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Are You Still Using Proxies For URL Filtering? There Is a Better Way

Firewalls enforce network access via a positive control model, where only specific traffic defined in policies is granted access to the network while all other traffic is denied. Access Control Lists (ACLs) initially performed this functionality, often in routers, but their rudimentary approach gave way to dedicated...

Cybersecurity for Dummies eBook

APTs (advanced persistent threats) have changed the world of enterprise security and how networks and organizations are attacked. These threats, and the cyber-criminals behind them, are experts at remaining hidden from traditional security while exhibiting an intelligence, resiliency, and patience that has never been...

Cybersecurity Imperatives: Reinvent your Network Security

Cybersecurity has become a leading topic both within and beyond the corporate boardroom. To stop the escalation of cyber attacks, enterprises need a network security approach that is designed from the outset to enable the safe use of the applications and technologies required to support a thriving business. This...

Mobile Malware: Securing Enterprise Data

The volume of new malware that is specifically targeting mobile devices is growing at an almost exponential rate. The nature of many of the new malware attacks is also becoming increasingly sophisticated - as cybercriminals recognize the value of the information that they can steal from mobile devices. Even though the...

Transparent Encryption for Amazon Web Services

Moving to Amazon Web Services (AWS) can offload significant IT resource and cost burdens. However, you can't offload the ultimate responsibility for the security, privacy, and compliance of your data. This whitepaper delves into an approach to migrate sensitive data into AWS environments while ensuring...

NSS Labs Report - Data Center Firewall

NSS Labs released their new methodology in 2014 for Data Center Firewall testing. In contrast to historic Network Firewall evaluations, vendors are subject to heavier Data Center core network traffic, including a higher minimum firewall threshold of at least 40 Gbps throughput, high volumes of server-to-server...

NSS Labs Breach Detection Report

It seems every vendor is marketing a solution to challenges posed by Advanced Persistent Threats and Targeted Attacks as Data Breaches stemming from sophisticated cyber threats routinely making the news. Sandboxing, payload analysis, emulation "fire" this and "fire" that whatever you call them, solutions to detect...

Breach Prevention Tactics: How to Eliminate Stored Passwords

What would happen if hackers got a hold of your database of credentials, but discovered that it didn't contain any passwords that were hashed or encrypted? Strong authentication credentials help prevent security breaches by eliminating the password hash file, thus making the "breachable" unbreachable. This white...

Next Generation Network Security Architecture for Healthcare

Healthcare providers are migrating from large, independent stand alone organizations to complex new ecosystems with provider organizations, affiliated physician groups, labs and business associates involved in both the provisioning of care, and the collection of vast amounts of information from patients. Health...

The Importance of Managing Privileged Accounts

Organizations can substantially benefit by having a process in place for the use and management of administrative privileges. Read this white paper for tips on: Developing and enforcing policies for privileged accounts; Minimizing the use of shared administrative accounts; Verifying the privileges...

Real-world Identity and Access Management (IAM) for Unix-based Systems

Unix systems face special identity and access management (IAM) challenges. Read this informative white paper to: Learn about those issues; Find out how to overcome them with the right practices and tools; Enhance security, achieve compliance and improve operational efficiency....

IAM for the Real World - Privileged Account Management

Much of the focus of identity and access management (IAM) is concerned with easy and unobstructed access to a large population of end users with minimal disruption to IT operations. But the forgotten arm of IAM remains privileged account management (PAM). Read this e-book to: Discover why PAM can be a prime...

Blocking Foreign Espionage and Threats to Intellectual Property

Foreign espionage was a primary concern for a security team in the nuclear energy sector that needed to protect intellectual property and trade secrets from dedicated attackers. They needed a solution that would provide real time visibility at the network and endpoint layers, and detect previously unknown threats, as...

Leveraging Metadata for a Proactive Defense

All too often network security professionals are forced into an escalating workflow-an arms race remediating alerts (indicators of attacks) as they come in, instead of proactively hunting for the adversary-who is likely already in your network. Resource and time constraints, as well as a lack of visibility and the...

Comprehensive Advanced Threat Defense

The hot topic in the information security industry these days is "Advanced Threat Defense" (ATD). There are many definitions, and plenty of marketing hype and spin on the topic, but it is the science - and the art - of defending yourself against sophisticated, persistent adversaries who can get past (or have already...