Azure Security and Identity Management Best Practices

Defend against today's security threats by moving beyond yesterday's tools and protections, including passwords and firewalls. Discover what Rackspace Security experts know is key in keeping your organization's environment, business and bottom line, safe.

Watch our free on-demand webinar, Azure Security and Identity Management Best Practices, and learn how to:

  • Develop an identity and authentication cloud strategy
  • Use Azure as your base Infrastructure
  • Develop a core set of VM Best Practices
  • Leverage Security Managed Services for Security Operations & Compliance Assistance

Join us, and leverage our expertise to utilize best practices built up over years of implementing and managing thousands of cloud customers across multiple cloud platforms.

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2016 Cyber Intrusion Casebook5) CrowdStrike Cyber Intrusion Services Casebook 2016

This year’s Cyber Intrusion Services Casebook focuses on in-depth digital forensics, incident response (IR) and remediation services performed on behalf of actual CrowdStrike clients. Real-life examples drawn from notable CrowdStrike Services IR engagements in 2016 — including the now-infamous hack of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) —are covered with an emphasis on best practices organizations can follow to identify and eject attackers before a devastating breach occurs.

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  • How CrowdStrike’s Falcon OverWatch and professional services teams discovered and attributed the DNC intrusion to nation-state threat actors FANCY BEAR and COZY BEAR
  • The gaps in security processes and planning that your organization can address now to stop the next breach
  • The specific tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) a range of nation-state and eCrime adversaries used to penetrate their victims’ defenses, and how they attempted to cover their tracks.

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CrowdStrike Threat Graph™: Stopping Breaches with Graph Data Models and Analytics

One of the biggest challenges to effectively stopping breaches lies in sifting through vast amounts of data to find the subtle clues that indicate an attack is imminent or underway. As modern computer systems generate billions of events daily, the amount of data to analyze can reach petabytes. Compounding the problem, the data is often unstructured, discrete and disconnected. As a result, organizations struggle to determine how individual events may be connected to signal an impending attack.

Download the white paper to learn:

  • How to detect known and unknown threats by applying high-volume graph-based technology, similar to the ones developed by Facebook and Google
  • How CrowdStrike solved this challenge by building its own proprietary graph data model
  • How CrowdStrike Threat Graph™ collects and analyzes massive volumes of security-related data to stop breaches

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Proactive Hunting: The Last Line of Defense Against the “Mega Breach”

The frequency of “mega breaches” continues to rise at an alarming rate. In fact, crippling incidents involving tens of millions of customer records, theft of highly valuable intellectual property, and related criminal activity have become commonplace.

This report asserts that many such breaches could be prevented by deploying next-generation endpoint protection technology in concert with an aggressive proactive hunting strategy. This potent combination provides the most effective means to reduce attack surfaces and defend against advanced adversaries.

Download the white paper to:

  • Learn how a proactive hunting strategy protects valuable data assets from a potential mega breach
  • Get a detailed analysis of how highly skilled human hunters pair with technology to aggressively seek out threat behaviors
  • Understand why integrating CrowdStrike Falcon Overwatch into an organization’s existing security resources offers the most comprehensive protection against persistent and skilled adversaries
  • Find out how the elite Overwatch team uses the CrowdStrike Threat Graph™ to sift through petabytes of information to gain unprecedented endpoint visibility

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Three Essential Elements of Next-Gen Endpoint Protection

A large and growing number of security solutions are being touted as the "next generation" in cyber defense, and endpoint protection products are no exception. This has led to widespread confusion about which solutions have truly incorporated next-generation technologies and approaches, and which ones are making empty claims or half-hearted attempts.

CrowdStrike developed this white paper to help you sift through the hype and uncover the critical elements that a true next-generation endpoint security solution must include.

Download this white paper to explore:

  • An explanation of the essential elements of Next-Generation Endpoint Protection
  • An evaluation matrix for comparing the potential impact of different solutions
  • A list of the top questions to ask potential vendors
  • Tools to help you measure and compare different solutions

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A Deep Dive into Ransomware’s Evolution

Once a “consumer-only” problem, Ransomware now has an established business case for profitability, and that’s driving criminals to expand their operations and hunt for more lucrative prey. As a result, commercial enterprises and other large organizations are increasingly in the cross-hairs.

