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Close Security Gaps to Avoid a Data Breach

The cost of a data breach can throw businesses into turmoil and derail careers. And that cost continues to rise. The potential for significant damage is massive on servers like IBM's Power Systems servers running IBM i, because they're widely used for database management, financial data processing, and business...

Risk To Your Organization's Reputation

A lot of the risk to an organization's reputation is caught up in how an organization is able to respond to a cyber attack. Over the years, organizations have suffered serious consequences from a cyber attack. They've lost a lot of data, and the public response to those incidents has really further damaged the...

A Modern Security Assessment Model that Breaks from Tradition

Security professionals think in terms of risks and threats to ensure that the right security measures are deployed in the right places and to a proper degree. Security teams need an evaluation process to help them determine whether an object is under-protected or over-protected, but traditional security assessment...

Assess, Manage and Respond to Security Risks in Heathcare

Despite being one of the most heavily regulated industries, Healthcare companies still struggle to assess their risk at more than a surface level. A good assessment has to include people, policies, procedures, controls and technologies. The task is daunting but increasingly critical. Download this case study...

Why Reputational Risk Management Matters

When it comes to breach preparation, it isn't just about protecting IT assets. Increasingly, the conversation is about reputational risk management, says Jacob Olcott of BitSight Technologies. In an interview about reputational risk management, Olcott discusses: The intersection of cybersecurity with...

The Rise of Cyber-Overconfidence in C-Suites

A RedSeal-72Point study of 200 CEOs about their perceptions of cybersecurity posture discovered that many are dangerously unrealistic about how vulnerable they are. In fact, more than 80 percent displayed "cyber naiveté," allowing their organizations to be exposed to cyber-attack. This study reveals the...

Implementing Practical Security Assessments; A How-to Guide

Organizations are scrambling to identify security weaknesses before their adversaries do. Having a consistent, systematic, and scalable methodology to properly assess your environment is essential. To begin you need a solid understanding of the organization, its components, what it relies on, and what could cause it...

2017 State of IBM i Security Study; Don't Leave Your Data Vulnerable

Another day, another data breach in the news. Ransomware at a hospital, the latest IRS breach, a phishing scam at Snapchat . . . you tune out the details. For every breach that makes headlines, dozens of other organizations have had data stolen or corrupted by hackers...or even their own users. Cyberthreats become...

When Malware Attacks Your IBM i, AIX, and Linux Servers; True Stories From the Field

Businesses around the world are seeing an increase in malware attacks, including ransomware like CryptoLocker, Locky, and zCrypt. These attacks can result in weeks of downtime, and some of the most damaging data breaches originated with malware, including the Target breach in 2014. A robust malware defense could...

Best Practices for the Alignment of Hybrid Cloud Security Initiatives

Hybrid clouds represent the new normal for data centers, which, in turn, warrants a new security model that needs to be grounded in an understanding about what is different about cloud infrastructure. IT and security professionals are well aware of the need to retool for this new normal. Given strong adoption of...

Cerber Reigns as King of Ransomware; Where did Locky Go?

In 2016, there were two contenders for king of ransomware: Locky and Cerber. So far in 2017, we've seen a massive shift in the battle between these two families, with Locky basically dropping out entirely and Cerber expanding its market share by a significant amount. New families such as Spora are emerging as well,...

What You Should Expect From Malware in 2017

Ransomware grabbed headlines in 2016, becoming the favorite attack used against businesses. However, ad fraud malware and botnets infecting Internet of Things (IoT) devices to launch massive DDoS attacks also became serious threats. So what should you expect from malware in 2017? Download the 2017 State of Malware...

The Future of AI and Machine Learning; A New Beginning for Endpoint Security Testing

Cyberattacks are evolving at a much faster pace than the traditional security solutions can adapt to...so we must run to catch up. Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) assist a behavioral model of threat detection in an industry-leading alternative to traditional methods of endpoint security test suites....

Security Intelligence and Analytics in the Public Sector

Cyber threats are constantly evolving, and federal government agencies must operate under the assumption that a motivated adversary can and will infiltrate their network environments. A security intelligence and analytics platform can simplify an agency's approach to cybersecurity by unifying and analyzing disjointed...

Managing Business Email Compromise and Impostor Threats to Keep Your Organization Protected

Since 2015, more than 22,000 organizations have fallen victim to business email compromise (BEC) attacks. The FBI estimates that organizations have lost an estimated USD $3.08 billion to these attacks. Download this guide to protect your organization by learning: How BEC works and why it succeeds: the targets and...