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Top 10 Tips for Educating Employees about Cybersecurity

Do you know the most common risk factor for corporate cybercrime? Employees. Sometimes, the threat actually originates from within, when employees' ignorance and/or negligence opens the door for cybercriminals. This eBook is designed to provide you with tips for educating your employees about cybersecurity. It's...

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Step Out of the Bull's-Eye: Protecting Your Organization Against Targeted Attacks

In recent years, threat actors have become increasingly focused on targeting corporations to obtain sensitive information for financial profit or economic espionage. Regardless of the adversaries' motives, corporations understand the need to implement defensive measures to secure their infrastructure and sensitive...

Is Antivirus Dead?

Despite the presence of advanced antivirus solutions, cyber criminals continue to launch successful attacks using increasingly sophisticated malware. Download this white paper to learn: Why antivirus software is no longer effective in detecting, let alone stopping, most malware Why a layered approach to...

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Who's Spying on You?

You're aware of the threats of malware to your business but what about the ever-changing ground rules? Cybercriminals today are launching attacks against businesses by copying sophisticated malware and techniques used to target governments and high-profile organizations. Don't get caught in the crossfire. ...

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The Threat Landscape

Hardly a day goes by without the discovery of a new cyber threat somewhere in the world! But how do you keep up with new malware and evolving cybercriminal tricks? Thankfully, Kaspersky Lab security experts have got you covered. Download our Guide to the Threat Landscape to have access to a wealth of IT security...

Case Study: WordPress and the Danger of Third Party Plugins

WordPress, with it's ever-growing popularity, is an attractive target for attackers. Many of its security issues come from third-party plugins and themes. Getting these listed on WordPress.org requires approval and must adhere to a strict list of guidelines. After this initial approval, however, future changes...

DD4BC Escalates DDoS Attacks

Q2 2015 was dominated by attacks launched by DD4BC, the same malicious group responsible for several Bitcoin extortion campaigns in 2014. DD4BC expanded its extortion and DDoS campaigns during April and May 2015, where over the course of one week, several customers received ransom emails in which the group warned...

The Risks of Using Perimeter Tools in a Cloud Environment

Today's enterprise infrastructure is full of blind spots that can hide malicious threats, and traditional security tools struggle to scale up to meet increased demands. How must security leaders respond? Amrit Williams, CTO of CloudPassage shares insight. Download this interview on meeting the security needs...

Counterfeit Check Fraud: A Persistent Industry Challenge

Check fraud - it not only won't go away, but it is morphing to keep pace with consumers' digital banking habits. Although the number of checks written by consumers has decreased significantly, the reverse is true about dollars lost to check fraud. David Barnhardt, Vice President of Product Management, Payment...

Data Theft Prevention: The Key to Security, Growth and Innovation

The specter and cost of the recent high profile data theft cases has had a chilling effect -and it's just the beginning of a long-term trend. The lure of easy and substantial financial gain as well as the explosion in the number of threat actors all but guarantees that this costly trend will continue. Potentially...

The Key to Securing Tomorrow Today: 8 Data Threat Predictions

Thought leaders within the IT community are beginning to view cybersecurity not just as part and parcel of the everyday cost of doing business, but as a direct driver of business continuity and bottom-line growth. This shift in perception has begun to have a dramatic impact on the position and role of security...

2015 Threat Report

In this age of rapidly expanding data and highly skilled threat actors, technological advancement presents the urgent duality of great opportunity and great risk. Your data is integral to both and a key asset that differentiates your organization. It's impractical to completely 'lock it down' and yet its open use can...

Prevent Spear Phishing: A Four-Phase Framework

If your organization has intellectual property, customer data, or critical systems that are valuable, your employees are being targeted with spear phishing emails. To help security leaders strategically manage their defensive posture, we have created a four-phase framework that spans relevant security layers from the...

Controlling Access to Authorized Cloud Applications

Enterprises recognize the value of cloud. Ovum research shows that 80% of organizations will be increasing their use of cloud services over the next two years. Employees want to use cloud services that are convenient, easy to use, and make their working lives simpler. However, business and employee views on cloud...

CISO's Guide to Enabling a Cloud Security Strategy

For years, enterprises and the security community have debated whether the cloud is more secure or less secure than the datacenter. Always a strawman argument, now that debate becomes moot. The cloud is here to stay. And the job now is to operationalize security across the datacenter and into the cloud architecture,...

White Papers

Top 10 Tips for Educating Employees about Cybersecurity

Step Out of the Bull's-Eye: Protecting Your Organization Against Targeted Attacks

Is Antivirus Dead?

Who's Spying on You?

The Threat Landscape

Case Study: WordPress and the Danger of Third Party Plugins

DD4BC Escalates DDoS Attacks

The Risks of Using Perimeter Tools in a Cloud Environment

Counterfeit Check Fraud: A Persistent Industry Challenge

Data Theft Prevention: The Key to Security, Growth and Innovation

The Key to Securing Tomorrow Today: 8 Data Threat Predictions

2015 Threat Report

Prevent Spear Phishing: A Four-Phase Framework

Controlling Access to Authorized Cloud Applications

CISO's Guide to Enabling a Cloud Security Strategy

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