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The Attack Continuum's In-Depth Defense Strategy

For many years, conventional wisdom focused solely on a perimeter-based defense with the mission to keep out all attackers. Now, it's become pertinent to see these persistent threats and attacks through a different lens - expect a successful attack and penetration of your defenses and design a defense-in-depth...

Top 10 Key Considerations Before Investing in Web Security

Recent years have seen a dramatic rise in the scale and severity of web attacks. SQL injection attacks are occurring more frequently than ever, and Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are happening on a much larger scale. The effects of these attacks extend long past the assault itself - in terms of lost revenue,...

Case Study: How Financial Services Firms Can Defend Against DDoS Attacks

DDoS attacks against financial firms have continued to grow in size and frequency. The specific tactics and sophistication of the attacks have evolved rapidly. Outages have prevented customers and prospects from opening new accounts, viewing account and billing information, conducting online transactions and accessing...

Case Study: Web Protection and Performance in the Age of Cyberthreats

This white paper explores the challenges and solutions of fighting cybercrime in the financial industry with strategies that match improving the overall customer experience with the need to maintain resilient and efficient security infrastructures. The content, guidance, and opinions in this paper are drawn from a...

Patch Management 101: How to Prevent High-Risk Security Breaches

Managing and administering software updates remains one of the most challenging, tedious and resource-intensive tasks an IT Department undertakes on a daily basis. The constantly evolving software landscape makes patch management an important consideration for all IT decision makers, regardless of the organization...

2012 Global Encryption Trends Report

This 2012 Global Encryption Trends Report, based on the independent research by the Ponemon Institute, reveals that encryption continues to be viewed as a strategic issue and that organizations are increasing their investment in encryption across the enterprise in response to compliance regulations and...

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What's Your Organization's Plan When Malware Sneaks in?

A full 60% of organizations haven't done the basics. Read this ESG Brief, Advanced Malware Protection Must Extend to Incident Detection and Response, and discover: How your organization's incident response steps stack up Why 'stop the bleeding' approaches are inadequate A 5-step process to enhance your...

Six Obvious Threats to Data Security You Haven't Really Addressed

You think your environment is secure, but it isn't. Employees are stealing data, committing fraud, and leaking information - all putting your business at risk. How do they do it? Can you stop it? Discover more in this white paper. So, you've got your environment set up to fend off most external attacks. That's...

Improve your Incident Response and Breach Readiness

A vital and persistent theme is the use of malicious software and the leveraging of related network infrastructure to allow stealth remote manipulation without an onsite presence at the target location. Threats, from a holistic standpoint, allow for attacks to focus their efforts and success within the government...

Encryption, Without Tears

Like most enterprises, you're deployed encryption broadly to protect information and authenticate systems. Yet what impact does poor encryption management have on your business? According to Aberdeen, poor key management practices are costing organizations millions in security and compliance-related incidents, and...

Are Employees Putting Your Company's Data at Risk? [eBook]

Survey Results Exposing Risky Person-to-Person File Sharing Practices If your business is like most, it's in danger of exposing and losing sensitive data as employees move, share, and exchange information and files through unsanctioned electronic means. The risk? Your organization forfeits its competitive advantage...

How to Defend Against Advanced Persistent Threats

This whitepaper defines the differences between Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) and "commodity threats," reviews the types of advanced threat actors and the stages of advanced threat attacks and recommends specific steps for strengthening your defenses against advanced threats. Effective IT security organizations...

USA Encryption Trends Study 2011

Thales e-Security is pleased to present the 2011 Encryption Trends Study (United States) conducted by the Ponemon Institute. This study reveals how U.S. organizations are using encryption to protect their sensitive data and how the U.S. compares itself with other countries like Germany, United Kingdom, Brazil and...

Controlled Unclassified Information: 5 Steps to a Successful CUI Compliance Plan

By December 6, 2011, all federal agencies must develop a compliance plan for how they will identify and protect Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). Is your agency ready? In this white paper, Patricia Hammar, executive secretary of the CUI Presidential Task Force, provides expert advice on developing a CUI...

Secure and Cost-Effective Data Transport

As the economics of data transport are becoming essential to business success, the smartest options involve investments in new, more efficient data transport systems that can save money and quickly pay for themselves. Read this whitepaper to learn about the technologies providing efficient, reliable, and high-speed...