Page 12 - White Papers in Governance & Risk Management

What's Yours is Mine - How Employees are Putting Your Intellectual Property at Risk

A new study by Symantec reveals that employees steal corporate data and do not believe it is wrong. The findings show that everyday, employees' attitudes and beliefs about intellectual property theft are at odds with the vast majority of company policies. The survey - conducted by Ponemon Institute, an independent...

Financial Services Firms Remain Vulnerable to Insider Attacks

Financial services firms enjoy a few advantages over organizations in other industries. Banks and investment firms tend to have larger IT/security budgets and highly experienced security staff members. Large metropolitan banks also have more lucrative salary structures, and so they also have the luxury of recruiting...

The Insider Threat - How Privileged Users Put Critical Data at Risk

As large scale breaches become increasingly commonplace, organizations need to rethink breach prevention initiatives. Breaches can be initiated by malicious or even benign insiders, as well as from external threats who are able to acquire the credentials of trusted insiders. This whitepaper explains how...

Simplifying Employees Investigations

If your employees are spending personal time online during work hours at a typical rate, you could actually be paying the equivalent of six employees' salaries a year for nothing. And that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to how employees can take their own companies down financially. Fraud, harassment and...

Responding to Insider Fraud: Insights on New Study of Internal Risks

Many organizations realize they are at risk of insider attacks. But do they have evidence and capabilities to respond to these risks? That's the real challenge, says researcher Larry Ponemon. "The Risk of Insider Fraud" is the name of new research conducted by Ponemon and Attachmate Luminet, and it sheds new light...

Are Employees Putting Your Company's Data at Risk? [eBook]

Survey Results Exposing Risky Person-to-Person File Sharing Practices If your business is like most, it's in danger of exposing and losing sensitive data as employees move, share, and exchange information and files through unsanctioned electronic means. The risk? Your organization forfeits its competitive advantage...

Business Risk and the Midsize Firm: What Can Be Done to Minimize Disruptions?

Lengthy downtime, data losses, and security breaches can harm business results, bringing business to a halt: stopping the flow of orders, reducing sales revenue, and interfering with the supply chain. These downtimes could potentially impact a company's ability to compete with other organizations that were unaffected,...

HP Business Risk Mitigation Solutions with Disaster Recovery

Businesses today need a technology infrastructure that is highly available, runs on a secure network, and is protected against data loss and unauthorized access. A reliable, responsive, and secure infrastructure is critical to business efficiency and growth. A small chink in your technology armor can damage...

The Top Ten Inside Threats and How to Prevent Them

Insider theft and other malicious behavior are particularly difficult to detect and prevent because employees often have legitimate access to sensitive corporate data and tend to know the weaknesses in their organization's infrastructure. Over the course of hundreds of customer interactions, Prism Microsystems, a...

Protect Personally Identifiable Information (PII) as if Your Business Depends on It

Virtually every business acquires, uses and stores personally identifiable information (PII) about its customers, employees and partners. These organizations are expected to manage this private data appropriately and take every precaution to protect it from loss, unauthorized access or theft. Misusing, losing or...

Omni-Channel Authentication: A Unified Approach to a Multi-Authenticator World

Authentication innovation is still in its infancy, and most companies are still combining more traditional passwords and PINs with cutting edge biometrics or contextual decisioning methods. The combination brings new capabilities to multi-factor authentication, but doesn't necessarily produce the best possible...