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There is No Silver Bullet: Why a Multi-layered Approach to Endpoint Security is a Must

The security landscape changed dramatically with the maturation of crypto-ransomware in 2014. Not only did this new type of malware bring about a more lucrative business model for attackers, it also spurred the adoption of many so-called 'next-gen' endpoint security techniques. While these techniques bring...

Information Lifecycle Governance Requirements Kit

The Information Lifecycle Governance Requirements Kit includes a set of high-level requirements for use in understanding and evaluating an ILG solution by identifying the capabilities required to achieve Level 3-4 maturity. They can also be leveraged in aiding the creation of requests for information or proposal (RFI...

Why Are Retailers So Vulnerable to Cyber Attacks?

First, many retailers operate in siloed, legacy IT environments without a uniform security policy. This outdated IT infrastructure opens up risks and vulnerabilities for advanced cyber threats. Second, highly distributed and hybrid retail environments, combined with new endpoints-like kiosks, BYOD, IoT, mPOS and...

Digital Evolution and Fraud Evolution: How to Keep Up with the Changing Times

Easy Solutions' Ricardo Villadiego addresses how the digital revolution, millennials and the widespread use of online communications affect financial fraud. In this transcript from his video interview at RSA Conference 2017, Villadiego: Explains why banks are not proactive when it comes to fraud protection;...

Case Study: Top Cloud-Based Workspace Provider Replaces Traditional AV

Being a platform that empowers people to collect, store, organize, share, and access all of their digital details in one place and from any device, Evernote, one of the top cloud-based workspace providers, keeps the security of their customers' information as their top concern. In mid-2014, Evernote recognized that...

Gartner EPP Magic Quadrant Names a New Front Runner

With cyberattacks constantly growing in sophistication, we need a new approach to endpoint protection. Next-generation antivirus platforms should exceed the capabilities of current endpoint protection solutions on the market and prevent all forms of cyberattacks, including non-malware attacks. Carbon Black is leading...

Is the Promise of Behavioral Biometrics Worth the Investment?

Behavioral biometrics has been getting a lot of attention recently due to its ability to uniquely address the challenges posed by social engineering, account takeovers and malware. It is already considered the third most popular biometric technology (after finger and face) and tied with iris. Nonetheless, as an...

Top 10 Things to Look for in a Cloud Security Solution Provider

Searching for the right cloud security provider can often be confusing and challenging. Many providers appear to be the same at first glance, offering customers similar metrics and promises while more often than not the information you need to make a real comparison is not readily available. This white paper...

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Drowning in Data, Starving for Actionable Intelligence

Today's threat landscape constantly throws new problems at organizations already struggling to keep up with yesterday's issues. New malware, ransomware, botnets, and fileless attacks target a growing list of enterprise vulnerabilities with clever new exploits and social engineering tactics, and these attacks are...

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Empowering the Overwhelmed SOC: Creating an Effective Security Operations Center

While security teams continue to add to their threat protection arsenal, they are struggling to keep up with the threats. Security information and event management (SIEM) products, threat analytics platforms, advanced endpoint protection (AEP) products, user entity behavior analytics (UEBA) tools, and incident...

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The Rebirth of Endpoint Protection: A Guide to Finding the Right AEP Product for Your Organization

Advanced endpoint protection (AEP) shows significant promise for protecting endpoint devices. However, this emerging market is rapidly growing and is in a constant state of flux. Assessing new technologies is no small undertaking and analysts must often rely on comparing limited information from less-than-ideal...

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SIEM: The New Force Multiplier Powered by Actionable Intelligence

CISOs and security analysts alike complain that security information and event management (SIEM) technology has not fully lived up to its promises. Even with SIEM systems in place, enterprises still suffer from alert fatigue, and security teams armed with SIEM event and flow data still miss untold numbers of attack...

7 Factors to Consider When Evaluating Your Cloud Security

Many organizations are facing a reality where their security investments have been focused on-prem but their users, devices, or apps are moving off-prem. A common question we hear from CISOs is: "How do we determine when it's time to extend our security to the cloud?" We don't pretend there's an answer for every...

10 Examples of Employee Behaviors in the Cloud That Can Increase Risk

Every CISO knows that cloud apps are being used by employees. Some are approved apps but most are not. What every CISO doesn't know is the full extent of the actions employees are taking in those cloud apps and how those actions introduce risk. These actions range anywhere on the continuum from ignorance to malicious....

11 Visibility and Control Outcomes of a Mature Cloud Defense System

Of the hundreds of CISOs we work with, there isn't one who doesn't know that as cloud adoption increases, the maturity of cloud security must also increase (unless of course you don't have any sensitive data or your risk tolerance is very high). But, before investing in the latest and greatest tools, we always...