Security Visibility: 10 Things to Ask Your Vendor

Know before you buy. Ask the right questions of your packet visibility vendor for security systems.

If your organization needs traffic aggregation or packet optimization to bolster visibility to security solutions, there are 10 key questions you should ask when evaluating a solution.

Review this checklist to ensure your security systems get the packets required, and only the ones needed, to get the most out of your investment.
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Advancing Security Maturity with Packet Visibility

Cybersecurity is a constant battle to stay ahead. The Cybersecurity Capability Maturity Model (C2M2) outlines a process to move your security posture to the next level.

In our C2M2 Security White Paper, learn how to advance your security maturity with security visibility. We cover:
  • deployment case studies
  • enabling fail-safe active security
  • active inline security systems in series
Read about how to advance your cybersecurity maturity with security visibility, delivered by packet flow switching technology.
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Tool Chaining Use Case

Service assurance and security may not seem symbiotic. But they can be.

The challenge with deploying security tools in line is that they may become a single point of failure, affecting network availability and performance. Yet top analyst, insurance companies and compliance are calling for these devices to provide proactive protection. There is a simple and elegant solution. One that allows complete control of active inline tools with baked in service assurance.

Download and read our Tool Chaining use case and learn how you can have complete control of data, as it flows into security systems. NGFWs, IDS, IPS, sandboxing or whatever tool you want no longer has to be another bump in the wire. Read how to place these solutions in a virtual chain, while removing concerns about single points of failure.

Secure service assurance, all wrapped in a performance bow.
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The Value of IT Automation, Featuring Research from Gartner

At Puppet, we’ve been looking at the state of DevOps practices for several years and helping organizations achieve higher levels of efficiency.

We’ve learned a lot about the impact of DevOps at varying stages of IT automation maturity.

As DevOps has moved from theory to implementation for more organizations, a host of DevOps myths have blocked adoption in many organizations.

This publication debunks these myths so your organization can automate, innovate, and get ahead.

Download this publication, featuring research from Gartner, to discover:
  • Why DevOps is applicable to legacy environments, traditional enterprises and hierarchical organizations.
  • Practices that underpin DevOps, from version control to automated testing to infrastructure as code.
  • How companies like Walmart, Staples, Ambit Energy and Infusionsoft have embraced DevOps and IT automation.
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Get Started with DevOps: A Guide for IT Managers

If you’re managing an IT team, you may be turning to DevOps as the path to faster delivery of software.

DevOps can help your team become more efficient — and your organization more competitive — but you’ll need to be able to communicate to your team why things are changing, and how their usual working practices are likely to alter.

Download this guide to explore:
  • How to align DevOps with your organization’s goals.
  • What change might look like — for operations, development and the organization at large.
  • Why security is a great icebreaker.
  • The importance of focusing on the team over individual DevOps specialists.
  • How to embrace agile ways of working, along with infrastructure as code, code review, continuous integration and unit testing.
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Forrester Report: Improve Cybersecurity with DevOps

Have you considered that applications are your competitive advantage— and help you compete for customers?

The faster you’re able to deliver applications, the better you can compete.

Given this reality, many application development and delivery pros are wisely turning to DevOps to deliver applications faster — and more reliably.

Yet, rapid delivery leaves some IT leaders nervous about quality and cybersecurity. Does faster delivery equate to haphazard decisions and compromised cybersecurity?

Done right, DevOps can actually improve cybersecurity, not compromise it. DevOps helps build in quality from the start, allowing you to gather and act on feedback earlier, catch security flaws sooner in the delivery cycle, and respond faster to compromises.

This July 2015 Forrester Report explores:
  • Why consistent, automated DevOps processes are essential to closing vulnerabilities and limiting exposure.
  • Practices, such as infrastructure as code and automated provisioning, for closing holes as soon as patches are available.
  • How DevOps and security professionals can work together to adopt DevSecOps.
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Case Studies In Advanced Network Threat Protection: Scale Your Network To Find What Hides Within

Join our conversation on how to leverage threat intelligence to protect against advanced threats. In our webinar Case Studies in Advanced Threat Network Protection, we will dive into how customers are using the latest research and insights backed by ATLAS threat intelligence to protect valuable IT assets.

