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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...

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Cybersecurity in Public Sector: 5 Insights You Need to Know

Tenable recently teamed with Ponemon Institute on a global study exploring how cyber risk disrupts business operations in both the private and public sectors. The latest report focuses on the public sector, revealing they're at serious risk of cyberattack. Agency IT security organizations must quickly identify and...

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3 Things You Need to Know About Prioritizing Vulnerabilities

With the number of vulnerabilities on the rise, and their severity increasing, how can you identify the biggest cyber threats to your business - and know what to fix first? Download the "3 Things You Need to Know About Prioritizing Vulnerabilities" ebook now to: Discover the 3 critical steps to building an...

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Predictive Prioritization: How to Focus on the Vulnerabilities That Matter Most

Overwhelmed by the number of vulnerabilities your team faces? Uncertain which cyber threats pose the greatest risk to your business? You're not alone. Cybersecurity leaders have been grappling with these challenges for years - and the problem keeps getting worse. On average, enterprises find 870 vulnerabilities per...

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Predictive Prioritization: Data Science Lets You Focus on the 3% of Vulnerabilities Likely to Be Exploited

In 2017, 15,038 new CVEs were published, up from 9,837 in 2016. Last year, 16,500 new CVEs were disclosed. With vulnerabilities growing year after year, patching every potential threat to your business is a futile exercise. The need to prioritize is clear, but where to start, especially when CVSS categorizes the...

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How to Prioritize Cybersecurity Risks: A Primer for CISOs

CISOs and other security leaders know they can't find and fix every vulnerability. Yet, that's what's expected. So, what can you do? The short answer: Work smarter, not harder. To do that, you need to reduce the vast universe of potential vulnerabilities down to a subset of the vulnerabilities that matter...

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Help America Vote Act (HAVA) Funding and Critical Infrastructure Security

In 2017 the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) added Election Infrastructure as a cyber-resiliency Critical Infrastructure Subsector under the Presidential Policy Directive/PPD 21 (2013) and raised the profile of elections security substantially. By doing this, DHS empowered states to integrate elections...

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Analysis and Compliance to Meet CJIS and FTI Security Standards

Most organizations face a constantly changing compliance landscape, and often must adhere to multiple regulatory compliance standards, each with their own set of requirements. Tenable.sc can help these organizations fulfill multiple standards' requirements for meeting and demonstrating compliance, can help save time...

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...

Spear Phishing: Top 3 Threats

Among the top new spear-phishing threats to enterprises: Extortion. This whitepaper outlines the top three spear-phishing threats and new strategies to defend against them. Download this whitepaper to learn more about: Insights from the latest report on spear-phishing; Why top threats are so successful; New...

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...