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Mobile Data Security - Balancing Risk with User Experience

Today's threat environment dictates that basic MDM solutions should be supplemented with robust security controls to help secure and protect sensitive data from being distributed to unauthorized third parties, either inadvertently or maliciously. This white paper will help you identify and reconcile lacking areas...

Context-Based Authentication & Fraud Protection for Mobile Devices

Mobile devices - smartphones and tablets - are powerful computers that are increasingly used for commerce and financial transactions. Consumers will spend $235 billion through mobile transactions, making mobile devices a very lucrative channel and the next frontier for cybercriminals to exploit. The threats against...

Dissecting Wire Fraud: How It Happens and How to Prevent It

Preventing wire fraud starts with understanding how it is perpetrated and the many options fraudsters have for initiating fraudulent wire requests. This white paper provides examples of actual fraud cases that illustrate the breadth of schemes in play, plus descriptions of available fraud prevention solutions. It also...

Security in a Faster Forward World

As long as organizations have operated online, attackers have looked for ways to attack them. And as the Internet has evolved, the methods and techniques used have changed to take advantage of the vulnerabilities that exist. The challenge with Web security lies in that changing nature. Attackers are always one step...

Not Your Father's IPS: SANS Survey on Network Security Results

With cyber attacks on the rise, many organizations rely on intrusion prevention systems (IPS) to detect and stop attacks in their networks. But to counter increasingly sophisticated threats, IPS is now evolving into next-generation intrusion prevention systems (NGIPS). What drives the need for these new systems? And...

Top Website Exploits Correlated from Thousands of Websites

WhiteHat's Website Security Statistics Report (13th EDT) provides a unique perspective on the state of website security and the issues that organizations must address to avert attacks. Website security is an ever-moving target. New website launches are common, new code is released constantly, new web technologies are...

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Key Benefits of Application White-Listing and How to Achieve Them

Application white-listing is the number one strategy in Australia's Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) list of 35 Strategies to Mitigate Targeted Cyber Intrusions; it is deemed an essential control. Application white-listing gives administrators visibility and control over applications that are allowed to communicate...

HIPAA! HITECH! HELP! Mobile Device Management in Healthcare

Data security is of paramount importance in the healthcare industry, where regulations are numerous and fines are serious. With MDM, your staff can use the smartphones and tablets they need to provide the best possible care and IT can rest easy that devices comply with policies that protect confidential data. Read...

Financial Mobility - Balancing Security and Success

Financial service organizations have been leery to embrace the enterprise mobility wave. Rightly so, as regulations from SOX, FINRA and PCI DSS have given financial IT professionals extra concern for caution. And with BYOD, consumerization, BlackBerry migration, and the changing needs of enterprise customers, a...

Mobility on Hold: Get Back on Track with Mobile Risk Mitigation

Mobile banking continues to gain momentum, growing faster than any other delivery channel to date. Many financial institutions want to expand capabilities in the mobile channel, but are concerned about security. Given the evolving threats, mobile innovation has outpaced the industry's appetite for deploying new...

Why the Endpoint Must be the New Security Focus

Today's computing challenges require organizations to take a holistic, end-to-end approach to security, extending the traditional focus on network security to external devices and all endpoints. For now, the primary requirements are for securing servers, desktop PCs, laptops and other mobile devices, but this will...

2013 Server Security Survey Report

In October 2013, Bit9 conducted its third-annual survey on server security. In the past year, the inability to detect or stop advanced attacks has remained a constant challenge for enterprises. This survey was designed to analyze these challenges from respondents who are responsible for their organization's security...

When Criminals Defeat Authentication: Lessons Learned From Unauthorized Access to Financial Portals

Criminals are defeating multifactor, knowledgebase and other forms of authentication to compromise a wide range of Web applications to steal money and personal information. Beyond online banking, there are personal wealth management portals, corporate treasury systems, board portals and trust services, just to name a...

Perception Versus Reality: Mobile Security Gains Traction as Enterprises Embrace New Technology

Mobile security is often the target of unrealistic criticism. The truth? Mobile is, in fact, a more secure computing platform than traditional PCs and provides organizations with methods to address security needs - both for today and tomorrow. Leveraging mobile device certificates, organizations can make VPN or...

It's 2 a.m. Do You Know Where Your Certificates Are?

Many organizations leverage digital certificates throughout their information technology infrastructure. While this approach has numerous advantages, digital certificates must be properly issued, managed and maintained. Compliance, ability to operate a website or even basic business processes could be impacted if a...