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Active adversaries: Who they are and how they’re targeting your organization
Every minute of every day, security teams face an array of active adversaries — highly skilled, well-paid cybercriminals equipped with sophisticated software and networking skills. They are often part of a professional cybercriminal network, dedicated to infiltrating organizations’ systems, evading detection and continuously adapting t...
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Cloud Confluence: The Highs and Lows of Cloud Security
While many organizations move to the cloud to improve their security, they may confront a set of challenges that expose them to greater risk from the outside. Misconfigurations, insecure APIs, limited visibility of cloud workloads, and data breaches resulting from unauthorized access are some of the most common pitfalls. In this panel, we present ...
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Hybrid Mesh Firewall and the Infinity Platform Solution Brief
Discover how Check Point Infinity Platform revolutionizes threat prevention with AI-powered technology and cloud delivery, ensuring your organization stays ahead of evolving cyber threats. Explore the agility and scalability of the Hybrid Mesh Firewall, simplifying security management and offering a flexible pricing model. Experience immediate ben...
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IDC Hybrid Datacenter Buyer’s Guide
Explore the evolving landscape of hybrid cloud datacenter security in the era of digital transformation. Discover how organizations are navigating the challenges of securing their expanded perimeters amidst the increasing frequency and sophistication of cyberattacks. Learn about the key strategies and solutions, including hybrid datacenter archite...
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Next Generation Firewall Buyer’s Guide (2024)
The world as we know it has changed, and so has business. Companies around the globe are looking for ways to connect reliably, scale rapidly, and protect a mobile workforce. These changes are causing more organizations to shift toward cloud-hybrid environments, adding complexities to existing cyber security measures. To future-proof security, orga...
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2023 Guide to Modern Hyperscale Network Security
The Guide to Modern Hyperscale Network Security for Organizations of All Sizes provides insights into achieving maximum security resilience through modern high-availability firewall clusters. The document discusses the challenges with traditional high availability designs, clustering options for failover and redundancy, and the importance of load ...
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2023 Frost & Sullivan Firewall Company of the Year
Frost & Sullivan evaluated a wide range of business and technology considerations and determined that Check Point delivers industry-leading network security against online threats through its innovative products and services – for enterprises across all industries.Frost & Sullivan states “With Check Point’s sophisticated ...
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2024 Miercom Firewall Infographic
For the 2nd year in a row, Check Point achieved the highest scores in Miercom’s 2024 Security Benchmark testing. This Infographic shows key results for the top five vendors.
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2024 Miercom Firewall Report
For the second year in a row, Check Point received the highest rating in Miercom’s 2024 Enterprise Firewall Security Benchmark testing, by achieving an unprecedented 99.8% block rate for malware, and 100% block rate for malicious URLs and phishing attacks. Miercom, a leading testing and certification facility, challenged the top five firewal...
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Why Your Employees’ Passwords Need Enterprise-grade Protection
Attackers will target anyone in your organization that might have access to resources they want – including everyday employees and their business application passwords. They know that the definition of privilege has changed, because workforce users constantly traverse the risk spectrum, moving between typical and high-risk access behaviors and dep...
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Secure Identities with the Power of Modern MFA
According to a recent survey, despite all the known identity risks and the protection afforded by multifactor authentication (MFA), 38% of organizations still don’t make MFA mandatory for their entire workforce, and 43% say at least 1 in 4 workforce identities are insufficiently secured. When set up right, MFA helps enterprises better protec...
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Empowering Today’s Workforce with a Security First Strategy
Securing Workforce Access with Intelligent Privilege Controls A security-first strategy for the distributed workforce. With 52% of the workforce having access to sensitive enterprise resources, it’s no longer just the IT admins working in high-risk environments that need intelligent privilege controls. It’s literally every single ident...
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Protecting the IT attack surface while advancing digital transformation
What does it take to achieve excellent attack surface management in the age of digital transformation?Protecting complex attack surfaces is difficult and often requires cyber tools that have complementary capabilities. Good cyber hygiene, effective configuration management that enforces cybersecurity policies, and continuous monitoring of cyber to...
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Converged Endpoint Management Delivers the Goods: Risk Reduction, Productivity Gains, Licensing Fee Savings, and Improved Employee Experiences
Endpoint security and management teams both share the goal of reducing risk, yet they often work in a segregated fashion. Consequently, they choose tech products that support their individual functions rather than products that support both, missing opportunities to serve the greater organization better. IDC research reveals a solution that struct...
