White Papers

Ponemon: The State of Web Application Firewalls

The Ponemon Institute recently surveyed 595 organizations and discovered that 65% experienced successful application-layer attacks that bypassed their existing web access firewall (WAF).

Osterman: The Critical Need to Deal With Bot Attacks

This report presents the results of an in-depth survey on current practices that larger organizations are using to detect and remediate automated bot attacks and their effects.

How Adaptive MFA Helps Mitigate Brute Force Attacks

Before public cloud services, large-scale computing infrastructure was expensive, hosted on-premises and reserved for big enterprises, governments, and universities. Now, anyone with a credit card can access an unlimited supply of cloud apps and computing power. While cloud computing offers many benefits, its...

Using an IBM i2 Solution to Investigate Fraud and Financial Crimes

IBM i2's industry-leading, multidimensional intelligence analysis offers a powerful solution that helps users simplify complex networks and detect non-obvious relationships and hidden patterns.

Thinking like a Hunter: Implementing a Threat Hunting Program

Protecting an enterprise environment can sometimes feel like an uphill battle. Information security teams are often stuck in cyclical patterns where it feels as if the alerts never end and the attackers are constantly successful.

Investigative Analysis in Law Enforcement

Unlike popular TV crime shows, discovering clues for complex crime rings takes a lot more time than an hour.

How Password Managers Fit Into Your Organization's Identity & Access Management Solution

Solving the password security disconnect between IT and employees demands the right solution. From external threats to managing Shadow IT, protecting your company, employees, and customers is a complex job. Staying on top of all possible threats can be overwhelming. Download this whitepaper to learn: Password...

SANS Report: Cloud Security Survey 2019

Complex configurations don't mix well with rapidly spun-up components, and when your company uses multiple cloud providers to host your critical assets, the odds of a major security event get that much higher. So how do you close visibility gaps and integrate conflicting datasets from different providers, and how do...

Worldwide DDoS Prevention Solutions 2019 Vendor Assessment

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are increasingly complex and they frequently employ multiple attack types and strategies such as multivector and diversionary attacks against a broad set of targets. Industry reports continue to illustrate that no one organization is safe. Even though DDoS prevention...

The Art of Darkness: Understanding the DDoS Threat

Forty years after the first DDoS attack, hackers are developing new ways to disrupt network security. DDoS mitigation techniques continue to evolve as attacks continue to grow in size, complexity, and malice. The bad guys, themselves, have evolved, too. Without a comprehensive security solution, it's not just your...

Q1 2019 Cyber Threat & Trends Report

So far this year, large attacks are growing as multi-vector exploits increasingly become the norm. In this report, Neustar, Inc. highlights new areas of growth in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks over the past year. The report affirms that DDoS attacks continue to be an effective means to distract and...

The Cost of Third-Party Cybersecurity Risk Management

Third-party breaches remain a dominant security challenge for organizations, with over 63% of breaches linked to a third party. Clearly, both organizations and their third parties are wasting critical financial and human resources on programs that aren't optimized to help them reduce cyber risk in their shared...

Assessing the Cyber Threat Landscape

The 2018 cybersecurity landscape ushered in a blend of old and new threats, some of them game-changing, according to Trend Micro's Annual Security Roundup.

2019 Vulnerability and Threat Trends Report

Vulnerabilities don't exist in a vacuum. The risk they pose depends on a variety of factors both internal and external that are in a near-constant state of change - and keeping up with that change is vital to limiting your risk of attack. Enter: The 2019 Vulnerability and Threat Trends Report which examines new...

Gartner Report: Vulnerability Management Via a Risk-Based Approach

A vulnerability is only as bad as the threat exploiting it and the impact on the organization. Security and risk management leaders should rate vulnerabilities on the basis of risk in order to improve vulnerability management program effectiveness. Gartner receives frequent inquiries from clients who are...