Page 11 - White Papers in Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development

What the Faster Payments Initiative Means for European Banks

The Faster Payments Initiative may help businesses shorten clearing times for financial transactions, and benefit personal banking consumers by ensuring that transactions and bill payments are completed in a timely fashion. However, fraudsters will look to exploit any system vulnerabilities to their advantage. Shorter...

Shifting the Balance of Power with Cognitive Fraud Detection

By using cognitive fraud detection across different security layers, financial service providers can detect fraud more accurately and quickly than ever before, as well as better preserve the user experience. Download this whitepaper and learn how to: Reduce the number of false positives your organization faces so...

How to Build a Security Operations Center (on a Budget)

Get All 5 Chapters of AlienVault's How to Build a Security Operations Center (On a Budget) in 1 eBook! You'll get an in-depth look at how organizations with limited resources can set up a successful operations center for monitoring, detecting, containing, and remediating IT threats across applications, devices,...

2017 State of IBM i Security Study; Don't Leave Your Data Vulnerable

Another day, another data breach in the news. Ransomware at a hospital, the latest IRS breach, a phishing scam at Snapchat . . . you tune out the details. For every breach that makes headlines, dozens of other organizations have had data stolen or corrupted by hackers...or even their own users. Cyberthreats become...

When Malware Attacks Your IBM i, AIX, and Linux Servers; True Stories From the Field

Businesses around the world are seeing an increase in malware attacks, including ransomware like CryptoLocker, Locky, and zCrypt. These attacks can result in weeks of downtime, and some of the most damaging data breaches originated with malware, including the Target breach in 2014. A robust malware defense could...

The Value of a Multi-layered Approach to Security

Organizations must adopt a multi-layered, defense-in-depth approach to online security to combat today's threat landscape. Rather than relying on just one or two of the so-called 'next-gen' techniques in isolation, a robust, multi-layered approach should involve a vast array of signature- and non-signature based...

Key Trends From Recent DDoS Attack Mitigations

DDoS attacks are complex and unpredictable, making human intervention and expertise essential to mitigation. In Q4 2016, one internet security organization observed an 167% increase in the average DDoS attack peak size from 2015. While deploying attack mitigations, they also observed that 52% of attacks were User...

DDoS Attack Trends in the Finance Industry

DDoS attacks against financial institutions can reduce productivity and decrease revenue. In Q4 2016, one internet security organization observed that 7% of all their mitigations were for the finance industry. The attacks they fought against averaged a size of 10.4 Gbps and peaked over 100 Gbps. Download this...

DDoS Attack Trends Report

DDoS attacks can cripple your network, reduce productivity and decrease revenue. This quarterly report provides a unique view into attack trends and behavioral data derived from attack mitigations . Download the new DDoS Trends Report to stay up-to-date with recent industry data such as: 167% increase in attack...

A New Approach to Endpoint Security Software Testing

Security product testers have architectured their test suites to adhere to the technologies of the past 10 years. However, as endpoint security and the threat landscape continue to evolve, so must testing suites evolve as well. Advanced methodologies and a more robust testing criteria are essential to keep...

The 15 Endpoint Security Providers that Matter Most and How They Stack Up

The endpoint security market is growing because more security professionals see the endpoint security suite vendors as a way to address their top challenges. What's more, security pros increasingly trust providers in this space to act as strategic partners, advising them on top endpoint security decisions. The...

Is the Promise of Behavioral Biometrics Worth the Investment?

Behavioral biometrics has been getting a lot of attention recently due to its ability to uniquely address the challenges posed by social engineering, account takeovers and malware. It is already considered the third most popular biometric technology (after finger and face) and tied with iris. Nonetheless, as an...

Ignoring Risks from Same-day ACH Will Cost You Big

Same-day Automated Clearing House (ACH) payment processing became a reality. While this represents a terrific opportunity for banks to be responsive to their customer's requirements for faster ACH payments, plus the ability to attract new customers from banks who choose not to offer the same level of responsiveness,...

Making the Case for Continuous Authentication: Why 2FA is Not Secure Enough to Combat Online Fraud

Most organizations that enable users to perform online transactions have implemented security measures to address fraud. Currently, one of the most common safeguards used in a wide array of products/services is two-factor authentication (2FA). In recent years, 2FA has become employed by global tech leaders like...

Fraud in The Mobile Era: A Hacker's Delight

As mobile devices eclipse computers and laptops as the preferred method of going online, fraudsters have followed users, porting their modus operandi -account takeover, social engineering, and malware based remote control attacks - to the mobile arena. Thus, hackers have many more opportunities to perpetrate fraud and...