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The Inside-out Enterprise: Redefining IT SecOps for the Remote-First Workplace
Enterprise IT teams are adapting to a new IT landscape with a workforce mostly or entirely remote indefinitely. More applications and storage are moving to the cloud. And cybercriminals, watching these changes unfold, are focusing their attention on new targets and new forms of attack.The inside-out enterprise: redefining IT SecOps for today’...
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The Ultimate Guide to Cyber Hygiene
Effectively coordinating software and patch deployments across an environment requires that IT ops and security teams be aligned, collaborative and accountable. This requires that key systems be in place and shared workflows be clearly defined. Learn the crucial role that cyber hygiene plays in this process in The ultimate guide to cyber hygiene. ...
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Addressing Single Points of Failure in Cryptography: Why it Matters
You don’t need a quantum computer to break encryption. Cryptography is vulnerable to a bevy of issues or single points of failure (SPoF) that can wreak havoc on an enterprise when left unaddressed. Discover the most common SPoF in cryptography and how to overcome these present-day weaknesses to provide stronger data security today and quantu...
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Protection Starts with Visibility. Real-Time Crypto Intelligence & Risk Assessment
The recent SEC ruling mandating cybersecurity disclosure laws; Executive Orders on Zero Trust and Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC); global data security and privacy laws from GDPR to HIPAA and PCI-DSS; all contribute to how organizations approach data security and risk management. Too often though, enterprise cryptography is taken for granted – rar...
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Navigating the identity security minefield
From key fobs to biometric readers, our digital world relies on identity and access management (IAM) to ensure security. However, with increasing cyber threats like phishing and deepfakes, the battle to protect access is intensifying. A recent survey of over 200 IT security professionals highlights progress in IAM implementation, but also heighten...
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Threat Intelligence: Organizations seek expertise and guidance to help build their threat intelligence programs
In the past year, relentless cyber threats emphasized the need for heightened security. Organizations must not be complacent; instead, they should invest in adaptable threat intelligence to combat evolving adversaries. Surprisingly, many organizations lack functional threat intelligence operations, relying on ad hoc methods. Implementing robust th...
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An Ethical Hacker’s Guide to Customized Penetration Testing
Penetration testing is a craft as old as the cybersecurity industry, but attack tactics and the vulnerabilities they exploit have increased dramatically in recent years. This eBook will help ethical hackers adapt by unpacking what has changed and which new tools are available, including: • Hybrid pen testing that combines automated scripted tools ...
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The Digital Risk Landscape: A Report on Top Financial Institutions & Third Party Risk
Financial institutions face escalating cyber risks due to their extensive digital presence and collaborations. This research analyzes the vulnerabilities of five global banks, aiming to understand online risks, assess third-party vulnerabilities, and propose mitigation strategies. In this Ebook you’ll learn: How many and what kind of online...
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The Voice of a Threat Hunter
Organizations face increasing threats that can disrupt operations and result in substantial financial losses. Implementing a threat hunting program is essential to proactively identify and investigate potential threats. This report helps uncover vulnerabilities missed by traditional security tools and detect unnoticed malicious activities. To unde...
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The state of third-party risk: Trust, but always verify
As the number of organizations depending on third parties has grown, so has the amount of third-party risk. Paul Wagenseil provides a snapshot of the state of third-party risk and how your organization can reduce and manage its exposure, with special emphasis on access management, internal segmentation, due diligence, certifications, compliance an...
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Third-party risk: A 15-point management checklist
Third-party risk may be unavoidable, but it is manageable. Here’s a 15-point checklist to help minimize the risks you run from working with vendors, services and suppliers. Download the infographicDownload
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Identity Governance & Administration Solution Buyer’s Guide
Over the last few years, cloud acceleration, security threats, and constant technology transformation have bombarded enterprises. For many, inflexible IGA technology worsened the challenges brought on by constant business shifts. Security leaders struggled to adapt, embrace cloud, and manage risk among growing identity bases. IGA is fundamental to...
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Making the Move to Modern IGA
Some businesses grow defensive, shying away from innovation to preserve the status quo. Others adapt and embrace transformation, including cloud-driven agility and scalability as means to survive or thrive. Central to this is modern Identity Governance & Administration (IGA). But while the promise of an agile new platform is attractive, the pr...
