Many organizations today are using security event management tools to gather, correlate and report on security data within their environments.
Although some are still using traditional log management tools, the need for more effective event intelligence and deeper analysis of activity within the environment is driving...
Published: Apr 16, 2014
This paper highlights the current growth and trends in today’s phishing schemes, the potential impact on companies, and insight into how businesses can apply technology to protect themselves and their customers.
Published: Aug 07, 2014
Cisco Validated designs (CVds) provide the framework for systems design based on common use cases or current engineering system priorities. They incorporate a broad set of technologies, features, and applications to address customer needs. Cisco engineers have comprehensively tested and documented each CVd in order to...
Published: Jan 16, 2014
Advanced attacks on an organization’s digital assets often leverage multiple vectors, spanning network, endpoint, web, and email systems. Security professionals who adopt point product technologies, such as endpoint antivirus, often find limited success when these tools lack a holistic view of their environment. ...
Published: Aug 20, 2014
User and group information must be directly integrated into the technology platforms that secure modern organizations. Knowing who is using the applications on your network, and who may have transmitted a threat or is transferring files, strengthens security policies and reduces incident response times.
User-ID, a...
Published: May 03, 2017
User and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) applies a variety of advanced technologies to track and flag suspicious or malicious behavior. Analytics initially centered on user activities but quickly expanded to include unusual behavior by other networked assets such as sensors, databases, and hosts.
This document...
Published: Apr 07, 2017
This paper aims to help IT professionals, including security and virtualization specialists, understand and choose between two modern approaches to securing virtual environments: agentless scanning using vShield Endpoint and client-based scanning optimized for virtual platforms.
Published: Mar 31, 2014
As computing becomes borderless, adversaries are increasingly bypassing perimeter security and taking advantage of vulnerabilities brought on by the growing number of applications and their unsecured entry points. At the same time, business managers are dramatically increasing the rate of deployment of often rushed to...
Published: Sep 08, 2014
eToro’s online and mobile investment platform empowers more than 2.75 million users in over 140 countries to trade currencies, commodities and stock. To prevent service disruption due to DDoS attacks, eToro has deployed Incapsula’s Infrastructure DDoS Protection. This on-demand service leverages BGP routing...
Published: Mar 17, 2015
This report summarizes the McAfee 5206's throughput based on the latest version 5.8 software, with various firewall policies applied and different traffic scenarios. The McAfee 5206 was first tested as a single online node in a multi-node cluster, and then the incremental throughput growth achieved by bringing two,...
Published: Apr 27, 2015
Every year brings an even more extreme set of threats to the enterprise than the last. Spam email used to be the number one headache. Now it’s been replaced with malware, spear phishing, and the infamous spin-off of the two, the advanced persistent threat (APT). Employee Internet usage is also changing in ways that...
Published: Jun 06, 2014
In this paper, we examine how this attack could have been thwarted with the help of a SIEM platform that combines the power of historical data with real-time data from network data sources and security policies. Such a system provides the context around application usage, user behaviors and other operations for better,...
Published: Apr 16, 2014
At the heart of every organization are its employees, the engine that drives growth, fueled by the data they create and store on their laptops, tablets, and mobile phones, as well as access through data center and cloud servers.
Establishing endpoint resilience minimizes the impact of a cyberattack and restores...
Published: Sep 04, 2019
Java was originally released with the slogan “write once, run anywhere,” which was intended to underscore its cross-platform capabilities.
Over time, Java has become ubiquitous on endpoints, so “run anywhere” can be interpreted as referring to its ubiquity. Even as fewer websites and Web applications...
Published: Apr 23, 2014