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How to Avoid Falling Victim to Ransomware and Phishing

The best approach to building a security policy is by using a comprehensive, layered approach that covers all threats (both new and known). This policy needs to leverage real-time threat intelligence by addressing all threat vectors and all platform types as workloads migrate from physical to virtual to...

The Rise of Ransomware

The drop in value of stolen payment cards caused cyber criminals to adopt new tools, foremost among them ransomware. Having already caused a financial drain of $209,000,000 in just one quarter, organizations of all sizes are at risk. Download this infographic to see: Why ransomware-as-a-service is a new risk; The...

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Re-Thinking IAM and Cybersecurity

A recent study by Forrester Research unveils a direct correlation between data breaches and organizations' IAM immaturity. What needs to change? Corey Williams of Centrify offers strategic advice. Williams, senior director of products and marketing at Centrify, says there is a stark disconnect between the amount of...

Digital Evolution and Fraud Evolution: How to Keep Up with the Changing Times

Easy Solutions' Ricardo Villadiego addresses how the digital revolution, millennials and the widespread use of online communications affect financial fraud. In this transcript from his video interview at RSA Conference 2017, Villadiego: Explains why banks are not proactive when it comes to fraud protection;...

Is the Promise of Behavioral Biometrics Worth the Investment?

Behavioral biometrics has been getting a lot of attention recently due to its ability to uniquely address the challenges posed by social engineering, account takeovers and malware. It is already considered the third most popular biometric technology (after finger and face) and tied with iris. Nonetheless, as an...

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Forrester Data Breach TLP

STOP THE BREACH: Reduce the Likelihood of an Attack Through an IAM Maturity Model. Forrester estimates that 80% of security breaches involve privileged credentials. In December 2016, Centrify commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate identity and access management (IAM) practices and technology among large...

9 Steps to Building an Insider Threat Defense Program

Insider threats pose high risks to all enterprises. No organization, regardless of size, industry or region, is immune. With all the advantages that the digital age has brought us (and they are many) it has also brought a rise of highly damaging data breaches, from both internal and external sources. Regardless of...

From C&A to A&A: The RMF Shoe Has Dropped

Certification and accreditation (C&A) has been like alphabet soup. As it transitions to assessment and authorization (A&A), it's time to sort through the confusion and identify which terms and processes apply in any given situation. This paper sorts through the confusion to identify which terms, approaches, and...

Federal Agencies Make the Case for Modern Network Security Operations

Cloud computing initiatives, network monitoring and risk management are driving network security operations. Meanwhile, federal agencies face record levels of threats yet still rely on manual processes and outdated point tools. Agency network security operations must be modernized to streamline network security...

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Managing Privileged Access Security In A Hybrid IT World

In November 2015, Centrify commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine how IT decision-makers are both securing and granting privilege to identities in cloud-based environments. Forrester's research included in-depth surveys with 150 IT decision-makers in the US, and discovered that the ubiquity of outsourced and...

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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...

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Securing Enterprise Identities for Dummies

According to Mandiant, 100% of recent data breaches were tied to compromised identity credentials. Two key reasons for this are a dissolving security perimeter, and the fact that enterprise organizations have not taken a comprehensive approach to fighting against the fastest-growing vector for cyber...

What It Takes to Achieve Digital Trust

VASCO Data Security's Scott Clements on Aligning Security with User Experience With great efficiencies and cost savings also come great threats and fraud risks. This is today's digital reality, and it is why cybersecurity and the user experience need to be aligned to create digital trust, says Scott Clements of VASCO...

Making the Case for Continuous Authentication: Why 2FA is Not Secure Enough to Combat Online Fraud

Most organizations that enable users to perform online transactions have implemented security measures to address fraud. Currently, one of the most common safeguards used in a wide array of products/services is two-factor authentication (2FA). In recent years, 2FA has become employed by global tech leaders like...

Fraud in The Mobile Era: A Hacker's Delight

As mobile devices eclipse computers and laptops as the preferred method of going online, fraudsters have followed users, porting their modus operandi -account takeover, social engineering, and malware based remote control attacks - to the mobile arena. Thus, hackers have many more opportunities to perpetrate fraud and...