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Card-Not-Present Fraud in a Post-EMV Environment: Combating the Fraud Spike

This white paper is based on data collected in two separate research efforts. In the first, Aite Group surveyed fraud executives at 36 large U.S. merchants from March to May 2014 to understand points of pain and planned solutions. Aite Group also interviewed card executives from payment networks and 18 of the top 40...

Enterprise Mobility: How to Protect Corporate Data

Every company will have a different path to mobile adoption, and final implementations will vary, depending on the needs of various business functions and on regulations that impact mobile policies. A simple way to evaluate where a business is and where it wants to be is to look at devices in terms of who owns them,...

Q2 2014 State of Infections Report

This "State of Infections" report discusses the state of the enterprise under attack and trends in threats seen in the second quarter of 2014. Key findings in this report include: The rise of ransomware; The relationship between the size of an enterprise and its infection rate....

Breach Detection System Analysis

NSS testing verifies that the breach detection system (BDS) is able to detect and log breaches and attempted breaches accurately, while remaining resistant to false positives. All tests in this section are completed with no background network load. The BDS must be able to identify known and unknown malware, and...

Case Study: Making Threat Protection More Intelligent and More Accurate

Weill Cornell Medical College, which is part of Cornell University, ranks among the top clinical and medical research centers in the country. With some 7,000 faculty, staff and students, as well as approximately 2.5 million patients under its care, the medical college also ranks as a big target for...

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Application Usage and Threat Report

When asked to describe the current cyber threat landscape, one of the more balanced and objective answers might be that threats are "hiding in plain sight." Today's advanced cyber threats use applications as their infiltration vector, exhibit application-like evasion tactics, and act as, or use common network...

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The 2014 Firewall Buyers Guide

Undoubtedly, your network is more complex than ever. Your employees are accessing applications, using personal or work devices, but corporate risk and security factors are often ignored. Your business is a target. Are you prepared in the best possible way? The complexity of your network and infrastructure security may...

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Are You Still Using Proxies For URL Filtering? There Is a Better Way

Firewalls enforce network access via a positive control model, where only specific traffic defined in policies is granted access to the network while all other traffic is denied. Access Control Lists (ACLs) initially performed this functionality, often in routers, but their rudimentary approach gave way to dedicated...

Cybersecurity for Dummies eBook

APTs (advanced persistent threats) have changed the world of enterprise security and how networks and organizations are attacked. These threats, and the cyber-criminals behind them, are experts at remaining hidden from traditional security while exhibiting an intelligence, resiliency, and patience that has never been...

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Cybersecurity Imperatives: Reinvent your Network Security

Cybersecurity has become a leading topic both within and beyond the corporate boardroom. To stop the escalation of cyber attacks, enterprises need a network security approach that is designed from the outset to enable the safe use of the applications and technologies required to support a thriving business. This...

Mobile Malware: Securing Enterprise Data

The volume of new malware that is specifically targeting mobile devices is growing at an almost exponential rate. The nature of many of the new malware attacks is also becoming increasingly sophisticated - as cybercriminals recognize the value of the information that they can steal from mobile devices. Even though the...

NSS Labs Report - Data Center Firewall

NSS Labs released their new methodology in 2014 for Data Center Firewall testing. In contrast to historic Network Firewall evaluations, vendors are subject to heavier Data Center core network traffic, including a higher minimum firewall threshold of at least 40 Gbps throughput, high volumes of server-to-server...

NSS Labs Breach Detection Report

It seems every vendor is marketing a solution to challenges posed by Advanced Persistent Threats and Targeted Attacks as Data Breaches stemming from sophisticated cyber threats routinely making the news. Sandboxing, payload analysis, emulation "fire" this and "fire" that whatever you call them, solutions to detect...

The State of Advanced Persistent Threats

Enterprises are unprepared to deal with APT attacks. According to a new Ponemon Institute study, APTs are changing the threat landscape, rendering current security controls ineffective. In Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) and targeted attacks, attackers use a myriad of tools and techniques to breach into an...

Corporate Cybercrime Trends: Employee Endpoint Exploitation

Cybercriminals are leveraging vulnerabilities of the Internet, browsers, operating systems, and applications to secretly and proficiently gain access to corporate information assets. Compromising employee endpoints with malware has become the preferred method; a far simpler path into the corporate network than a...