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How Credential Phishing is Changing and How to Stop It

Your people are now the primary exploit target. You need to protect them, the way they work, and identify assets and risks before you are compromised. With an increasing amount of sensitive and confidential information- and an expanding attack surface of devices, cloud apps, and mobile locations- you cannot afford to...

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The Impostor in the Machine: Understanding the Motives and Mayhem Behind Impostor Emails

The threat landscape is always shifting, and impostor emails are on the rise. Carefully planned and researched, impostor emails target specific people in your company. Either you become the target of this attack or you become the unwitting victim. Learn how Proofpoint Email Protection allows you to quickly see,...

2015 Shadow Data Report

The Blue Coat Cloud Threat Labs team publishes the Shadow Data Report to provide actionable insights into key trends and challenges in securing cloud apps and services and, more importantly, the business critical data stored in them. The 2H 2015 report's findings are based on the analysis of nearly 63M documents...

Battling Fraud at the Root Cause

Recent attacks have shown that once a user's endpoint is infected with advanced malware, criminals can bypass most security layers, including two-factor authentication, device ID systems, risk engines and behavioral analytic systems. Banking malware such as Citadel, Zeus, Dyre and Bugat, incorporate advanced...

Selecting the Right Cybercrime-Prevention Solution

Financial institutions, commercial enterprises and government organizations are all prime targets for cybercrime. Malicious software, or malware, is the primary attack tool used by cybercriminals to execute account takeover attacks, steal credentials and personal information, and initiate fraudulent...

Command and Control Servers: Widespread Victimization

While nations around the world are considered C2 traffic offenders, the regions generating the highest levels of traffic are Europe and the United States. An average of 20 percent of the tracked C2s were based in North America with a nearly equal amount launching from the Ukraine and Russia combined. Unusual...

Conversational User Behavior Analytics

For years, cyber security has focused its resources on stopping the intrusive attack from without. But very little has been done to stop attacks perpetrated from within the system. But what if we could teach the security system to look at users like we might look at an individual whom we know well? Download this...

Spear Phishing is Thriving

Reliable metrics convey the robustness of phishing and spear phishing. They've been compiled by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), the global coalition of tech vendors, government and law enforcement agencies and NGOs focused on the problem. In the first three quarters of 2015, the number of unique phishing...

50 Shades of Dark: How to Use the Dark Web for Threat Intelligence

There is a lot of talk about the dark Web these days, including how cyber criminals use it to spread malware, leak intellectual property, and publish user account credentials. Using open source intelligence (OSINT), our team explored the surface, deep, and dark parts of the Web and investigated the links between...

Understand Your Attacker: A Practical Guide to Identifying TTPs With Threat Intelligence

Combat threats by understanding your adversaries and the tools, techniques, and processes (TTPs) they're likely to weaponize. This whitepaper shares research on the latest attacker tools, provides architecture recommendations for organizations looking to strengthen security controls, and helps analysts use threat...

How to Produce a World-Class Threat Intelligence Capability

Learn how to overcome the political inertia that often accompanies building a threat intelligence team from the ground up. This whitepaper details how to merge operational and strategic capabilities to automate and analyze external attack data to identify current and future security threats. Discover the six core...

Vendor Risk Management: Getting it Right

Behind many of the biggest breaches is a third-party intrusion. And yet far too few organizations have an effective third-party risk management program in place, says Norman Menz III, co-founder and CTO of Prevalent. How must they address this gap? In a video interview at RSA Conference 2016, Menz...

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Critical Capabilities for Enterprise Information Archiving

IT architects are deploying enterprise information archiving (EIA) products to support compliance, improve operational efficiency, enable e-discovery and/or allow end users to archive and retrieve their own content. To support any one of these use cases, IT architects must understand the enabling "critical...

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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...

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SANS Spearphishing Survival Guide

Spearphishing is a targeted email scam with the sole purpose of obtaining unauthorized access to sensitive data. Cybercriminals are using social media, mobile apps and other sources to effectively personalize messages and websites going undetected to steal your confidential data. Download the SANS Spearphishing...