Cyberattacks and damages due to email breaches dramatically increased again this past year. The FBI estimates $5 billion in losses worldwide as email continues to be a primary attack vector for the initial compromise, with business email compromise accounting for $676 million in losses alone in 2017.
As SMB...
A Shift Toward a Human-Centric Approach to Information Security
Every IT security department's job, to protect data, has become more challenging as the security perimeter has dissolved with the adoption of cloud applications. The traditional threat-centric approach is to apply rigid policies to a dynamic...
The explosive growth of IP networking has let a genie out of the bottle. The more an organization or nation is connected to the internet, the more vulnerable it becomes. The challenge is finding the right balance between "can" and "should" - the fact that we can connect every person, server, app, and cloud vs. the...
Deployed at the network layer, segmentation was first developed to improve network performance. But as cybersecurity experts have realized that a "perimeter only" approach to security is not working, it has become increasingly clear the micro-segmentation is foundational to data center and cloud security. ...
As of January 1, 2018, all SWIFT customers had a deadline to self-attest to their compliance with the new SWIFT Customer Security Program (CSP), designed to respond to the wave of cybercrime that began with the Bank of Bangladesh breach back in February, 2016 and has swept across the world over the past two years. If...
How to Select, Implement and Succeed with Mobile Threat Defense
As more workplaces become 'everywhere' workplaces, cyber threats and attacks increasingly target mobile devices.
Through the eyes of many business leaders, opening a presentation or other document on a mobile device is hardly different from doing the...
Modern enterprise mobile security provides pre-emptive threat defense, runs on predictive intelligence and crowd wisdom, and delivers a noninvasive employee experience.
As the connected world becomes more connected by the day, cyber threats have been retooled to attack ubiquitous mobile endpoints. While attack...
Adoption of cloud services, SAAS Applications and mobile workforce are putting increasing strain on the corporate networks. This is exacerbated as organizations look to better connect their remote and branch office employees and offer them higher quality network services. Enterprises are turning to SD-WAN - a more...
The global eCommerce market is booming and consumer electronics are leading the way. This year, online consumer electronics sales are expected to reach $108.4 billion in the US alone. Online sales present new challenges, including a rise in Card Not Present (CNP) fraud.
Download this infographic which aims to help...
Cross-border eCommerce sales are set to reach $627 billion by 2022, with the highest growth rate projected in regions outside of North America and Western Europe.
Yet US merchants are not capitalizing on the growth of these global markets. Only 42% of surveyed US merchants said their eCommerce website accommodated...
The European Union's (EU's) General Protection Regulation (GDPR), which began enforcement on May 25, 2018, dramatically increases the penalties for failing to properly protect users' personal . The maximum fines that can be leveraged against an organization eclipse penalties that have been imposed in the past; they...
Attackers are using a wider range of more sophisticated methods to infiltrate vulnerable systems. And although news of external breaches often dominates headlines, organizations must also be able to defend against insider threats. Many organizations have built an entire ecosystem to look for suspicious external...
Organizations undergoing digital transformations are dealing with amplified concerns around risk and security, which isn't surprising.
Read this white paper to understand how the digital transformation journey requires thinking through a clear roadmap that spans multiple years, anticipating near- and long-term...
Whenever a bad actor gains access to another party's legitimate account, this is called an Account Takeover (ATO). Not only are ATO attacks tough to spot, they can also cause a lot of harm beyond just stolen goods and chargebacks, including backlash from upset customers. In this guide, we dive into how these attacks...
While most online businesses recognize the importance of preventing chargebacks, there is less emphasis on merchant's ability to dispute and overturn certain chargebacks, to protect their hard-earned revenue.
This guide on chargeback disputes provides actionable tips for identifying candidates for dispute, gathering...
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