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Security in the Age of Open Banking

It's the age of open banking, and that means changes for banking institutions and their customers - as well as for fraudsters. Just as open banking era makes business easier for customers, it also enables new opportunities for cybercriminals. Download this eBook interview transcript and learn about: What open...

Threat Information Sharing: The Need for a Structured Approach

Developing safe and effective information sharing practices to foster greater interoperability presents big challenges. As information sharing becomes increasingly vital in building resilient cybersecurity, the need to put a strong, collaborative structure in place is critical. Although there are many options for...

Data: How to Secure Your Greatest Asset

It is said that "Data is the new oil." If that's the case, then organizations need to do a far better job inventorying and securing their wells. Download this eBook interview transcript with Laurence Pitt of Juniper Networks and learn about: Data's true value in today's economy; How organizations are exposing...

Establish a Risk-Based Approach to Online Security

Before the Internet, customers who wanted to perform a bank transaction had only one option - a visit to their local branch for a face-to-face transaction. Now, in the "mobile age," customers expect that their bank provide secure and easy access to the full suite of banking services via their mobile device. The...

Making Use of Connected Card Data

When cardholder transaction and device data are disconnected, the potential for card issuers to more accurately detect and flag instances of fraud remains untapped. And as the connectivity of information in the real world continues to increase, so will related risks from fraudsters if issuers continue to rely solely...

The Need for Real-Time Risk Analytics

Card issuers can view the merchants with whom a cardholder does business, the frequency of a cardholder's purchases, and the devices and IP addresses associated with that specific card. While this allows them to understand and assess certain patterns of behavior for individual cardholders, it restricts analysis to the...

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Phishing Response Trends: It's a Cluster

Organizations today take strong measures to guard against data breaches. With 91% of breaches starting with phishing emails, we find ourselves in an arms race against phishing attackers. So, are we winning the war or just holding ground? Download this report to learn the implications of phishing response data...

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Evolving Threat Landscape and Public Discourse

The attacker ecosystem is evolving rapidly and threat actors are making daring attempts to weaponize new attack types and new combinations of popular techniques. Large, global crises have dominated public discourse and news media and elevated the profile of software exploitation. These stories have, in turn, elevated...

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Business Email Fraud Scams

How could attackers trick you, an intelligent professional, into handing over company funds? They impersonate someone you know and trust. According to the FBI's latest BEC/EAC alert, businesses worldwide experienced a 2,370% increase in actual and attempted dollar losses from BEC/EAC scams between January 2015...

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Techniques for Dealing with Ransomware, Business Email Compromise and Spearphishing

Phishing, spearphishing, CEO Fraud/Business Email Compromise (BEC) and ransomware represent a group of critical security threats that virtually every organization will encounter at some point - and most already have. The logical evolution of phishing are increasing rapidly and costing organizations hundreds of...

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Combatting Advanced Threats with Endpoint Security Intelligence

From custom malware to zero-day exploits, advanced security threats are exploding worldwide - and the sophistication of these attacks is greater than ever. In addition to being able to detect these vulnerabilities efficiently, organizations also need to take into consideration the broader context, and associate the...

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Reducing Attack Surface: Survey on Continuous Monitoring Programs

Continuous monitoring (CM) begets a process of continuous improvement that works to reduce attack surface and improve security posture, according to the 2016 SANS survey on CM. In it, 63% of respondents said CM was improving their security posture. These improvements are occurring even though continuous monitoring...

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Can We Say Next-Gen Yet? The State of Endpoint Security

The perimeter continues to dissolve, and the definition of endpoint is evolving, according to results of the SANS 2016 Endpoint Security Survey, now in its third year. In it, respondents say their organizations continue to connect new and different types of endpoints, including point-of-sale (POS) devices, printers,...

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Case Study: Infirmary Health System

Infirmary Health System is the largest non-government healthcare team in Alabama, treating more than 100,000 patients annually. The organization deployed a security solution to qualify for meaningful use dollars and reduced security incidents significantly. Download this case study and learn: Why Infirmary Health...

Cool Vendors in Vendor Management

In recent years, highly publicized data breaches have elevated the need for vendor risk management. In this year's Verizon DBIR report, 70% of incidents observed involved a secondary victim where the victims were targeted and infected through an unknowing third party, like a vendor. Yet despite the alarming number...