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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,...

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,...

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...

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...

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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...

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Mitigate DDoS Attacks and Stay Online: A Case Study

Top10optionbinaire.com, an independent trading website, had been hit by what is commonly known as a Distributed-Denial-of-Service, or DDoS, attack. Learn how Top10optionbinaire.com was able to reinstate their website and continue to protect against DDoS attacks to ensure the site was available 24x7. Discover how a...

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Survey Report: Current State of DDoS Attacks in the UK

When DDoS attacks hit, companies go into crisis mode. It's all hands on deck until the danger passes. Neustar surveyed IT professionals across the United Kingdom to see how companies managed the crisis in 2012. Our report compares results from the United Kingdom with those from North America, detailed in a previous...

DDoS Survival Handbook

Every organization with a website - especially one that requires its users to have regular access to sensitive information - should take urgent and appropriate steps to protect against DoS and DDoS attacks. Failure to do so can result in huge financial losses as well as a damaged public reputation. This DDoS Survival...

Why a Web Application Firewall Makes Good Business Sense

Online businesses constantly face evolving security threats and challenges. Hackers target security holes in web applications, leaving businesses with customer and corporate data breaches, financial loss, brand damage and, in some cases, legal trouble. To safeguard against falling victim to web-application attacks,...

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A Two-Phased DDoS Mitigation Strategy

Until recently, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks had been part of infosec lore: something you heard about but rarely experienced. With the rise of hacktivist groups and other cybercriminal organizations, DDoS has once again raised its ugly head. Today, these attacks are one of the most prevalent...

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Financial Security: What Smaller Institutions Can Learn From DDoS Attacks On Big Banks

Since last fall, several waves of distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have targeted major players in the U.S. banking industry. Eventually, the top 50 institutions found themselves in the crosshairs. Websites crashed, customers couldn't connect to make transactions and banks scrambled to get back online - and...

BYOD File Sharing - Go Private Cloud to Mitigate Data Risks

The consumerization of IT and the popularity of BYOD are jeopardizing the security and integrity of enterprise data. Seeking an easy way to share files across smart phones, tablets, and desktops, employees are using free public cloud file sharing services that lack rigorous security and audit controls. These services...

5 Best Practices for Secure Enterprise Content Mobility

The proliferation of mobile devices and IT management's increasing acceptance of BYOD are creating new security challenges for enterprises. Employees are using personal devices such as iPads and Android phones to access and store business data. To share this data, they're relying on e-mail and consumer-grade file...