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Using Identity and Access Governance to Mitigate Data Breach Risks

While nearly three-quarters of cybersecurity professionals would grade their organization's ability to identify and mitigate a cyberattack, as above average or superior, nearly half have been subject to a spear-phishing attack and a third have suffered a malware incident in the last year. Further, over half of...

Cyber Confidence: Building a Trustworthy Security Posture

When it comes to the organization's overall security posture, which includes the technology stack but also incorporates elements such as procedures, processes and human behaviors, the confidence of the security professionals we interviewed was far from strong. In fact, 70% expressed some sort of dissatisfaction,...

The SOAR Buyer's Guide (Chinese Language)

Investing in a Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) platform is a wise and highly strategic decision in combination with your Splunk deployment. But do you know what criteria you should consider when evaluating which SOAR platform to choose? Download your complimentary copy of "The SOAR Buyer's...

Skills Shortage: Assessing the True Impact

The global cybersecurity skills shortage is real, and it's deeply impacting organizations' abilities to implement and manage new technology tools. But worse, it's also affecting how organizations assess their adversaries. What does the security team need to do? What requires protecting in the business? Where is it,...

PSD2: An Opportunity to Innovate and Lead

In the past decade, financial institutions have undergone a significant digital transformation - delivering new levels of customer convenience and services through online and mobile channels. However, this represents just the beginning of an even greater change. Read this white paper to learn more about...

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...

Simplify the the Federal OPSEC Mission with Security Intelligence

Cyber threats pose a risk to federal agencies accomplishing their designated missions. By following best practices to simplify security intelligence, an agency reduces the burden on its security operations team and allows technology to do the work of surfacing and responding to cybersecurity threats. Download this...

How to Use GRC for PCI DSS Compliance

Implementing and maintaining Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is challenging in today's complex business and technology environments. Many financial institutions only partially comply. By incorporating PCI DSS into a holistic governance, risk and compliance (GRC) program, financial institutions...

Best Practices for Audit and Compliance Reporting for Power Systems Running IBM i

It's not enough to comply with government and industry regulations such as SOX, PCI, MICS, and HIPAA. Organizations must also prove their compliance to auditors on a regular basis. Even companies not bound by regulatory requirements may need to confirm their adherence to internal IT security policies. But...

The Rise of Ransomware

The drop in value of stolen payment cards caused cyber criminals to adopt new tools, foremost among them ransomware. Having already caused a financial drain of $209,000,000 in just one quarter, organizations of all sizes are at risk. Download this infographic to see: Why ransomware-as-a-service is a new risk; The...

The Value of a Multi-layered Approach to Security

Organizations must adopt a multi-layered, defense-in-depth approach to online security to combat today's threat landscape. Rather than relying on just one or two of the so-called 'next-gen' techniques in isolation, a robust, multi-layered approach should involve a vast array of signature- and non-signature based...

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...

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...

'But I Was Compliant...' - Investing in Security for a Compliant Business

It's a story you'll watch unfold time and time again. The breach. The headlines. The confusion. The public apologies. The finger-pointing. And it's often followed by some form of the following statement: "But I was compliant." Compliance is never enough. The challenges are understandable, but taking the path of least...

What Did You Do in School Today Junior? An Analysis of Application Usage On K-12 School Networks

Schools are embracing the use of technology to cut costs, to perform research, roll out computer-based classes and exercises and to compete for students. At the same time, the school administration is being asked by parents, state, local, regional or even federal governments to make sure that students and faculty are...