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Machine Identity Protection for Dummies eBook

Businesses spend billions each year on identity and access management, but almost all of this money is spent on protecting the digital identities of humans - usernames and passwords. On the other hand, businesses spend almost nothing on protecting machine identities, even though our entire digital economy hinges...

SMBs Guide to Digital Transformation Fueled by Security

Digital transformation impacts the way that organizations deal with cybersecurity risk. For SMBs in particular, it is essential to place security at the center of this transformation. With 13 million data hacks a data hacks and 30 million records lost a day, it is important for organizations to not undermine the...

Adapting to the New Reality of Evolving Cloud Threats of 2019

Cloud computing has inherited security advantages when properly deployed, but the reality is that any fast-growing platform is bound to see a proportionate increase in incidents. Organizations are finding that they have to realign - and in some cases, reinvent - their security programs for this new reality. This...

2019 Internet Security Threat Report

The 2019 Internet Security Threat Report takes a deep dive into insights from the Symantec Global Intelligence Network (GIN), revealing the latest trends in cyber security attacks including ransomware, formjacking, cloud security and mobile threats. Through GIN, Symantec has established the largest civilian threat...

Bring Your Own Key (BYOK): When Cloud Convenience Meets Security

While cloud computing offers many advantages, a major disadvantage has been security, because data physically resides with the cloud service provider (CSP) and out of the direct control of the owner of the data. For enterprises that elect to use encryption to protect their data, securing their encryption keys is of...

Essential Elements to Consider when Choosing a Micro-Segmentation Solution

With IT environments more complex and dynamic than ever, micro-segmentation is the clear choice for isolating communication flows and hardening your security posture. The right provider should help you accurately visualise and map all of your application flows and dependencies and then enable micro-segmentation...

Strategy for a Successful Micro-Segmentation Journey

The modern data centre is increasingly a heterogeneous mix of environments and technologies that combine physical servers, virtual machines and containers in on-premises facilities, private clouds and public cloud IaaS providers. Organizations are constantly shifting data and workloads among them as traffic levels and...

2019 Vulnerability and Threat Trends Report

Vulnerabilities don't exist in a vacuum. The risk they pose depends on a variety of factors both internal and external that are in a near-constant state of change - and keeping up with that change is vital to limiting your risk of attack. Enter: The 2019 Vulnerability and Threat Trends Report which examines new...

Modernizing Storage for the Cloud Era

Although the government has been slower than the private sector to adopt the cloud, there's no doubt that the shift is underway. IDC says "Cloud First" will become the new mantra for enterprise IT, noting that the major innovations taking place in IT today are not possible without the cloud as a foundation. By...

Don't Let Your Hybrid Active Directory Environment Cause You Pain

Managing Active Directory can be painful. Native tools have limited capabilities, which leads to inefficiencies, such as managing user accounts or group membership via manual processes or scripts. To make things even more interesting, Microsoft has introduced Azure Active Directory (AAD). It's a cloud-based directory...

Identity Security & The Quest for Zero Trust

Forget inside/outside the perimeter when mitigating risks. That's the notion behind "zero trust," which means applying risk-based controls to safeguard access. Download this whitepaper to learn more about: Cloud service attack trends; Best practices for mitigating risks; How to make the concept of "zero trust"...

The Need for Stronger Security & Control Across Your Cloud Estate

With 96% of businesses now relying on cloud computing, including 81% that use multiple cloud environments*, cloud adoption is no longer a trend but the new normal.

The Financial Services Industry's Need for Stronger Security & Control Across The Cloud

With 96% of businesses now relying on cloud computing, including 81% that use multiple cloud environments*, cloud adoption is no longer a trend but the new normal.

The Seven Essentials of an Analytics-Driven SIEM

SIEM (security information and event management) software offers a lot of promise, but legacy SIEMs simply can't keep up with the rate and sophistication of today's cyberattacks. Organizations today require access to analytics-driven SIEMs that combine a big data platform that is optimized for machine data with...

5 Reasons why you need a Cloud-native Web Application Firewall (WAF)

DDoS attacks. Bad bots. Web server vulnerability exploits. The number of threats to websites and internet-facing applications is growing every day. The best way to protect your business from harmful incoming web traffic is to block it with a powerful web application firewall (WAF). But not just any WAF will do. It's...