Page 9 - White Papers in Governance & Risk Management

The Cost of an Unintentional Insider Threat

The term Insider Threat brings to mind the malicious employee, motivated by either money or politics to steal data that can be sold on a black market or used to damage the organization's reputation. According to a Ponemon report, unintentional employee negligence severely diminishes the productivity of the...

A Business Case for Funding Your Insider Threat Program

The insider threat is a dangerous risk to government agencies and their most sensitive data. Monitoring the behaviors internally and identifying corrupt situations based on access, roles and actions is not a luxury government agencies can afford to go without. Read our detailed white paper on building a case to...

The Human Factor 2016: Advanced Threat Report

Today's advanced attacks focus more on exploiting human flaws than system flaws. In 2015, attackers shifted away from automated exploits and instead engaged people to do the dirty work- infecting systems, stealing credentials, and transferring funds. Across all vectors and in attacks of all sizes, threat actors...

Data Protection And The Insider Threat

Insider data exfiltration causes tremendous damage every year. Worse, the vast majority of insider data exfiltration goes undetected simply because the organization is not looking for it. Relying on technologies designed primarily to secure the perimeter leaves much to be desired. Relying on trust is only an option...

Combined Network Behavior and User Activity Intelligence

A recent survey asked information security decision-makers from various industries globally what keeps them up at night and insider threats were high on the list for the 345 pros polled. Protection from imposters requires rapid and reliable detection that offers immediate insight into what's happening, how it's...

Defending Your Hybrid Enterprise From Data Breaches and Insider Threats

Privileged credentials have served as a major attack vector in the successful execution of many breaches. Protecting privileged access is an imperative to successfully defend an organization from a breach and is a core requirement of multiple compliance regimes. Download this whitepaper to explore how to defend...

IBM Cyber Security Intelligence Index for Financial Services

Significant threats and massive breaches make front-page news on a regular basis, leaving businesses and consumers wondering whether their data can ever be considered safe again. That kind of news can be especially damaging to the financial services industry, where success really depends on reputation and trust....

SANS Review: Reducing Detection and Response Times

Although we have made progress in the use of analytics and intelligence, the latest SANS Security Analytics survey shows 26 percent of respondents feel they still can't understand and baseline normal behavior in their IT environments, with a majority citing a lack of people and dedicated resources as an...

The Threats From Within: How Educating Your Employees On Cybersecurity Can Protect Your Company

Human beings are the weakest link within any organization, presenting new opportunities for cybercriminals to infiltrate your company. But your employees can also be your first and best line of defense. With a robust security education program in place, your company can protect its most sensitive information by...

Mitigating The Accidental Insider Threat

When it comes to threat detection, spotting malicious insiders is one thing. They often leave a trail. But how do you protect against the accidental insider threat? Organizations need to deploy tools such as spam filters, secure gateways and sandboxing technologies to help mitigate the vulnerabilities introduced by...

Top 10 Tips for Educating Employees about Cybersecurity

Do you know the most common risk factor for corporate cybercrime? Employees. Sometimes, the threat actually originates from within, when employees' ignorance and/or negligence opens the door for cybercriminals. This eBook is designed to provide you with tips for educating your employees about cybersecurity. It's...

Cyber Security Intelligence Index

Significant threats and massive breaches make front-page news on a regular basis, leaving businesses and consumers wondering whether their data could ever be considered safe again. Major vulnerabilities have been found lurking in well-known applications, many of which had been dormant for more than 10 years. Once...

The Shift to File-Centric Security

Files may be secure within a network using perimeter-based solutions. They may even remain secure during transit using encryption technologies. But what happens once recipients obtain and decrypt those files? How do you keep information secure as the file gets passed around or downloaded onto a flash drive? How can...

Risk Mitigation: Keeping Employee Risk From Becoming Insider Threat

This White Paper will present some common sense suggestions for improving the "beginning of the lifecycle" risk mitigation process. In other words, ways to add a bit more intelligence beginning with the screening and hiring process. Then, we'll look at how to tie the efforts made at the beginning of the lifecycle to...

The ROI of Fighting Fraud

A penny saved is a penny earned, as Benjamin Franklin made familiar in Poor Richard's Almanac in 1737 - and every penny of fraud loss recovered (or better yet, avoided) goes straight to the organization's bottom line. Present-day examples span the gamut of industries. The losses are in the billions and growing -...