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Is Your Enterprise Network Multi-Cloud Ready

By re-thinking how they connect, secure, and operate multiple clouds, organizations gain the freedom to innovate across clouds. Learn what multi-cloud success looks like, including: Migrating to the cloud at minimal cost and risk Seamless operations across multiple clouds with existing tools, policies, and...

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Exploring Hybrid Cloud Adoption & the Complexity of Securing East-West Traffic

ESG surveyed IT decision-makers about their organizations' cloud priorities and perceptions. Based on the research, ESG shares industry viewpoints and takeaways on hybrid, multi-cloud approaches to infrastructure, as well as consistent policy enforcement and centralized control across hybrid environments. Download...

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Service Mesh for Dummies Guide

Running Kubernetes? Explore service mesh to simplify the process of connecting, protecting, and monitoring your microservices. A service mesh is an abstraction layer that takes care of service-to-service communications, observability, and resiliency in modern, cloud-native applications. In the Service Mesh Dummies...

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Five Lessons Learned from the Pivot to a Distributed Workforce

The ability to deliver continuity and scale is a hurdle to overcome when facilitating remote work. Giving a large number of end users access to corporate resources quickly is no easy task. How can organizations ensure core business systems are scaled to handle the load and how can they quickly scale up and down, on...

Device Visibility and Control: Streamlining IT and OT Security

Forescout updated its multifaceted IT/OT visibility and control platform to enhance the product's long-standing reputation for handling network admission controls. In this review, SANS Analyst Don Murdoch digs into the product's capabilities and explores these key areas: Device discovery and classification IoT...

Enterprise of Things Security Report - State of IoT Security in 2020 Report

In this first edition of The Enterprise of Things Security Report, Forescout Research Labs analyzed data from over 8 million devices deployed across the Financial Services, Government, Healthcare, Manufacturing and Retail sectors to assess the current state of enterprise IoT cybersecurity. This information comes from...

AI-Augmented Attacks and the Battle of the Algorithms

This report documents an end-to-end attack lifecycle, and how each stage could leverage elements of the AI 'toolkit' to improve and streamline the process. Download the report and learn about: Open-source tools that exist today to enable AI malware; How AI removes the human elements of the attack, making it...

Cyber AI for SaaS Security: Protecting Your Dynamic Workforce

To protect today's dynamic workforce, security teams must be equipped to discern when and how a trusted account has been leveraged for nefarious purposes. This requires more than just an understanding of 'good' vs 'bad' - it requires an 'immune system' approach to security that is not only adaptive, but also grounded...

Email Security Threat Report 2020

Spear phishing, impersonation attacks, and account takeovers, in particular, remain fruitful ways that cyber-criminals can infiltrate an organization. Increasingly targeted email attacks of this kind, which overcome the limitations of traditional defenses, are a significant challenge for security teams...

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The Economics of Virtual Networking

Virtualizing the network is an essential step in moving from a hardwired, hardware-centric IT infrastructure to software-defined data centers. Download this guide to understand the dollars and cents reasons that make virtual networking a wise investment. You'll learn: How quickly organizations typically break...

2020 Vulnerabilities and Threat Trends Report

The 2020 Vulnerability and Threat Trends Report Mid-Year Update shows how criminals have taken advantage of the disruption caused by the pandemic. While organizations were vulnerable and distracted, hackers developed new ransomware samples and advanced existing tools to attack critical infrastructure - including...

Buyer's Guide for Complete Privileged Access Management

The Buyer's Guide for Complete Privileged Access Management (PAM) is the most thorough tool for holistically assessing your privileged access security needs and mapping them to modern privilege management solutions. This detailed PAM Buyer's Guide will help you identify where to begin your privileged access management...

7th Annual Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report for 2020

The 7th annual Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report for 2020 analyzes the data from security bullitens issued by Microsoft throughout 2019. Every Tuesday, Microsoft releases fixes for all vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft products, and this report compiles these releases into a year-long overview, creating a holistic...

Just-In-Time (JIT) Privileged Access Management (PAM)

The abuse and/or misuse of privileged credentials plays a role in almost every cybersecurity breach incident today. With privileged access in hand. an attacker essentially becomes a malicious insider - and that's an alarming scenario for any IT professional, all the way up to the C-level and the Board. Privileged...

Account Takeover Fraud: How to Protect Your Customers and Business

Are you prepared to detect and combat account takeover fraud (ATO) in real time? Adversaries have a variety of weapons at their disposal, which makes effective protection a challenge. To make matters worse, legacy anti-fraud solutions are falling short of accurately evaluating the risk. With the right...