Consider these facts:

  • Ransomware attacks doubled in 2015
  • The number of new ransomware variants increased 17% in Q1 2016
  • The FBI estimates that ransomware will net criminals $1 billion in 2016

This white paper dives into the inner workings of ransomware, its perpetrators and how they are evolving to maximize profits. You’ll also learn how companies are fighting back, and review best practices for protecting your organization from becoming another victim of electronic extortion.

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Gartner Research: Use SIEM for Targeted Attack Detection

Closing the gap for the potential of a targeted attack and becoming a breach statistic is an ongoing challenge for organizations of all types and sizes. The adoption of continuous security information and event monitoring (SIEM) offers organizations a more holistic, intelligent and comprehensive approach to reduce the window of discovery.

Gartner’s paper­ - Use SIEM for Targeted Attack Detection ­ - details research on how IT security leaders can improve targeted attack detection capabilities using SIEM tools and appropriate investments in expertise, processes and complementary technologies.

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A New Class of Firewall: Internal Segmentation Firewall (ISFW)

The latest advanced threats take advantage of the flat and open internal network. Once they get past traditional firewall defenses at the perimeter, it’s very easy for them to spread and extract valuable trade secrets and sensitive data.

Download the “Protecting Your Network from the Inside Out” white paper, which details the emergence of a new class of firewall that helps address this critical security gap—the Internal Segmentation Firewall (ISFW). Deployed at key strategic points in the network, it identifies and contains threats before they spread.

ISFWs can be deployed rapidly with minimum disruption while keeping up with the multi­-gigabit speeds of internal networks. They offer instant visibility and critical protection that can protect internal data/assets if a threat gets past the perimeter.

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One Brand of Firewall is a Best Practice for Most Enterprises

The combination of cloud technologies and ever-­increasing worker mobility have required firewalls to expand their reach from securing applications and network traffic to address the entire broad and complex threat surface.

Gartner’s paper­ One Brand of Firewall is a Best Practice for Most Enterprises­ details research that enables you to learn more about the importance of a unified security posture:

  • Reducing complexity through consolidated management
  • Increasing security effectiveness with deeper levels of inspection
  • Automating threat remediation and accelerating response times
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Securing Your Network and Application Infrastructure

The risk of a breach is growing rapidly due to more devises and more applications hitting your infrastructure. We asked security experts about their biggest concerns for advanced persistent threats and application based attacks.

Two Security experts reveal their challenges and share advice on advance persistent threats. Read what they have to say about:

  • The importance of including security professionals at early stages of your IT projects
  • The best protection against threats (hint: early detection and rapid response)
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Wireless Defense Strategies In The IoT Era

The rise of BYOD and the Internet of Things (IoT) are bringing new flexibility and functionality to organizations of all sizes ­ and unfortunately, also new Wi­Fi vulnerabilities and attack vectors that put critical assets within your network at risk.

Download Wireless Defense Strategies in the IoT Era to learn how critical it is to deploy more integrated security at the access layer for comprehensive protection that spans the full breadth of the network.

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Countering Evolving Cyber Threats

Regardless of an organization’s security maturity model, when the growing level of sophisticated attackers and threats collide with the ever evolving and expanding network environment, a multifaceted defense approach is no longer a luxury, but a necessity.

This white paper -­ Countering Evolving Cyber Threats­ - outlines clear prioritization of solutions and the key areas that should be addressed in order to minimize the impact of potential threats while filling in the gaps that span across all the access vectors.

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Advanced Threat Protection Buyer’s Guide

Increasing the strength of your company’s defense against the latest persistent threats means providing coverage across the entire attack chain: prevention, detection and mitigation. This checklist will help you assess your current Advanced Threat Protection solution needs through a baseline set of requirements, including:

  • Environment coverage
  • Mix of security technologies
  • Integration and automation capabilities
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