Page 199 - White Papers in Governance & Risk Management

Preventing Targeted Attacks: Security Recommendations and Mitigation Efforts

Cybersecurity is a major concern in both the private and public sectors. Targeted attacks aimed at commercial and government organizations are on the rise, in both frequency and severity. In recent years, threat actors have become increasingly focused on targeting corporations to obtain sensitive information for...

Customer Service and Fraud Protection - the Great Dichotomy

Financial crimes can be complex, often spanning national borders. Combatting them involves a range of challenges, including: Correctly identifying a bank's "customer"; Understanding hidden patterns and relationships among customers; Covering the cost of investigations and compliance reporting; Reducing false...

The ROI of Fighting Fraud

A penny saved is a penny earned, as Benjamin Franklin made familiar in Poor Richard's Almanac in 1737 - and every penny of fraud loss recovered (or better yet, avoided) goes straight to the organization's bottom line. Present-day examples span the gamut of industries. The losses are in the billions and growing -...

Social Media Hacks: Techniques, Detection, and Prevention Methods

"Social media hack": these words have become synonymous with embarrassing front-page news stories featuring major companies and figures who have fallen victim to misuse of their designated community channels. As social media has risen in popularity, hackers have realized that it's a ripe target. Facebook,...

The Performance Benefits of Centralized Anti-Malware Agents

If every VDI instance is running a full anti-malware agent, rather than being centralized and deduplicating into a single agent on a dedicated virtual appliance, there will be a measurable performance impact that immediately puts the viability of VDI projects in jeopardy. This paper outlines how the impact of...

How Malware Writers Are Taking Advantage of Virtualization

As virtualization projects continue to accelerate, organizations are discovering they have changed how datacenters are architected, built, and managed. With this evolution, there are areas of security concern organizations must address as they move, ever-increasingly, to rely on virtualization. It is important to...

Securing the Virtual Infrastructure without Impacting Performance

Virtualization offers remarkable benefits to organizations. However, organizations that are aggressively pursuing virtualization are not realizing the full possible return on investments in virtualization. However, too often, organizations don't consider the need to identify new endpoint antimalware solutions. ...

The Challenges of Email Encryption

Not all email encryption solutions are created equal. Some can compromise ease-of-use and force users-both your employees sending encrypted email and your customers and partners receiving encrypted email-to jump through hoops. What once was a fast communication tool can become a frustrating barrier to business. The...

How to Implement an Effective BYOD Policy

In evaluating current or future BYOD policies and deployments, it's important to recognize that your industry regulations, employee needs and company culture should play a significant role in determining how your company enables BYOD. One approach does not suit all companies. Even within a company, you may...

Understanding Optimism Bias of Security Performance

Without the ability to benchmark security performance against peers and industry averages, businesses can suffer from optimism bias. To understand optimism bias of cybersecurity performance, we asked IT professionals about their organization's performance relative to industry peers. Survey respondents included IT...

Virtualization Security Options: Choose Wisely

For virtualization security, there's no one size fits all solution...and trying to fit your organization's specific needs into the wrong security product can be a costly mistake. Do you know how to pick the right option for your organization? A new whitepaper from Kaspersky Lab, Virtualization Security Options:...

Protection from the Inside: Application Security Methodologies Compared

Applications are a primary target for cyber attacks. Historically, Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) have been a popular choice for protecting production applications from attack. But they have their limitations, and advice on how to bypass a WAF is readily available. Learn how context from within the application...

Work Smarter, Not Harder, to Secure Your Applications

The most recent HP Security Cyber Risk Report revealed that vulnerabilities in production software are still pervasive. Finding software vulnerabilities is only part of the battle; actually fixing those vulnerabilities can sometimes be an elusive goal, especially when you lack access to the code. Using Runtime...

Politically Exposed Persons - How Are You Handling the Risks?

Heightened money laundering risks are posed globally by individuals who are considered to be Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs), but how can you best assess how relations with PEPs could impact your organisation? The latest whitepaper from LexisNexis Risk Solutions is designed to clarify the due diligence...

Rebuilding Customer Trust in Breach Response: The Do's and Don'ts

Against an unrelenting drumbeat of increasingly sophisticated security and fraud attacks, most organizations now understand that a professional, efficient response to a data breach is the difference between a customer uprising and an opportunity to quickly reestablish trust. However, every minute matters and every...