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Strategies for Minimizing Phishing Attack Risks

The Phishing Attack Situation There's no way around it. Sending emails with attachments, downloading web files and using shared folders are a part of how we conduct business and that's not going to change. To counter the growing phishing problem, enterprises need better, faster and more comprehensive ways to...

The Destructive Objects Playbook

Cyberattacks continue to plague organizations worldwide. Many of the largest and most damaging attacks stem from malware-infected files that evade traditional security solutions. Security teams need a more effective and comprehensive solution to the problem of undetected malware not only affecting SecOps teams but...

Digital Transformation & Cyber Risk: What You Need to Know to Stay Safe

CyberGRX and Ponemon Institute surveyed 581 IT security and 302 C-suite executives to determine what impact digital transformation is having on cybersecurity and how prepared organizations are to deal with that impact. In some instances, we highlight the differences between IT Security and C-level respondents....

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Real-Time Mainframe SIEM 101

It has been more than ten years since the security industry combined SIM and SEM into the industry standard today known as SIEM, and a wide gap still looms between this pragmatic approach to IT security across distributed systems and those of its mainframe counterparts. Your sensitive data must be protected and...

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11 Guidelines for Minimizing Vulnerability for IBM z/OS while Improving Compliance

Google "mainframe security breach" and your browser will return some 168,000 entries. The same search for "Linux security breach" and "Windows security breach" yields 1.1 million and 3.05 million entries respectively. Now consider this: Seventy percent of the business and transactional systems around the world run on...

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Indicators of Compromise and Why It Takes Six-Plus Months to ID a Breach

Hackers will always find novel ways to bypass your security protocols, and fighting cybercrime has become less about prevention and more about stemming the bleeding. Ideally, if you can spot these indicators of attack, you can transform your organization's approach to data protection from reactive to...

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Mitigating Mainframe Security Risks with Endpoint Detection and Response

8 Steps to Shore Up Your Defense Against Cyberattack In the past, it was easy to take mainframe security for granted. The mainframe was locked down behind closed doors, and even if you were able to get into the room, you'd still needed the coding experience to hack it. Today, the mainframe is closer to the internet...

Compromised Credentials Monitoring Brief

Compromised Credentials Monitoring (CCM) allows users to monitor exposure of compromised credentials for their enterprise domains and customer email addresses to take action after breaches to mitigate risk of account takeover (ATO). Flashpoint's advanced technology quickly collects and processes data and credentials,...

Pricing Analysis of Goods in Cybercrime Communities

The thriving cybercrime economy of vendors hawking illicit offerings on underground marketplaces grants access to resources that reduce barriers to entry for crimes ranging from fraud to DDoS attacks. Pricing trends for these offerings shed light not only on their accessibility to threat actors, but also on how...

The Definitive Guide to Secure Remote Access

Are network-centric solutions like VPN a mismatch for cloud?

How to Avoid Disruption by Bridging the Resilience Gap

Modern IT teams must maintain compliance with an evolving set of regulatory standards, track and secure sensitive data across endpoints, and manage a dynamic inventory of physical and cloud-based assets, all while fulfilling an increasingly common executive mandate to make technology an enabler for business...

From Chaos to Clarity to Control

How organizations in the most demanding and complex environments are leveraging Tanium to build resilience, maintain business continuity, and manage their long-term risk for today, tomorrow, and the new normal. This paper discusses: Endpoint Management and Security in the Age of COVID-19 Why Internal Endpoint...

2020 Cyber Threat Intelligence Survey Report

Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) isn't the exclusive domain of specialized organizations anymore. Yet many CTI practitioners - the analysts, researchers and threathunters who collect and manage Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) gleaned from the open, deep and Dark Web - report a lack of training, tools and internal...

Open and Dark Web Research: Tips and Techniques

Access and analyze suspicious or malicious content without exposing your resources or your identity. Reinforce your Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) skills with a combination of real-world research tips and techniques: Leverage cross-functional open and dark web research techniques outlined by our military, law...

A Unified Physical Identity and Access Management Model for Financial Institutions

The Future of Unified Workplace Access A Vision for a Unified Physical Identity and Access Management for Financial Institutions Vision for a Unified Physical Identity and Access Management for Financial Institutions Banks and financial institutions are undergoing a physical transformation and rebirth. As cyber...