It's not enough to comply with government and industry regulations such as SOX, PCI, MICS, and HIPAA. Organizations must also prove their compliance to auditors on a regular basis. Even companies not bound by regulatory requirements may need to confirm their adherence to internal IT security policies.
But...
The cost of a data breach can throw businesses into turmoil and derail careers. And that cost continues to rise. The potential for significant damage is massive on servers like IBM's Power Systems servers running IBM i, because they're widely used for database management, financial data processing, and business...
Today's business climate is one of unprecedented regulatory growth, data complexity and cybersecurity concerns. There is a corresponding increase in media attention, customer awareness and Board-level scrutiny. Organizations must demonstrate that they have a viable process for managing risk and compliance (broadly...
Security professionals think in terms of risks and threats to ensure that the right security measures are deployed in the right places and to a proper degree. Security teams need an evaluation process to help them determine whether an object is under-protected or over-protected, but traditional security assessment...
Every day, your employees - usually accidentally - create vulnerabilities that create opportunities for data breaches. You must balance risks with giving employees the access they need to succeed. While cloud apps and BYOD policies are known to increase user productivity & lower operating costs, they are also...
Metro Bank is the UK's first new High Street bank in over 100 years. With a focus on the customer, Metro Bank provides unparalleled levels of service and convenience to its customers.
Metro Bank wanted to take employee productivity to the next level by enabling off-network access to Office 365 and Yammer, but found...
Organizations around the world are being targeted by ransomware attacks like never before...
But rather than suffer a data destruction or business disruption incident, many are paying the ransom. That's no solution. It's costly and comes with no guarantees of the safety of your data or systems. Perhaps worst of all,...
A RedSeal-72Point study of 200 CEOs about their perceptions of cybersecurity posture discovered that many are dangerously unrealistic about how vulnerable they are. In fact, more than 80 percent displayed "cyber naiveté," allowing their organizations to be exposed to cyber-attack.
This study reveals the...
Not so many years ago, Michael Donaldson was managing a major application for a large enterprise, and when he learned of an unpatched vulnerability, it took him two days to investigate and confirm. With the right tools today, that would take two hours. Read and learn how.
Donaldson, now a Solutions Architect with...
The biggest companies (the Fortune 500 types) are more often than not taking matters into their own hands when it comes to breach prevention, eschewing long-term relationships with vendors and charting their own courses with a dizzying array of technologies. Meanwhile, the "unfortunate" 5,000 and beyond fall further...
Any organization that deals with credit card information must secure payment card data in accordance with PCI standards.
Merchants and service providers are required to validate compliance by assessing their environment against 12 major control categories applicable to applications and data in the data center and the...
Advanced malware is capable of outsmarting the detection capabilities of a wide range of security tools. More than 70% of malware now includes sophisticated evasion technologies. And, to make detection even more difficult, the number of evasion methods found in each instance of malware has recently jumped from one or...
Advanced malware avoids being detected and can remain hidden for extended periods of time as it conducts complex and damaging cyberattacks. This sophisticated malware is usually designed to aggressively target anything and everything that can be monetized. How can organizations safeguard their data from these...
Like many other inventions now common in modern life, distributed cybercrime may seem trivial today. But this concept emerged little more than a decade ago and has already dominated the threat landscape.
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