Today's IT organizations are asked to give employees the devices and apps they need to work anywhere, while protecting the company's valuable information from security threats. Many traditional on-premises solutions can't get this done while most cloud solutions can deliver the right security.
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Cybercriminals are stepping up their attacks on financial institutions by gaining control of customer devices with highly advanced man-in-the-browser (MitB) malware and spear phishing attacks. They then conduct real-time credential theft and take over accounts.
Winning the War on Cybercrime: The Four Keys to Holistic ...
The malware industry supplies all the components cybercriminals need to easily perpetrate malware-driven financial fraud and data theft. In today's virtual world, the scope of organizations vulnerable to malware-driven cybercrime is quite broad. In addition to banks and credit unions that are subject to online banking fraud, financial fraud can be perpetrated on insurance companies, payment services, large e-commerce companies, airlines and many others.
The Thriving Malware Industry: Cybercrime Made Easy
Typically, IT and business management have no visibility into the overall state of application security. Activities for assessing, prioritizing and remediating application vulnerabilities are ad hoc, fragmented, and carried out at low levels in the IT security organization.
Five Steps to Achieve Risk-based Application Security Management
Forrester Research recently analyzed the application security testing market (static analysis, dynamic analysis, and instrumented/interactive analysis technologies). This report details Forrester's findings about how well each vendor fulfills their criteria and where they stand in relation to each other to help security and risk professionals select the right partner for their application security requirements.
The Forrester Wave: Application Security
Organizations are increasingly relying on data warehouses to provide the business critical reporting and analysis needed to empower business decisions and drive results. Data warehouses store current, as well as historical data, to satisfy business queries of all kinds.
eBook: Data Security Strategies for Next Generation Data Warehouses
National security requires that U.S. military andgovernment IT systems have strong protections. To safeguard its networks, the U.S. Department of Defense recently moved from DIACAP (DoD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process) to a more standardized and streamlined platform, the Risk Management Framework for DoD Information Technology (RMF for DoD IT).
Protecting Federal IT Systems:
End users are demanding their own devices in the workplace, making IT the shepherds of a potentially unruly flock. The good news is IT can embrace BYOD with security and confidence given the right preparation and technology
Ten Commandments of Bring Your Own Device
Apps continue to become the new norm of business productivity; giving employees cross-device operability with instant access to decision-making data. Yet, many organizations still miss the mark, (or don't even try) to implement the safeguards on apps and company data, despite the billions of passwords and personal information shared by employees (whether knowingly or through new mobile malware threats).
Why is App Security Escaping Development?
Downtime happens and often at the worst time possible. Organizations experiencing downtime face direct and indirect costs from the loss of critical systems. This whitepaper discusses a Globalscape survey of 283 IT professionals and end users revealing the frequency of unplanned downtime, the effects on organizations, including average costs, and what IT administrators can do to minimize core system failure.