We will discuss how a solution-based approach, leveraging Arbor Spectrum combined with NETSCOUT packet flow switches, allows you to aggregate and see everything within your network.
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Security Visibility: 10 Things to Ask Your Vendor

Know before you buy. Ask the right questions of your packet visibility vendor for security systems.

If your organization needs traffic aggregation or packet optimization to bolster visibility to security solutions, there are 10 key questions you should ask when evaluating a solution.

Review this checklist to ensure your security systems get the packets required, and only the ones needed, to get the most out of your investment.
Get Whitepaper

Advancing Security Maturity with Packet Visibility

Cybersecurity is a constant battle to stay ahead. The Cybersecurity Capability Maturity Model (C2M2) outlines a process to move your security posture to the next level.

In our C2M2 Security White Paper, learn how to advance your security maturity with security visibility. We cover:
  • deployment case studies
  • enabling fail-safe active security
  • active inline security systems in series
Read about how to advance your cybersecurity maturity with security visibility, delivered by packet flow switching technology.
Get Whitepaper

Tool Chaining Use Case

Service assurance and security may not seem symbiotic. But they can be.

The challenge with deploying security tools in line is that they may become a single point of failure, affecting network availability and performance. Yet top analyst, insurance companies and compliance are calling for these devices to provide proactive protection. There is a simple and elegant solution. One that allows complete control of active inline tools with baked in service assurance.

Download and read our Tool Chaining use case and learn how you can have complete control of data, as it flows into security systems. NGFWs, IDS, IPS, sandboxing or whatever tool you want no longer has to be another bump in the wire. Read how to place these solutions in a virtual chain, while removing concerns about single points of failure.

Secure service assurance, all wrapped in a performance bow.
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How Trustworthy Is Your Certificate Authority?

The choices available for picking out a certificate authority to issue SSL certificates can seem dizzying for the typical web operations team. With so many different CAs operating with essentially the exact same underlying cryptographic technology, it might well seem like these certs are a commodity item best purchased based on price point alone. And now that there are organizations offering free certificates as well, the big question is whether cheap—or free—is really worth it.
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Top 5 SSL Attack Vectors

It’s often claimed that SSL/TLS vulnerabilities represent the web’s weakest security link. This TechTarget paper examines the highest profile attack vectors, the exposures they cause, and the resulting fallout associated with each. Download now and discover why:
  • SSL/TLS certificates need to be at least 2048-bit RSA or 256-bit ECC
  • The only secure, standard hash algorithm is SHA-2
  • Root certificates must be heavily defended by the CA
  • The security of systems storing and using private SSL/TLS keys must also be tightly guarded
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Forrester paper: The Total Economic Impact™ Of IBM DB2 With BLU Acceleration

Learn about the cost savings and business benefits of DB2 with BLU Acceleration. In a commissioned study, Forrester Consulting evaluated the total economic impact of BLU Acceleration in-memory technology at a financial services client. As data volumes and the number of queries increased for this client, BLU Acceleration eliminated the need to manage indexes and improved query response time. This helped to manage IT staff workload and enabled the organization to respond quickly to regulatory requests.

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EB Cyber Security Playbook

When it comes to dealing with data breaches, there is no one-size-fits-all guide. Every incident and organization is different. Even so, preparing for the inevitable breach is worth the time, effort, and expense given the millions of dollars a breach could cost an organization in terms of lost data, business, and reputation. This playbook is a starting point to help an organization’s board of directors create an action plan. Download to learn about:
  • Five guiding principles for what a response plan should address
  • Dealing with disclosure–what to tell customers and the media
  • Bolstering your defenses after a breach
Get the playbook now. And be prepared.
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WP Biz Case for FaaS

You understand the intricacies of today’s threat landscape, and the difficulties your organization faces when attempting to prevent, investigate and remediate targeted attacks, but how do you explain that difficulty, and subsequent cost, to senior leadership? Often the best tactic is to speak to them in a language that they understand: money. This paper provides step-by-step instruction on how to craft an effective business case for a proactive, advanced threat solution and describes how to:
  • Properly communicate the challenges you face
  • Assess the business impact
  • Shift the discussion from technically-focused to dollars and cents.
Download your copy now.
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