The State Of Endpoint Security Adoption 2014 To 2015

Forrester presents the relevant endpoint security data from their most recent surveys, with special attention given to those trends affecting SMBs (firms with 20 to 999 employees) and enterprises (firms with 1,000+ employees), along with analysis that explains the data in the context of the overall security landscape. As organizations prepare for the 2015 budget cycle, security and risk (S&R) professionals should use this annual report to help benchmark their organization’s spending patterns against those of their peers — while keeping an eye on current trends affecting endpoint security — in order to strategize their endpoint security adoption decisions. Read this Forrester Research report, compliments of Dell for more information.

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3 Essential Components for a Strong End User Security Experience

Security breaches are expensive, costing U.S. businesses an average of $3.5 million per incident, which doesn’t include brand damage or other intangibles. Unfortunately, breaches are highly likely to happen, with 87% of organizations experiencing a breach in the past 12 months. Data, whether it’s intellectual property or personal data, needs to be protected. Upgrading systems is a great first step, but read this summary to learn more about how to leverage Dell Data Protection solutions as well to provide encryption, malware protection, and authentication for Dell and non-Dell products, to equip businesses with a complete, easy-to-manage, end-user security solution.

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Mobility in Financial Services: A Checklist Towards Regulatory Compliance

Like business leaders in every industry, decision makers in Financial Services (FS) organizations are increasingly turning to mobility to deliver on strategic objectives. They understand that mobilizing business processes can help improve customer satisfaction and response times; boost employee productivity; increase competitive advantage, and much more.

Most CIOs in these industries want nothing more than to help their line-of-business colleagues uncover new opportunities for growth.

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The Future of Mobile Apps: Is Your Enterprise Ready?

In this whitepaper, find out why mobile apps have been slow to take hold in the enterprise world until recently – and why that’s changing now. We’ll look at what mobile apps are enabling in terms of productivity and collaboration today, and what they’ll enable in the near future. We’ll address app development tools and platforms and consider whether the future is in native, web-based or hybrid options. And we’ll describe three key factors enterprises need to weigh if they’re to capitalize on what mobile apps can do for their bottom line in the months and years ahead:

1. How you build enterprise mobile apps

2. How you manage them (through their lifecycle)

3. How you protect the data they transmit and store

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The Top 8 Mobile Security Risks: How to Protect Your Organization

As enterprises mobilize business processes, more and more sensitive data passes through and resides on mobile devices. And while almost every CIO knows how important mobile security is, getting a grip on it can be tough. There’s a lot to consider, and new factors enter the equation all the time.

On the pages that follow, you’ll find an overview of the key issues you need to be on top of right now to protect your organization, its employees and its customers.

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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

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Network World QuickPulse: SECURITY

A new survey from IDG Research Services tells the story: most organizations lack confidence in the ability of their security defenses to keep them safe. In fact, more than half said 100% security is a pipe dream. This summary by Network World lays out the facts but also presents an approach to detect malware and prevent it from spreading throughout the network.

Read the summary to learn:

• How respondents view their security measures
• Why a layered approach to security is now necessary
• How HP TippingPoint Advanced Threat Appliance "detonates" suspicious files or malware in a safe sandbox environment to stop it before it can spread

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Cloud Security in Flux— Protecting Your Business with Defense in Depth

Can you build an invincible Drupal site? The easy answer is no, but you have a few ways to prepare and secure your site to withstand any sort of vulnerability or traffic spike.

Protecting your Drupal site requires multiple levels of security. By building layers of application-, network-, and endpoint-level protections—or what Acquia calls “defense in depth”— organizations can buy time to fend off would-be attackers, improving resiliency. However, defense isn’t just about on-premise security. Keeping your Drupal site safe and secure is a shared responsibility across your organization and trusted vendors.

In this ebook, we’ll go over ways you can best secure your Drupal site and best practices for how your organization handles security incidents.

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Guide to Selecting a DDoS Mitigation Solution

Given today's threat landscape and the availability of inexpensive "Do It Yourself DDoS tools", commercial websites of all sizes have become targets of DDoS attacks. This white paper offers online businesses practical guidelines and evaluation criteria for choosing their DDoS mitigation solution.
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DDoS Response Playbook

This handbook provides you with a practical guide for planning and executing a DDoS response plan. It outlines pragmatic steps and best practices for choosing and setting up the right mitigation solution for your organization, how to authoritatively respond to an attack, and conduct a thorough post-attack analysis for developing follow-up defense strategies.
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Top 10 DDoS Attack Trends

DDoS attacks are constantly evolving, both in terms of size as well as sophistication. Not keeping up with the changes in the DDoS attack landscape could leave your business vulnerable to attacks. This paper outlines the top 10 DDoS attack trends.
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Top 10 Database Threats

Practical applications for Big Data have become widespread, and Big Data has now become the new "prize" for hackers. Worse, widespread lack of Big Data security expertise spells disaster. These threats are real. This whitepaper explains common injection points that provide an avenue for attackers to maliciously access database and Big Data components.
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