy Office 365 can be a show-stopper, particularly as you consider branch office and remote user connectivity. Each Office 365 user generates between 12 and 20 persistent connections. Each connectivity option, ExpressRoute, hub-and-spoke or direct-to-Internet, deals with this...

Phind the Phish - Reducing Phishing Detection from Months to Minutes

What if you had a secret weapon that provided the visibility and context you need to make a quick judgment about the severity of an alert and more important, understand the context of what was going on before and after that alert? With metadata, you do. Rich metadata can answer many questions about what's happening...

Re-Thinking IAM and Cybersecurity

A recent study by Forrester Research unveils a direct correlation between data breaches and organizations' IAM immaturity. What needs to change? Corey Williams of Centrify offers strategic advice. Williams, senior director of products and marketing at Centrify, says there is a stark disconnect between the amount of...

7 Critical Considerations for Choosing a Cloud Security Provider

The cloud is a network of servers housing data, software, and services. Cloud services are commonly accessed via the Internet, instead of locally in a data center. Keeping your data safe requires forward-thinking approaches to cybersecurity. Download this whitepaper to learn how you can augment your existing...

Banks Verses Payment Fraud; Defend Your Digital Payment Channel with a Full-Court Press

High-pressure. Fast-paced. Threats coming from all directions. The battle against payment fraud isn't unlike the game of basketball. Wire fraud and ACH fraud are on the rise, and financial institutions cannot be slow on the defense - to win, they must detect fraud in real-time. Banking channels through which...

Rating the Security Performance of the Fortune 1000

BitSight Technologies has just concluded a new study that rates the cybersecurity performance of Fortune 1000 enterprises. What are the key takeaways? Data Scientist Jay Jacobs shares his analysis. One significant point: Despite the rash of high-profile breaches and the reality that organizations are dedicating...