2015 Cost of Cyber Crime Study: United Kingdom

Discover how you can use enterprise security intelligence in a war against cyber crime and lower the cost of disruption in your business processes.

This analysis report contains strategic key findings, including:

• Cyber crimes continue to be very costly.
• Cyber crime cost varies by organisational size.
• All industries fall victim to cybercrime, but to different degrees.
• The most costly cyber crimes are those caused by denial of services, malicious insiders and web-based attacks
• Recovery and detection are the most costly internal activities.

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2015 Cost of Cyber Crime Study: United States

Discover how you can improve enterprise security with knowledge on what a successful cyber attack can cost your organization.

The number of cyber attacks against US companies continues to grow in frequency and severity. Recent cyber attacks include Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, United Airlines and American Airlines. The Office of Personnel Management sustained an attack that resulted in the theft of information about more than 4.2 million federal employees and attacks against the Internal Revenue Service resulted in the theft of personal information about more than 100,000 taxpayers.

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Doing Battle with Mobile Security

All roads to future technology pass through security, and perhaps none more so than the ever-growing number of mobile applications that fuel commerce and interaction with customers, partners and suppliers. Here are important things you should know and do to prevent mobile apps – of all kinds – from becoming danger zones.
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The Forrester Wave™: DDoS Services Providers, Q3 2015

Forrester Research offers unique insight into the rapidly growing DDoS Protection market with its Wave Report on DDoS Services Providers. The report investigates the rise in DDoS attacks and evaluates the top vendors.

Read the report and learn why Imperva was positioned as a leader in the DDoS service providers space.
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The Expanding Role of Service Providers in DDoS Mitigation

The participation of service providers in the identification of DDoS attacks can help to mitigate threats at (or very near) their point of origin. Collaboration between service providers and DDoS mitigation providers can help identify the signs of a pending DDoS attack, bringing customers closer to the ever-elusive “predictive” protections that are important for defense against future DDoS techniques. As a result, service providers may play an important role in advancing the industry from mitigation of DDoS attacks to elimination of DDoS attacks.In the meantime, every organization is different in terms of network needs, disposition to risk, and technological sophistication and security expertise. The most effective DDoS mitigation strategy is one that leverages multiple layers of detection and mitigation, including any and all protections offered by service providers.
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Security Analytics: A Required Escalation In Cyber Defense

Security Analytics is one of the two fastest growing product categories in security. Unlike sand boxing for advanced malware detection it provides a comprehensive view into all network traffic,not just payloads. Every organization will have to deploy some sort of security analytics.

The largest IT departments in highly targeted environments, like banks and defense contractors, are already doing some sort of security analytics. The enterprise is hiring the talent now to be able to deploy and use security analytics. Smaller organizations will have to use managed service providers because they lack the staff. There will be stand alone tools, cloud tools and capabilities built into network security platforms. Scale, speed and ability to apply security intelligence will be the determining factor in the success of these tools. Security analytics is an emerging requirement in the ongoing arms race with threat actors.
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IDC Analyst Connection: DDoS: What You Don’ t Know Will Hurt You By IDC

Distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks promise to remain a potent threat to the enterprise in 2015. Both IT and the boardroom need to protect mission-critical infrastructure from this growing menace to availability, brand image, and the bottom line. The key to success? Don't ignore DDoS; instead, take preventive action. With that in mind, IDC believes that hybrid defense scenarios (on-premises equipment married with cloud services) will continue to grow as organizations seek to parry advanced application and large-scale volumetric attacks and as solution providers and product vendors work to deliver joint solutions.
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Security Beyond the SIEM: Winning the Race Against Advanced Attackers

In order to effectively address threats within the kill chain, organizations must move faster to identify compromised systems before that compromise escalates to information theft. They need to see the entire scope of the threat—from when the compromise originated to how and where it spread, as well as the type of attack and what was communicated. Above all they need confidence that the investigations they conduct are accurate and relevant—focused on the attacks that matter most.
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Dispelling the Myths Around DDoS

In 2014 Ovum looked at the evolution of the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack landscape, highlighting that massive volumetric attacks were on the rise, while lower-bandwidth, more sophisticated attacks were targeting the application layer. It also described how DDoS had evolved from a standalone threat to become increasingly part of blended attacks against intellectual property or financial assets, with the DDoS providing a smokescreen to cover the theft.

This white paper updates the process, looking at attack data for the last year, as well as discussing and seeking to dispel some of the myths around how DDoS mitigation is developing. Finally, it makes recommendations regarding the kind of infrastructure that companies facing the entire spectrum of DDoS attacks should adopt.
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Evolving to Hunt: Changing Organization Models and Metrics for Effective Incident Response

This paper examines the four stages of evolution as security organizations move from reactively responding to incidents to proactively identifying and hunting for threats. It provides a snapshot of each stage, including the size and structure of the security team, approaches to incident response (IR), team skill sets and necessary metrics. It also identifies how to evolve your security posture to one capable of proactively hunting and neutralizing advanced cyber threats—before you end up in the headlines.
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The Hunted Becomes the Hunter

The ground has shifted under most enterprise IT security staff. Breaches are now capturing prime-time air across mainstream media outlets. As the world becomes more connected, it is no longer enough for enterprises to react once an alert indicates an attacker is inside the network. Instead, with continuous packet capture and threat feeds followed by analysis, it is now possible to hunt the attackers and locate them versus waiting for an alert. Breaches may be viewed as a security problem, but it’s they’re a bigger issue. This is a business problem; similar to lost customers, inventory, or market share, but it just happens to be through technology.

Experienced security leaders and executives have already recognized this challenge and are working towards assembling the perfect blend of people, process, and technology. What is it that they are forming? Internal teams directed to stop waiting for alerts to indicate there’s a problem and to go hunt for the attacker.
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How To Choose A Certificate Authority for Safer Web Security

Without trust, no website or online service can succeed in the competitive online marketplace. This year has seen a spate of breaches that have targeted the systems of Certificate Authorities (CAs), the companies that prove websites and services are secure and safe to use. Some of these attacks have undermined the trusting relationship between users and even well-known online brands. The changing security landscape has demonstrated not all CAs are the same, and choosing the right CA is critical to running and maintaining a safe and trusted online business.

This white paper looks at the role of CAs in web security, including what measures a CA can take to promote trust in its certificates and the criteria to consider when choosing the best CA for the job.
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Threat Landscape Review

It is essential that information security practitioners, from management and governance to enablement and execution, stay up to date on the trends, distribution patterns and risks presented by the ever-evolving threat landscape.
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