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Bringing Outsiders Into Your Compliance Team: Four Considerations

Richard Graham - Head of North American Business Solutions, BAE Systems Applied Intelligence • February 11, 2020

Money Laundering investigators are in high demand: banks and other financial institutions have spent almost two decades hiring more and more of them.

Finance & Banking

Security Leaders Share Secret Sauce for Success with Digital Transformation

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Active Defense & Deception

Deception Technology: Making the Case

Information Security Media Group • September 19, 2019

Deception technology has emerged as a hot practice - but not one that is necessarily on every enterprise's budgeting radar. Don Gray, CTO of PacketViper, talks about the emergence of deception technology and how security leaders can make the case - and find the budget - for its usage.

Security Operations

SecOps Is Broken. What Can We Do About It?

Information Security Media Group • September 6, 2019

Learn how your enterprise security team can step up to the challenge of increasing daily attacks.

Security Operations

Sorting Through 'Zero Trust' Misconceptions

Tom Field • August 27, 2019

F. Ward Holloway of Forescout Technologies sorts through what he sees as common misconceptions about the "zero trust" approach to security, including the assumption that it can prove to be too costly and complex to implement.

Active Defense & Deception

Operation Soft Cell

Cybereason • August 23, 2019

In 2018, the Cybereason Research team identified a series of attacks targeting telecommunications companies. These attacks shared the same TTPs and consisted of a webshell execution followed by the deployment of Poison Ivy, a well-known RAT attributed to Chinese APT groups.

Account Takeover

Credential Stuffing Attacks vs. Brute Force Attacks

Mike Greene • August 19, 2019

To explore how credential stuffing attacks and brute force attacks differ, we need to understand what they are and how they operate. Here is a quick summary.

Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB)

Cloud Security Solutions for Government: Recorded at AWS Public Sector Summit

Information Security Media Group • July 31, 2019

FireEye and AWS hosted a Cloud Security Breakfast Briefing summer of 2019. During this briefing Stephen Alexander, AWS National Security Senior Solutions Architect and FireEye's Martin Holste, Cloud Security CTO, and Tim Appleby, Director of Federal Programs, addressed how organizations can achieve the security needed...

Cybercrime

Code Triage: Why Healthcare is Facing More Cyber Attacks and How to Protect Your Organization

Information Security Media Group • July 31, 2019

Healthcare organizations face a number of unique security concerns, including the increasingly interconnected systems between doctors' offices, hospitals, insurance companies and suppliers.

Governance

Tackling the IAM Modernization Journey: Insights from CISO Sam Massiello

Ping Identity • July 31, 2019

Gates Corporation CISO Sam Masiello on how they brought their vision of a global authentication authority to life with advisory, configuration, deployment, and employee training.

Network Firewalls, Network Access Control

Spotlight on Zero Trust Network Access

Information Security Media Group • July 30, 2019

The promise of cloud and mobility is to provide access to key services quickly and from anywhere at any time from any device. Zscaler's Lisa Lorenzin opens up on zero trust network access technologies, which provide a secure alternative to legacy methods.

Account Takeover

Eliminating the Burden of Periodic Password Reset for Active Directory

Mike Wilson • July 29, 2019

Most organizations are now actively moving to password policies that don't expire.

Governance

OnDemand Webinar | Integrating Information Risk Management into Business Risk Management

Information Security Media Group • July 26, 2019

This webinar explores communication challenges around information security, the typical journey organizations are taking to bring information risk management into the broader umbrella of business risk management, and the advantages accruing to organizations as they mature their information risk management programs.

Application Security

Secure the Core | Creating Resilient Business Applications

Onapsis • July 26, 2019

Did you know that public exploits for business applications have increased 100 percent since 2015? Today, over 77 percent of the world's transactional revenue touches an ERP system, making these applications an attractive target for cyber criminals looking to profit from the highly-sensitive and regulated data that...