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Significantly Lower Costs by Merging Your Voice and Data Networks

In a tangle of acronyms, applications, carriers and features, your complex business voice systems are still about one thing: a simple conversation. It's where business starts and gets done. Organizations making their local and long-distance connections over legacy circuits are in a bind. Is your equipment...

Reliability of a Single, All-IP Global Network

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is the primary mechanism used for communication between Voiceover- IP (VoIP) devices and networks. SIP allows businesses to create a whole new level of functionality by taking advantage of the convergence of voice and data networks, including call center applications, unified...

Strengthen Your Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Companies have begun embracing Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Trunking as a way to cut costs by consolidating their voice and data networks and to increase productivity by enabling sophisticated unified communications and collaboration applications and services. Download this whitepaper to...

The Fundamentals of Phishing Guide

Today's cyber criminals use social engineering to plan and execute increasingly sophisticated phishing attacks. The Fundamentals of Phishing provides practical steps for consumers to identify fraudulent phishing emails. It also provides guidance for organizations to prevent their brands and domains being leveraged for...

The Rise in Spear Phishing: A Focused Look into the Growth of Targeted Email Attacks

Spear phishing continues to pose an acute threat to any organization holding what the cyber underground views as valuable data. We know this because spear phishing continues to turn up as the trigger for massive network breaches, from Target and Sony Pictures to Anthem and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management....

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How to Battle Employee Behavior to Thwart Insider Threats Early and Often

As a technology professional, you know that data, network and system failures aren't your biggest problems. It's the humans who interact with these systems that cause the issues. High-risk insider threats - malicious, careless or negligent employees - are one of the main causes of data breaches. Most of the time,...

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Unlocking Business Success: The Five Pillars of User Risk Mitigation

When desktops ruled the enterprise, employers may not have claimed to have absolute control over their workers' usage of technology and data, but they surely could contain it. Whether overtly or tacitly, leadership has now empowered its employees. Thanks to mobility, the cloud and other advancements, workers decide...

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The Cost of an Unintentional Insider Threat

The term Insider Threat brings to mind the malicious employee, motivated by either money or politics to steal data that can be sold on a black market or used to damage the organization's reputation. According to a Ponemon report, unintentional employee negligence severely diminishes the productivity of the...

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A Business Case for Funding Your Insider Threat Program

The insider threat is a dangerous risk to government agencies and their most sensitive data. Monitoring the behaviors internally and identifying corrupt situations based on access, roles and actions is not a luxury government agencies can afford to go without. Read our detailed white paper on building a case to...

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Superman or Superthreat? A Privileged User Risk Whitepaper

Privileged users are typically associated with a company's IT department and can include database administrators, network engineers, IT security practitioners, etc. However, across an organization there may be other privileged users that should not be overlooked. A privileged user can be anyone from account managers...

AWS Cautionary Tales and How Your Organization Can Avoid Becoming One

Cloud security is a shared responsibility between the organization and the provider. Organizations face a number of challenges in securing their AWS instance, including detection of anomalous activity, monitoring security configurations, and incident remediation. Unfortunately, many organizations lack sufficient cloud...

Tackling the D.C. Security Skills Crisis

The scale of the global IT security skills crisis is well documented. But what is its direct impact on cybersecurity with the government agencies of Washington, D.C.? Dan Waddell, Managing Director, North America at (ISC)² discusses the problem - and a new way to address it. "Cloud security is one of the skills...

Revealing Security Performance Metrics Across Major World Economies

Does your organization have sensitive data stored across the globe? Learn how understanding the global cyber threat landscape can help evaluate the potential risks of doing business in certain nations in this report. How do some of the most prominent nations on the international stage differ in cybersecurity...

Anatomy of a DDoS Attack

Ransom-based attacks are in the spotlight now, but Trey Guinn - head of solution engineering at CloudFlare - has discovered an interesting disconnect. "There are more attackers sending out ransom notes than are actually doing attacks," Guinn says. "We have seen many of these ransom notes go out, but it's clear in how...

The CASB Challenge: APIs or Proxies?

In recent months, Cloud Access Security Broker solutions have emerged as a defacto, mandatory control. Rohit Gupta founded Palerra in 2013 with a vision of enterprises embracing the cloud. And that's happened. But with cloud ubiquity has come a new reality, he says. "Enterprises recognize that there is a...