Sponsor: Hewlett Packard – CA

Optimism is good. But being overconfident about your ability to counter cyber attacks is dangerous. And that's what many security professionals are doing according to new research by SC Magazine. Eighty percent of survey respondents believe the chances of being breached are 50-50 or less. But the Ponemon Institute 2015 Cost of Cyber Crime Study finds the average company actually experiences 1.9 successful cyber attacks per week.

The disconnect seems to spring from respondents' confidence that they can block known attacks coupled with concern about new and unknown hacker threats. Read this report to learn:

• Respondents' highest cyber defense priorities
• How they view their ability to respond to breaches
• The five top action items for security professionals

In this UBM report, we will examine the overall security trends that are driving the need for change, as well as plans and strategies around application security, network security, and data security.

Last year, organizations worldwide spent more per security breach than they did the previous year. The cost to detect, respond to, and mitigate a breach was around $7.7 million—1.9% higher than in 2014. For US companies, those costs were much higher, at around $15 million on an annualized basis.

Read this report today. You’ll be surprised to learn:

• Who causes the costliest crimes
• How “threat actors” gather information prior to their attacks
• What the biggest security concerns are world-wide
• Why web applications are so vulnerable to attack, and the most common problems

Hacker attacks are increasing, and the cost to businesses is growing. Experts tell us it's not if you'll be breached, it's when. So the effectiveness of your security operations determines how much damage you'll suffer. Since 2008, Hewett Packard Enterprise Security has performed 154 assessments of the maturity of security operations in 114 security operations centers (SOCs).

The 2016 report is both disturbing and encouraging. There has been a year-to-year decline in overall security operation maturity. But there is also encouraging news—many SOCs are adopting innovative techniques that leverage the power of data and analytics to stay ahead of the threat. Read the report to learn the findings and understand the trends in security operations.

Discover the most salient findings of this enterprise security and intelligence study and learn what you can do to protect your organization.

There is significant variation in total cyber-crime costs among participating companies. The US sample reports the highest total average cost at $15 million and the Russian sample reports the lowest total average cost at $2.4 million. It is also interesting to note that Germany, Japan, Australia and Russia experienced a slight decrease in the cost of cyber-crime over the past year. The percentage net change between FY 2015 and FY 2014 is 1.9 percent.

To avoid being breached, you have to get your defenses right every single time. To breach you, hackers only have to get their attack right once. Experts advise breaches are inevitable. According to the Ponemon Institute, the average time to resolve a cyber attack is 45 days, with an average cost of $35,647 per day. The key to minimizing damage is preparation.

This white paper tells you what you need to know to be prepared for a breach. Read it to understand:

• The right breach mindset
• Response team composition
• Communication needs with employees and customers
• Legal notification requirements
• The technologies that can help

Studies show the average time to resolve a security breach once detected is more than 45 days, and companies lose more than $1.6 million during that time. The obstacles to faster response include lack of resources and an inability to effectively communicate and collaborate among the multiple teams and tools larger enterprises rely on for protection.

This white paper examines the "outrun the bear" approach prevalent in IT security: you don't have to outrun the hackers; you just have to outrun other companies. It examines the challenges inhibiting faster response, and it offers five critical steps organization can take to turn security intelligence into action.

The SANS 2015 survey of the incident response capabilities of more than 500 security professionals found good news and bad news. The good news is that reported malware incidents, breaches, and remediation time declined slightly compared to last year, indicating a maturing of defenses and incident response capabilities. The bad news is 37 percent of respondents said their teams are unable to distinguish malicious events from nonevents, and most organizations still experience significant impediments to incident response.

Read the 2015 survey results to learn:

• The kind of data most targeted by hackers
• Remediation practices used by respondents
• The threat intelligence and detection technologies that work
• The greatest impediments to fast and effective response

Hackers penetrate organizations and steal information through vulnerabilities in software applications. Yet less than half of IT organizations have confidence in the security of the software that runs their businesses. And just 11 percent say they know with confidence which applications are at risk. Those are among the findings of a Gatepoint survey on software security assurance (SSA) highlighted by this white paper.

Read the paper to learn:

• How many respondents have full-scale SSA programs in place
• How SSA works
• How much SSA has reduced remediation time

Your ability to detect and stop cyber attacks depends on the effectiveness of your security operations team. How does yours stack up to the best? And what should you do to improve?

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Security Intelligence and Operations Consulting has assessed the capabilities of 87 security operations centers worldwide. This updated 2015 report bring you the latest information.

Read it to learn:

• The latest trends in security defenses and operations
• The attributes of the most effective organizations
• The point at which enhanced process maturity actually degrades effectiveness
• How companies featured in case studies have improved—or degraded—their capabilities

Applications are a primary target for cyber-attacks. Historically, Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) have been a popular choice for protecting production applications from attack. But they have limitations, and advice on how to bypass a WAF is readily available.

See how context from within the application allows Runtime Application Self-protection (RASP) to provide additional protection using visibility into application configuration, logic and data flows. In this paper, the SANS Institute captures the relative capabilities and efficiencies of RASP and WAF technologies using a representative product in each category. Learn how your defense-in-depth strategy could benefit from the additional visibility of runtime protection.

The SANS 2015 survey of the incident response capabilities of more than 500 security professionals found good news and bad news. The good news is that reported malware incidents, breaches, and remediation time declined slightly compared to last year, indicating a maturing of defenses and incident response capabilities. The bad news is 37 percent of respondents said their teams are unable to distinguish malicious events from nonevents, and most organizations still experience significant impediments to incident response.

Read the 2015 survey results to learn:

• The kind of data most targeted by hackers
• Remediation practices used by respondents
• The threat intelligence and detection technologies that work
• The greatest impediments to fast and effective response

Continuous monitoring is among the latest approaches to keep your company safe from hackers. And according to this SANS survey, most organizations claim to have a program for monitoring systems and activities for unauthorized changes, vulnerabilities, abnormal operation, and needed patches. But how effective are they?

Read the complete SANS survey report to learn what most companies are monitoring, how often, and what they are finding. Most important, understand why the author claims most continuous monitoring programs—even those viewed as mature by their operators—fall well short of what it takes to keep hackers out.

Discover how enterprise security best practices can help you avoid suffering financial losses, damage to your brand, and damage to customer relationships caused by undetected or detected too late cyber attacks.

On average, advanced attacks now persist in the network seven months before they are detected. The time to resolve those attacks once detected has increased by 221 percent to 45 days.

This paper shows you how you can tap into the best threat intelligence solutions and what new ideas you can use in your organization to find the needle in the haystack that indicates hackers are at work.