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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

Leading Cybersecurity Out of Medieval Times

Today's security threats may be considered "advanced" by some, but ThreatSTOP founder and CEO Tom Byrnes believes many organizations are living in the medieval times of cybersecurity. How can they avoid slipping into the Dark Ages? The key, says Byrnes, is to not allow the Internet to be home to organizations that...

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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. Today, this seems like something from a far-away age, even though it was accepted as reality just a decade ago. Download this white...

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Defeating The Threat Within

Whether employees are negligent or malicious, IT security teams (and ultimately, CISOs) are responsible for protecting the organization from breaches and risky behavior. But outdated, traditional security solutions don't offer enough protection from threats inside organizations. Security professionals need a new...

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Cyber Dwell Time and Lateral Movement

The launch of email, the expansion of networking and data sharing, along with the introduction of the domain name system, has created technological, innovative opportunities for individuals, businesses, and governments worldwide. However, these opportunities also presented themselves to threat actors - criminals...

Data Management in the Modern World

It's a challenging time to be an IT professional these days. While data has become more valuable as companies are looking for ways to harness the intelligence within, the explosive growth in the amount of data stored has a downside. Many organizations are experiencing a seemingly endless- and escalating- threat to the...

Unstructured Data: Finding the Untapped Power and Value

Unstructured data may be the world's best-kept secret. Companies have been slow to recognize that valuable information lies within the documents, emails, and social streams that are being constantly created. The value of structured data continues to grow, of course - but the new battleground for competitive...

Data-Aware Storage: Introducing a New Era of Data Management

Whatever your favorite metaphor may be - mountain, tsunami, landslide, or avalanche - it's an inarguable fact that we live in a world that is creating and storing more data than most of us can imagine. From presentations and emails, to videos and photos, to documents of every type, we create 2.5 exabytes of data every...