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14 Keys to Protecting Against Ransomware

Cyber crime has become a lucrative business and, unfortunately, ransomware has become an integral attack method that many organizations are fighting a losing battle against. While ransomware isn't going away any time soon (if ever), you can defend your organization - if you're properly prepared. Download this...

Understanding the Threat Intelligence Ecosystem

Everybody talks about threat intelligence today, but how well are they distinguishing raw data from actionable intelligence? Stephen Gates, Chief Research Intelligence Analyst at NSFOCUS discusses cybersecurity and the new threat intelligence ecosystem. "The operative word is 'actionable,'" says Gates. Threat...

The Top Five Security Threats to Your Business

Cyber security breaches are more common now than they have ever been. While they don't all make news headlines, they affect numerous businesses every single day. What exactly are these threats? How are they carried out and how can they impact business? Download this guide to explore the top five most common...

What You Need to Know About Ransomware & HIPAA Compliance: Understanding the OCR Ransomware Guidance

There is no more hedging on whether ransomware incidents should be identified and treated the same way as other data breaches under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has stated that ransomware attacks...

Cyber Security Primer for Healthcare: Identifying and Understanding Threat Actors

The healthcare industry - both payers and providers - has become a favorite target of threat actors. While 2015 was named the "year of the healthcare breach," 2016 has seen its share of large-scale attacks, especially in the form of ransomware. With the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil...

Operationalizing Risk for Data Breach Prevention Programs

Boards are demanding oversight of their organization's risk posture from the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). This brief presents findings from over 700,000 scans of the servers, desktops and laptops of our customers and their employees and there is an enormous amount of unprotected sensitive data in the...

Data Breach Risk Intelligence for CISOs

Today's CEOs, CFOs, and board members are demanding reports that show the financial impact a data breach can have on their organization. CIO's and CISO's have not been able to deliver these reports because existing tools fail to provide the necessary information. If your organization's data remediation story is...

The Difference Between Emulation and Simulation: Are You Testing for the Real World?

An increasing number of sophisticated, high-performance security and content-aware devices are at layers 4 through 7. This calls for, among other things, even greater sophistication of network emulation from test equipment. When Layer 4-7 devices are not properly tested, they face a greater risk for failure within...

Data Breach Analytics Brief

Boards are demanding oversight of their organization's risk posture from the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). This brief presents findings from over 700,000 scans of the servers, desktops and laptops of our customers and their employees and there is an enormous amount of unprotected sensitive data in the...

Data Breach Risk Intelligence

Today's CEOs, CFOs, and board members are demanding reports that show the financial impact a data breach can have on their organization. CIO's and CISO's have not been able to deliver these reports because existing tools fail to provide the necessary information. If your organization's data remediation story is...

A New Approach to Next-Gen Encryption

Data loss is an ongoing concern for all organizations. At the same time the world we work in has changed and people - and their data - are increasingly mobile and on an ever-growing number of devices and applications. Businesses need to secure their data and comply with regulations, without slowing down their users....

Encryption Implementation: Getting It Right the First Time

You've gone back and forth on encryption, its benefits and challenges, and you've made the decision: to keep your data truly safe, your organization needs encryption. So what now? You've got options available, but what is the best, safest way to implement encryption without disrupting your users' workflow and...

Case Study: FORTUNE 50 Company Dramatically Simplifies Vendor Risk Management

A Fortune 50 Healthcare Company is under constant scrutiny from about the safety and security of their products, data and services. The company relies on more than 5,000 suppliers to conduct operations. Existing vendor assessment and tracking methods and tools could not keep up. They implemented Rsam's Vendor Risk...

6 Vendor Risk Management Time Killers

Vendor risk management programs have evolved over time. What began as a spreadsheet or two to track vendors can't hold up to the ever-changing scope, scrutiny and shared risk. Putting more people on the problem quickly becomes a resource drain. What if you could eliminate time wasters associated with vendor risk...

Five Tips For Your GRC Risk Scoring System

Enterprises must have meaningful conversations about business risk at all levels and across every department. Risk scoring is a fundamental way of normalizing risk to make sense of complex and disparate data. It enables you to standardize reporting, streamline workflows and communicate risk clearly to stakeholders....