White Papers in Security Operations

Buyer's Guide Report: Choosing the Right Security Testing Solution

Breaches are all too common today as determined cyber criminals have become better organized and more targeted in their attacks. In many cases, a C-level executive loses their job as a result. That doesn't have to be you or your organization. The right security testing solution is key to keeping you safe. From...

The Ultimate Checklist for Identifying the Right Security Vendor

In today's IT environment, one of the biggest risks to a corporation's valuation is a security breach. Security Vendors make wide claims about the effectiveness of their products - making it almost impossible to identify the right vendor for your security needs. From scanners and traditional pen tests to bug bounty...

2020 Trust Report: Measuring the Value of Security Amidst Uncertainty

In 2020, trust is crucial. A huge amount of work goes into building a brand and maintaining loyalty, but when data breaches happen, trust evaporates quickly. Eighty-one percent of consumers have said they would stop doing business with brands online after a breach. This Report is the essential guide for CISOs and...

Forrester: Tension Between IT and Security Professionals Reinforcing Siloes and Security Strain

Although IT and Security teams shoulder the responsibility of many mission-critical tasks in organizations, they often are not aligned under a unified strategy. To assess how a common IT and security strategy can break down silos across the two teams, VMware commissioned Forrester to survey 1,400+ manager level and...

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...

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...

Anatomy of a Cloud-Native Data Breach

Migrating computing resources to cloud environments opens up new attack surfaces previously unknown in the world of premise-based data centers. As a result, cloud-native data breaches frequently have different characteristics and follow a different progression than physical data breaches. Download this case study...

What Organizations Need to Prioritize for Upcoming Canadian PIPEDA Compliance

A key amendment to Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act goes into effect on Nov. 1. What are the baseline standards for compliance, and how does this change impact risk transfer and mitigation? While PIPEDA is not a new law and been on the books for a long time, what is coming is...

A Short Primer of GDPR Essentials

On May 25, 2018, per the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), organizations with business ties to the European Union needed to comply to GDPR standards. The cost of non-compliance are stiff fines. The GDPR contains nearly 100 separate and nuanced articles that can be difficult to understand even if you are a...

The Path to Data: Identities are the Keys, Apps are the Gateway

The future of security is not all gloom and doom. We've learned important lessons over the past decade that can become your prescriptions for action. Download this report to learn about these focus areas that will let you sleep at night: Apps are the number one target, so shift your focus to the targets, and...

Data confidence realized: Leveraging customer intelligence in the age of mass data compromise

We are in the age of mass data compromise. The growing, never-ending cycle of breach, fraud loss and the decline of customer experience characterizes life in today's globally connected digital world. Unfortunately, with crime rings amplifying their efforts and continuing to evolve these threats aren't going anywhere....

What You Can Do to Fight the Latest Evolution of Money Laundering

Money laundering: a crime as old as currency itself. It represents between two and five percent of global Gross Domestic Product (GDP)*. Cyber crime and money laundering are growing and evolving at a faster rate than many organizations can keep pace with, especially while staying within regulatory requirements. The...

Real-Time Incident Response

In today's dynamic threat landscape, "real-time" is the operative phrase - and it needs to apply both to threat detection and incident response. But what are the required security controls and tools? Download this eBook on real-time capabilities and learn: What's at risk for organizations that lack these tools and...

The Question Is Not If You Will Be Breached

The Question is WHEN? Here are some sobering facts: 54% of breaches remain undiscovered for months; 60% of an organization's data is stolen within hours of an attack. So what can you do about it? Learn how to Control Advanced Malware with More Visibility.

Cybersecurity: The New Metrics

"How secure are we?" That's one of the most common questions asked by boards and senior managers. But security and technology leaders do not always have ready answers, says Jacob Olcott of BitSight Technologies. Are they even using the right security metrics? In an interview about cybersecurity metrics, Olcott...