Sponsor: Webroot

A recent Spiceworks survey with over 300 IT pros confirms the growing threat of ransomware and how it’s affecting organizations today.

In today’s highly competitive sports environment, a team’s information can be a key competitive advantage, both on the field and in their business operations. With a highly distributed and mobile information technology (IT) environment, efficient data protection and management is paramount to the Broncos.

In 2014, hackers and cyber thieves will continue to change their tactics, using new exploits to infect systems and steal data. This Executive Brief discusses the top five malware trends to keep an eye out for in 2014 and how Webroot SecureAnywhere can provide the endpoint protection that companies will need to be safe in 2014.

Malware is at such high levels (more than 60 million unique samples per year) that protecting an endpoint with traditional antivirus software has become futile. More than 100,000 new types of malware are now released every day, and antivirus vendors are racing to add new protection features to try to keep their protection levels up. The Webroot Intelligence Network integrates billions of pieces of information from multiple sources - including data from customers, test laboratories, and intelligence shared between security vendors - to create the world’s largest malware detection net.

Mobile applications are providing exciting new business opportunities for service providers and technology companies. Innovative firms are thriving by offering apps in app stores and app markets, by supporting apps with mobile services and infrastructure, and by managing apps through mobile device management (MDM) and mobile application management (MAM) products. Enterprises are providing mobile apps to their employees and customers through corporate app catalogs. But these business opportunities could be jeopardized by information security issues. Attacks on mobile devices are growing at exponential rates.

At one point, it seemed that phishing was receding to the status of a minor issue threatening only naive consumers. But a new version has emerged, fueled by new cybercriminals and new phishing techniques. New types of phishing campaigns are particularly worrisome because they are aimed at businesses and evade traditional antivirus and anti-phishing products. In this whitepaper we will discuss how phishing has turned toward business and become more costly.

Cybercriminals have increasingly turned their attention to the web, which has become by far the predominant area of attack. Small wonder those who would do harm to our computer systems for profit or malice always manage to focus their efforts on our most vulnerable weak spots. Today, that is the web, for a wide number of reasons.

Traditional Antivirus is Becoming Obsolete. Have you seen a lot of articles and blog posts with titles like "Is Antivirus Dead?" If so, there is a good reason: Traditional signature-based antivirus technology is rapidly heading toward obsolescence. But there are new approaches that can make antivirus effective and practical again. Here we will look at three of them: Client/cloud architecture; Behavior recognition; and Journaling and rollback.

This report presents results and findings as a result of performance benchmark testing conducted for endpoint security products. The aim of this benchmark was to compare the performance impact of Webroot's SecureAnywhere Business Endpoint Protection product with seven competitor products.

In this white paper we will discuss: Why traditional endpoints and mobile devices require overlapping (but not identical) security solutions; How to enhance the protection of all endpoints by adding web security; Why today's threats require that endpoint protection and mobile device protection activities be moved to the cloud; and how Webroot makes it easy to "close the circle" by managing endpoint protection.