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Prevent Spear Phishing: A Four-Phase Framework

If your organization has intellectual property, customer data, or critical systems that are valuable, your employees are being targeted with spear phishing emails. To help security leaders strategically manage their defensive posture, we have created a four-phase framework that spans relevant security layers from the...

Unlocking Business Success: The Five Pillars Of User Risk Mitigation

When desktops ruled the enterprise, employers may not have claimed to have absolute control over their workers' usage of technology and data. But they surely could contain it. Today, this seems like something from a far-away age, even though it was accepted as reality just a decade ago. Download this white...

Defeating The Threat Within

Whether employees are negligent or malicious, IT security teams (and ultimately, CISOs) are responsible for protecting the organization from breaches and risky behavior. But outdated, traditional security solutions don't offer enough protection from threats inside organizations. Security professionals need a new...

Cyber Dwell Time and Lateral Movement

The launch of email, the expansion of networking and data sharing, along with the introduction of the domain name system, has created technological, innovative opportunities for individuals, businesses, and governments worldwide. However, these opportunities also presented themselves to threat actors - criminals...

ESG Report: Continuous Sensitive Data Monitoring

Ask any cyber-security professional and they'll tell you that it's getting more difficult to prevent, detect, or respond to cyber-attacks, data breaches, and even data exfiltration. Why? The threat landscape continues to grow more dangerous while IT infrastructure becomes more complex with the addition of mobile...

Breach Preparation: Plan for the Inevitability of Compromise

You can't open a newspaper or visit an online news site these days without some mention of a cyber attack or data breach. These activities are becoming more prevalent, and as a result, the reporting of these activities is also on the rise. Bit9 + Carbon Black reached out to a series of experts to collect their...

Cyber Security Intelligence Index

Significant threats and massive breaches make front-page news on a regular basis, leaving businesses and consumers wondering whether their data could ever be considered safe again. Major vulnerabilities have been found lurking in well-known applications, many of which had been dormant for more than 10 years. Once...

The Cybercrime Economics of Malicious Macros

Attack techniques come and go as technology and user behaviors change and defenses adapt to new threats - and sometimes take their eye off old ones - and the return of malicious macros offers an opportunity to examine and understand the drivers behind these adaptations, an exercise that is equal parts business case...

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Email Risk: By The Numbers

Today, spam and anti-virus aren't enough to protect your organization-criminals have access to them as well. Attacks are now targeted, expertly crafted and well funded. Download this infographic to understand the security risks of inbound and outbound email and solutions for these problems.

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Five Strategies For Email Data Loss Prevention For Retailers

Email is the primary source of communication for most retail organizations and their employees. Everyone has email, everyone uses email and it not only serves as a method of communication but can act as a de facto knowledge management system as well. Keeping both personal and organizational information secure should...

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Picking A Sensible Mobile Password Policy

Defining an enterprise mobile device passcode policy can be surprisingly difficult. Security managers must attempt to reconcile two opposing goals. They must create a passcode policy that is strong enough to protect the device if it is lost or stolen, while not annoying users with needless length or complexity. ...

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The Right Way To Do Exchange In The Cloud

For the past decade, front office and back office systems such as CRM, payroll, and document management have gradually moved to the cloud. That change has been relatively seamless. But now enterprises are contemplating and executing the migration of once immovable major systems that have been ensconced inside the...

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The Business Value Of Managed Security Services

For many organizations, outsourcing network security services appears to be a logical choice. You avoid hardware, licensing, and maintenance costs; you benefit from around-the-clock security monitoring and management from dedicated security experts; and you free up your in-house IT staff to pursue activities core to...

Applying Threat Intelligence to the Star Wars' Battle of Yavin

Cyber Jedis know that Star Wars provides a wealth of incidents worthy of study. In fact, the entire story of Episode IV: A New Hope centers around the response to and consequences of a data breach, culminating in the destruction of the Death Star. If the Empire had been able to make sense of the intelligence they...

Threat Intelligence Platforms

Today's threat environment is complex and dynamic. Organizations today face Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) and organized, criminally motivated attacks launched by adversaries with the tools, training, and resources to breach most conventional network defense systems. These incursions are not conducted as...