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Phishing 2.0 - How Web Security Can Protect Your Company

Today's spear-phishing attacks are highly targeted, technically sophisticated and represent a real threat to data security. Attackers can leverage information gleaned from social media to tailor messaging to individual targets, and can convincingly imitate legitimate senders. A successful attack compromises the...

Are Websites Still the Path of Least Resistance for Cybercriminals?

Even today, strange as it sounds, far too many websites have no protection at all. In organizations where developers are evaluated primarily on their ability to ship code on time, there is often a lack of incentive to adopt secure coding practices. Website protection services can quickly add measurable security to...

Leverage Continuous Monitoring to Achieve PCI-DSS Compliance

In the financial services industry, in-depth log analysis is essential to maintaining enterprise-wide security and meeting compliance requirements, including PCI-DSS regulations. In addition to being required to meet compliance standards, continuous monitoring of customers' financial data activity logs helps to detect...

DDoS Mitigation Strategy: A Two-Phased Defense

DDoS is a complex problem that represents a serious risk to the enterprise, and effective mitigation demands extensive preparation before the attack arrives. Organizations need a strategy that keeps local connections up at the beginning of an attack, and then cleans the upstream traffic prior to it reaching the...

Java Vulnerabilities Report: Write Once, Pwn Anywhere

Java's ubiquity and vulnerabilities have made it the technology most frequently exploited by cyber attackers. So it is timely to closely explore the breadth and state of its deployment among enterprises. Bit9 undertook an examination of these questions, leveraging endpoint data across many organizations. Download...

Close the Mac Security Gap in Your Enterprise

As Mac products grow in popularity in the enterprise, they are becoming increasingly attractive targets for cybercriminals. Advanced attackers are always looking for enterprise infrastructure vulnerabilities, and their knowledge of how to exploit Mac endpoints has grown. With this growth comes a new challenge for...

Essential Technology for Mobile Workforce Security

The number of devices in use by the enterprise is difficult to measure because of the large number of personal, unsecured and undocumented devices brought in by employees. Legacy approaches to mobile security are outdated at best and limiting at worst. It's widely agreed they don't fit today's mobile business...

Sponsored by Accellion

BYOD File Sharing - Go Private Cloud to Mitigate Data Risks

The consumerization of IT and the popularity of BYOD are jeopardizing the security and integrity of enterprise data. Seeking an easy way to share files across smart phones, tablets, and desktops, employees are using free public cloud file sharing services that lack rigorous security and audit controls. These services...

Sponsored by Accellion

5 Best Practices for Secure Enterprise Content Mobility

The proliferation of mobile devices and IT management's increasing acceptance of BYOD are creating new security challenges for enterprises. Employees are using personal devices such as iPads and Android phones to access and store business data. To share this data, they're relying on e-mail and consumer-grade file...

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Strategy for Securing Mobile Content: 5 Key Guidelines

Mobile computing is a powerful, easy-to-use technology that delivers impressive benefits in productivity and agility, that employees are eager to adopt. But along with the impressive benefits come substantial risks, especially related to data security. These risks include new forms of malware that target mobile...

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Mobilize SharePoint Securely: Top 5 Enterprise Requirements

To stay productive, mobile workers want access to the same data they have in the office - including data stored in Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems such as Microsoft® SharePoint. When users discover that SharePoint data can't be accessed easily on tablets and smartphones, they often work around...

How to Thwart the Digital Insider - An Advanced Persistent Response to Targeted Attacks

One of the oft-repeated themes in media reporting of cybersecurity events is that the "threat landscape is constantly evolving," that attacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated and the men and women behind them are better resourced than ever before. It's certainly true, but begs for a deeper and more nuanced...

vCloud for Healthcare and HIPAA/HITECH

Healthcare faces unique IT challenges. While driving down costs and improving the quality and delivery of patient care, providers must comply with a growing number of government mandates and changing industry practices around the privacy and security of PHI. This white paper explains how VMware vCloud® for Healthcare...

A Focus on Prevention is the Best Remedy for Medical Record Breaches

Between 2009 and early 2012, more than 18 million patients' Protected Health Information (PHI) was compromised. Over the past year alone, healthcare breaches in the U.S. are up 32 percent. As these numbers demonstrate, securing PHI is one of the most pressing issues facing hospitals and other healthcare organizations....

Advanced Persistent Threats: Healthcare Under Attack

In recent months the Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit has found that the healthcare industry is particularly vulnerable to advanced threats, with many of the most prevalent malware tools used by Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups affecting the healthcare industry at a rate comparable to or greater than its...