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Preventing Targeted Attacks: Security Recommendations and Mitigation Efforts

Cybersecurity is a major concern in both the private and public sectors. Targeted attacks aimed at commercial and government organizations are on the rise, in both frequency and severity. In recent years, threat actors have become increasingly focused on targeting corporations to obtain sensitive information for...

Customer Service and Fraud Protection - the Great Dichotomy

Financial crimes can be complex, often spanning national borders. Combatting them involves a range of challenges, including: Correctly identifying a bank's "customer"; Understanding hidden patterns and relationships among customers; Covering the cost of investigations and compliance reporting; Reducing false...

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 -...

Social Media Hacks: Techniques, Detection, and Prevention Methods

"Social media hack": these words have become synonymous with embarrassing front-page news stories featuring major companies and figures who have fallen victim to misuse of their designated community channels. As social media has risen in popularity, hackers have realized that it's a ripe target. Facebook,...

4 Unique Challenges of Social Media Compliance

Everywhere you look, corporate investments in social media are on the rise. However, increased investment in social also comes with increased compliance risk. Regulators recognize social media as a public communication channel subject to existing earnings disclosure, truth in advertising, and data privacy regulations....

Balancing Customer ID Verification and Convenience in Retail Banking

For new customers, account opening can range from a relatively quick 10 minutes to a lengthy 30 minutes. The average time for online account opening was 16.25 minutes. The most commonly stated problem with the account opening process was ID authentication. The entire process, from consumers having information to...

Is Customer Verification the Achilles Heel in Online Account Opening?

Across the financial services world, the prevailing consumer demand for 'wherever and whenever' is driving banks to offer new digital services and to attract new customers to their digital channels. Unsurprisingly, while digital banking is booming, the bank branch has seen better days. The rise of digital and the...

How to Secure Corporate Email on Personal Devices

In today's mobile world, enterprises want engaged and connected employees. That's one of the reasons they are letting employees use their own devices to access email. People who can access work from a personal device are always going to be connected to the office. However, the most popular smart phones are not...

The Performance Benefits of Centralized Anti-Malware Agents

If every VDI instance is running a full anti-malware agent, rather than being centralized and deduplicating into a single agent on a dedicated virtual appliance, there will be a measurable performance impact that immediately puts the viability of VDI projects in jeopardy. This paper outlines how the impact of...

How Malware Writers Are Taking Advantage of Virtualization

As virtualization projects continue to accelerate, organizations are discovering they have changed how datacenters are architected, built, and managed. With this evolution, there are areas of security concern organizations must address as they move, ever-increasingly, to rely on virtualization. It is important to...

Securing the Virtual Infrastructure without Impacting Performance

Virtualization offers remarkable benefits to organizations. However, organizations that are aggressively pursuing virtualization are not realizing the full possible return on investments in virtualization. However, too often, organizations don't consider the need to identify new endpoint antimalware solutions. ...

The Challenges of Email Encryption

Not all email encryption solutions are created equal. Some can compromise ease-of-use and force users-both your employees sending encrypted email and your customers and partners receiving encrypted email-to jump through hoops. What once was a fast communication tool can become a frustrating barrier to business. The...

How to Implement an Effective BYOD Policy

In evaluating current or future BYOD policies and deployments, it's important to recognize that your industry regulations, employee needs and company culture should play a significant role in determining how your company enables BYOD. One approach does not suit all companies. Even within a company, you may...

Protection from the Inside: Application Security Methodologies Compared

Applications are a primary target for cyber attacks. Historically, Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) have been a popular choice for protecting production applications from attack. But they have their limitations, and advice on how to bypass a WAF is readily available. Learn how context from within the application...

Work Smarter, Not Harder, to Secure Your Applications

The most recent HP Security Cyber Risk Report revealed that vulnerabilities in production software are still pervasive. Finding software vulnerabilities is only part of the battle; actually fixing those vulnerabilities can sometimes be an elusive goal, especially when you lack access to the code. Using Runtime...