In today’s security landscape, IPSs are in the process of radical change. Established IPS companies are rapidly improving the look and feel of their IPS devices, making them much more management friendly. IPS inputs were once confined to direct packet capture, but now the packet capture function, while still critical,...
Published: Apr 07, 2014
Today’s organizations are highly vulnerable to security threats related to privileged identities—that is, the accounts of system administrators, database managers and others with elevated access to critical IT resources.
Because of the overarching access of these users, their privileged identities have...
Published: Sep 11, 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
In this guide, you’ll learn more about phishing, why it has become such a widespread problem, and the negative impact that a phishing attack can have on your company and your customers. You’ll also learn how SSL and EV SSL technology can help protect your web site, your business, and ultimately your bottom...
Published: Oct 06, 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
Security professionals know that effective endpoint protection calls for a layered, defense-in-depth approach. But today’s endpoints demand even more. Endpoint security now requires a new way of thinking that goes beyond just battling threats to actually enabling operational improvement.
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Published: May 09, 2013
Global enterprises have a gaping hole in their security strategy for defending against rampant cyber attacks on the trust established by cryptographic keys and digital certificates. Cyber criminals understand that the easy targets are those organizations that have little visibility into their threat surface and cannot...
Published: Jul 01, 2014
This paper explores the current state of web site security and the contributions VeriSign is making to help organizations protect critical data and build trust with customers. It begins with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption, the technology that addresses the most obvious and oldest problem in online business—the...
Published: Sep 22, 2014
Two recent security events have rocked enterprises. First, was the breach of Target. It wasn't the breach that was shocking, because unfortunately breaches have become common. The real shock was the major effect it had on Target's finances and bottom line. The second event was the recent Heartbleed exploit. Heartbleed...
Published: Aug 25, 2014
When web applications are breached, enormous amounts of sensitive business data can be lost. According to Verizon’s 2014 Data Breach Investigations Report, web application attacks more than doubled in 2013 to become the #1 cause of security incidents.
Published: Aug 08, 2014
News headlines have been inundated with stories of massive personal and credit card data breaches. According to analysts, a single orchestrated breach of credit card magnetic stripe data that occurred recently will likely cost the victimized business about $240 million.
To make matters worse, the financial costs of...
Published: Jun 24, 2014
Endpoint security is broken. Traditional antivirus (AV) vendors aren’t keeping up with today’s threats. They don’t protect against unknown attacks until it’s too late, forcing security teams to scramble for new products every time a new wave of attacks hits.
This reactive approach has...
Published: Jan 11, 2019
Without a doubt, endpoint security has become an urgent priority for many organizations, and it’s not hard to see why. Industry research by IDC is showing that 70 percent of successful breaches enter through an endpoint.
Other research shows that more than half of companies have been hit with successful...
Published: Jan 11, 2019
Unified threat management (UTM) systems are among the most widely used tools in the information security arsenal. The concept of unified threat management is very appealing: multiple critical security technologies, integrated on a single platform, provided by a single vendor
Published: Mar 31, 2014