Page 17 - White Papers in Security Operations

Case Study: Web Protection and Performance in the Age of Cyberthreats

This white paper explores the challenges and solutions of fighting cybercrime in the financial industry with strategies that match improving the overall customer experience with the need to maintain resilient and efficient security infrastructures. The content, guidance, and opinions in this paper are drawn from a...

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Protect Against Cyber-Attacks: A Case Study

A business with 95% of its revenues generated online got hammered by DDoS attacks over a 6-month period, resulting in lost sales and damage to its brand. Unprepared for the situation, the company was forced to assess the threat and research solutions quickly. Using a cloud-based DDoS mitigation service, the website...

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Mitigate DDoS Attacks and Stay Online: A Case Study

Top10optionbinaire.com, an independent trading website, had been hit by what is commonly known as a Distributed-Denial-of-Service, or DDoS, attack. Learn how Top10optionbinaire.com was able to reinstate their website and continue to protect against DDoS attacks to ensure the site was available 24x7. Discover how a...

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Survey Report: Current State of DDoS Attacks in the UK

When DDoS attacks hit, companies go into crisis mode. It's all hands on deck until the danger passes. Neustar surveyed IT professionals across the United Kingdom to see how companies managed the crisis in 2012. Our report compares results from the United Kingdom with those from North America, detailed in a previous...

DDoS Survival Handbook

Every organization with a website - especially one that requires its users to have regular access to sensitive information - should take urgent and appropriate steps to protect against DoS and DDoS attacks. Failure to do so can result in huge financial losses as well as a damaged public reputation. This DDoS Survival...

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A Two-Phased DDoS Mitigation Strategy

Until recently, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks had been part of infosec lore: something you heard about but rarely experienced. With the rise of hacktivist groups and other cybercriminal organizations, DDoS has once again raised its ugly head. Today, these attacks are one of the most prevalent...

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Financial Security: What Smaller Institutions Can Learn From DDoS Attacks On Big Banks

Since last fall, several waves of distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have targeted major players in the U.S. banking industry. Eventually, the top 50 institutions found themselves in the crosshairs. Websites crashed, customers couldn't connect to make transactions and banks scrambled to get back online - and...

Web Application Attack Vectors: Delving into XXS and Shellshock Activity

In 2015, there were nine common web application attack vectors. They represent a cross section of many of the most common categories seen in industry vulnerability lists. The goal of this report is not to validate any one of the vulnerability lists, but instead to look at some of the characteristics of these...

Ransom-based Attacks: Choosing the Right Mitigation Strategy

For years, organizations have been threatened by DDoS attacks on several fronts, ranging from volumetric attacks to application-level and DNS strikes. Now come ransom-based attacks. In this interview with Trey Guinn - head of solution engineering at CloudFlare - he discusses the importance of matching your DDoS...