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Simplifying OS Migration

Upgrading to a new OS can be a significant headache for IT teams, taking up a lot of man-hours and IT budgets.

Streamlining and Standardizing Data Protection and Management

Computol is a technology provider with nearly 40 years of experience providing network management and data protection services. Today, the MSP manages these services for more than 30 clients across the USA, protecting 29 TB of data in the cloud alone.

Fraud Prevention in Financial Services: The Responsibility of Senior Management

Despite the harsh reality that card not present (CNP) fraud is a serious problem that which is only getting bigger, senior management is not giving this issue the attention that it deserves. Some executives fail to recognize the correlation between fraud management and the organization's overall growth and...

How to Stop Rejecting Perfectly Good Customers Over Fear of Fraud

The impact of chargeback rates is abundantly clear and easily measurable, but the financial impact of false declines - rejecting perfectly good customers over fear of fraud - is largely underestimated. In reality, these mistakes, which are all too common but difficult to track, end up costing merchants significantly...

Securing Corporate Communications: 2019 Survey Report

Not long ago, organizations could control their perimeter with relative ease. However, with companies looking toward digital transformation of business processes, myriad communication and collaboration apps are being adopted, even if they aren't given the official stamp of approval from security departments. How do...

Executive's Guide to Integrating SecOps and NetOps

Given today's increasing IT complexity and scale, it's become imperative to break down the barriers between Security and IT groups and align them

The State of Patient Identity Management: 2019 Survey Results Report

As part of healthcare's digital transformation, payers and providers alike have rolled out patient portals and telemedicine platforms to increase access to care, improve patient participation and decrease healthcare administrative costs. How secure are these portals? What types of authentication protocols are used to...

Closing the Cybersecurity Skills Gap: How to Address Skills and Capacity

Organizations across all sectors are experiencing the cybersecurity skills gap however, it's not just a skill deficit - it's a capacity gap that is widening, driven mainly by the fact that our networks are becoming more complex.They're more distributed, mobile- and cloud-enabled; therefore, it's becoming more of a...

Healthcare Cyber Heists in 2019

In this seminal report on the state of cybersecurity in the healthcare industry, 20 of the industry's leading CISOs share how attackers have evolved over the past year, the biggest concern these security leaders have and how confident they are in their cybersecurity programs.

Sponsored by Symantec

Machine Learning Enabled Security Services

Technological advances can support the work done by both large and small teams of information security professionals by streamlining many processes and tasks, and enhancing security efficiency. In short, there are technological solutions that help information security teams manage and mitigate advanced threats. These...

Sponsored by Symantec

Hit-and-Run Model of Breaching An Environment - Exfiltrating or Corrupting Data

Perhaps the most important measure that an organization can take is to shift its perspective on cybersecurity from one that focuses simply on perimeter defenses to one that also limits the dwell time of an attacker who manages to penetrate its environment. This shift limits the potential damage the attacker can...

Sponsored by Symantec

The Risks of Fileless Attacks: How the DNC National Convention was Hacked

One of the most famous security breaches in recent memory, the hack of the US Democratic National Convention email server, was conducted via fileless attack. The hack was comprised of targeted emails from seemingly legitimate sources that contained links to infected web pages, which subsequently allowed hackers to...

Sponsored by Symantec

2018 Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR)

Ransomware attacks, such as WannaCry and Petya, in which data is encrypted until a ransom is paid, are trending upward. As noted in the 2018 ISTR, although the number of ransomware families has decreased year over year, the number of ransomware variants has increased by 46 percent. This indicates criminal groups may...

Enterprise Network Architecture with Security in Mind

Network performance and security are vital elements of any business. Organisations are increasingly adopting virtualisation and cloud technologies to boost productivity, cost savings and market reach. With the added complexity of distributed network architectures, full visibility is necessary to ensure...

How does API Management Complement IAM?

Flat-out, traditional IAM practices are insufficient to secure a modern enterprise that relies on such diverse endpoints and connected devices. But API management can play a strong complementary role.