Discover how enterprises are tackling a new generation of insidious and potentially costly threats.
Published: Apr 25, 2014
This primer explains the basics of SSL VPN technology and includes distinguishing factors between Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) and SSL VPN technologies.
Published: Aug 04, 2014
The number of cyber attacks against midsize companies has doubled in the last year. And cost per employee is more than three times that of larger companies. While midsize organisations often lack the sophisticated defenses of large enterprises, many fail to recognise their vulnerability and are overconfident in their ability...
Published: Aug 20, 2014
As the security landscape changes, it’s time for a Firewall refresh. The decision to transition from legacy firewalls to next-generation firewalls is easy to justify, but picking the right solution for you may not be. This white paper from Palo Alto acts as a Firewall Buyer’s Guide; featuring firewall requirements...
Published: Jun 09, 2014
Cyber criminals do not just develop one attack and then abandon it after one use. Rather, they seek to make their software usable for as long as possible. Evasion techniques allow known threats to circumvent detection by security products.
Research indicates that cyber criminals perform their own testing and make...
Published: Nov 15, 2013
This paper aims to help IT professionals, including security and virtualization specialists, understand and choose between two modern approaches to securing virtual environments: agentless scanning using vShield Endpoint and client-based scanning optimized for virtual platforms.
Published: Mar 31, 2014
Virtualization has been a game-changing technology for IT, providing efficiencies and capabilities that just aren't possible when constrained within a physical world. Efficient backup and quick recovery of virtual systems and the host systems they run on is essential to maintaining business productivity and cost savings...
Published: Jul 29, 2013
This guide provides five simple steps for IT professionals to take control of SSL across the enterprise, and recommendations for a management platform for full visibility and single-point of control for these Certificates throughout their lifecycle.
Published: Oct 15, 2014
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack types have moved up the OSI network model over time, climbing from network attacks in the 1990s to session attacks and application layer attacks today. Network attacks include DDoS variants such as SYN floods, connection floods, or ICMP fragmentation.
Published: Oct 31, 2013
A ThreatTrack Security study of 100 IT/security managers at U.S. defense contractors found that 88% believe "the government provides adequate guidance and support to contractors to ensure sensitive data is secure and protected against cyber-attacks."
The finding is significant - even surprising - in light...
Published: Aug 26, 2014
Every year brings an even more extreme set of threats to the enterprise than the last. Spam email used to be the number one headache. Now it’s been replaced with malware, spear phishing, and the infamous spin-off of the two, the advanced persistent threat (APT). Employee Internet usage is also changing in ways that...
Published: Jun 06, 2014
The numbers do not lie – whether internal or external, breaches are inevitable. In today’s environment, the core of any security strategy needs to shift from “breach prevention” to “breach acceptance.”
And, when one approaches security from a breach-acceptance viewpoint, the world...
Published: Jul 11, 2013
Some applications and data require additional security due to rigorous contractual or regulatory requirements. Until now, companies had to store sensitive data (and/or the encryption keys protecting it) in on-premise data centers.
Unfortunately, this either prevented migration of these applications to the AWS cloud...
Published: Nov 04, 2013
Generally, there are three types of cyber-criminals: cyber-crime actors, cyber-espionage actors, and other threat actors such as hacktivist groups. Cyber-crime actors are motivated by financial gain, whereas cyber espionage actors are driven by the collection of intellectual property (IP). Hacktivists, on the other hand,...
Published: Mar 21, 2014