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A CISO’s Guide to Increase Business Outcomes
HOW TO REDUCE COSTS, REPORT RISK TO THE BOARD AND LEVERAGE MANPOWER Designed for the forward-thinking CISO, our comprehensive eBook dives deep into strategies to reduce costs, effective reporting of risk to the board, how to leverage manpower, and actionable steps for building a resilient cybersecurity posture. Learn how to: Reduce annual costs ...
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Ultimate Guide to Security Controls Optimization
HOW TO REDUCE RISK EXPOSURE AND GET AWAY WITH IT Mastering risk reduction in cybersecurity demands a focus on the details and a proactive approach. Our whitepaper explores Automated Security Control Assessments (ASCA) as a pivotal tool for professionals who seek to address risk exposure reduction systematically and preempt threats. What You’...
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The State of Enterprise Security Controls
The State of Enterprise Security Controls report by Veriti Research offers an unprecedented look into the challenges and opportunities facing organizations today. With insights derived from an extensive analysis of over 715 million logs and more than 100 different security controls, this report is your guide to taking your cybersecurity strategy t...
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Identity orchestration: The foundation of zero trust
Identity orchestration makes it possible for anyone — not just coding experts — to create, test, and deploy secure user experiences from registration and sign-on to the resource itself. It is a new foundation for Zero Trust architecture that bridges individual technologies for end-to-end user journey visibility. In this eBook, we look ...
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Key Metrics to Optimize Your Third-Party Risk Management Program
This white paper covers the key TPRM metric your team needs to track its effectiveness over time, the processes for gathering these metrics and tips for building a business case for your program. Third-party risk management (TPRM) teams often have to justify the cost of their programs to executive leadership, especially if they want to advocate fo...
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Weigh the Investment: A Study of Mobile Security Technology Costs
Determining where and how to best allocate financial and human resources for cybersecurity initiatives is a complicated decision. It can be made even more fraught for those operating within the Department of Defense (DoD) supply chain, including contractors and subcontractors, who must ensure compliance with any number of regulatory frameworks tha...
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Accelerate Third-Party Policy Reviews with AI
Review more vendors faster and more consistently with the help of AI technology. Third-party policy evidence reviews can be tedious, time consuming and labor intensive, leading many analysts to take shortcuts or skip some vendors all-together. As organizations’ third-party ecosystems continue to grow, analyst teams are increasingly strained ...
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Context-sensitive endpoint defense: What it is and how to achieve it
The world keeps filling with more endpoints, spread across geographies: laptops, smartphones and tablets where users mix business and personal pursuits and open endless doors for ransomware gangs and other bad actors. One answer to the challenge is a context-sensitive defense, where the endpoint security solution automatically adapts to the contex...
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How to Accelerate the FedRAMP process from 18 to 3 months?
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is a cloud-specific cybersecurity program for the federal government. For a cloud solution provider (CSP) to do business in the federal space, their cloud service offering (CSO) must be FedRAMP certified. All cloud-based solutions procured by federal agencies must be compliant with Fe...
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The Customer Identity Buyer’s Guide
How to choose a customer identity and access management solution that supports your most critical business objectives.
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Fight Fraud and Reduce Risk with Dynamic Authorization
As online business expands, the amount and types of customer data you must protect have also grown exponentially. The way companies have handled authorization in the past is no longer sucient to prevent fraud and comply with privacy regulations.
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Strengthen Microsoft Defender with Sophos MDR
Endpoint security is an essential layer of protection, but it can’t stop every threat. Implementing an effective Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service has become essential for any organization to stay protected. Reduce cyber risk, increase the efficiency and impact of security investments, and improve insurability by strengthening Mic...
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Incident Response Planning Guide
What’s the best way to stop a cyberattack from turning into a full breach? Prepare in advance. Often, after an organization experiences a breach, they’ll realize they could have avoided a lot of cost, pain, and disruption if they had an incident response plan in place. This incident response guide will help you to: Gain a deep un...
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The State of Ransomware 2023
In this report, learn how experiences of ransomware have evolved over the last 12 months, and the impact ransomware now has on organizations. Discover: Which organizations experienced the highest rate of attack over the last year The root causes of attacks How often data is encrypted, and how often organizations pay the ransom to get it back The ...
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Endpoint Protection Best Practices to Block Ransomware
66% of organizations were hit by ransomware in the last year. Is your endpoint protection solution optimally configured to protect against these devastating attacks? Get practical guidance on configuring your endpoint solution to provide optimum protection in this guide, and: Learn how ransomware attacks work Discover the six endpoint-protecti...
