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Cybercrime Projected to Exceed $2 Billion by 2019: What You Need to Know

As defense stategies become stronger year after year, it seems as though the prevalence of malware is growing proportionately, projected to exceed $2 trillion by 2019 - a four-fold increase in the cost of security breaches over 2015.Posing a threat to every industry, profession, and company, malware not only...

Testing the Top 9 Market Leaders in Breach Detection: How They Measure Up

As the New Year unfolds, finding a breach prevention provider will be critical in order to safeguard an organization's assets. NSS Labs subjected nine cybersecurity market leaders to comprehensive, rigorous testing to determine how well each product handled current advanced threats and attack methods. All vendor...

Breach Detection Systems: Product Selection Guide

Breach detection systems (BDS) are security products that offer timely detection of threats. When evaluating these products, customers must take into account traditional factors, such as security effectiveness, deployment options, performance and administrative capabilities. Since cybercriminals prize new threats...

Global Adoption of Encryption; Is it Inevitable?

Encryption keeps data confidential, but we're left unprotected from threats that may be embedded in the data. In fact, encryption actually conceals these threats and adds network performance burdens for organizations that wish to inspect encrypted traffic. The first in a series on encryption, this technical brief...

Healthcare HIPAA Breach Violations of All Sizes Now Under Microscope

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) just celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2016 as one of the most significant pieces of healthcare-related legislation in U.S. history. Once viewed as a "paper tiger," it has taken many years for the full impact of HIPAA's data security provisions to be...

Cyber Threat Hunting Season is Now Open; Detect Attackers Already Inside Your Network

Determined cyber attackers invade even the best security defenses with the same stealth as wolves creeping up on sheep; if they make themselves known before you spot them, it's too late. Attackers only need to successfully invade once to cause serious damage, but preventing them all is simply not possible. By...

2017 Security Predictions from Malwarebytes; New Year, New Threats

Ransomware is going to get personal. Password managers will be huge targets. And we will see the rise of a whole new exploit kit. These are among the 2017 security predictions from Malwarebytes Laboratories. And because these attacks are going to continue to result in big headlines, cybersecurity is going to grow as...

Demystifying the Dark Web

By nature of its name, the so-called "dark web" has acquired a unique reputation. Danny Rogers of Terbium Labs discusses some of the key myths and realities about the dark web, as well as how organizations should monitor it. Why is this so important? The dark web has become a well-traveled marketplace for data...

How Effective Are Your Current Anti-Malware Tools for Keeping Endpoints Secure?

More than half of surveyed security leaders rate their organizations' current anti-malware protection above average or superior. And yet ... 54 percent say their organizations have experienced ransomware in the past year; 25 percent say they struggle with threat detection; 51 percent say their current anti-virus...

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How to Become HITRUST Certified

To help simplify the difficulties associated with HIPAA compliance, the Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST), a non-profit organization, collaborated with leaders in healthcare and information security to develop the HITRUST Common Security Framework (CSF). CSF is a certifiable security framework that scales...

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Prescription for Savings: Pharmaceutical Innovator Trusts the Cloud to Make Medicine Affordable

The rising cost of pharmaceuticals is an unfortunate reality that can render patients unable to afford medication. This struggle was evident to Dr. Michael Rae who created the Rx Savings Solutions app that helps consumers save on prescription costs. Dr. Rae is a medical expert, but since technology is not his forte,...

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'But I Was Compliant...' - Investing in Security for a Compliant Business

It's a story you'll watch unfold time and time again. The breach. The headlines. The confusion. The public apologies. The finger-pointing. And it's often followed by some form of the following statement: "But I was compliant." Compliance is never enough. The challenges are understandable, but taking the path of least...

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Case Study: HITRUST for HIPAA Compliance

The Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) began a search for a secure cloud solution for their Common Security Framework (CSF) application. CSF gives businesses the structure, detail and clarity needed to more efficiently and effectively meet healthcare regulatory compliance standards, including HIPAA. The...

Cybersecurity Primer for Banking and Finance

As stated in a recent issue of the FDIC's Supervisory Insights, the risks presented by cyber attacks have become "one of the most critical challenges [in the last decade] facing the financial services sector due to the frequency and increasing sophistication of cyber attacks." In just a year's time, 2014 to 2015,...

Closing the Biggest Hole in Web Application Delivery: Session Hijacking

Since the beginning of web application delivery, there has been an opportunity for fraudsters to get into the middle of a transaction and impersonate the legitimate user. Since the credentials used for this fraud are valid and "expected to be under the control of the real user," this type of impersonation has been...