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A Proactive Approach to Protecting Corporate Email

Encryption makes the contents of email, both the message text and any attachments, indecipherable to unauthorized individuals. Encryption can be used in transit, so that if an unauthorized individual outside the company intercepts an email while it moves across the Internet it cannot be read. Encryption can...

Understanding the Enemy: Cybersecurity in the Oil and Gas Industry

There is no single adversary and no single threat to the information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) infrastructures of the oil and gas industry. Although the differing motives- notoriety, money, business advantage or military superiority- to an extent determine the targets of each category, the...

5 Steps to Building a Security Intelligence Center

Despite taking significant steps to strengthen their cybersecurity, banks and other financial services (FS) organizations will continue to be challenged by the speed of technological change and the sophisticated nature of cyber threats. Larger FS organizations who want to stay ahead of cyber criminals and reduce...

Web Application Attack Vectors: Delving into XXS and Shellshock Activity

In 2015, there were nine common web application attack vectors. They represent a cross section of many of the most common categories seen in industry vulnerability lists. The goal of this report is not to validate any one of the vulnerability lists, but instead to look at some of the characteristics of these...

6 Activities for an Effective Data Breach Preparedness Plan

This year more companies have a baseline data breach response plan in place. Since 2013, the percentage of organizations that reported having a data breach response plan increased from 61 percent to 81 percent. However, data breach response plans are often missing crucial steps. While it is encouraging to...

Healthcare: Where Are The Threats and How Are They Mitigated?

To know where healthcare IT security is going - and what it needs to protect in 2017 and beyond - it's instructive to take a look at where we've been. In general, compromised credentials remain the leading source of intrusion across industries. Specific to healthcare, the top three sources of unauthorized data...

GDPR Compliance Checklist: What You Need To Know Even If You Are Not in The EU

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect on May 25, 2018 to protect the privacy rights of people from the European Union (EU). The new regulatory regime governs how businesses and government institutions must handle the sensitive personal data of EU citizens, and levies substantial fines on...

Next-Generation Firewall Buyer’s Guide

Data and users are everywhere: on your network, in the cloud and working remotely. The result is an incredibly complex network environment that, historically, has significantly increased your business risk. You can minimize this risk with the right next-generation firewall (NGFW) platform – one that leverages...