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Connected Governments and Agile Militaries: Meeting the Security Requirements of Today's Evolving Governments

Governments around the world are undergoing change. Whether reducing their data center footprints, virtualizing existing services to reduce costs and "go green", or advancing security to thwart today's advanced attacks in the field or at home, governments have different requirements of their cybersecurity solutions...

Protecting Payment Information with PCI DSS Version 3 Compliance

When a string of large-scale, high-profile retail data breaches hit last year, credit card data security stole the national spotlight and remains prominent in the minds of many consumers and industry leaders now. How can businesses better fortify their systems against the malicious activity of hackers, as well as...

Consumer Sentiment in the Wake of Mega Breaches

The last two years have seen the largest "mega" data breaches in history. In an attempt to better understand the effects these data breaches have on consumers. A study conducted by the Ponemon Institute, surveyed consumers on a variety of topics related to their feelings and behaviors in the wake of being a data...

Lessons Learned from the Trenches: Handling Mega Breaches

As the era of big data continues to march forward, so does the number of data breaches. In fact, studies indicate that companies are attacked an average of almost 17,000 times per year, and many of those attacks result in a quantifiable data breach. With this reality facing us, many security experts are...

Policymakers Renew Focus on Data Breach Laws

Despite being a top priority for the Obama administration and leadership in Congress over the past year, legislation to establish a national data security and breach standard remains undefined. Instead, risk managers and legal professionals are faced with a rough patchwork of state and sectoral laws - each with its...

Financial Services Firms and Energy Companies Vulnerable to Data-Breaching Malware

Financial services firms and energy companies - two industries highly targeted by cybercriminals - must move quickly to address their cybersecurity deficiencies and shore up their defenses against advanced malware threats. The research reveals: 72% of U.S. financial services and energy firms say they expect...

It's All About the App: Mobile Security That Helps Enable the Business

Users spend, on average, 82 percent of their mobile minutes with apps and just 18 percent with web browsers. It's the lean, restricted functionality of mobile apps that makes them both convenient and task-oriented - and a major reason why they're so attractive to consumers and businesses. But mobile app development...

Protecting Your Mid-Size Business from Today's Security Threats

Security breaches in large enterprises make the headlines, but 55 percent of small and mid-size businesses have also experienced a data breach. And 60 percent of small businesses fail within six months of falling victim to a cyber attack. This e-book examines the security challenges unique to mid-size...

The Importance of Reputation

A study by Verizon finds 86 percent of security breaches come from the outside. Spotting cyber attacks in your network means identifying the signature of known threats. Reputation data takes that one step farther by identifying communications coming from or going to known bad actors based on their...

Email Encryption, the HITECH Act, and Preventing Data Breaches

The burden of complying with regulations can be stressful, but the cost of a breach is too high to ignore. Whether you are a HIPAA-covered entity or business associate, the changes to HIPAA through the HITECH Act have expanded the privacy and security regulations affecting your organization, as well as penalties...

Tackling the DDoS Threat to Banking in 2014

DDoS attacks have undergone significant evolution. On the one hand, they have grown larger. But attackers are also harnessing more sophisticated technologies, such as headless browsers, that enable relatively small, short attacks to go undetected and wreak havoc on a bank's website. Another trend is the blending of...

Data Breach and DDoS: Security in a Faster Forward World

In addition to brute force/scale based attacks, attackers often probe for, and then take advantage of, application vulnerabilities to steal data or pursue financial gain. This means that, in addition to a Web security solution's scale and performance, organizations should consider how architecture and adaptability...

How to Prepare Your Infrastructure for DDoS Mitigation

In this jointly developed white paper from Fortinet and Ixia, you'll learn the basics of a DDoS attack, methods to mitigate them, and how to thoroughly test your defenses. Topics discussed include: How DDoS attacks work; Layer 3, 4 and 7 DDoS attack types and how they disable your network resources; How to...

The Need for Speed: 2013 Incident Response Analysis

From sophisticated new forms of malware to nation-state sponsored attacks and the advanced persistent threat, cybersecurity incidents have evolved at a rapid pace and are taking down entire networks, successfully stealing sensitive data and costing organizations millions to remediate. In this report, you'll receive...

DDoS Malware: A Research Paper

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) malware and tools threaten an organization's Internet-facing systems. This technical brief covers DDoS-enabled malware and several DDoS-specific tools, their capabilities and the network indicators they generate while performing the attack methods. It includes new attack vectors...