White Papers

Protecting Your IT Assets from Cryptomining Malware

Cryptomining malware has exploded on the threat landscape, becoming one of the most common malware attacks and posing a significant risk to your IT assets. In this whitepaper learn everything you need to know about cryptomining including: What it does How it gets in How to recognize and prevent it...

UltraDDoS Protect Success Stories

Case study: Learn about several companies' experiences using Neustar UltraDDoS Protect DDoS attacks represent a consistent and persistent threat to the digital operations and security of organizations everywhere. The attacks can be used to severely degrade network performance to the point of inoperability. As...

Sponsored by Darktrace

Improve the Elements in Your "AI ToolKit"

In discussions around the future of AI and cyber-threats, we often wonder when we can expect to see malicious or offensive AI attacks in the wild. While we have not yet seen conclusive evidence of execution, we can anticipate that AI-driven cyber-attacks are not years away, but a very real possibility in the...

Sponsored by Darktrace

Evaluating the Development of OT Attack Campaign

Over the last few years, cyber-attacks on Operational Technology (OT) have increased rapidly in frequency and scale. The cyber-threat to critical infrastructure and other key operational systems is now front and center of national security concerns. There is a new frontline in cyber defense where protecting against...

Sponsored by Darktrace

Threats at a Glance: An Immune System for Email

It is hardly surprising that 94% of cyber-threats still originate in email. Spear phishing, impersonation attacks, and account takeovers in particular remain fruitful avenues of attack for cyber-criminals aiming to infiltrate an organization with ease. Targeted email attacks of this kind, together with the...

Sponsored by Darktrace

Leveraging AI to Fight Back in the New Era of Cyber Security

With stretched security teams struggling to keep up with evolving cyber-threats, autonomous response technologies leveraging AI are transforming how quickly and effectively human security teams respond to emerging threats. Download this white paper to learn: Why legacy incident response strategies are...

Strategies for Minimizing Phishing Attack Risks

The Phishing Attack Situation There's no way around it. Sending emails with attachments, downloading web files and using shared folders are a part of how we conduct business and that's not going to change. To counter the growing phishing problem, enterprises need better, faster and more comprehensive ways to...

The Destructive Objects Playbook

Cyberattacks continue to plague organizations worldwide. Many of the largest and most damaging attacks stem from malware-infected files that evade traditional security solutions. Security teams need a more effective and comprehensive solution to the problem of undetected malware not only affecting SecOps teams but...

Digital Transformation & Cyber Risk: What You Need to Know to Stay Safe

CyberGRX and Ponemon Institute surveyed 581 IT security and 302 C-suite executives to determine what impact digital transformation is having on cybersecurity and how prepared organizations are to deal with that impact. In some instances, we highlight the differences between IT Security and C-level respondents....

Sponsored by BMC

Real-Time Mainframe SIEM 101

It has been more than ten years since the security industry combined SIM and SEM into the industry standard today known as SIEM, and a wide gap still looms between this pragmatic approach to IT security across distributed systems and those of its mainframe counterparts. Your sensitive data must be protected and...

Sponsored by BMC

11 Guidelines for Minimizing Vulnerability for IBM z/OS while Improving Compliance

Google "mainframe security breach" and your browser will return some 168,000 entries. The same search for "Linux security breach" and "Windows security breach" yields 1.1 million and 3.05 million entries respectively. Now consider this: Seventy percent of the business and transactional systems around the world run on...

Sponsored by BMC

Indicators of Compromise and Why It Takes Six-Plus Months to ID a Breach

Hackers will always find novel ways to bypass your security protocols, and fighting cybercrime has become less about prevention and more about stemming the bleeding. Ideally, if you can spot these indicators of attack, you can transform your organization's approach to data protection from reactive to...

Sponsored by BMC

Mitigating Mainframe Security Risks with Endpoint Detection and Response

8 Steps to Shore Up Your Defense Against Cyberattack In the past, it was easy to take mainframe security for granted. The mainframe was locked down behind closed doors, and even if you were able to get into the room, you'd still needed the coding experience to hack it. Today, the mainframe is closer to the internet...

Compromised Credentials Monitoring Brief

Compromised Credentials Monitoring (CCM) allows users to monitor exposure of compromised credentials for their enterprise domains and customer email addresses to take action after breaches to mitigate risk of account takeover (ATO). Flashpoint's advanced technology quickly collects and processes data and credentials,...

Pricing Analysis of Goods in Cybercrime Communities

The thriving cybercrime economy of vendors hawking illicit offerings on underground marketplaces grants access to resources that reduce barriers to entry for crimes ranging from fraud to DDoS attacks. Pricing trends for these offerings shed light not only on their accessibility to threat actors, but also on how...