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Black Hat 2015 Hacker Survey Report

According to Thycotic's 2015 Black Hat Hacker Survey, hackers confirmed they continue to easily compromise privileged accounts - the "keys to the kingdom" that help them unlock access to virtually any part of your network, including mission critical data. Download this report to discover: What hackers target...

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Multi-faceted Approach to Reduce Fraud, Maintain Compliance and Manage Efficiently

Financial crime schemes are increasing in frequency and sophistication. Organized crime syndicates attacking financial institutions and their customers are global, professional, and experts at monetizing stolen information. Criminals continue to blur the lines among cybercrimes, fraud and money laundering crimes -...

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Transforming Federal Fortifications into Intelligence-Driven Defenses

Sophisticated hackers, organized criminals, foreign governments and other adversaries motivated by financial gain, politics, and even twisted cravings for infamy are now working around-the-clock to attack valuable information assets inside nearly every U.S. government institution. As traditional network perimeters...

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Operation Nighthawk: Finding Fast Answers from Big Volumes of Data

Special Operations Forces (SOF) from friendly countries use joint training exercises, such as Operation Nighthawk, to improve their own capabilities and to ensure that they can work together to counter cross-border and multi-national threats. Operation Nighthawk was a 2014 multinational SOF training exercise,...

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Algo Credit Manager

IBM Algo Credit Manager provides a depth of insight for accurately assessing credit risk, along with decision support throughout the entire credit lifecycle.

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Improving Profitability, Control and Credit Outcomes

Banks today, under increasing scrutiny from regulators and growing expectations from shareholders, are looking to advance approaches that will ensure available capital is put to its most effective use. To achieve this, many institutions are refocusing on the fundamentals - formulating strategies to improve the...

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Extortion by DDoS Attack

By making servers or services unavailable, DDoS attacks can be crippling to both an organization's finances and its brand reputation. Once all the costs of an attack were factored in - reactive spending on software or infrastructure, brand management repair, increased insurance premiums, security consultant fees - a...

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What Surfaces From the Deep, Dark Web

If you've ever watched a television show on the topic you've seen some frightening creatures, such as unfamiliar predators with large fangs and glowing appendages designed to lure and attack prey. In many ways, the Deep Web is similar to the unknown depths of the oceans. Much of it remains unexplored because of its...

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What You Need to Know About Ransomware

Not long ago, ransomware didn't look like much of a problem for large businesses. Security professionals saw it as more of a threat to consumers and small to mid-size businesses lacking sophisticated anti-malware tools. That has changed. Now, eight out of ten security leaders surveyed in IBM's 2014 Chief Information...

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Indicators of Compromise: Forensics of a Breach

Indicators are everywhere. The "check engine" light tells you when one of your car's systems has failed. Your cell phone alerts you when the battery is low. Your home security system sounds an alarm if it detects an intruder, and your home computer displays a warning message when a device or piece of software...

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Inside the Dyre Wolf Malware Campaign

In the world of cyber security there's nothing new about banking trojans, malware designed to leach money from compromised accounts. The Dyre malware, rich in features and constantly updated to avoid detection by standard security mechanisms, is a particularly effective example of the threat, capable of transferring...

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Battling Security Threats from Within Your Organization

Imagine a scenario: In a single day, a disgruntled employee opposed to the practices of your company downloads sensitive or confidential company documents, announces his or her resignation, and tells the inside story to a journalist friend. The revelations become front-page news, and the company's legal and public...

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Dangers of the Deep, Dark Web

Your organization needs to be aware of what happens in the Dark Web. Obviously, you don't want users within your network accessing the illegal content and services stored there, but it's also important to understand that there's a less apparent danger. Content pertaining to your users and to your organization -...

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Understanding the Risks of Content Management Systems

In today's fast-paced business world - especially in retail, where products change daily, even hourly - there's an ever-growing need for quick changes to web content. That used to be the responsibility of webmasters and coders who created HTML code, JavaScript modules and plugins on the fly, but therein lay a...

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The Perils of Phishing; How Cybercriminals are Targeting Your Weakest Link

Email isn't a novelty any more. It ties us to our family, our friends and our work. It helps us track our schedules and keep our appointments. It lets us send each other pictures, videos and documents almost instantly, far faster than postal mail ever could. No wonder this hugely popular worldwide communications tool...