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Mobile Malware: Securing Enterprise Data

The volume of new malware that is specifically targeting mobile devices is growing at an almost exponential rate. The nature of many of the new malware attacks is also becoming increasingly sophisticated - as cybercriminals recognize the value of the information that they can steal from mobile devices. Even though the...

The Power Of Advanced Analytics In Healthcare

Like every major industry, the U.S. healthcare system is just beginning to understand the implications of big data. The potential benefits are enormous, with senior management consulting firm McKinsey & Company recently estimating that big data solutions could save American healthcare companies as much as $300 billion...

How to Reduce Healthcare Fraud by Leveraging Big Data

The rise of big data is more than a technical challenge. It's a business imperative. Companies in every industry are actively harnessing the volume, variety, and velocity of multistructured data across a broad range of channels for sustained competitive advantage. In the U.S. healthcare industry, companies have...

NSS Labs Report - Data Center Firewall

NSS Labs released their new methodology in 2014 for Data Center Firewall testing. In contrast to historic Network Firewall evaluations, vendors are subject to heavier Data Center core network traffic, including a higher minimum firewall threshold of at least 40 Gbps throughput, high volumes of server-to-server...

NSS Labs Breach Detection Report

It seems every vendor is marketing a solution to challenges posed by Advanced Persistent Threats and Targeted Attacks as Data Breaches stemming from sophisticated cyber threats routinely making the news. Sandboxing, payload analysis, emulation "fire" this and "fire" that whatever you call them, solutions to detect...

Breach Prevention Tactics: How to Eliminate Stored Passwords

What would happen if hackers got a hold of your database of credentials, but discovered that it didn't contain any passwords that were hashed or encrypted? Strong authentication credentials help prevent security breaches by eliminating the password hash file, thus making the "breachable" unbreachable. This white...

Next Generation Network Security Architecture for Healthcare

Healthcare providers are migrating from large, independent stand alone organizations to complex new ecosystems with provider organizations, affiliated physician groups, labs and business associates involved in both the provisioning of care, and the collection of vast amounts of information from patients. Health...

Guide to User-Friendly Email Encryption

For many organizations, unsecured email represents the most prolific source of threats to the enterprise. And as the gateway for phishing and targeted attacks, these attacks can also be some of the most dangerous. Email encryption can reduce or remove much of the risk associated with email - but the barrier for...

The Importance of Managing Privileged Accounts

Organizations can substantially benefit by having a process in place for the use and management of administrative privileges. Read this white paper for tips on: Developing and enforcing policies for privileged accounts; Minimizing the use of shared administrative accounts; Verifying the privileges...

Real-world Identity and Access Management (IAM) for Unix-based Systems

Unix systems face special identity and access management (IAM) challenges. Read this informative white paper to: Learn about those issues; Find out how to overcome them with the right practices and tools; Enhance security, achieve compliance and improve operational efficiency....

IAM for the Real World - Privileged Account Management

Much of the focus of identity and access management (IAM) is concerned with easy and unobstructed access to a large population of end users with minimal disruption to IT operations. But the forgotten arm of IAM remains privileged account management (PAM). Read this e-book to: Discover why PAM can be a prime...

Blocking Foreign Espionage and Threats to Intellectual Property

Foreign espionage was a primary concern for a security team in the nuclear energy sector that needed to protect intellectual property and trade secrets from dedicated attackers. They needed a solution that would provide real time visibility at the network and endpoint layers, and detect previously unknown threats, as...

Leveraging Metadata for a Proactive Defense

All too often network security professionals are forced into an escalating workflow-an arms race remediating alerts (indicators of attacks) as they come in, instead of proactively hunting for the adversary-who is likely already in your network. Resource and time constraints, as well as a lack of visibility and the...

Comprehensive Advanced Threat Defense

The hot topic in the information security industry these days is "Advanced Threat Defense" (ATD). There are many definitions, and plenty of marketing hype and spin on the topic, but it is the science - and the art - of defending yourself against sophisticated, persistent adversaries who can get past (or have already...

Social Media and Compliance: Overview for Regulated Organizations

Social media is fast, ubiquitous, and in many cases produces measurable ROI to a business; however, it also poses significant risks that can become public and propagate virally. This whitepaper defines a clear road map for social media compliance. Learn how to: Meet regulatory compliance standards regarding social...