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State of security operations: 2015 report of capabilities and maturity of cyber defense organizations

Your ability to detect and stop cyber attacks depends on the effectiveness of your security operations team. How does yours stack up to the best? And what should you do to improve?

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Security Intelligence and Operations Consulting has assessed the capabilities of 87 security operations centers worldwide. This updated 2015 report bring you the latest information.

Read it to learn:

• The latest trends in security defenses and operations
• The attributes of the most effective organizations
• The point at which enhanced process maturity actually degrades effectiveness
• How companies featured in case studies have improved—or degraded—their capabilities

Brooklyn Hospital – Success Story

Serving New York residents for over 170 Year, the Brooklyn Hospital Center has continued to change with the times while maintaining its commitment to excellence in caring for under-served residents in Brooklyn and surrounding New York City boroughs. It is now expanding its IT infrastructure to support more patients, more applications, and new initiatives. By deploying a VMware vSphere on NetApp FlexPod Datacenter solution, Brooklyn Hospital Center is now providing fast, reliable data access and the agility to serve patients more effectively.

IDGE Converged Infrastructure: Reaching Maturity, Meeting Business Demands

The adoption of Public and Hybrid Cloud, virtualization and web-based applications are rapidly reshaping the face of data infrastructure. A recent survey by IDG Research reveals that IT pros are increasingly deploying Converged Infrastructure solutions as a way to quickly pivot in response to changing business requirements.

Learn why IT respondents are choosing these pre-validated integrated infrastructure solutions to simplify management, reduce risk and lower costs. Also gain four key insights derived from the study .

Symantec Granite Labs: IT as a Catalyst for Change – Technical Case Study

Symantec maintains the largest civilian security threat analysis database in the world and traditionally runs hundreds of lab environments dedicated to customer support, product development, and education services, hosted at 25 locations around the world. Learn how they built one of the world’s largest virtual private clouds to improve their business agility.

HOLIDAY HAZARD: Shopping Apps Highlight Risks of Mixing Personal Apps and Business Data

With the rapid infusion of mobile devices within the enterprise and the growing adoption of company-issued and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) – mobility is a focal point for containing security risk. As is understanding the risks introduced by mobile applications to sensitive data and company reputation.

Consider a seemingly innocuous mobile phone flashlight app. A Federal Trade Commission lawsuit revealed that a flashlight app maker was illegally transmitting users’ precise locations and unique device identifiers to third parties, including advertising networks.

The New Business Imperative for DDoS Protection

As an IT manager or security professional, you know that getting executive decision-makers to fully appreciate the material dangers posed by DDoS and prioritize strong DDoS protection can be challenging. In fact, sponsoring strong DDoS protection must be an enterprise-wide commitment—not just an IT problem. Unfortunately it often takes a significant negative event or headline to get attention. Even if you have an advocate in the C-suite, it can be difficult to clearly communicate to all stakeholders the potential business impact and generate a real sense of urgency for prioritizing DDoS defense.

This white paper will walk you through four steps essential to building a business case for better DDoS protection—one that’s compelling to your business as a whole.

Reliable Data Protection Designed for Virtualized Environments

Organizations are modernizing their data centers so that they can provision IT services faster, strengthen security and control, and lower operating costs. While building modern data centers, organizations invest in server virtualization, modern storage applications, and cloud-based services. However, businesses are facing new demands from end users, including access to data and applications at all times and systems with no downtime or data loss. In addition, they are facing exponential data growth annually.

5 Reasons Cloud Increases the Importance of Identity and Strong Authentication

As cloud computing has permeated the enterprise, the entire complexion of IT services and user interaction with technology has been transformed. The business benefits of cloud are obvious, but many organizations are still trying to find ways to cope with the security implications of increased cloud usage.

While there are a number of security considerations to take into account, perhaps none is more important than identity and strong authentication. As cloud muddles an already crumbling moat-and-castle perimeter security model, identity becomes the front line of defense for securing cloud applications and infrastructure, along with the data residing in them. Here are five reasons why identity is so crucial in this still-evolving cloud era.

SANS Protection from the Inside

Applications are a primary target for cyber-attacks. Historically, Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) have been a popular choice for protecting production applications from attack. But they have limitations, and advice on how to bypass a WAF is readily available.

See how context from within the application allows Runtime Application Self-protection (RASP) to provide additional protection using visibility into application configuration, logic and data flows. In this paper, the SANS Institute captures the relative capabilities and efficiencies of RASP and WAF technologies using a representative product in each category. Learn how your defense-in-depth strategy could benefit from the additional visibility of runtime protection.

Security First Strategies

Download this custom research report to learn why massive data breaches drive home the point that a security plan is actually a work in progress and it is only finished until the next project begins.

Tech Spotlight: Thawte in Education

With the ever-changing advances in technology and the internet, it is imperative that you stay on top of the latest security measures at your institution to protect sensitive data. Download this comprehensive eBook highlighting recent security trends in education to learn more about what you need to do to protect your institution from potential threats.

Understanding Validation: the art and science of SSL Certificate validation

SSL certificates don’t range from ‘insecure’ to ‘secure’, but they do differ in the level of confidence they inspire in online visitors. This white paper helps you choose the level of validation that works for you.

Top 10 Website Security Myths Revealed

When it comes to protecting your website and customers from attack, knowledge is your best weapon. But with ever-changing threats and ever-evolving defenses comes ever-growing potential for common misconception. To help you cut through the confusion, view our essential guide now and separate website security myth from reality.

Securing your Apache Web Server with a Thawte Digital Certificate

In this guide we examine the importance of Apache-SSL and who needs an SSL certificate. We look at how SSL works, how it benefits your company and how your customers can tell if a site is secure.

Step Up Encryption with Thawte SGC SuperCerts

Learn about how digital certificates with SGC technology are able to step-up encryption levels for certain browsers to 128-bits. A discussion of the business benefits of deploying SGC certificates is also included.