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Millennials: A Tsunami of Risk for Federal Agencies?

Federal agencies face rising threats as more millennials enter the workforce. Almost two-thirds also use their personal devices for their work. More than 60% of millennials won't take a job without unrestricted access to their social media platforms and more than 40% use the same password for multiple devices and...

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Rise Above the Risk: Privileged Users in the Federal Sector

Privileged users can be an agency's riskiest employees, as many have access beyond their roles or responsibilities. Moreover, current security platforms often fail to provide the necessary context to show if an incident is caused by an insider. What is your agency doing to address potentially high-risk employees and...

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The New Digital Battlefield: 2017 Security Predictions

The world is transforming, blending the physical and digital into an age of convergence. Is your agency prepared for the resulting security challenges? Drawing upon the deep resources of both Forcepoint Security Labs�� and Raytheon, the 2017 Forcepoint Security Predictions report investigates this new shift that blurs...

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Does Your NGFW Block 99.9% of Attacks, including AETs?

Forcepoint�� Stonesoft® NGFW earned a "Recommended" rating in the NSS Labs Next Generation Intrusion Prevention System (NGIPS) Comparative Report for overall security effectiveness, performance and TCO. Stonesoft outperformed IPS-only products while also providing next-gen/cloud-based firewalling, VPN connectivity,...

Insider Threat: How to Spot Risky Behavior

Despite high-profile leaks and the attention given to the insider threat, many organizations still fail to even see that they have an insider threat problem. Ajit Sancheti, CEO of Preempt, discusses what's needed to improve insider threat detection. It all starts with trust, Sancheti says. And sometimes, frankly, we...

The Six Core Competencies of a Successful Threat Intelligence Program

Building a threat intelligence team from the ground up can be riddled with political inertia. This whitepaper details how to merge operational and strategic capabilities to automate and analyze external attack data to identify current and future security threats. Discover the six core competencies that comprise a...

Malvertising, Ransomware and the Evolution of Cyber Threats

According to a recent report, barely one-third of global organizations feel prepared to handle a modern cyberattack such as malvertising or ransomware. Justin Dolly of Malwarebytes explains how security leaders can step up their game in 2017. Dolly, who is both CIO and CISO at Malwarebytes, says he is not surprised...

Would You Re-Hire Your IPS Today? What's Required in a Next-Gen Solution

The threat landscape certainly has changed in recent years. But can you say the same about the traditional intrusion prevention system."The biggest problem with IPSs today is that organizations are trying to fight today's threats with yesterday's solutions," says Bertone, who serves as CTO of Fidelis Cybersecurity....

Healthcare's ID Management Challenge

Synchronoss' Tracy Hulver on New Identity Strategies for Connected Healthcare Threats Attackers have healthcare entities in their crosshairs, and their favorite targets are easily compromised credentials. Tracy Hulver of Synchronoss Technologies offers new ideas for how security leaders can reduce risk and protect...

Is the CISO You Have the CISO You Need?

From top to bottom, today's CISO needs a wide-ranging set of skills to be successful in defending their organization against hackers in the current threat landscape. Whether you're thinking of replacing your current CISO, considering bringing one on board, or are interviewing for the role, you must have a thorough...

Don't Gamble on Staying Safe from Ransomware; You Can't Afford it!

If ransomware has not already had a significant impact on your organization, it is most likely because you have simply been lucky...so far. Almost half of entities in the U.S. have been hit this past year alone and have lost not only money, but also reputation, IT hours and in some cases, total business functionality....

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 to Operationalize Cyber Risk Management

While companies spend huge sums of money every year to maintain a security perimeter designed to fend off cyber and insider threats, daily reports of new data breaches are raising doubts about the effectiveness of these investments. One of the biggest challenges in cyber security today is how to manage the volume,...

Define Business Priorities for Remediation

Enterprises continue to find it a challenge to address vulnerabilities and susceptibilities to risk for the business on a wider scale. Although most enterprises employ a variety of cyber security tools and policies, many lack the visibility and cadence (or rhythm) to program and/or leverage a holistic organizational...

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...