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Ponemon: 2015 Cost of Data Breach Study (US)

What truly affects the cost of a data breach? This year's study examines the costs incurred by 62 U.S. companies in 16 industry sectors after those companies experienced the loss or theft of protected personal data and then had to notify breach victims as required by various laws. It is important to note the costs...

Security Essentials for CIOs: Ensuring a more secure future

In August of 2012, a group called "Cutting Sword of Justice" claimed responsibility for an attack using the Shamoon virus on 30,000 work stations at the Saudi oil giant, Aramco. The virus corrupted files and left machines unusable, shutting down the company's administration for a week. For CIOs, Shamoon and other...

2015 DDoS Impact & Response Study

DDoS attacks may be out of the headlines, but they have hardly disappeared as a significant business concern. In this new 2015 DDoS Impact & Response Study of organizations in the U.S. and UK, we find: 55% of respondents say they have experienced as many or more attacks as in the past year; 60% say the attacks...

RISK: How To Secure Your End of Life Servers

The End of Support (EOS) of Microsoft Windows Server 2003 in July 2015 will put millions of enterprise servers at risk. If your organization uses Microsoft Server 2003, the EOS will introduce serious security risks unless you are fully prepared to migrate to a new platform or put compensating controls in place....

How You Can Secure Your Physical & Virtual Servers Without Degrading Their Performance

Cloud computing and virtualization have transformed the way organizations should view server security. Although organizations have considerable interest in endpoint and network security, the modern datacenter, which includes physical and virtual servers and can also encompass cloud environments, remains a valuable but...

Forrester Report: Best Practices For Public Cloud Security

Security is, justifiably, a top concern about public cloud environments. Application developers are migrating to the cloud for the agility and speed that the cloud can provide. One thing that developers often do not account for in their cloud usage is the security of that cloud. It is up to cloud managers, with...

Is Antivirus Dead? Not So Fast.

Wondering whether antivirus is still relevant? Not sure whether you should purchase or renew your antimalware solution? Don't be fooled. ESET security researcher, Aryeh Goretsky, says today's security challenges demand a combination of defenses in addition to anti-malware, including encryption and multi-factor...

How to Evaluate Antivirus Software

While there's no "one size fits all" solution for every company, you can make the right choice for yours by evaluating your needs and getting free trials from multiple providers. Before you buy, read this expert opinion to get tips from ESET security researcher, Aryeh Goretsky, on selecting the best antivirus...

Protecting Financial Services Networks from the Inside-Out

Advanced Threats are taking advantage of the typical flat Internal Network of Financial Services firms. Once through the border defense, there is little to stop their spread and eventual extraction of valuable targeted assets. Because traditional firewalls have been architected to slower speeds of the Internet Edge,...

Strengthening Networks and Endpoints with Behavior-Based Protection

To help protect against the latest advanced threats, many organizations have opted to augment their traditional perimeter defenses (firewalls and anti-virus tools) with point solutions focused on threat detection. But these point solutions often target a single threat vector, leaving the organization exposed to other...

Operational Risk Management: A Guide to Harness Risk with Enterprise GRC

Today's business environment is fraught with risk. Economic, technology and market conditions affect organizations on a daily basis. The constantly changing "risk landscape" is a discussion point in headlines, industry forums, media outlets and board rooms - the disappearing perimeter to defend, the hackers, thieves...

Stolen Devices and Third-Party Vendors Continue to Lead to Breaches-June 2015 Report

In June 2015 the Healthcare sector once again received an overall SurfWatch Labs' risk score. On the vulnerability front, it was determined that most victims of the Stegoloader Trojan are North American healthcare organizations. The malware uses digital steganography to hide malicious code. Researchers believe...

Compliance Demystified. Definition, Standards & Implementation Guidelines

If you are an IT manager or administrator, you might have encountered compliance in this or that form. Though the topic is a hit these days, only few IT Pros can explain what compliance really means and what requirements it imposes on the IT processes within an organization. This free white paper is intended to...

Ten Features Every Web Application Firewall Should Provide

Web application firewalls protect data and applications against online threats. Because Web application firewalls are strategic, every organization must carefully evaluate their security, management, and deployment capabilities. This paper explains in detail the 10 features that every Web application firewall must...

Web Application Firewalls Are Worth the Investment for Enterprises

Firewalls and intrusion prevention systems don't provide sufficient protections for most public-facing websites or internal business-critical and custom Web applications. Here, we explain how Web application firewalls help security leaders better protect Web applications in their organizations.