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State of Cybersecurity 2023
Based on a survey of 3,000 cybersecurity/IT professionals across 14 countries, this report reveals the reality of securing an organization from cyberthreats in 2023, and the business impact of adversaries. It includes: Frequency and type of cyberattacks experienced over the last year Top perceived security risks for 2023 The reality of alert inve...
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Endpoint Protection Best Practices to Block Ransomware
66% of organizations were hit by ransomware in the last year. Is your endpoint protection solution optimally configured to protect against these devastating attacks? Get practical guidance on configuring your endpoint solution to provide optimum protection in this guide, and: Learn how ransomware attacks work Discover the six endpoint-protection ...
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PCI DSS 4.0: What You Need to Achieve Full Compliance
Organizations must comply with 13 of 63 new security requirements outlined in PCI DSS Version 4 by March 2024, and must comply with the rest by March 2025. This survival guide will unpack what has changed from earlier versions of the standard and how to adapt/keep up with help from a platform that provides: • Around-the-clock online portal support...
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Ransomware in 2024: What CISOs must know
After a bruising year that saw major businesses extorted to the breaking point, CISOs are now bracing for 2024 in what could easily become a record-setting year for ransomware attacks. In this eBook, Daniel Thomas looks at attacks from this year and what they tell us about adversaries’ evolving tactics, as well as how CISOs can direct their ...
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Should I pay a ransom? A 5-step decision-making process
It’s the kind of note that grabs you by the shirt and doesn’t let go: “All of your files are stolen and encrypted!” The next thing you read is the extortion demand: pay up, or else. In this scenario, your organization has a limited amount of time to ask a series of critical questions before making the ultimate choice. By as...
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Tough on Ransomware: Organizations fighting ransomware with continuous monitoring, IR playbooks, backups, and user education
Ransomware-as-a-service is thriving. A sprawling enterprise of initial access brokers, buyers, sellers, and other affiliates and third parties now feed the dark web with ransomware kits that are tailor-made to get past company defenses. Smart use of social engineering, combined with malicious AI-generated code and clever exploits of legitimate sof...
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The zero-trust dilemma
It’s been nearly two decades since Forrester analyst John Kindervag brought the concept of zero trust into the mainstream, advising organizations to trust no one and verify everything. Easier said than done, our respondents might say. While respondents almost universally regard zero trust as the right path forward, less than a third have actually ...
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The state of identity: Resolving the tug of war between security and user experience
Digital identity is entering a new chapter. In this developing reality, users can prove their identity securely and swiftly; the hustle to recall unique passwords is gone, and credentials given once need not be given again. But the path to this reality isn’t hazard-free. In this report, Daniel Thomas details the opportunities and challenges ...
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Empowering Data Security: DSPM and Beyond
Secure data in an increasingly complex cloud landscape with Data Security Posture Management (DSPM). From locating sensitive data to prioritizing security risks and offering actionable solutions, DSPM provides a comprehensive, agile defense strategy. Elevate your organization’s data security; explore our white papers to learn more.
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The Data-Driven Imperative
Elevate your data security with our essential white paper. Gain insights into creating a data-driven culture, establishing effective data governance, and ensuring ethical data use. Learn how to build a comprehensive data protection strategy that can help your organization thrive in a fast-paced, data-centric world. Download now to stay ahead of th...
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API Security Buyer’s Guide
Traditional application security controls don’t provide adequate protection for your APIs. You need purpose-built API security controls that address the unique vulnerabilities APIs introduce. But where do you start? This Buyer’s Guide highlights the key capabilities necessary for a complete API security platform. As you evaluate API se...
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Four Ways to Secure Identities as Privilege Evolves
Any user can become privileged in certain conditions. This includes everyday employees using business applications in which they can access — and take actions with — the resources attackers aim to exploit. And whether you’re a CIO or a PAM admin, you likely see this evolution of privilege occurring regularly. Protecting your users’ ide...
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Building a Multi-layered Approach to Securing Access
No organization is immune to the sophisticated methods today’s threat actors are using, from bypassing traditional authentication tools to hijacking users’ web sessions. And no single tool on its own can protect against these attacks – especially at a time when: Key initiatives, such as cloud migrations, are driven by an ecosystem of ...
