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Buyer's Criteria for Next-Generation Network Security

Next-generation network security devices provide comprehensive contextual awareness and deeper analysis of network traffic. This complete contextual awareness, combined with security automation, provides the visibility and agility necessary to keep pace with today's fluid IT environment, increasing network speeds and...

Sponsored by Sourcefire Network Security

Case Study - Protect your Organization from Malware Attacks

This leading U.S.-based utility is consistently under regular attack from advanced malware. Its existing endpoint protection product was detecting and eliminating some threats. However, the recurrence frequency and unexplained network activity indicated that it wasn't providing a view of the full infection, nor...

25 Years of Vulnerabilities: 1988-2012

What has been the most important type of vulnerability in the last 25 years? What percentage of total vulnerabilities did this represent? Which browser truly had the most critical vulnerabilities? In this research, Yves Younan, senior research engineer with Sourcefire's Vulnerability Research Team (VRT), answers these...

Implementing DSD'S Top 35 Mitigation Strategies

Simple fact - governments across the globe have been victims of attacks in one form or another. The frequency of these attacks has varied and the motives range from a self-deluded intention of doing good for society, to monetary or political gain or for no other reason than to demonstrate the ability to pull off such...

GRC Reference Architecture

Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) represents a business oriented approach to establishing ownership and accountability throughout the organization to improve decision making. While this may seem straightforward, establishing a GRC program within an organization is not a simple task. It is also not a new...

Building an Intelligence-Driven Security Operations Center

The openness of today's networks and the growing sophistication of advanced threats make it almost impossible to prevent cyber attacks and intrusions. And even with the rise in cyber attacks with debilitating effects continue to impact the everyday operations of organizations industry-wide, security teams face ...

Getting Real About Security Management & Big Data

When dealing with "Big Data," the volume and types of data about IT and the business are too great to process in an ad hoc manner. Moreover, it has become increasingly difficult to secure meaningful information from the data being collected. Despite significant investment in information security, attackers appear...

Sponsored by Webroot

Managing Web Security in an Increasingly Challenging Threat Landscape

The rise of mobility, BYOD and social networking is increasingly driving cybercriminals to exploit vulnerabilities in browsers and mobile apps. Every day more than 30,000 mostly legitimate websites become infected with malware. From drive-by downloads to spear phishing to XML injection, web-borne threats represent a...

Sponsored by Webroot

Phishing 2.0 - How Web Security Can Protect Your Company

Today's spear-phishing attacks are highly targeted, technically sophisticated and represent a real threat to data security. Attackers can leverage information gleaned from social media to tailor messaging to individual targets, and can convincingly imitate legitimate senders. A successful attack compromises the...

Sponsored by Webroot

The Wild, Wild West of Mobile Apps

This whitepaper explains how exploding mobile threats challenge mobile device management (MDM) vendors, carriers, service providers, and app stores to ensure the safety of apps. Consumers and customers will hold these companies responsible for providing adequate security, and employees will expect enterprise IT...

Sponsored by Webroot

Malicious Mobile Apps: A Growing Threat in 2013 and Beyond

With the exploding use of mobile devices and BYOD, mobile apps represent a major new threat. This infographic reveals some surprising facts about malicious mobile apps, including where they come from, what they do and what other IT pros are thinking about them. Below are some key highlights: 73% of IT pros expect...

Sponsored by Webroot

Web Threats - Is Your Company Exposed?

This infographic gives a quick visual representation of some of the key findings of recent Webroot research on web security in the U.S. and UK. The findings highlight the significant costs that web threats pose to businesses - such as increased help desk support - and the risks especially for companies with no web...

Sponsored by Webroot

Mobile Browsing - Is Your Company at Risk?

This infographic gives a quick visual representation of some of the key findings of recent Webroot research on web security in the U.S. and UK. As cybercriminals increasingly exploit vulnerabilities in mobile browsers and apps, companies with mobile workforces face new challenges in protecting users and critical data....

Sponsored by Webroot

Survey: Remote Users Expose Companies to Cybercrime

Webroot conducted research on web security in the U.S. and the UK. As remote users expand the security perimeter, the majority of companies reported significant effects in the form of increased help-desk time, reduced employee productivity and disruption of business activities. The impacts of web-borne attacks are...

Sponsored by Webroot

Survey: Web Threats Expose Businesses to Data Loss

Webroot commissioned a study to gauge the prevalence of web-borne attacks, their consequences and how IT pros are responding. Among the results: the vast majority of companies surveyed experienced one or more types of web-borne attacks in 2012. The survey report also includes recommendations - such as deploying a...

White Papers

Buyer's Criteria for Next-Generation Network Security

Case Study - Protect your Organization from Malware Attacks

25 Years of Vulnerabilities: 1988-2012

Implementing DSD'S Top 35 Mitigation Strategies

GRC Reference Architecture

Building an Intelligence-Driven Security Operations Center

Getting Real About Security Management & Big Data

Managing Web Security in an Increasingly Challenging Threat Landscape

Phishing 2.0 - How Web Security Can Protect Your Company

The Wild, Wild West of Mobile Apps

Malicious Mobile Apps: A Growing Threat in 2013 and Beyond

Web Threats - Is Your Company Exposed?

Mobile Browsing - Is Your Company at Risk?

Survey: Remote Users Expose Companies to Cybercrime

Survey: Web Threats Expose Businesses to Data Loss

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