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Implementing Cloud Native Security: Shift-Left to Increase Effectiveness

Cloud security trends like “shift-left security” and “DevSecOps” refer to new strategies and paradigms that help organizations keep workloads secure in the age of cloud-based, scale-out, constantly changing applications and infrastructure. Many in IT, security, and development probably understand what these...

Cloud Security Blind Spots: Detecting and Fixing Cloud Misconfigurations

Identifying and fixing security gaps in a cloud architecture may not appear very different from doing the same for on-premises environments. But there are a variety of nuanced differences that can be easy to overlook. If you fail to appreciate and account for them, these misconfigurations can cause security blind...

Using the MITRE ATT&CK Knowledge Base to Improve Threat Hunting and Incident Response

Threat hunting and incident response are critical roles of security operations center (SOC) analysts. With the ever-rising sophistication of new and emerging attacks, analysts need an edge to stay ahead of adversaries. This paper describes the MITRE ATT&CK framework including: What the model offers to SOC...

Top 10 Use Cases for User and Entity Behavior Analytics

Attacks have become increasingly sophisticated, and often are invisible and undetectable by legacy security solutions. You read about these successful data breaches almost on a daily basis. Security analysts do what they can with legacy tools, but these tend to swamp analysts with alerts that are difficult to...

Definitive Guide to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Security

Kubernetes brings some specific security requirements to the table. For a managed Kubernetes service like GKE, users have three main layers that require action: the workloads running on the cluster, the cluster and its components, and the underlying GCP services on which the cluster depends, and more. Lack of...

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Blueprint for a Future Ready Workforce: A 3-Stage Approach

It's not news that the digital economy is changing all the rules for IT, which has to deliver the infrastructure and apps that business stakeholders demand. And they have to do it fast without compromising security. That's why it so important to have a modern data center. Learn what defines a modern data center and...

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Forrester: Tension Between IT and Security Professionals Reinforcing Siloes and Security Strain

Although IT and Security teams shoulder the responsibility of many mission-critical tasks in organizations, they often are not aligned under a unified strategy. To assess how a common IT and security strategy can break down silos across the two teams, VMware commissioned Forrester to survey 1,400+ manager level and...

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Replace AV Buyer’s Guide

Today’s businesses face a unique set of security challenges. You need security that works and is easy to implement and manage, but you’re working with a limited budget and resources. Many organizations know their current antivirus solution has gaps but don’t know where to begin in the search for something...

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COVID-19 Continues to Create a Larger Surface Area for Cyberattacks

COVID-19 has exacerbated preexisting cyberthreats, from counter incident response and island hopping to lateral movement and destructive attacks. These attacks are ratcheting up existing geopolitical tensions. Organizations, most of which depend on VPNs and other traditional network security infrastructure, may not...

13 Email Threat Types to Know About Right Now

According to Gartner, “Through 2023, BEC attacks will continue to double each year to over $5 billion and lead to large financial losses for enterprises.” In today’s rapidly evolving environment, traditional email security solutions aren’t enough to protect businesses anymore. You must also effectively...

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Intrinsic Security: How to Unify and Accelerate Endpoint Security Across the Enterprise

As most executives come to realize, the cloud is truly the only viable way for businesses to thrive. In fact, no matter what captures our attention today or next year, the path forward hangs on the promise of the cloud. Yet, with opportunities come risks. Especially when moves are made without considering likely...

Kubernetes Security Tips, Tricks and Best Practices

Organizations are using DevOps and Agile practices, coding in containers and microservices, and adopting Kubernetes at a record pace to help manage all these components. Even five years ago, the level of agility, speed, and flexibility the cloud-native stack enables was but a dream. Since Google first introduced...

Third-Party Cyber Risks in the Oil & Gas Industry

Cyber criminals are taking advantage of the economic uncertainty plaguing the Oil & Gas industry. Download this summary to learn more about the true cost of cyber dangers facing the industry and how control your third party risk.

Third-Party Cyber Risks in the Financial Industry

Download this summary to learn more about how the financial services industry is protecting itself against malicious attacks and potentially devastating cyber breaches.

Reducing Cyber Risk for the Financial Service Industry

Third parties are one of the top attack vectors and according to a recent Ponemon report, in the last three years, the financial services industry experienced the second most third-party breaches despite spending the most time on assessments (over 17,000 hours/year). In response to the growing threats, regulators...