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Breach Detection Systems: Product Selection Guide

Breach detection systems (BDS) are security products that offer timely detection of threats. When evaluating these products, customers must take into account traditional factors, such as security effectiveness, deployment options, performance and administrative capabilities. Since cybercriminals prize new threats...

Advanced Endpoint Protection: Strategic Guidance When Replacing Antivirus

Replacing traditional antivirus (AV) with advanced endpoint protection (AEP) products may not be the best decision for every organization. If you do decide to switch, determining which AEP product is the best fit can be challenging as claims of capabilities and value differ between products. This guide provides...

When Should Your Enterprise Move to Advanced Endpoint Protection?

Advanced endpoint protection (AEP) products are still relatively immature, which makes it difficult to decide whether to replace or augment existing endpoint protection (EPP). Adding to the difficulty in assessing AEP products is the fact that measuring some of their features can be complicated. AEP products are...

Cyber Threat Hunting Season is Now Open; Detect Attackers Already Inside Your Network

Determined cyber attackers invade even the best security defenses with the same stealth as wolves creeping up on sheep; if they make themselves known before you spot them, it's too late. Attackers only need to successfully invade once to cause serious damage, but preventing them all is simply not possible. By...

Healthcare vs. the IoT Botnet

With their reliance on so many IoT devices, how can healthcare organizations defend against menaces such as the Mirai malware, which exploit these devices to create powerful botnets and launch DDoS attacks? Akamai's Dave Lewis offers tips. Lewis, a Global Security Advocate at Akamai, says today's attackers are...

How NSFOCUS Protected the G20 Summit

In September, the annual G20 summit - the gathering of leaders from 20 major global economies- was held in China. One particular global enterprise was selected to provide security protection. Guy Rosefelt discusses that mission and its unique challenges. What was the scope of the project? NSFOCUS was tasked with...

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2017 Security Predictions from Malwarebytes; New Year, New Threats

Ransomware is going to get personal. Password managers will be huge targets. And we will see the rise of a whole new exploit kit. These are among the 2017 security predictions from Malwarebytes Laboratories. And because these attacks are going to continue to result in big headlines, cybersecurity is going to grow as...

Protecting Federal Agencies via Network Segmentation

Don't guess about your agency's data, network and mission security. Adopt the successful strategies used by other federal agencies to protect their most sensitive information. Network segmentation can minimize the risk of adversaries gaining access to your agency's networks and prevent them from stealing your critical...

Does Your NGFW Block 99.9% of Attacks, including AETs?

Forcepoint�� Stonesoft® NGFW earned a "Recommended" rating in the NSS Labs Next Generation Intrusion Prevention System (NGIPS) Comparative Report for overall security effectiveness, performance and TCO. Stonesoft outperformed IPS-only products while also providing next-gen/cloud-based firewalling, VPN connectivity,...

The Six Core Competencies of a Successful Threat Intelligence Program

Building a threat intelligence team from the ground up can be riddled with political inertia. This whitepaper details how to merge operational and strategic capabilities to automate and analyze external attack data to identify current and future security threats. Discover the six core competencies that comprise a...

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Malvertising, Ransomware and the Evolution of Cyber Threats

According to a recent report, barely one-third of global organizations feel prepared to handle a modern cyberattack such as malvertising or ransomware. Justin Dolly of Malwarebytes explains how security leaders can step up their game in 2017. Dolly, who is both CIO and CISO at Malwarebytes, says he is not surprised...

5 Must-Have Features of Cyber Threat Intelligence Solutions

Cyberattacks grab headlines. The severity and frequency of attacks hitting both small and mammoth organizations alike continue to alarm the public...but cyber security professionals are the ones who really lose sleep at night. Before waiting for an attack to occur and scrambling to put a response program into action,...

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Don't Gamble on Staying Safe from Ransomware; You Can't Afford it!

If ransomware has not already had a significant impact on your organization, it is most likely because you have simply been lucky...so far. Almost half of entities in the U.S. have been hit this past year alone and have lost not only money, but also reputation, IT hours and in some cases, total business functionality....

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Calculating the Return on Investment in Layered Security

IT security industry has developed new methods and technologies to help reduce the threat of a major breach while reducing the cost of day-today upkeep. The common way of protecting systems is to employ discrete tools such as software intrusion detection and firewalls. A more efficient and sophisticated approach,...

Four Top Cyber Crime Trends

This report from IBM Emergency Response Services discusses four key trends in cybersecurity based on field experience in responding to client security incidents. In the following whitepaper, you will learn about: Onion-layered security incidents on the rise The year of ransomware Malicious insiders on the...