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Five Key Technologies for Enabling a Cyber Resilience Framework

Cyber-resilience combines the best practices from IT security, business continuity, and other disciplines to create a business strategy more in line with the needs and goals of today's digital business.

Resiliency Orchestration with Cyber Incident Recovery

A business disruption caused by cyberattacks corrupting your critical data and configurations of your systems can be as damaging to an organization's financial well-being and reputation as data theft or a complete IT outage.

Disaster Recovery in the Hybrid Cloud

IT needs to be able to respond fast in an emergency, such as a natural disaster, or malware, security breaches, cyberattacks, and ransomware extortions that result in outages. Download this white paper to ensure your hybrid cloud is still available in the event of catastrophe by: Decoupling applications from...

Transform the Network to Streamline Disaster Recovery

Can you afford to lose $740,357? That's the average cost of a data center outage, according to the Ponemon Institute.* That's just one reason that IT needs to be able to respond fast in an emergency, such as a natural disaster, DNS attack, ransomware, malware, or any other type of outage. With a growing number of data...

Bank Employee Offering Insider Information

This case study illustrates how Digital Shadows helped the head of threat intelligence at a bank discover a user on the dark web claiming to be a bank employee selling access to high net worth individual's accounts. The fact that the seller appeared to be an employee, this threat was of heightened priority to this...

The Power of Identity in Financial Services

Technology, regulations and customer expectations all have evolved. What does this mean for how organizations secure identities?

The State of Organizations' Security Posture as of Q1 2018

As of Q1 2018, the global cybersecurity community finds themselves inundated with both internal and external advanced threat actors who are stealthier, more resilient and sadly, more effective than they have ever been before. Many organizations are coming to terms with deciding whether their security posture is...

Modernizing Malware Security with Cloud Sandboxing in the Public Sector

For public sector technology leaders evaluating technologies to combat malware attacks, this report offers important considerations for deploying cloud-based security. Ransomware and other data security threats are a serious concern for any organization, but the stakes are higher and the risks are greater for...

Ransomware Costing Organizations Billions as CIO's and CISO's Lose Their Jobs

There is no doubt that every organization now requires advanced malware protection. Even so, there are plenty of organizations that have either not yet implemented this protection, or have it only somewhat implemented. Do these organizations recklessly believe they won't be targeted? Do they think their investment in...

SSH Study: U.S., U.K. and Germany Executive Summary

A recently published 2017 survey of over 400 security professionals in the U.S., U.K. and Germany measured how well their organizations implemented security controls for SSH keys. The results show that most organizations are underprepared to protect against SSH-based attacks, with fewer than half following industry...

Physical and Virtual Devices: How Cybercriminals are Exploiting Machine-to-Machine Communications

"Machines" as we know them are going through an identity crisis. Our increased dependence on them is so profound that even the definition of machine is undergoing radical change. The number and type of physical devices on enterprise networks has been rising rapidly, but this is outstripped by the number of...

What is the Goal of Internet Separation?

In May 2017, the Singapore Government cut direct access to the Internet from its internal systems. This is a policy that is already adopted by Korean banks, many U.S. and U.K. military establishments, as well as the Japanese government. This is to protect government-owned computer systems from potential cyber threats...

Dark Web Research: Criminals Pay Top Dollar for Your Certificates

It's frightening what criminals can buy on the dark web, but it's even scarier that they may be buying your own security certificates to use against you. Venafi recently sponsored a six-month investigation into the sale of digital code signing certificates on the dark web. Conducted with the Cyber Security Research...

Threat Information Sharing: The Need for a Structured Approach

Developing safe and effective information sharing practices to foster greater interoperability presents big challenges. As information sharing becomes increasingly vital in building resilient cybersecurity, the need to put a strong, collaborative structure in place is critical. Although there are many options for...

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...