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5 Tips to Secure Small Business Backdoors in the Enterprise Supply Chain

Cybersecurity for the enterprise. There is no silver bullet. But as business becomes more connected and as data moves further outside the organizational walls, enterprises need look at weaknesses in the security chain - and a good place to start is in the supply chain. Think about how many small businesses, suppliers...

Outsmarting Hackers - Why You Need Both Strong and Risk-Based Authentication

Year after year, cyber threats continue to increase in both sophistication and frequency. One reason that data breaches are occurring is that passwords are created by people to identify themselves for multiple applications - from online banking accounts to a shopping site - and these passwords are valuable to...

Military-Grade Cyber Security

Our world has been radically transformed by digital technology - smart phones, tablets, and web-enabled devices have altered our daily lives, including the way we do commerce and manage our finances. At the same time, technology has enabled a new generation of criminals to gain access to information...

How Secure Do You Want to Be? Evaluating and Evolving Your Security Program

All too often, an enterprise invests in security technology and services thinking that they'll be protected from a cyber attack only to discover that they are breached anyway. It prompts some sober reflection and a reassessment of their whole approach to security. Businesses undertake a security program assessment...

5 Critical Ways To Take A More Collaborative Approach To IT Security

Studies show the average time to resolve a security breach once detected is more than 45 days, and companies lose more than $1.6 million during that time. The obstacles to faster response include lack of resources and an inability to effectively communicate and collaborate among the multiple teams and tools larger...

iOS 8 Readiness Checklist

The last iterations of Apple business dominating OS of choice gave IT new options in security and new concerns in how to manage information sharing. Download this checklist to assess: Business process readiness; Technical readiness; User readiness.

The Aragon Research Globe for Mobile Content Management

Content management is at a crossroads. More content is being accessed and shared on mobile devices than ever before. There has been a lot of focus on sharing files, but mobile content management (MCM) goes further to look at the spectrum of content and how it can be managed in the cloud, on mobile devices and in some...

Breaking the Cyber-Attack Chain at Strategic Chokepoints

Many organizations lack an effective defense against the multiple attack vectors cybercriminals use to target employees, compromise their devices, and gain access to enterprise networks and resources. The attack vectors are many and varied, from credentials theft, exploitation of application vulnerabilities and...

Breaches Happen: Be Prepared - A SANS Analyst White Paper

Attackers are leaving no stone unturned, prying into web applications, operating systems and even deeper in the hardware. They're taking advantage of conventional endpoints and mobile devices, slipping past and through network security, and even taking advantage of the human element operating the devices. In this...

Understanding the Enemy: Cybersecurity in the Oil and Gas Industry

There is no single adversary and no single threat to the information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) infrastructures of the oil and gas industry. Although the differing motives- notoriety, money, business advantage or military superiority- to an extent determine the targets of each category, the...

The Cybersecurity Maturity Model for Oil and Gas

A maturity model is a framework that allows an organization to assess the rigor of its security practices and processes according to industry best practices. This can help create a more robust security footing over time, reducing the number of successful cyber-attacks and enabling a quicker return to normal operations...

5 Steps to Building a Security Intelligence Center

Despite taking significant steps to strengthen their cybersecurity, banks and other financial services (FS) organizations will continue to be challenged by the speed of technological change and the sophisticated nature of cyber threats. Larger FS organizations who want to stay ahead of cyber criminals and reduce...

Web Application Attack Vectors: Delving into XXS and Shellshock Activity

In 2015, there were nine common web application attack vectors. They represent a cross section of many of the most common categories seen in industry vulnerability lists. The goal of this report is not to validate any one of the vulnerability lists, but instead to look at some of the characteristics of these...

6 Activities for an Effective Data Breach Preparedness Plan

This year more companies have a baseline data breach response plan in place. Since 2013, the percentage of organizations that reported having a data breach response plan increased from 61 percent to 81 percent. However, data breach response plans are often missing crucial steps. While it is encouraging to...

Establish Private Connections to the Cloud

For several years now, companies have been using the public Internet and cloud-based services like Web hosting and content delivery networks (CDNs) to deliver both the front-end customer experience and the back-end processing and functions to scale more quickly, improve performance, eliminate capital expenditures, and...