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Winning the Endpoint Security Battle: Five Key Factors

In a world where mobile endpoints are increasingly putting pressure on security systems, there are some best practices organizations can embrace to help ensure compliance with governance, regulatory and security mandates.

This Battlecard summarizes the challenges at hand, discusses some timely research that looks at the cost of breaches, and lays out the five key factors that security-conscious businesses must keep top of mind.

The Game Plan for Closing the SecOps Gap

While the joint efforts of security and IT operations ultimately determine an enterprise’s security strength, the individual goals of these two groups are often misaligned, thanks to conflicting responsibilities and different metrics for evaluating and rewarding successful performance. The result is what industry analysts are calling a “SecOps gap,” where poor collaboration between these two groups results in unnecessary security vulnerabilities, business-system downtime, excessive labor costs and challenges meeting regulatory requirements.

These problems came to the forefront in an exclusive new survey by Forbes Insights and BMC of senior security and IT managers at large enterprises in North America and Europe. A series of in-depth interviews with executives on both continents uncovered best practices for balancing security, IT system uptime and regulatory compliance. A common theme emerged from the survey and the one-on-one interviews: today’s enterprises need a modern game plan that uses technology, people and processes to close the SecOps gap.

Protection from Advanced Threats with Symantec Insight/SONAR

With targeted attacks and unknown threats continuing to grow, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and unsure about whether you’ve taken the right steps to protect your business. Connecting to the Internet and sharing information both inside and outside of your company network is imperative to nearly every business today, but how can you be confident that you’re protecting vital business assets and customer information from advanced threats?

Learn more from this Symantec Solution Brief.

Enterprise Organizations Need to Prepare for Cyber-attack ‘Hunting’

Ask any cybersecurity professional and she’ll tell you that her job is getting increasingly difficult. Why? Most will point to a combination of the dangerous threat landscape, IT complexity, and their overwhelming workload. These issues are driving a major transition in enterprise security.

Large organizations must move beyond a threat prevention mentality to become proactive cyber-attack “hunters” that constantly monitor their networks for signs of trouble. This shift to proactive hunting will require new technologies that collect, process, and analyze massive amounts of security data, offer intelligent security analytics for real-time incident detection, integrate threat intelligence to align suspicious internal activities with external threats, and provide analysts with the right data analytics features to query and manipulate data for historical investigations.

Few Fully Prepared for Software Security Risks

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

Companies cautiously optimistic about cybersecurity

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

UBM Security Trends

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

2016 State of Security Operations

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.

Cost of Data Breach – Impact of Business Continuity Management

What truly affects the cost of a data breach? Ponemon Institute’s latest study of 350 organizations around the globe details both the cost and impact of data breaches, with breakdowns by industry and country. Read the 2015 report to learn:

- The 2 major factors that affect the financial consequences of a data breach
- How companies changed their operations and compliance following a data breach
- The most common cyber security governance challenges.

Advanced Endpoint Protection for Dummies

Today’s sophisticated cyberattacks are designed to inflict maximum damage to an organization’s systems and networks, steal sensitive information (such as personal or financial data), and take control of or otherwise render an organization’s systems and networks unusable. Cyberattacks begin by infecting a system on a target network — either by causing users in the organization to unwittingly run malicious code on their servers, desktop and laptop computers, or tablets or by exploiting a vulnerability in a legitimate system or application in order to run malicious code.

Cybersecurity for Dummies

Advanced threats have changed the world of enterprise security and how organizations are attacked. These threats, and the cybercriminals behind them, are experts at remaining hidden from traditional security while exhibiting an intelligence, resiliency, and patience that has never been seen before. Controlling these threats requires multiple security disciplines working together in context. Although no single solution will solve the problem of advanced threats on its own, next‐generation cybersecurity provides the unique visibility and control of, and the true integration of, threat‐prevention disciplines needed to find and stop these threats — both known and unknown.

KÄUFERLEITFADEN: CYBERSICHERHEIT

Cyberkriminelle verbessern ständig ihre Bedrohungstaktiken, um effizienter in Organisationen einzudringen und wertvolle Daten zu stehlen. Die Entwicklung der Cyberkriminalität geht mit verbesserten Hackingtools und -techniken einher, die eingesetzt werden, um bekannte Sicherheitsmechanismen auszuhebeln. In den letzten Jahren waren fortschrittlichere, zielgerichtetere Angriffe zu beobachten, bei denen Hacker beträchtliche Zeit mit dem Untersuchen des Ziels und dem Anpassen der Bedrohung verbracht haben.

GUIDE D’ACHAT : SOLUTIONS DE CYBERSÉCURITÉ

Les cybercriminels renouvellent constamment leurs tactiques pour percer la sécurité des entreprises et dérober leurs précieuses données. Avec l'évolution du cybercrime, les outils et mécanismes de piratage employés pour déjouer les dispositifs de sécurité connus sont sans cesse plus innovants. Au cours des dernières années, de nouvelles attaques ont vu le jour, plus évoluées et ciblées qu'avant. Pour les élaborer, les pirates informatiques étudient désormais longuement leur cible et peaufinent leurs menaces en conséquence.

Przewodnik dla kuPujących: cyberbezPieczeństwo

Cyberprzestępcy nieustannie opracowują nowe sposoby skuteczniejszego łamania zabezpieczeń oraz zdobywania wartościowych danych. Wraz z rozwojem przestępczości internetowej pojawiają się innowacyjne narzędzia i techniki pozwalające na obejście aktualnie stosowanych mechanizmów zabezpieczeń. W ostatnich latach dochodziło do bardziej zaawansowanych, precyzyjnie ukierunkowanych ataków hakerskich, których sprawcy poświęcali wiele czasu na rozpoznanie celu i opracowanie odpowiedniej metody ataku.

The endpoint platform for organizations of every size

Every endpoint connected to your system is a point of vulnerability—a porthole that, if left open, can expose the entire network to disaster. Increasingly aggressive and sophisticated attacks are bypassing traditional security mechanisms, exploiting weaknesses in the vast array of endpoints connected to your system. With the endpoint landscape changing every second, each endpoint must be continuously discovered and monitored so threats can be immediately eliminated in real time—before they can sink the entire ship. To protect the network, each endpoint must be securely managed before, during and after potential cyber-attacks.