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Core Principles of Cyber Hygiene in a World of Cloud and Mobility

No one wants to be the target of cybercriminals, but are you doing enough to protect your network, your customers' data, and your business? Many factors lead to security breaches, but there are 5 core principles that can help ensure you won't be the next victim featured on the nightly news broadcast.

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How to Simplify Security and Shrink the Attack Surface

Modern applications are dynamic and distributed - and the attack surface keeps growing as a result. To secure your business, you need security integrated into your infrastructure, not bolted-on.

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How Midsize Organizations Can Meet Compliance Requirements and Enhance Cybersecurity with Micro-Segmentation

To address the need for improved security and compliance efficiently, many small and midsize enterprises are evaluating and moving toward deploying virtual network technology that supports micro-segmentation, such as VMware NSX. This technology provides a true secure and compliant platform that delivers many of the...

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4 Steps to Transforming Network Security

If you've virtualized compute and storage, you may think you've completed the journey of digital transformation. It was a start-but it's not enough. Today, between on-site data centers, private and public clouds, there are more environments to manage than ever before. To keep up with the demands of the business, IT...

Spotlight on Zero Trust Network Access

Zero trust network access technologies, also known as SDP, provide a secure alternative to legacy methods. For the first time, IT can decouple application access from network access and make private apps invisible to the internet.

The Right Roles for SIEM and EDR

Companies and their security departments know that if they haven't already, they need to focus on incident response and threat hunting with a SOC. Still - many are uncertain about how to do so while minimizing risk, maximizing efficiency, and bolstering confidence in a safer future for the IT stack.

Five Stages to Create a Closed-Loop Security Process with MITRE ATT&CK

Finding a security framework comprehensive enough to serve the tactical needs of security operations teams can be difficult. MITRE ATT&CK is the first framework to meet these needs and provide a basis for real-time security operations improvements.

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EMA 2019 Report: Network Detection and Response in the Cloud Comes of Age

Until recently, many IT security practitioners turned to legacy tools as a means of securing the growing amount of east-west network traffic in cloud environments. With the introduction of traffic mirroring and virtual network taps, cloud-first network detection and response (NDR) solutions such as ExtraHop Reveal(x)...

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Executive's Guide to Integrating SecOps and NetOps

Security operations (SecOps) and network teams (NetOps) have traditionally acted separately, but increasing IT complexity and scale means that aligning these two groups is a critical step towards delivering a fast and secure user experience.

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SANS Review: Investigate East-West Attacks on Critical Assets with Network Traffic Analysis

Internal threat activities (privilege escalation, lateral movement, etc.) are difficult if not impossible to detect using endpoint and perimeter protection alone. ExtraHop Reveal(x) provides network traffic analysis that helps security analysts efficiently detect and investigate these late-stage threats, as well as...

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SANS 2019 Cloud Security Survey

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.

Gartner Market Guide for Email Security

Read this report to understand Gartner's view on how the email security market has changed in recent years.

Blind Spots in the Threat Landscape

There is a key shift in the threat landscape as attackers focus more on attacking key endpoints and infrastructure. As a result, many organizations are developing security blind spots. Read this ebook to learn more about: Shifts in threat activity; Blind spots in cyber defenses & how to regain...

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Tips and Tricks for Deploying Next-Generation Cybersecurity Using Micro-Segmentation

Hacking has become a multibillion-dollar industry designed to steal critical data and gain access to organizations' most sensitive systems. And companies are finding that traditional, perimeter-focused security strategies are no longer effective. To achieve a new level of protection inside IT infrastructure,...

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Embracing the Looming Challenge of 100% Encryption

Encryption is skyrocketing both inside corporate networks and on the public internet--and studies show that more and more attackers are utilizing numerous trends to hide their activities from your SOC. Luckily, there are methods you can use to embrace encryption in the enterprise without sacrificing your ability to...