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Automate to Accelerate: Overcoming Staffing and Compliance Challenges in Cyber Risk Management
Cybersecurity teams spend hundreds — even thousands — of hours each year gathering controls evidence to demonstrate compliance. With more regulatory requirements on the horizon, an ever-expanding cyber threat landscape, and an increasing number of connection points that need to be secured, that burden stands to increase. Eliminating unnecessary, t...
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The API Security Disconnect
API Security Trends in 2023 Today every modern enterprise is heavily reliant on APIs, to the point they’re now indispensable. As evidence, API traffic now represents over 80% of the current internet traffic. However, organizations are discovering that API attacks are growing at the same pace. According to our latest survey, 78% of cybersecur...
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Protect Your Business’s Valuable IT Assets With Risk Quantification
Scaling ITRM: The Promise and Challenges of Risk Quantification, empowers InfoSec professionals to proactively manage risk, protect valuable assets, and maintain a competitive edge in an ever-evolving risk landscape.
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Your Complete Guide to the New SEC Cybersecurity Rules
In an effort to address the rise in cyber breaches, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has released new cybersecurity disclosure requirements for public companies. Get a comprehensive guide to help you navigate the new rules, including key dates, an overview of the requirements, and steps to prepare.
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How to Choose and Implement an IT Risk and Compliance Platform
IT Risk & Compliance Platforms: A Buyer’s Guide examines how purpose-built IT risk and compliance (ITRC) management software can make your organization more secure and better equipped to respond to new threats and regulatory changes. Download the full guide for actionable insights on how to choose and implement an ITRC platform.
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4 Shifts Modern SOC Teams Embrace for Effective Hybrid Attack Defense
Is your SOC team armed to identify and stop hybrid attacks? Today’s unknown hybrid attacks can start with anyone and move anywhere, at any speed, to disrupt anything in your environment — even with every possible preventative measure in place. But once your mindset changes, so does the effectiveness of your defense. Learn the 4 core reasons ...
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4 Shifts Modern SOC Teams Embrace for Effective Hybrid Attack Defense
Is your SOC team armed to identify and stop hybrid attacks? Today’s unknown hybrid attacks can start with anyone and move anywhere, at any speed, to disrupt anything in your environment — even with every possible preventative measure in place. But once your mindset changes, so does the effectiveness of your defense. Learn the 4 core reasons ...
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Stopping Ransomware: Dispatches from the Frontlines
This ebook dives into everything from why detecting attacker activity and recon known as ransomOps is critical to stopping ransomware and many of the steps security professionals are taking to successfully slam the door on today’s ransomware tactics. We’ll share how customers are able to detect active attacks almost immediately as well...
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Reduce Your SIEM Cost and Stop Cyberattacks Faster
With the increasing number of cyber threats your SOC team faces, is your SIEM capable of keeping pace with every hybrid cloud threat? The coverage and clarity needed to detect threats across every attack surface is a big ask, but it’s not hard to make sure you’re maximizing current security investments. Get your free guide today to fin...
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Why Security Teams are Replacing IDS with NDR
Security teams are choosing NDR over IDS to gain better threat detection and response. This whitepaper covers how today’s sophisticated cyber attacker TTPs create a challenge for traditional security approaches and why NDR can detect what others miss. In this white paper, you’ll discover:– How attackers bypass perimeter and signa...
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Stopping Ransomware: Dispatches from the Frontlines
This ebook dives into everything from why detecting attacker activity and recon known as ransomOps is critical to stopping ransomware and many of the steps security professionals are taking to successfully slam the door on today’s ransomware tactics. We’ll share how customers are able to detect active attacks almost immediately as well...
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Reduce Your SIEM Cost and Stop Cyberattacks Faster
With the increasing number of cyber threats your SOC team faces, is your SIEM capable of keeping pace with every hybrid cloud threat? The coverage and clarity needed to detect threats across every attack surface is a big ask, but it’s not hard to make sure you’re maximizing current security investments. Get your free guide today to fin...
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Buyer’s Guide: The Essential Guide to Evaluating PKI Solutions
Does your PKI need updated? Maybe your current solution can’t support the growing volume of certificates in your environment or you’re looking to replace an expiring certificate authority or near-end-of-life server. No matter the reason, PKI is critical to infrastructure and shouldn’t be ignored. With that, however, many teams fi...
