Distributed Denial of Service attacks - DDoS. They used to be nuisance crimes committed by gaming rivals and script kiddies. The stakes grew higher five years ago, with the rise of hacktivism and high-profile attacks on large U.S. banks. But even those attacks are minor when compared with today's huge, IoT...
What are the top forms of fraud you're defending against? And how are you ensuring that customers have both a secure and positive transaction experience?
Take the 2017 Faces of Fraud Survey to learn more about the fraud evolution and the renewed focus on customer experience.
Today's most advanced threat actors - whether external or internal - are stealthier than ever and able to hide within one's systems for days, weeks, even months as they gather intel and prepare to strike. How prepared is your security organization to respond to these attackers? Is yours a proactive security posture...
In today's shape-shifting threat landscape, every organization needs the same thing: Real-time, actionable threat intelligence. And there is no shortage of intelligence feeds from reputable third-party sources. But are there too many intelligence feeds for systems and analysts to process? How effectively is actionable...
From new strains of ransomware to a surge in business email compromise and record-setting DDoS attacks, the 2017 threat landscape is taking shape. What is less clear is: What strategic cybersecurity investments are leading financial institutions making to respond to these evolving threats? Moreover, who in the C suite...
Are you an effective security leader with a finger on the pulse of today's evolving threats? Is your hand tightly on the reins of a risk-savvy security team? Do you have a foot in the door of the boardroom, where your counsel is taken seriously?
Or are you simply being led around from crisis to crisis, your hands...
Ransomware dominated the headlines in 2016, as organizations of all sizes and sectors fell victim to malware that locked down, encrypted - and in some cases threatened to destroy - critical systems and data. But is ransomware truly as big a security challenge as it is a compelling story? And what lessons have...
It's every banking institution's quandary: How do you introduce the right cybersecurity controls to protect customer accounts and transactions - but without introducing new hurdles that might compromise the customer experience? How do you resolve the tradeoff between easy-to-use services and cumbersome security...
They have become two of the more common cybersecurity questions in boardrooms worldwide: "Are we secure enough?" "Are we getting proper value from our cybersecurity investments?" Tough questions and even tougher to answer when security leaders don't have benchmarks and metrics in place to gauge their cybersecurity...
Ransomware has exploded to become the highest-profile cybercrime of 2016. Once aimed primarily at consumer PC users, ransomware now has become the bane of enterprises of all sizes and sectors. Criminals infect systems with polymorphous malware that either locks or encrypts critical data or devices until a ransom is...
According to Verizon's latest Data Breach Investigations study, more than 60 percent of the most recent breaches resulted from default, stolen or weak passwords. And most of the high-profile breaches of recent times - Target, JPMorgan Chase, Anthem to name a few - were caused by a breach of privileged access. What is...
From the Anthem breach to the compromise of the U.S. Department of Personnel Management, spear phishing has been at the heart of many high-profile security incidents - including the most recent attacks at Seagate and Snapchat. How prevalent are spear phishing attacks, what business toll are they taking on...
With the rise of ever-sophisticated botnets, ransomware and spyware, we know that cybercriminals are targeting your organization with increasingly powerful malware. How strong - and updated - are your malware defenses?
From traditional account takeover and fraudulent benefits schemes to the latest nuances of business email compromise, financial and government organizations continue to be victimized by persistent fraudsters. Take the 2016 Faces of Fraud Survey to learn more about the Analytics Approach to Fraud Prevention.
