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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...

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...

The Definitive Guide to Data Classification for Data Protection Success

InfoSec professionals will perennially be challenged with more to do than time, budget, and staffing will allow. The most effective method to address this is through prioritization, and in the case of your growing data, prioritization comes from data classification. In this guide you will learn what classification...

Meeting Stringent HIPAA Regulations: Your Guide To Safeguarding Patient Data

Since March 2016, the OCR has been increasingly aggressive in bringing enforcement actions against healthcare organizations who have had PHI compromised through data breaches. Get this guide to learn the important aspects of the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and how an appropriate...

The Definitive Guide to Data Loss Prevention

As security professionals struggle with how to keep up with threats, DLP - a technology designed to ensure sensitive data isn't stolen or lost - is hot again. This comprehensive guide provides what you need to understand, evaluate, and succeed with today's DLP. It includes insights from Forrester Research, Gartner,...

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...

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...

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....

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...

7 Critical Considerations for Choosing a Cloud Security Provider

The cloud is a network of servers housing data, software, and services. Cloud services are commonly accessed via the Internet, instead of locally in a data center. Keeping your data safe requires forward-thinking approaches to cybersecurity. Download this whitepaper to learn how you can augment your existing...

Rating the Security Performance of the Fortune 1000

BitSight Technologies has just concluded a new study that rates the cybersecurity performance of Fortune 1000 enterprises. What are the key takeaways? Data Scientist Jay Jacobs shares his analysis. One significant point: Despite the rash of high-profile breaches and the reality that organizations are dedicating...

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...

Endpoint Security: Creating Order from Chaos

The rapid evolution of malware and proliferation of solutions have created a state of chaos for security leaders, says Naveen Palavalli of Symantec. What strategy and solutions will help restore order to anti-malware defense? Feeding this sense of chaos is the sheer amount of malware being created, says Palavalli,...

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...