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Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Drives Pageviews with Cloudflare Performance

With the goal of becoming an international university XJTLU needed to ensure that their website was high performing and available for users anywhere in the world. However, with infrastructure focused on campus, access to XJTLU's site was intermittent and slow for off campus users. This poor performance was magnified...

Udacity's Challenges: Tapping Into the Rapidly Growing Education Market in China

Udacity is an online education company focused on making entry-level tech jobs more accessible through "Nanodegree" educational programs. Students from hundreds of different countries have gone through Udacity's programs, and some have been hired by top tech companies including Google, Amazon, and Facebook....

Keep Your Web Properties Efficient, Available, and Secure for a Better e-Learning Experience

Students are increasingly turning to online universities as part of their educational experience. To keep students engaged, these platforms must provide positive user experiences, be consistently available, and remain secure. Cloudflare provides a scalable, easy-to-use, unified product stack to deliver security,...

Inside the Sophos 2020 Threat Report

The Sophos 2020 Threat Report is out, and among the key findings: Ransomware attackers continue to leverage automated active attacks that can evade security controls and disable backups to do maximum damage in minimal time. John Shier of Sophos analyzes the trends that are most likely to shape the 2020 cybersecurity...

Sophos Launches Managed Threat Response

With all of the tools deployed for endpoint detection and response, enterprises today are often overwhelmed by threat intelligence, says J.J. Thompson of Sophos. To alleviate "analysis paralysis," Sophos has launched its Managed Threat Response service. Download this eBook to learn more about: The evolution of...

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What Customers Want in 2019

To stay current, eCommerce retailers have to keep track of evolving shopping trends. And to stay profitable in a rapidly changing marketplace, merchants have to approve more orders, operate more efficiently, and fend off the costly threats of fraud, account takeovers, chargebacks, and false declines.

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Avoiding False Declines

Most online retailers spend vast resources protecting their business against chargebacks. But in reality, they're losing a lot more money to false declines than to actual CNP fraud. Download this guide to: Understand the scope of false declines: Why eCommerce businesses should care about false declines, the silent...

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The Five Legitimate Shoppers You're Declining

This guide was created to help merchants see through fraudsters' tricks & protect their business from chargebacks, without compromising the shopping experience. Download this Guide to: Boost revenue by learning why many valid orders are mistaken for fraud Protect brand reputation and improve customer...

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Fighting CNP Fraud in Online Electronics Sales

With consumers increasingly turning online to buy electronics, retailers stand to make significant gains in terms of eCommerce revenue. Unfortunately, growing online sales also raise the stakes on eCommerce fraud prevention. This report sheds light on consumer electronics online fraud patterns in, offering retailers...

Managing Tool Sprawl: ReliaQuest on How to Boost Visibility Across Your Security Program

What is the risk of having too many cybersecurity tools? Compromised visibility because of "tool sprawl". Enterprises are now awakening to this challenge and attempting to overcome it. Download this eBook to learn more about: How "tool sprawl" has created industry fatigue; The resulting loss of visibility; How...

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Buyer's Guide for Complete Privileged Access Management

The Buyer's Guide for Complete Privileged Access Management (PAM) is the most thorough tool for holistically assessing your privileged access security needs and mapping them to modern privilege management solutions. This detailed PAM Buyer's Guide will help you identify where to begin your privileged access management...

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Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report 2019

The Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report 2019 analyzes the data from security bullitens issued by Microsoft throughout 2018. On the second Tuesday of every month, or "Patch Tuesday," Microsoft releases fixes for any vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft products. This report compiles these releases into one, holistic...

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Just-In-Time (JIT) Privileged Access Management (PAM)

The abuse and/or misuse of privileged credentials plays a role in almost every cybersecurity breach incident today. With privileged access in hand. an attacker essentially becomes a malicious insider - and that's an alarming scenario for any IT professional, all the way up to the C-level and the Board. Privileged...

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2019 Integrating Password and Privilege Management for Unix and Linux Systems

Unix and Linux build the foundation for most business-critical systems. Thus, they present target-rich environments for cyber-attackers. Privileged Access Management (PAM) helps to mitigate such risks. To succeed, security teams must follow an integrated approach, covering both privilege elevation and centralized...

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Privileged Access Threat Report 2019

Research results from over 1,000 global key decision makers with visibility over access management confirm that security professionals are aware that a breach is only a matter of time, with 50% of respondents having already suffered a serious breach or expecting to experience one over the next six months (up from 42%...