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Why Security Teams are Replacing IDS with NDR
Security teams are choosing NDR over IDS to gain better threat detection and response. This whitepaper covers how today’s sophisticated cyber attacker TTPs create a challenge for traditional security approaches and why NDR can detect what others miss. In this white paper, you’ll discover:– How attackers bypass perimeter and signa...
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PKI Maturity Model
Public key infrastructure (PKI) is everywhere. It’s the trust engine behind websites, networks, cloud environments, and even your software pipeline. There’s just one problem. Because of its widespread adoption, PKI has become difficult to manage and scale. And as a recent report shows, 53% of organizations don’t have enough staff...
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The road to 10x improvement in security operations with generative AI
GenAI is being applied to security operations in ways that will revolutionize the field of cybersecurity. With its ability to create new content that is barely distinguishable from human-created content, GenAI is having a radical impact on every aspect of security operations – people, processes, and technologies. GenAI’s ability to process, ...
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The road to 10x improvement in security operations with generative AI
GenAI is being applied to security operations in ways that will revolutionize the field of cybersecurity. With its ability to create new content that is barely distinguishable from human-created content, GenAI is having a radical impact on every aspect of security operations – people, processes, and technologies. GenAI’s ability to process, ...
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Optimizing your cloud security transformation
Mission-critical apps now running in the cloud contain vast amounts of information about customers and employees and are a prime target for attack. Bad actors leverage generative AI to form sophisticated attacks and rapidly adapt malware to avoid detection. Transforming security operations for the cloud is imperative to build a cyber-resilient bus...
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Optimizing your cloud security transformation
Mission-critical apps now running in the cloud contain vast amounts of information about customers and employees and are a prime target for attack. Bad actors leverage generative AI to form sophisticated attacks and rapidly adapt malware to avoid detection. Transforming security operations for the cloud is imperative to build a cyber-resilient bus...
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The 2023 Buyer’s Guide to Next-Gen SIEM
Trying to decide which SIEM is right for your enterprise? Devo’s done the hard part for you. Download the 2023 Buyer’s Guide for Next-Gen SIEM to compare leading SIEM vendors. The 2023 buyer’s guide compares and contrasts four SIEM vendors — Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Google Chronicle, and Devo — across six key categories: 1. De...
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Journey to the Autonomous SOC
Introducing automation into your SOC lets your analysts focus on the most critical threat detection, hunting, and response activities. Threat actors are faster and more sophisticated than most SOCs. Coupled with an explosion of data (and resulting attack surfaces), many SOC teams are discouraged and burnt out. Download this eBook to learn more a...
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2023 Cybersecurity Year in Review: How AI, Cloud, Ransomware and the SEC raised security stakes
Login or complete the form to DOWNLOAD your FREE copy of the report: A comprehensive look back at major cybersecurity events of 2023 that will shape the year ahead. How will the biggest cybersecurity events of 2023 impact the year ahead?   The 2023 Cybersecurity Year in Review report untangles the past year’s biggest security challenges...
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Threat Detection and Response in the Cloud: Make a Difference with Multi-signal MDR
As organizations migrate their assets to the cloud, in-house security teams can become overwhelmed and be unclear on how to tackle their new environment. Paul Wagenseil shows you how multi-signal MDR providers can help deploy and manage cloud-native security tools like Cloud Security Posture Managment (CSPM) and Cloud Workload Protection Platform ...
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Infographic: Moving your IAM goalposts forward
If you’re an organization looking to score a key victory in the field of identity and access management, it may feel like your IAM goals are slipping out of reach, due to a wide variety of challenging conditions. Fortunately, security teams can counteract common IAM pain points by adhering to the following recommendations that can h...
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Cloud Confluence: The Highs and Lows of Cloud Security
While many organizations move to the cloud to improve their security, they may confront a set of challenges that expose them to greater risk from the outside. Misconfigurations, insecure APIs, limited visibility of cloud workloads, and data breaches resulting from unauthorized access are some of the most common pitfalls. In this report, we present...
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Automate to Accelerate: Overcoming Compliance and Staffing Challenges in Cyber Risk Management
Cybersecurity teams spend hundreds of hours each year gathering controls evidence to demonstrate compliance with regulatory requirements. With more requirements on the horizon, an expanding cyber threat landscape, and an increasing number of connection points that need to be secured, that burden only stands to increase.Eliminating time-consuming r...
