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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...

Implementing an Employee Monitoring Program

Security & Risk professionals recognize the value and benefits of implementing an employee-monitoring program. Privacy advocates and Legal and Human Resources professionals see potentially unwarranted invasion of employee privacy as reasons not to monitor, or at least to restrict monitoring to instances where...

Financial Institutions: How to Protect Customers from Advanced Malware in 2014

Modern financial malware like Zeus or Citadel can empty bank accounts in seconds. Through 2014, this widespread threat will continue to grow unabated. This paper discusses two of the primary mitigation vectors that can be used against powerful financial malware, including: Backend protection and specialized...

Windows XP End of Life Handbook for Upgrade Latecomers

April 8, 2014, is the end-of-life date for Windows XP and Microsoft Office 2003. After that date, there will be NO MORE security updates and critical patches available unless you pay the high cost of out-of-band support. You considered upgrading to Windows 7 or Windows 8 but your hardware won't run these operating...

The Convergence of Security and Compliance

This new white paper explains how a single, positive security solution, such as Bit9, facilitates the convergence of compliance and security - one agent that provides visibility, detection, response and protection and can automate and manage compliance for PCI-DSS, SOX, HIPAA, FISMA, GLBA, GPG 13, NERC CIP and other...

Endpoint Security Demands Defense In-Depth and Advanced Analytics

When it comes to endpoint security, large organizations find themselves in a difficult situation. Most enterprises have host-based security software (i.e., antivirus software) installed on almost every PC and server, yet their IT assets are constantly attacked - and often compromised - by sophisticated malware and...

Mobile Data Security - Balancing Risk with User Experience

Today's threat environment dictates that basic MDM solutions should be supplemented with robust security controls to help secure and protect sensitive data from being distributed to unauthorized third parties, either inadvertently or maliciously. This white paper will help you identify and reconcile lacking areas...

Context-Based Authentication & Fraud Protection for Mobile Devices

Mobile devices - smartphones and tablets - are powerful computers that are increasingly used for commerce and financial transactions. Consumers will spend $235 billion through mobile transactions, making mobile devices a very lucrative channel and the next frontier for cybercriminals to exploit. The threats against...

Dissecting Wire Fraud: How It Happens and How to Prevent It

Preventing wire fraud starts with understanding how it is perpetrated and the many options fraudsters have for initiating fraudulent wire requests. This white paper provides examples of actual fraud cases that illustrate the breadth of schemes in play, plus descriptions of available fraud prevention solutions. It also...

Security in a Faster Forward World

As long as organizations have operated online, attackers have looked for ways to attack them. And as the Internet has evolved, the methods and techniques used have changed to take advantage of the vulnerabilities that exist. The challenge with Web security lies in that changing nature. Attackers are always one step...

Not Your Father's IPS: SANS Survey on Network Security Results

With cyber attacks on the rise, many organizations rely on intrusion prevention systems (IPS) to detect and stop attacks in their networks. But to counter increasingly sophisticated threats, IPS is now evolving into next-generation intrusion prevention systems (NGIPS). What drives the need for these new systems? And...

Top Website Exploits Correlated from Thousands of Websites

WhiteHat's Website Security Statistics Report (13th EDT) provides a unique perspective on the state of website security and the issues that organizations must address to avert attacks. Website security is an ever-moving target. New website launches are common, new code is released constantly, new web technologies are...

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Key Benefits of Application White-Listing and How to Achieve Them

Application white-listing is the number one strategy in Australia's Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) list of 35 Strategies to Mitigate Targeted Cyber Intrusions; it is deemed an essential control. Application white-listing gives administrators visibility and control over applications that are allowed to communicate...

HIPAA! HITECH! HELP! Mobile Device Management in Healthcare

Data security is of paramount importance in the healthcare industry, where regulations are numerous and fines are serious. With MDM, your staff can use the smartphones and tablets they need to provide the best possible care and IT can rest easy that devices comply with policies that protect confidential data. Read...