Page 12 - White Papers in Security Operations

Empowering the Overwhelmed SOC: Creating an Effective Security Operations Center

While security teams continue to add to their threat protection arsenal, they are struggling to keep up with the threats. Security information and event management (SIEM) products, threat analytics platforms, advanced endpoint protection (AEP) products, user entity behavior analytics (UEBA) tools, and incident...

SIEM: The New Force Multiplier Powered by Actionable Intelligence

CISOs and security analysts alike complain that security information and event management (SIEM) technology has not fully lived up to its promises. Even with SIEM systems in place, enterprises still suffer from alert fatigue, and security teams armed with SIEM event and flow data still miss untold numbers of attack...

2017 State of Malware Report: Headlines Finally Catch Up to the Hype

In 2016, cyberattacks and cybersecurity (or a lack thereof) grabbed media attention on both the corporate and consumer sides, even becoming a key issue in the US presidential election. In this respect, you could say that everyone, even those who have never logged on, was affected by cyberattacks and hacking in...

The Top Four Firewall Security Gaps to Fix and Secure Your Organization

Firewall complexity is leaving companies exposed. The technology to keep company networks safe exists, but it isn't being managed properly. Firewall technology has come a long way since its initial, most rudimentary forms. Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW) are the latest development, and organizations are accelerating...

Modernize Your Firewall Now: They Will Pass if You Fail

Building a Zero Trust (ZT) network where security permeates the entire digital ecosystem, rather than assuming an internal trusted network and managing an external untrusted network, has become paramount. Forrester advocates that Next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) are critical to architecting a ZT network, but the...

Data-driven Security Meets the 21st Century

As cyber threats become more complex in nature and the attack surface grows, enterprises are shifting to a risk-centric threat identification, containment, and remediation security strategy, prioritizing investments in tools and capabilities to detect threats and respond to incidents faster and more...

9 Steps to Building an Insider Threat Defense Program

Insider threats pose high risks to all enterprises. No organization, regardless of size, industry or region, is immune. With all the advantages that the digital age has brought us (and they are many) it has also brought a rise of highly damaging data breaches, from both internal and external sources. Regardless of...

Federal Agencies Make the Case for Modern Network Security Operations

Cloud computing initiatives, network monitoring and risk management are driving network security operations. Meanwhile, federal agencies face record levels of threats yet still rely on manual processes and outdated point tools. Agency network security operations must be modernized to streamline network security...

Top 5 Security Trends to Watch in 2017

As cyber criminals develop new attack techniques in an evolving technology environment, here are the trends we believe organisations need to be aware of to stay safe in 2017.

Secure Pipes: Changing the Expectation of Your Internet Service Providers

The time has come to change the way that security is conducted. The era of "bolt-on" security solutions needs to come to an end, or at least be recalibrated. Built-in security should become the expectation. Customers are not looking to buy "products" such as broadband access or Web filtering. Customers are looking for...

The Vendor Risk Management Solution Guide

As enterprises continue to outsource more aspects of their operations to third parties, they expose themselves to more shared risk. It can be a staggering responsibility. Most organizations understand the need to automate vendor risk management activities to keep up with increasing scope and scrutiny. Yet they...

Fraud in The Mobile Era: A Hacker's Delight

As mobile devices eclipse computers and laptops as the preferred method of going online, fraudsters have followed users, porting their modus operandi -account takeover, social engineering, and malware based remote control attacks - to the mobile arena. Thus, hackers have many more opportunities to perpetrate fraud and...

Oh, RATs! Current Fraud Detection Doesn't Catch Remote Access Trojans

Many IT professionals use remote administration tools to troubleshoot and fix PC problems remotely, just as if they were sitting behind the keyboard themselves. But these tools are also used for different purposes today. Both nation states and hacktivists use modified these tools, creating Remote Access Trojan's...

Testing the Top 9 Market Leaders in Breach Detection: How They Measure Up

As the New Year unfolds, finding a breach prevention provider will be critical in order to safeguard an organization's assets. NSS Labs subjected nine cybersecurity market leaders to comprehensive, rigorous testing to determine how well each product handled current advanced threats and attack methods. All vendor...

Top 11 Automated Malware Analysis Providers Ranked by Forrester

Despite significant investments in the signature-based defenses of today's network, email and endpoint security solutions, since 2010, these solutions have been ineffective against the sheer volume of evolving malware. Security and risk professionals have turned to automated malware analysis (AMA) for help. These...