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APT: The Best Defense Is a Full Spectrum Offense

APT attacks have led to highly visible security breaches at Target and other well-known organizations. This whitepaper explores three approaches for combating the critical APT lifecycle stages - protect, detect and remediate. The whitepaper also highlights how multi-tenant cloud solutions are better equipped than...

Insider Threat 2015: The Human Factor

Most advanced attacks rely as much on exploiting human flaws as on exploiting system flaws. Proofpoint developed this report, The Human Factor, to explore this under-reported aspect of enterprise threats using data gathered from the Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection product deployed in customer environments,...

Magic Quadrant for Secure Email Gateways

As advanced threats increase in frequency and sophistication, it's never been more important to secure your organization's email, by far the number one threat vector. Named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Secure Email Gateways, Proofpoint uniquely combines a world class email gateway solution with the...

The Cybercrime Economics of Malicious Macros

Attack techniques come and go as technology and user behaviors change and defenses adapt to new threats - and sometimes take their eye off old ones - and the return of malicious macros offers an opportunity to examine and understand the drivers behind these adaptations, an exercise that is equal parts business case...

Office 365 Playbook: How to Ensure Security through Cloud Access Security Brokers

While Microsoft Office 365 includes some native security capabilities, things like protecting user passwords or how employees gain access to Office 365 are the customer's responsibility. This playbook provides you with a practical guide for defining, developing and executing an Office 365 security plan. It includes...

Data Protection: Security Analytics

Chapter 7 of Intelligent Cloud Data Protection says "With the vast majority of data breaches due to compromised user credentials, it is not enough to simply encrypt information. Access to encrypted data through the StratoKey gateway is constantly analyzed and profiled to detect a vast array of threats and...

Rule-Based Countermeasures for Suspicious User Activity

The conduit between user access and protected data is a known target. This is where the StratoKey countermeasure engine comes into play. The countermeasure engine is a rules based engine where administrators can set what essentially amount to firewall rules. These rules can be benign such as IP range specifications,...

The Enterprise at Risk: The 2015 State of Mobility Security

When it comes to mobility, enterprises are not nearly as secure as their security leaders believe them to be. Read this global survey of nearly 400 information security executives to learn why organizations are currently ill-prepared to: Defend their critical data Deploy security controls to evolve with...

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The Evolution of Ransomware - An In-Depth Analysis

Today, ransomware has emerged as one of the most troublesome malware categories of our time. In this research, Symantec looks at how different types of ransomware work, not just from a technological point of view but also from a psychological viewpoint. The research also examines how these threats evolved, what...

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Protecting Corporate Information in the Cloud

Cloud applications and technologies are becoming increasingly mainstream across organizations worldwide: Two-thirds of global executives now have a cloud strategy in place within their organization. While the majority of executives realize the benefits, data security and privacy concerns remain the biggest challenges...

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Securing the Cloud

With the increased usage of mobile devices, the IT model is changing and it is important for organizations to provision information on a just-what's-needed, just-in-time basis from centralized servers consolidated in the cloud. However, this must be executed properly to avoid a data breach. Download this...

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Forrester: Use Actionable Threat Intelligence to Protect Your Digital Business

Threat intelligence may be one of the most over-hyped capabilities within information security because depending on whom you ask you are always going to get a different answer. Every security vendor markets and espouses the virtues of their approach to actionable intelligence, but what is most important is security...

The Impact of the SecOps Gap

The old ways of implementing security and compliance mandates are no longer acceptable and the risk of high profile breaches has never been greater. With increased pressure on budgets, fewer resources and increasingly frequent audits, you need to find new ways to close security loopholes and reduce the window of...

Tips to Avoid the Seven Deadly Sins of Mobile Security

A secure and productive mobility strategy is a game changer for any business in today's connected world. It's becoming more imperative for users to gain access to corporate data on their mobile devices both inside and outside of the corporate network but enterprises need to be cautious before allowing the widespread...

Gartner Critical Capabilities for High Security Mobility Management

Understanding the common mobility use cases and security requirements is paramount when planning an organization's mobility strategy. And, with security breaches are at an all-time high, Gartner has released its inaugural Critical Capabilities for High Security Mobility Management report1*, providing IT leaders with...