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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 -...

Mobility on Hold: Get Back on Track with Mobile Risk Mitigation

Mobile banking continues to gain momentum, growing faster than any other delivery channel to date. Many financial institutions want to expand capabilities in the mobile channel, but are concerned about security. Given the evolving threats, mobile innovation has outpaced the industry's appetite for deploying new...

The Changing Face of Cyber-Attacks

Recent security breaches have been devastating to targeted companies, both financially and in terms of their corporate reputation. Many of these have been external attacks, but insiders often pose a more insidious risk. This whitepaper describes how these attacks occur, and highlight key capabilities that can...

Power of Continuous Threat Protection

The threat landscape has changed significantly in the past year, creating the demand for new security strategies. And with the acquisition of Mandiant, FireEye also has changed significantly and now provides security strategies and solutions from first alert to remediation. In this transcript of the video...

What's Yours is Mine - How Employees are Putting Your Intellectual Property at Risk

A new study by Symantec reveals that employees steal corporate data and do not believe it is wrong. The findings show that everyday, employees' attitudes and beliefs about intellectual property theft are at odds with the vast majority of company policies. The survey - conducted by Ponemon Institute, an independent...

Financial Services Firms Remain Vulnerable to Insider Attacks

Financial services firms enjoy a few advantages over organizations in other industries. Banks and investment firms tend to have larger IT/security budgets and highly experienced security staff members. Large metropolitan banks also have more lucrative salary structures, and so they also have the luxury of recruiting...

The Insider Threat - How Privileged Users Put Critical Data at Risk

As large scale breaches become increasingly commonplace, organizations need to rethink breach prevention initiatives. Breaches can be initiated by malicious or even benign insiders, as well as from external threats who are able to acquire the credentials of trusted insiders. This whitepaper explains how...

Simplifying Employees Investigations

If your employees are spending personal time online during work hours at a typical rate, you could actually be paying the equivalent of six employees' salaries a year for nothing. And that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to how employees can take their own companies down financially. Fraud, harassment and...

Responding to Insider Fraud: Insights on New Study of Internal Risks

Many organizations realize they are at risk of insider attacks. But do they have evidence and capabilities to respond to these risks? That's the real challenge, says researcher Larry Ponemon. "The Risk of Insider Fraud" is the name of new research conducted by Ponemon and Attachmate Luminet, and it sheds new light...

Are Employees Putting Your Company's Data at Risk? [eBook]

Survey Results Exposing Risky Person-to-Person File Sharing Practices If your business is like most, it's in danger of exposing and losing sensitive data as employees move, share, and exchange information and files through unsanctioned electronic means. The risk? Your organization forfeits its competitive advantage...

Business Risk and the Midsize Firm: What Can Be Done to Minimize Disruptions?

Lengthy downtime, data losses, and security breaches can harm business results, bringing business to a halt: stopping the flow of orders, reducing sales revenue, and interfering with the supply chain. These downtimes could potentially impact a company's ability to compete with other organizations that were unaffected,...

Protect Personally Identifiable Information (PII) as if Your Business Depends on It

Virtually every business acquires, uses and stores personally identifiable information (PII) about its customers, employees and partners. These organizations are expected to manage this private data appropriately and take every precaution to protect it from loss, unauthorized access or theft. Misusing, losing or...