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Cyber Defender Strategies: What Your Vulnerability Assessment Practices Reveal

In this report we analyze real-world end-user vulnerability assessment (VA) behavior using a machine learning (ML) algorithm to identify four distinct strategies, or "styles." These are based on five VA key performance indicators (KPIs) which correlate to VA maturity characteristics. This study specifically focuses...

Reducing Cyber Exposure From Cloud to Containers: 5 Key Learnings

When it comes to IT infrastructure, it's fair to say the perimeter has left the premises. In fact, the perimeter has mostly disappeared. We are living in a new reality, one crowded with new types of dynamic IT assets. Whether it's discovering short-lived assets like containers, assessing the state of cloud...

Building a Secure Foundation to Reduce Cyber Risk

As the modern attack surface rapidly expands, companies must get the basics right. Yet each time a data security breach hits the news, there are reactionary questions are what could have been done to avoid the problem. More often than not these incidents occur because organizations commonly overlook basic security...

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Achieving Business Agility Without Complicating Network Security

Most organizations are undergoing some form of digital transformation (DX), transforming how they bring products and services to the market - and deliver value to their customers. But DX initiatives bring complexity for network operations teams. With business-critical services distributed across multiple clouds, this...

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The Digital Transformation Age: Enhancing Business Agility Without Compromising Network Security

Most organizations are undergoing some form of digital transformation (DX). But DX initiatives bring complexity for network operations teams. With business-critical services distributed across multiple clouds, this leads to potential performance issues. Given these realities, it is no wonder that SD-WAN technology is...

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The Network Leaders' Guide To Secure SD-WAN

If you're dealing with the high cost and complexities of delivering reliable wide area connectivity over traditional carrier-based networks, you're probably considering some form of software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN). With the variety of constraints that you face, selecting the right SD-WAN solution for...

A Five-Step Security Awareness Framework

Over the last five years, cybercrime occurrences have escalated dramatically, taking hold of organizations worldwide - affecting revenue, productivity, information security, and reputation. In 2017 Cost of Cybercrime Study, the Ponemon Institute emphasizes that, on average, organizations have paid $11.7 million USD...

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Upgrading Your WAN Infrastructure

The traditional WAN is no longer an effective solution for today's distributed enterprise. Organizations are overcoming significant security and network issues by moving to SD-WAN. There are many different SD-WANs on the market today, and IT professionals should carefully review their options so they are not...

Cloudflare Advanced DDoS Protection

Denial-of-service (DoS) attacks are on the rise and have evolved into complex and overwhelming security challenges.

Securing Applications in the Cloud

Fast, easy-to-deploy, and scalable layered defense against DDoS, data compromise and malicious bots

Securing the Web Perimeter

Traditional network perimeter based access control models that use VPNs are no longer adequate to safeguard applications.

A New Look at Vulnerability Management

For too many organisations, software vulnerability management is just about "patch Tuesday." Vulnerability management has evolved significantly in the past few years. Organisations need to adopt a new strategy focusing on visibility, prioritised response, and mitigation. When you look back at the wave of...

The End of Security Patches for Legacy Applications

Many enterprises still rely on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 to run business critical applications. But Windows Server 2008 will reach End of Support on January 14, 2020, which means no more security and maintenance patches. Every enterprise has to face down this issue of legacy systems sooner or later. With Windows...

Exploits Explained: Comprehensive Exploit Prevention

Exploits are commonly used in cyber attacks: upwards of 90% of reported data breaches involve an exploit at one or more points in the attack chain. Including exploit prevention as part of a comprehensive lineup of security defenses is clearly valuable. Almost every major security vendor can claim some level of...

Endpoint Management: New Challenges Posed by Today's Cyberthreats and Security Threats

Endpoint management, while broad from a technology standpoint, is moving in a definitive direction - the ability to centrally discover, provision, deploy, update, and troubleshoot endpoint devices within an organization. The proliferation of laptops, desktops, and more will propel the worldwide market for unified...