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Building the Business Case for Quantifying Cyber Risk
It’s the cybersecurity question every executive and board member wants — and needs — to have answered: How much will it cost if a cybersecurity risk materializes and causes a breach? Provide the answer with confidence by tying cyber threats to business impact using cyber risk quantification. Cyber risk quantification is a powerful method for...
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11 Ways to Streamline SEC Cybersecurity Compliance
The SEC’s highly-anticipated cybersecurity reporting rules are finally in force, and the December compliance deadlines are fast approaching. Learn more about these new regulations and explore how Risk Cloud’s GRC platform – a preferred vendor already used within your organization – can simplify compliance efforts and ensure consistency...
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Ransomware in 2024: What CISOs must know
After a bruising year that saw major businesses extorted to the breaking point, CISOs are now bracing for 2024 in what could easily become a record-setting year for ransomware attacks. In this eBook, Daniel Thomas looks at attacks from this year and what they tell us about adversaries’ evolving tactics, as well as how CISOs can direct their or...
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Protecting the IT attack surface while advancing digital transformation
What does it take to achieve excellent attack surface management in the age of digital transformation?Protecting complex attack surfaces is difficult and often requires cyber tools that have complementary capabilities. Good cyber hygiene, effective configuration management that enforces cybersecurity policies, and continuous monitoring of cyber to...
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Forrester Total Economic Impact of Tanium
Curious about the core benefits of the Tanium platform? Tanium commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study to examine the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying the Tanium platform.Explore the benefits, costs, and risks associated with this investment, from the perspective of...
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The Inside-out Enterprise: Redefining IT SecOps for the Remote-First Workplace
Enterprise IT teams are adapting to a new IT landscape with a workforce mostly or entirely remote indefinitely. More applications and storage are moving to the cloud. And cybercriminals, watching these changes unfold, are focusing their attention on new targets and new forms of attack.The inside-out enterprise: redefining IT SecOps for today’...
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The Ultimate Guide to Cyber Hygiene
Effectively coordinating software and patch deployments across an environment requires that IT ops and security teams be aligned, collaborative and accountable. This requires that key systems be in place and shared workflows be clearly defined. Learn the crucial role that cyber hygiene plays in this process in the ultimate guide to cyber hygiene. ...
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The state of identity: Resolving the tug of war between security and user experience
Our digital identities help us navigate the complexities of an increasingly connected world. From mobile-banking apps, online shopping and social media to video streaming services, patient health portals and AirBnB reservations, digital identities are what make it possible for all these transactions to verify that we are who we claim to be. And...
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Closing the gaps: Bridging the divide between SMBs and MSPs
Small to medium-sized businesses may not have the budget of other industry titans, but new data shows they’re ready to spend on cybersecurity tools that can reduce risk and eliminate advanced threats. The problem is that MSPs – who are in the best position to help these businesses – are struggling to understand what their clients need and tailor t...
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Incident Response Planning Guide
What’s the best way to stop a cyberattack from turning into a full breach? Prepare in advance. Often, after an organization experiences a breach, they’ll realize they could have avoided a lot of cost, pain, and disruption if they had an incident response plan in place. This incident response guide will help you to: Gain a deep underst...
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2023 Active Adversary Report for Tech Leaders
Tech leaders are at the center of infosec for every company and lead the charge for operationalizing strategy. This new Active Adversary Report released by Sophos seeks to help tech leaders make more informed decisions about how to deploy their resources and best satisfy corporate strategy to better protect the organization. Included are findings ...
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Sophos 2023 Threat Report
The Sophos 2023 Threat Report documents the latest cyberthreat trends over the last year and provides the insights you need to defend against evolving attacks. The report is based on the research and real-world experiences of Sophos’ threat, incident response and AI experts, and covers: The cyber impact of the war in Ukraine The maturity of...
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Incident Response Planning Guide
What’s the best way to stop a cyberattack from turning into a full breach? Prepare in advance. Often, after an organization experiences a breach, they’ll realize they could have avoided a lot of cost, pain, and disruption if they had an incident response plan in place. This incident response guide will help you to: Gain a deep underst...
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The Critical Role of Frontline Cyber Defenses in Cyber Insurance Adoption
To help organizations better understand the role cyber defenses play in optimizing their insurance position, Sophos has conducted a study of 3,000 IT/cybersecurity professionals that reveals: The level of cyber insurance adoption in 2023 The role of cyber defenses in securing coverage The impact of cyber insurance on an organization’s abili...
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