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Udacity's Challenges: Tapping Into the Rapidly Growing Education Market in China

Udacity is an online education company focused on making entry-level tech jobs more accessible through "Nanodegree" educational programs. Students from hundreds of different countries have gone through Udacity's programs, and some have been hired by top tech companies including Google, Amazon, and Facebook....

Keep Your Web Properties Efficient, Available, and Secure for a Better e-Learning Experience

Students are increasingly turning to online universities as part of their educational experience. To keep students engaged, these platforms must provide positive user experiences, be consistently available, and remain secure. Cloudflare provides a scalable, easy-to-use, unified product stack to deliver security,...

Improving Security Awareness Training

Security awareness training is typically an Achilles heel for enterprises. But there are simple elements that create an effective training solution. Download this whitepaper to learn more about: The security training challenge; Elements of a successful program; Details of Security First solutions....

Improving Your Organization's Security Posture With Central Logging

Most cybersecurity tools are designed to help identify, alert on, and in some cases prevent a particular type of malicious activity. Current technologies send alerts and may even prevent specific types of attacks, but the burden remains with the organization to figure out whether that alert is meaningful in a broader...

The New Gold Rush: Cryptocurrencies are the New Frontier of Fraud

The alluring promise of gold inspired almost half-a-million to risk it all and rush to California in the mid-20th century in hopes of striking it rich. Although gold mining was fruitless for the most part, cunning opportunists profited off of desperate '49ers by selling synthetic gold or mines of no real value. A...

An Inside Look at Online Carding Courses for Cybercriminals

As customers spend more and more money online each year, the opportunities for fraud increase in parallel; experts project a loss of $24 billion to payment card fraud by the end of 2018. Payment card fraudsters rely on a sophisticated ecosystem and support network that provides a wide range of credit card details,...

Demonstrating HIPAA Compliance

At its core, HIPAA compliance is simply about maintaining patient privacy by ensuring the appropriate access to and use of patient data by your users. Electronic Health Record (EHR) solutions provide detail around when patient data is accessed, but without visibility into what users do with sensitive patient data...

SSH Study: U.S., U.K. and Germany Executive Summary

A recently published 2017 survey of over 400 security professionals in the U.S., U.K. and Germany measured how well their organizations implemented security controls for SSH keys. The results show that most organizations are underprepared to protect against SSH-based attacks, with fewer than half following industry...

4 Steps to Protect SSH Keys: Stop Abuse of Privileged Access

SSH keys provide the highest level of access rights and privileges for servers, applications and virtual instances. Cyber criminals want this trusted status and invest considerable resources into acquiring and using SSH keys in their attacks. Even though SSH keys are the credentials that provide the most privileged...

Physical and Virtual Devices: How Cybercriminals are Exploiting Machine-to-Machine Communications

"Machines" as we know them are going through an identity crisis. Our increased dependence on them is so profound that even the definition of machine is undergoing radical change. The number and type of physical devices on enterprise networks has been rising rapidly, but this is outstripped by the number of...

A Smarter Way To Secure and Enable Endpoints

While alternative solutions provide incomplete coverage across computing platforms, MaaS360 delivers cognitive UEM across all endpoint types including smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktops, devices designed for the IoT, ruggedized devices and wearables. Download this security data sheet to learn about: A smarter...

Why Organizations Need to Invest More in Testing Their Own Defenses

If you want to anticipate a prospective hacker's moves, then you'd better be able to think like one. Whether corporations like it or not, they're actually being tested by cyber criminals as we speak. Download this whitepaper on ethical hacking and learn: The definition of then term "cyologist"; Why we need to...

Skills Shortage: Assessing the True Impact

The global cybersecurity skills shortage is real, and it's deeply impacting organizations' abilities to implement and manage new technology tools. But worse, it's also affecting how organizations assess their adversaries. What does the security team need to do? What requires protecting in the business? Where is it,...

2017 State of IBM i Security Study; Don't Leave Your Data Vulnerable

Another day, another data breach in the news. Ransomware at a hospital, the latest IRS breach, a phishing scam at Snapchat . . . you tune out the details. For every breach that makes headlines, dozens of other organizations have had data stolen or corrupted by hackers...or even their own users. Cyberthreats become...

Ignoring Risks from Same-day ACH Will Cost You Big

Same-day Automated Clearing House (ACH) payment processing became a reality. While this represents a terrific opportunity for banks to be responsive to their customer's requirements for faster ACH payments, plus the ability to attract new customers from banks who choose not to offer the same level of responsiveness,...