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Anatomy of a Hack Disrupted

Organizations can no longer rely simply on signature-based scanning of machines to identify malware. Polymorphic malware takes on an infinite number of forms; and has a purpose in mind that always involves taking something from you. This whitepaper explores how one organization used a comprehensive approach to...

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Best Practices for Dealing with Phishing and Ransomware

Phishing and ransomware are serious threats that can cause enormous damage to an organization's finances, data assets and reputation. This white paper can help you reduce the chance of a successful phishing or ransomware attack and minimize the consequences if an attack breaches your defenses. Download this...

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Impostor Email Threats: Four Business Email Compromise Techniques and How to Stop Them

Impostor email threats, also known as business email compromise (BEC) and CEO fraud, have hit more than 7,000 companies since the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) began tracking this type of scam in late 2013. Those that succeed can yield millions of dollars in fraudulent transfers. Download this eBook...

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Managing Business Email Compromise and Impostor Threats to Keep Your Organization Protected

Since 2015, more than 22,000 organizations have fallen victim to business email compromise (BEC) attacks. The FBI estimates that organizations have lost an estimated USD $3.08 billion to these attacks. Download this guide to protect your organization by learning: How BEC works and why it succeeds: the targets and...

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What Every Organization Needs to Know Before, During and After a Ransomware Attack

Ransomware attackers collected more than $209 million from victims during the first three months of 2016 alone, with the volume of attacks 10 times higher than all of 2015. In addition to the ransom itself, these attacks can exact a heavy cost: business disruption, remediation costs, and a diminished...

SSL: Enterprise's New Attack Frontier - Are Your Blind Spots Secure?

Secure sockets layer (SSL) and transport layer security (TLS) have become an integral part of the internet, and adoption rates have skyrocketed. More than 45% of websites are encrypted today (up from 30% in October 2015) and 40-50% of enterprise traffic is encrypted, compared to just 25%-35% in 2013. This growth...

There is No Silver Bullet: Why a Multi-layered Approach to Endpoint Security is a Must

The security landscape changed dramatically with the maturation of crypto-ransomware. Not only did this new type of malware bring about a more lucrative business model for attackers, it also spurred the adoption of many so-called 'next-gen' endpoint security techniques. While these techniques bring impressive new...

Beyond Next-gen: Defining Future-ready Endpoint Security

The notion of "next-gen" is now promoted by some providers of endpoint security software as a way to improve the efficacy of protecting endpoints from compromise, given the prominent role endpoints play in cybersecurity attacks, the ways in which mobility and cloud apps have expanded the attack surface area, and the...

Is Next Generation Intrusion Prevention Right for You?

While attackers continue to innovate, traditional intrusion prevention systems (IPS) have stood still, generating low-value alerts for security teams as attackers slip past in pursuit of high-value targets. Organizations have countered by piling more and more equipment on the network hoping to solve the problem....

Adopting Office 365 Without the Pains

Making the right decisions about how to deploy Office 365 can be a show-stopper, particularly as you consider branch office and remote user connectivity. Each Office 365 user generates between 12 and 20 persistent connections. Each connectivity option, ExpressRoute, hub-and-spoke or direct-to-Internet, deals with this...

Phind the Phish - Reducing Phishing Detection from Months to Minutes

What if you had a secret weapon that provided the visibility and context you need to make a quick judgment about the severity of an alert and more important, understand the context of what was going on before and after that alert? With metadata, you do. Rich metadata can answer many questions about what's happening...

Banks Verses Payment Fraud; Defend Your Digital Payment Channel with a Full-Court Press

High-pressure. Fast-paced. Threats coming from all directions. The battle against payment fraud isn't unlike the game of basketball. Wire fraud and ACH fraud are on the rise, and financial institutions cannot be slow on the defense - to win, they must detect fraud in real-time. Banking channels through which...

Ransomware: The Defender's Advantage

As challenging as ransomware has proven to be against so many organizations across regions and sectors, certain characteristics actually can help defenders gain an edge at detecting malware. Lastline's Engin Kirda explains how. "Ransomware is a threat that needs to be taken seriously," says Kirda, cofounder and chief...

The First 72-Hours: How to Approach the Initial Hours of a Security Incident

In this white paper, Fidelis Cybersecurity will outline key steps to take in the first 72 hours of detecting an alert, how to distinguish what type of incident you are facing and the key differences on how to respond. Based on our firsthand experience, we provide lessons learned from the front lines to explain why it...

Improve Efficiency, Reduce Complexity: Firewall Cleanup Recommendations

Poor firewall management defeats the firewall's intended purpose of access control by becoming ineffective and limiting visibility into what access is actually permitted. Poor management also increases the cost associated with security management. The results of poor firewall policy management include unnecessary...