White Papers in Security Operations

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...

Turn the Tables on Infection Dwell Time

There is an infinite amount of malware code at attackers' disposal yet a finite number of skilled security staff able to deal with the volume of noise they create daily. If the last year of unending breach headlines is a barometer, it's safe to assume that legacy approaches to security will not cut it in this new...

Infographic: Medical Data Breaches: A Source of Chronic Pain

With over 870,000 medical records exposed in data breaches in just the first quarter of 2013, medical data breaches have become a source of chronic pain for healthcare organizations. Adding to this complexity is the HIPAA Omnibus Final Rule. Looking at a multitude of studies and research, it's clear that data...