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Internet Security Report: Analysis and Emerging Trends

The Q2 2015 State of the Internet-Security Report builds on the significant changes made in last quarter's report. In this edition, attack data previously published in the classic State of the Internet Report is combined with the data previously published in the quarterly Prolexic DDoS Attack Report. The two...

Risk Mitigation: Keeping Employee Risk From Becoming Insider Threat

This White Paper will present some common sense suggestions for improving the "beginning of the lifecycle" risk mitigation process. In other words, ways to add a bit more intelligence beginning with the screening and hiring process. Then, we'll look at how to tie the efforts made at the beginning of the lifecycle to...

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Getting Upper Management to Buy in to a VRM Program

Upper management doesn't always buy in to or fully understand the importance of a vendor risk management program. Download this whitepaper for expertise on how to properly communicate the risk (and management of that risk) in a way that executives can understand and appreciate.

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Tools to Quickly Remediate and Verify Vendor Risks

One of the first steps to creating a vendor risk management program includes identifying what kind of access your vendors have to your network and where your greatest risks lie. Unfortunately some organizations dwell on identifying those risks rather than remedying them. Download this whitepaper to explore...

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Avoiding Blind Spots in Vendor Self-Reports Assessments

The whole idea behind vendor risk management is that you want to be able to verify the effectiveness of your vendors' security practices. But with current solutions that rely on self-reporting questionnaires, how do you actually go about doing that? Download this whitepaper to explore the flaws of...

Financial Malware Explained

Today's cybercriminals are aware of the fraud prevention technologies deployed by most financial institutions, and they design attacks to circumvent these controls. Transaction anomaly detection and device ID approaches can be highly inaccurate, generating a large number of false positive alerts that can overwhelm IT...

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Assessing Vendor Risk: Challenges and Tips

Relationships with vendors are important (or even vital) for many organizations, but unfortunately, there's a trade-off - the more data you share, the more risk you acquire. It is extremely difficult to measure the security posture of each of your vendors, let alone create objective metrics around those...

The Value of Email DLP: Identifying and Minimizing Your Organization's Greatest Risk

Protected health information, financial data and other sensitive corporate information are exchanged regularly, as companies communicate throughout the day to patients, customers, business associates and vendors. Email encryption can be used to protect sensitive data in transmission, but what if email shouldn't be...

Navigating the Threat Landscape: A Practical Guide

It's over 25 years since the first PC viruses appeared. Since then the nature of the threat has changed significantly and today the threats are more complex than ever before. Download the Practical Guide 'Navigating the Threat Landscape' to discover: Insights into the current state of threats Updates on...

Evaluating APT Defenses: Appliance vs. Cloud Solutions

APT attacks have led to breaches at some very high visibility targets and have caused substantial damage. This notoriety of APTs has given rise to an entire new class of security solutions that are supposedly purpose built to combat APT attacks. Unfortunately, with all the buzz, it is sometimes difficult to separate...

10 Questions Every CEO Must Ask Their Cybersecurity Team

In today's ever-changing cybersecurity landscape, your IT security team needs to be able to respond to critical incidents and policy questions in the event that the unthinkable happens. At DefenseStorm, we've got a team of banking industry veterans who have helped us determine the keys to a well tuned IT security...

5 Tips For Having the Cybersecurity Talk With Your Boss

Talking to your boss about cybersecurity is vital, yet we often get sidetracked by day-to-day activities and never take the time to sit down and get on the same page about cybersecurity. In this eBook, you'll find practical steps on how to effectively structure a conversation with your boss about cybersecurity...

DefenseStorm CAT Scorecard

With the FFIEC releasing their Cybersecurity Assessment Tool (CAT) for Financial Institutions as a 120+ page PDF, many FI's asked us for an easy, effective way to implement the CAT in their own organization. The DefenseStorm CAT Scorecard addresses the needs of Financial Institutions by providing a straightforward...

Proactive Malware Hunting

If malware infections and data breaches are inevitable, then why should organizations even try to be proactive? Isn't a reactive stance more appropriate? Not so, says Marcin Kleczynski, CEO of Malwarebytes. In an interview about proactive malware detection, Kleczynski discusses: Why it's not enough to react to...

Incident Response: Lessons Government Can Learn from Industry

Government agencies used to be the top attack target, as well as the top source of threat intelligence. How did the private sector turn the tables, and what can government do to improve? Rapid7's Wade Woolwine offers insight. One of the biggest security gaps exposed by recent high-profile breaches? Government's...