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WP Enemies in Our Midst

It’s not a question of if your organization will be breached. It’s a question of when.

Most attackers remain active in environments for a significant amount of time before being discovered. And only a small percentage of organizations discover the presence of advanced attackers themselves—most need to be informed by law enforcement or a proactive third-party security firm. By then, an attacker could do a great deal of damage.

A compromise assessment answers the all-important question: Have you been breached?

WP Uncomfortable Trade Off

Recent high-profile security breaches, underscore how destructive a breach can be to an organization's reputation and financial stability.
Many of these headline-grabbing targeted attacks are based on monetary profit, political gain, or data theft, and are a result of an active, persistent pursuit with the intent to compromise the target’s infrastructure.
When customer data is stolen, the damage to an organization can be swift – and costly. With awareness of cyber security risks at all-time highs, investments are pouring into security technologies.
But how do you know if you are investing in the right set of security tools and threat intelligence?

WP Protecting Your Data

Today's security defenses are failing because, in the battle against cybercrime, security teams are using an outdated arsenal. They rely too heavily on legacy platforms that leverage technology dependent upon signatures—and while these platforms may be good at blocking basic malware that is known and documented, they stand little chance against today's sophisticated, dynamic cyber attacks that occur across multiple vectors and stages.

In this guide for CIOs, CFOs, and CISOs, FireEye provides insight into the cyber security problem facing enterprises and government agencies today.

WP 9 Steps

Transform that vast and noisy queue of mostly false alerts into a small collection of actionable narratives by following FireEye's "Nine Steps to Eliminate Alert Fatigue".

Security Analytics: A Required Escalation in Cyber Defense

In this white paper, noted industry analyst Richard Stiennon examines the emerging requirement in the ongoing arms race with threat actors. Despite years of investment in multiple layers of security defenses, every organization is still wide open to targeted attacks. It is practically impossible to stop all possible attacks. Even next-generation firewalls, complete alerting and logging collected in a SIEM, and universal patch management and vulnerability discovery has proven to be ineffective against threat actors who are motivated, skilled and determined.

This paper answers the critical questions about security analytics and explains why it is one of the fastest growing product categories in security.

Mythbusting the Beliefs of DDoS Protection

Today’s DDoS attacks are an easy way to interrupt businesses. From holding a website hostage for a ransom, to blocking access to an application to make a political statement, or simply deflecting attention while other threat vectors steal information, DDoS is a growing concern for enterprises. Yet even in today’s dynamic threat landscape, many enterprises still hold the belief that a dedicated DDoS protection solution is not important when their existing security solution may protect them 80 percent of the time. Others believe that what they adopted two years ago—let alone five years ago—still works today. In these instances, enterprises are gambling with their network.

It’s time to debunk some outmoded myths. There are five common mistakes that enterprises make when addressing DDoS. This white paper will shed some light on these failed practices, and provide insight into why they do not work.

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.