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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...

Why a Web Application Firewall Makes Good Business Sense

Online businesses constantly face evolving security threats and challenges. Hackers target security holes in web applications, leaving businesses with customer and corporate data breaches, financial loss, brand damage and, in some cases, legal trouble. To safeguard against falling victim to web-application attacks,...

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...

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...

Sponsored by Accellion

BYOD File Sharing - Go Private Cloud to Mitigate Data Risks

The consumerization of IT and the popularity of BYOD are jeopardizing the security and integrity of enterprise data. Seeking an easy way to share files across smart phones, tablets, and desktops, employees are using free public cloud file sharing services that lack rigorous security and audit controls. These services...

Sponsored by Accellion

5 Best Practices for Secure Enterprise Content Mobility

The proliferation of mobile devices and IT management's increasing acceptance of BYOD are creating new security challenges for enterprises. Employees are using personal devices such as iPads and Android phones to access and store business data. To share this data, they're relying on e-mail and consumer-grade file...

Sponsored by Accellion

Strategy for Securing Mobile Content: 5 Key Guidelines

Mobile computing is a powerful, easy-to-use technology that delivers impressive benefits in productivity and agility, that employees are eager to adopt. But along with the impressive benefits come substantial risks, especially related to data security. These risks include new forms of malware that target mobile...

Sponsored by Accellion

Mobilize SharePoint Securely: Top 5 Enterprise Requirements

To stay productive, mobile workers want access to the same data they have in the office - including data stored in Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems such as Microsoft® SharePoint. When users discover that SharePoint data can't be accessed easily on tablets and smartphones, they often work around...

Sponsored by Accellion

Raising the Bar in Secure Cloud-Based File Sharing

The world of enterprise collaboration is a busy one. With the release of kitepoint, which provides unified mobile access to SharePoint, Accellion has one of the most comprehensive offerings available in the market. According to 451 Research, Accellion puts distance between itself and the rest of the cloud...

APT Confidential: Top Lessons Learned From Real Attacks

It's an unprecedented time of cyber-attacks, and information about attacker methods is difficult to obtain, unless you are the victim. And let's face it - by then, it's too late. This white paper details: Lessons learned about cyber-attacks from extensive interviews with security analysts; The common thread that...

Expect More From Malware Protection

Modern enterprises are consistently being targeted by their adversaries, whose objectives range from financial gain to achieving strategic superiority through the theft of data or key intellectual property, outright destruction and interruption of business processes, or simply establishing a beachhead to be exploited...

How to Thwart the Digital Insider - An Advanced Persistent Response to Targeted Attacks

One of the oft-repeated themes in media reporting of cybersecurity events is that the "threat landscape is constantly evolving," that attacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated and the men and women behind them are better resourced than ever before. It's certainly true, but begs for a deeper and more nuanced...

Together at Last - BYOD and Solid Security

Mobile devices are as personal as a non-vital organ: it's possible to live without them, but why try? Your employees want to use their own devices at work - iPads, iPhones, Androids, whatever - which is often met with resistance from IT. But there's no need for conflict. Download this whitepaper to learn new ways...

A Business Case for Secure Mobile Collaboration

Today's business productivity is driven by a new generation of secure mobile apps that let employees do more with their devices. By keeping workflows integrated and safe, these apps promote greater levels of collaboration and convenience in the areas of document retrieval, storage, editing, and transmission. These...