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DDoS Defense for Financial Services

Financial services companies have been the target of a serious, sustained, and well-funded DDoS campaign for more than a year. What these attacks have demonstrated is that DDoS will continue to be a popular and increasingly complex attack vector. DDoS is no longer simply a network issue, but is increasingly a feature...

BYOD Implementation Guide

According to Gartner, 38% of companies will stop issuing laptops to employees by 2016. Clearly, BYO for laptops - and tablets and smartphones too - is a trend that is picking up steam. However, the apprehension about the best way to implement BYO is also growing with concerns around corporate compliance and...

10 Tips to Minimize Impact of a Breach

Organizations of all sizes and across all industries need to prepare for, respond to and recover from complex and large-scale security incidents. The ten tips provided in this white paper will help you to: Minimize the duration and impact of a security incident; Prioritize changes to enhance the security of...

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Are Websites Still the Path of Least Resistance for Cybercriminals?

Even today, strange as it sounds, far too many websites have no protection at all. In organizations where developers are evaluated primarily on their ability to ship code on time, there is often a lack of incentive to adopt secure coding practices. Website protection services can quickly add measurable security to...

New Generation Security for Advanced Threats

Why have targeted advanced threats succeeded so dramatically when most organizations have architected sophisticated defense-in-depth strategies? Because most of the tools and strategies organizations possess were built for the last generation of security threats. Download this eBook and learn why: First generation...

Authentication and 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...

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DDoS Mitigation Strategy: A Two-Phased Defense

DDoS is a complex problem that represents a serious risk to the enterprise, and effective mitigation demands extensive preparation before the attack arrives. Organizations need a strategy that keeps local connections up at the beginning of an attack, and then cleans the upstream traffic prior to it reaching the...

Java Vulnerabilities Report: Write Once, Pwn Anywhere

Java's ubiquity and vulnerabilities have made it the technology most frequently exploited by cyber attackers. So it is timely to closely explore the breadth and state of its deployment among enterprises. Bit9 undertook an examination of these questions, leveraging endpoint data across many organizations. Download...

Close the Mac Security Gap in Your Enterprise

As Mac products grow in popularity in the enterprise, they are becoming increasingly attractive targets for cybercriminals. Advanced attackers are always looking for enterprise infrastructure vulnerabilities, and their knowledge of how to exploit Mac endpoints has grown. With this growth comes a new challenge for...

Securing Cloud Platforms to Host Critical Workloads

As organizations prepare to move critical workloads to the cloud, more stringent security and compliance requirements emerge. This report examines the strengths and shortcomings of existing cloud platform security technologies, and defines an approach to overcome these limitations and leverage existing technology to...

10 Essential Steps to Defend Against DDoS Attacks

There is no doubt that cyber-attacks have grown in complexity and sophistication. As a result, a need has arisen for a new first line of defense. With the ever-broadening motivations for attacks coupled with easy to obtain and even easier to use attack tools, the traditional first line of defense, notably firewalls,...

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Top 10 Key Considerations Before Investing in Web Security

Recent years have seen a dramatic rise in the scale and severity of web attacks. SQL injection attacks are occurring more frequently than ever, and Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are happening on a much larger scale. The effects of these attacks extend long past the assault itself - in terms of lost revenue,...

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Case Study: How Financial Services Firms Can Defend Against DDoS Attacks

DDoS attacks against financial firms have continued to grow in size and frequency. The specific tactics and sophistication of the attacks have evolved rapidly. Outages have prevented customers and prospects from opening new accounts, viewing account and billing information, conducting online transactions and accessing...

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Case Study: Web Protection and Performance in the Age of Cyberthreats

This white paper explores the challenges and solutions of fighting cybercrime in the financial industry with strategies that match improving the overall customer experience with the need to maintain resilient and efficient security infrastructures. The content, guidance, and opinions in this paper are drawn from a...

Protect Against Cyber-Attacks: A Case Study

A business with 95% of its revenues generated online got hammered by DDoS attacks over a 6-month period, resulting in lost sales and damage to its brand. Unprepared for the situation, the company was forced to assess the threat and research solutions quickly. Using a cloud-based DDoS mitigation service, the website...