At a time when security professionals are faced not only with a barrage of threats, but with a myriad of threat intelligence data sources, it can be challenging to know when to stop an investigation. Often these skills are learned over time and require a multitude of dead ends before developing a "gut instinct."...
SWIFT hacks happen when cybercriminals get in between the customer's network and the SWIFT network. There, they can change or reroute messages and even currency, making even one successful SWIFT hack highly lucrative.
However, these cyberattacks can be prevented with a strong security posture and absolute...
Regulations such as Europe's Second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) are paving the way for open banking and a far more innovative financial services industry. Yet, opening up banking to third parties has significant requirements for enhanced customer security and therefore stricter authentication mechanisms are...
Patient identity management is the prescription for improving remote patient access, portal adoption and patient satisfaction. Forward-thinking enterprises have realized that integrated proven strategies for identity management are a significant factor in success for both patients and providers.
Today's...
ForeScout commissioned Forrester Consulting to see if organizations can adequately and accurately secure their networks with the rise of IoT-connected devices. While 76% agreed that they are rethinking their security strategies due to IoT security concerns, risk tolerance with IoT is shockingly high as well.
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The vast majority of new devices joining your networks aren't designed to support management agents - creating a serious visibility and risk gap. And this gap further widens as cloud computing extends to the furthest corners of the distributed network.
Closing this visibility gap is the most effective way to...
Grady Summers, FireEye's CTO, discusses how organizations can use
staff and intelligence to bolster their cloud defenses in this
new eBook.
"It almost feels cliché, because every year we say 'the threat
landscape continues to evolve' ... but this really was a unique
year in terms of the types...
As the global eCommerce market grows and fraudster methodology evolves, new fraud management approaches and tools are being introduced at a fast pace. Trying to stay on top of developments in the eCommerce fraud prevention landscape can be overwhelming and time consuming.
This guide is a comprehensive series of...
Caught within a shifting threat landscape, a tighter regulatory environment and a seismic shift in customers' banking preferences - and their tolerance for security - financial institutions globally are making a shift to adaptive authentication. This is the process of applying the precise amount of security, at the...
The financial services industry is in the midst of sweeping change. Earlier this year, we saw one of the latest shifts with the introduction of the European Union's revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2). PSD2's Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) section requires two factors for authentication.
Financial...
While the modern organization embraces digital technology, it is also at risk of cyberattacks. In this guide, The Essential Guide to Security, we map out how agencies can use machine data for specific use cases and get started addressing threats and security challenges.
While the modern enterprise embraces digital...
Industry attention has narrowed in on the threat of commonly known IoT devices and their potential safety implications to the home, but there is as much - if not more - to consider when exploring IoT threats in the enterprise.
Research into seven common enterprise IoT devices revealed that their core technologies,...
The hype around artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) has exploded, sometimes overshadowing the real uses and innovations happening at agencies today. The reality is that applying AI and ML to data-dependent challenges presents the opportunity for better security, faster innovation, and overall...
A Field Guide to Understanding IoT Attacks from the Mirai Botnet to Its Modern Variants
The infamous Mirai IoT botnet was responsible for some of the largest and most distributive DDoS attacks in recent history. Commanding hundreds of thousands of IoT devices, it sent shock waves through the security marketplace...
Research shows that 51% of data breaches include the usage of malware, whether for initial breach, expansion within the network or heisting data. Yet despite malware being a pivotal attack vector, companies are unable to defend against data-theft malware running wild in their network. In fact, some of the biggest and...
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