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The Future of Government Cybersecurity

During 2015, federal departments collectively reported 77,183 cybersecurity incidents, a 10 percent increase from 2014. Looking ahead, cyberrisks and attacks are rapidly increasing and evolving. In short, more clearly than ever, cybersecurity is everyone's priority. However there is a silver lining: government is...

Best Practices for Dealing with Phishing and Ransomware

Phishing and ransomware are serious threats that can cause enormous damage to an organization's finances, data assets and reputation. This white paper can help you reduce the chance of a successful phishing or ransomware attack and minimize the consequences if an attack breaches your defenses. Download this...

Impostor Email Threats: Four Business Email Compromise Techniques and How to Stop Them

Impostor email threats, also known as business email compromise (BEC) and CEO fraud, have hit more than 7,000 companies since the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) began tracking this type of scam in late 2013. Those that succeed can yield millions of dollars in fraudulent transfers. Download this eBook...

What Every Organization Needs to Know Before, During and After a Ransomware Attack

Ransomware attackers collected more than $209 million from victims during the first three months of 2016 alone, with the volume of attacks 10 times higher than all of 2015. In addition to the ransom itself, these attacks can exact a heavy cost: business disruption, remediation costs, and a diminished...

Is Next Generation Intrusion Prevention Right for You?

While attackers continue to innovate, traditional intrusion prevention systems (IPS) have stood still, generating low-value alerts for security teams as attackers slip past in pursuit of high-value targets. Organizations have countered by piling more and more equipment on the network hoping to solve the problem....

Adopting Office 365 Without the Pains

Making the right decisions about how to deploy Office 365 can be a show-stopper, particularly as you consider branch office and remote user connectivity. Each Office 365 user generates between 12 and 20 persistent connections. Each connectivity option, ExpressRoute, hub-and-spoke or direct-to-Internet, deals with this...

Phind the Phish - Reducing Phishing Detection from Months to Minutes

What if you had a secret weapon that provided the visibility and context you need to make a quick judgment about the severity of an alert and more important, understand the context of what was going on before and after that alert? With metadata, you do. Rich metadata can answer many questions about what's happening...

Rating the Security Performance of the Fortune 1000

BitSight Technologies has just concluded a new study that rates the cybersecurity performance of Fortune 1000 enterprises. What are the key takeaways? Data Scientist Jay Jacobs shares his analysis. One significant point: Despite the rash of high-profile breaches and the reality that organizations are dedicating...

Ransomware: The Defender's Advantage

As challenging as ransomware has proven to be against so many organizations across regions and sectors, certain characteristics actually can help defenders gain an edge at detecting malware. Lastline's Engin Kirda explains how. "Ransomware is a threat that needs to be taken seriously," says Kirda, cofounder and chief...

The First 72-Hours: How to Approach the Initial Hours of a Security Incident

In this white paper, Fidelis Cybersecurity will outline key steps to take in the first 72 hours of detecting an alert, how to distinguish what type of incident you are facing and the key differences on how to respond. Based on our firsthand experience, we provide lessons learned from the front lines to explain why it...

A New Approach to Endpoint Security Software Testing

Security product testers have architectured their test suites to adhere to the technologies of the past 10 years. However, as endpoint security and the threat landscape continue to evolve, so must testing suites evolve as well. Advanced methodologies and a more robust testing criteria are essential to keep...

Beyond Next-gen: Defining Future-ready Endpoint Security

The notion of "next-gen" is now promoted by some providers of endpoint security software as a way to improve the efficacy of protecting endpoints from compromise, given the prominent role endpoints play in cybersecurity attacks, the ways in which mobility and cloud apps have expanded the attack surface area, and the...

Evolving Threats Call for Integrated Endpoint Solutions with Holistic Visibility

High-profile, targeted attacks from malicious actors now occur with frightening and increasing regularity. This evolution of advanced threats overwhelms both IT organizational bandwidth and the capabilities of legacy antivirus tactics, particularly as the increasing number of endpoint devices used by employees expands...

There is No Silver Bullet: Why a Multi-layered Approach to Endpoint Security is a Must

The security landscape changed dramatically with the maturation of crypto-ransomware in 2014. Not only did this new type of malware bring about a more lucrative business model for attackers, it also spurred the adoption of many so-called 'next-gen' endpoint security techniques. While these techniques bring...

Drowning in Data, Starving for Actionable Intelligence

Today's threat landscape constantly throws new problems at organizations already struggling to keep up with yesterday's issues. New malware, ransomware, botnets, and fileless attacks target a growing list of enterprise vulnerabilities with clever new exploits and social engineering tactics, and these attacks are...