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ESG Report: Continuous Sensitive Data Monitoring

Ask any cyber-security professional and they'll tell you that it's getting more difficult to prevent, detect, or respond to cyber-attacks, data breaches, and even data exfiltration. Why? The threat landscape continues to grow more dangerous while IT infrastructure becomes more complex with the addition of mobile...

Breach Preparation: Plan for the Inevitability of Compromise

You can't open a newspaper or visit an online news site these days without some mention of a cyber attack or data breach. These activities are becoming more prevalent, and as a result, the reporting of these activities is also on the rise. Bit9 + Carbon Black reached out to a series of experts to collect their...

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What Malware Taught us for 2016

In terms of malware, 2015 will go down as the year that ransomware got big, and the organized criminals behind it got bolder. IBM's Limor Kessem discusses what to expect from advanced malware variants in 2016. A senior cybersecurity evangelist at IBM Security, Kessem says she sees a significant new sophistication...

Behavioral Biometrics: Making a Business Case for Same-Day ACH Payments

With NACHA's recent announcement on the implementation of same-day ACH (Automated Clearing House) payments to start in September 2016, banks need to be prepared as the impact on treasury and fraud personnel at a bank will be significant. This will result in lesser time to review and approve suspicious...

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Synthetic Identity Fraud: Can I Borrow Your SSN?

Synthetic identity fraud is more pervasive than most people are aware. Synthetic identities are used to obtain financial services, medical benefits, insurance and rental housing, among other things. Additionally, organized crime and terrorist groups are realizing the benefits that the anonymity of synthetic identities...

Cracking the Endpoint: Insider Tips for Endpoint Security

Cybercriminals have both the bandwidth, technical skills, and purpose to focus on stealing your organization's sensitive data and they are targeting your endpoints and servers. This eGuide outlines the strategies and tactics cybercriminals are using to target end user devices and provide tips on what your...

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The Evolution of Cybercrime and Incident Forensics

Security incidents have been on the rise for the past few years, and most experts in cyber security believe the trend will only continue to intensify. Here, though, our subject is not the high-profile, headline-grabbing attacks we all know about but the everyday struggle of organizations everywhere, in every industry,...

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Integrated Threat Management for Dummies

Every industry sector has recent history of organizations that have been hit - and hit hard - by hackers and cybercriminal organizations. I don't need to mention names - you know who they are. Each week, more are added to the hit parade of organizations that, for one reason or another, didn't have the right measures...

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Cyber Security Intelligence Index

Significant threats and massive breaches make front-page news on a regular basis, leaving businesses and consumers wondering whether their data could ever be considered safe again. Major vulnerabilities have been found lurking in well-known applications, many of which had been dormant for more than 10 years. Once...

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2015 CISO Insights Study: Managing Your Cybersecurity Investment

A few years ago most firms would manage cybersecurity and make investment decisions based mainly on industry best practices, resulting in their adopting certain technologies, policies and practices, without a detailed understanding of their specific overall cyber risk situation. As a result, very few successfully...

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Security Intelligence for Organizations of All Sizes

Today's organizations are besieged by security threats. Like kids in a candy store, cybercriminals can't wait to get their hands on confidential information. Whether motivated by financial gain or just the opportunity to wreak havoc, attackers are also increasingly sophisticated in their methods. In fact, many...

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Network Protection: The Untold Story

Over the years, network security threats have grown in number, type and sophistication. Today's security teams have to protect against advanced persistent threats, stealth bots, targeted application attacks, designer malware and more. The attacks on the network are relentless, and high-profile breaches continue to...

The Cybercrime Economics of Malicious Macros

Attack techniques come and go as technology and user behaviors change and defenses adapt to new threats - and sometimes take their eye off old ones - and the return of malicious macros offers an opportunity to examine and understand the drivers behind these adaptations, an exercise that is equal parts business case...

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Holistic Fraud Prevention: Transforming the Customers' Experience

Most security professionals focus on only the fraud avoidance capabilities when evaluating and implementing fraud prevention technologies. Often overlooked is the potentially significant adverse impact on customers' experience and operational costs. Good fraud prevention solutions must be effective at identifying and...

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Simplifying Cloud Integration and Identity Silos

When it comes to identity and access management, any complexity and inconsistency in users' personal data can affect more than the IT staff's ability to administer the environment or users' abilities to do their jobs. These things affect the security of the entire organization. That's because as organizations grow,...