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Critically Reduce the Available Attack Surface with Next-Gen Antivirus

Attackers are bypassing traditional and machine-learning AV, which are only designed to stop malware-based threats. As a result, the most dangerous attacks are those that use native software and applications to achieve their malicious ends. Download this whitepaper to learn how Next-Generation Antivirus (NGAV) is...

Implementing A User Activity And Behavior Monitoring Program

Is there a way to implement user activity monitoring and behavior analytics that aligns to your corporate culture and values, the legal considerations where you do business, and the needs and goals that have you considering employee monitoring? Download this whitepaper to learn how company executives can best...

Champion PCI Compliance

Cyber criminals have half a trillion opportunities to get their hands on payment card information. Guardians of this data face the daunting task of minimizing their attack surface at the same time their networks are expanding. Fortunately, there is a code that enterprises can adhere to that will greatly improve their...

5 Ways to Maximize the Value of Security and Monitoring Tools

Return on investment is an important factor for evaluating the value of your security infrastructure. This informative white paper, 5 Ways to Maximize the Value of Security and Monitoring Tools, guides you through the most cost-effective solutions, including the role of a visibility architecture in your...

Best Practices for Monitoring Virtual Environments

As enterprise IT teams look into moving their critical workloads from on-premises traditional data centers into virtualized, software-defined data centers (SDDC), or even public clouds, they often face a number of important questions: How can we ensure the availability, reliability, and performance of our mission...

Healthcare vs. the IoT Botnet

With their reliance on so many IoT devices, how can healthcare organizations defend against menaces such as the Mirai malware, which exploit these devices to create powerful botnets and launch DDoS attacks? Akamai's Dave Lewis offers tips. Lewis, a Global Security Advocate at Akamai, says today's attackers are...

Stop Attacks, See Threats, & Close Security Gaps with Next-Gen Anti-Virus

Traditional antivirus (AV) just doesn't cut it anymore. From ransomware that holds intellectual property hostage to sophisticated malware-less attacks that exploit PowerShell, scripting, and memory, endpoints are facing more security risk than ever before. As a result, companies have set their sights on the next...

From Vulnerability Assessment to Continuous Network Monitoring

Demonstrating return on investment (ROI) for vulnerability management or continuous monitoring - or any other security solution- is difficult, at best. However, with a strong foundation of vulnerability assessment, effective use of vulnerability management and analytics and leveraging of capabilities of continuous...

Why IT Asset Monitoring Is Essential: Top 6 Security Use Cases

Discover why today's distributed IT environment requires cutting-edge technology to keep track of apps, systems and services your users access. Investigating security incidents or verifying and demonstrating compliance can be a major challenge without the right tools to monitor all of your IT assets. For reliable...

Defending Against Design Vulnerabilities

An effective way for attackers to appear legitimate in face of security solutions is by exploiting logic flaws in the functionality of existing systems. These logic flaws are what we call design vulnerabilities. With design vulnerabilities, the threat actor exploits a feature of a given product. It's not that...

Pentesting: The Required Human Ingenuity to Uncover Security Gaps

The most elaborate, layered cyber security can still contain many vulnerabilities. It takes creative and persistent human ingenuity to discover those vulnerabilities and develop new ways to exploit them. This is the mission of a penetration tester. An ethical hacking exercise can reveal the security weakness and...

Vulnerable By Design: Why Destructive Exploits Keep on Coming

Cyber-attackers are continuously on the lookout for sophisticated ways to penetrate an organization's systems. One effective way for attackers to appear legitimate in face of security solutions is by exploiting logic flaws in the functionality of existing systems - also known as design vulnerabilities. By...

When Gaps in Your Disaster Recovery Strategy Compromise Business Continuity

Many companies use log shipping to back up high availability (HA) physical databases to physical machines and view it as a low-tech way to ensure disaster recovery (DR). However, when it comes time for DR testing, log shipping leaves a lot to be desired. Download this white paper to explore The pros and cons...

ESG Report: Continuous Sensitive Data Monitoring

Ask any cyber-security professional and they'll tell you that it's getting more difficult to prevent, detect, or respond to cyber-attacks, data breaches, and even data exfiltration. Why? The threat landscape continues to grow more dangerous while IT infrastructure becomes more complex with the addition of mobile...

Breach Preparation: Plan for the Inevitability of Compromise

You can't open a newspaper or visit an online news site these days without some mention of a cyber attack or data breach. These activities are becoming more prevalent, and as a result, the reporting of these activities is also on the rise. Bit9 + Carbon Black reached out to a series of experts to collect their...