Cybercrime certainly isn’t basketball — the stakes are higher, your jump shot doesn't matter — and yet the principle remains the same. As incident response (IR) teams and their vendors raise the defensive bar, adversaries adapt in kind.
According to the world’s leading IR professionals,...
Published: Aug 02, 2019
While many organizations have adopted a defense-in-depth strategy - utilizing anti-virus protection, firewalls, intruder prevention systems, sandboxing, and secure web gateways - most IT departments still fail to explicitly protect the Domain Name System (DNS). This oversight leaves a massive gap in network defenses.
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Published: Jun 12, 2018
This eBook introduces the advanced cybersecurity practice of threat hunting and the role it plays in protecting your organization. Find out how security experts always stay one step ahead of even the most sophisticated attackers.
You'll learn how threat hunting works, why it’s an essential component...
Published: Jan 11, 2019
New security threats demand a new approach to security management. Security teams need a security analytics architecture that can handle a much greater volume and wider scope of data than at present.
Published: Mar 20, 2014
Data breaches can be catastrophic for both an organisation and its customers. For a business, it means a loss of trust from its customers, as well as damage to revenue, and if the organisation is subject to regulation, there could be financial and regulatory penalties as well.
For customers, there is a fear about...
Published: Feb 21, 2018
Although endpoints are typically the targets, ransomware can spread rapidly across a network in spite of layers of security and impact the entire organisation. Ransomware threatens to derail network operations teams’ efforts to ensure optimal performance and security.
The cost to an organisation can be significant...
Published: Feb 12, 2018
The emerging Internet needed a phone book, a way to put numbers to names and navigate the web. The numbers were IP addresses, of course, and the names belonged to domains, like Symbolics.com, the very first shingle hung out in cyberspace.
Published: Mar 31, 2014
Every IT security professional knows that not only is the volume of malware on the rise, but sophisticated tools previously available only to highly advanced or nation-state-level attackers have now been commoditized, automated, made more accessible and less expensive for nearly all types of adversaries. This has allowed...
Published: Feb 13, 2018
If you don’t stop a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack right away, your entire system could be compromised.
Access this concise guide that breaks down 10 steps to mitigating a DDoS attack as quickly as possible.
Published: Jun 06, 2014
The de facto Internet communication security protocol in use today is Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), used most commonly for browser-to-Web server communications, but increasingly for connections between applications when transferring critical business content.
SSL has been successful because of its ease of use and the...
Published: Sep 19, 2014
Organizations are boarding the public cloud train to achieve more efficient time to market, improve overall business and continue carving a competitive edge. However, as business-centric groups continue to drive adoption, security teams are not always involved in the process.
Based on common experiences, these security...
Published: Apr 05, 2018
Every year, the public relations specialists from at least one blue-chip company invariably find themselves working around the clock on a crisis communications effort, attempting to explain to an angry and justifiably fearful public what led to their company compromising customer data.
There’s always an immediate...
Published: Sep 29, 2014
To develop the visibility, agility and speed to deal with advanced threats, security information and event management (SIEM) systems need to evolve into a central nervous system for large-scale security analytics.
Published: Aug 05, 2014
This paper will explore how TLS works, best practices for its use, and the various applications in which it can secure business computing
Published: Sep 23, 2014