Nucleus Research: Assessing Akamai Kona Security Solutions

To be successful in a Web economy, companies need to balance the demand for innovation and rapid time to market with the need to keep data and applications secure. Distributed denial of service (DDoS) and Web application attacks can have a significant negative impact on Web application data and security, business operations, and company reputation. This paper assesses Akamai Kona Security Solutions. Download it now to better understand the offering and how it can further bolster your Web defenses.
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Securosis: Quick Wins with Website Protection Services

When searching for any quick win your job is to balance security, functionality, and time to deploy. When considering a website protection service you need to focus on application, platform, and availability defenses. Website Protection Services can offer a quick way to deploy protection without investing in significant infrastructure and hard-to- find application security skills.
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Securosis: Defending Against Application Denial of Service Attacks

Application Denial of Service (AppDoS) attacks introduce another level of complexity to keeping critical web applications available and operational. Defending against AppDoS requires a multi-faceted approach that typically starts with a mechanism to filter attack traffic. It also requires significant collaboration between development, operations, and security. Download this Securosis white paper to get tips & recommendations on how to defend against these attacks.
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Ovum: Tackling the DDoS Threat to Banking in 2014

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against financial institutions have undergone significant evolution over the past year, with politically motivated “hacktivists” emerging as a new source of attacks alongside the more traditional hackers seeking financial gain. With these new developments, banks need to address threats by taking a multilayered approach to DDoS mitigation. Download this Ovum white paper to learn more & see recommended defenses.
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10 Key Considerations Before Investing in Web Security

With the rise in the scale and severity of Web attacks, it’s important to carefully develop your Web security strategy. Web attacks can affect a big impact on your business – from a drain on resources, all the way to lost revenue. Therefore it is important to carefully evaluate your needs & the options available. Download this paper to see 10 key considerations you should consider before investing in web security solutions.
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Meritalk Webinar “Big 5”

State and local agencies face increasing challenges of dealing with complex IT environments, skyrocketing data volumes, and accountability hurdles. The Big Five of IT offer a beacon of light – promising to improve agency performance, productivity, and service. But they will choke state and local networks. Watch this webinar to learn how you can prepare networks for new data center consolidation, mobility, security, big data, and cloud computing initiatives.
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eBook: Security For a Faster World

Cybercrime is becoming increasingly sophisticated, and it often surpasses the security capabilities of even large corporations. This eBook presents a maturity model that will help you determine how secure you really are, explores five questions every CIO should be able to answer, and outlines a new approach based on intelligence gathering and research that can keep you ahead of the cybercriminals.
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Big Security for Big Data

In order to meet current security problems, a new paradigm shift needs to occur. Businesses need the ability to secure data, collect it, and aggregate into an intelligent format, so that real-time alerting and reporting can take place. The first step is to establish complete visibility so that you can monitor your data and those who access it. Next, you need to understand the context, so that you can focus on assets that are critical to your business. Finally, you need to utilize the intelligence gathered so that you can harden your attack surface and stop attacks before data is exfiltrated. This white paper will give you the information you need to get started.
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Top 10 Endpoint Backup Mistakes

Backing up and protecting sensitive corporate data has become more challenging because of several trends: exponential data growth, the rise in endpoints, BYOD, and SaaS applications. Avoid the following ten endpoint backup mistakes to ensure that your critical corporate data is protected and end user productivity is improved.
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5 Things You Didn’t Know About Cloud Backup

Only customers have access to the key and, subsequently, their data, once authenticated. To perform enterprise restores quickly, a backup solution must also use multi-threaded restores in order to allow parallel transfers of multiple files. Using multi-threaded restoration significantly accelerates the time it takes to restore data to a user’s computer.

This Whitepaper provides real-time visibility, enabling organizations to support their governance and compliance needs.

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Data protection for big data environments

As organizations plan big data projects, business and IT leaders must recognize that data security cannot simply be added later - it must be built into big data implementations from the start. This ebook walks through the requirements of big data security.
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Data masking everywhere – Design standard and repeatable data privacy policies across the enterprise

The new era of computing has arrived: organizations are now able to process, analyze and derive maximum value from structured, unstructured and streaming data in real time. However, in the rush to achieve new insights, are privacy concerns being neglected? With the average cost of security-related incidents in the era of big data estimated to be over USD40 million, you can’t afford to ignore data privacy as a top requirement.
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Unified Data Protection for Physical and Virtual Environments

This IDC Executive Brief will discuss the evolution and challenges of data protection for virtual environments and how a modern data protection solution can enable both virtualization professionals and storage managers to perform successful backups, but more importantly guaranteed restores. Benefits and challenges of data protection for virtual environments will be discussed, as well as emerging best practices for unified data protection.
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Protect Against Targeted Attacks With Security Intelligence

This IDC Executive Brief document analyzes the evolving threat landscape and how the use of security intelligence services can help organizations to defend against advanced persistent threats and targeted attacks. Challenges of current security approaches and benefits of security intelligence services will be discussed.
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Internet Security Threat Report 2014

Symantec has established some of the most comprehensive sources of Internet threat data in the world through the Symantec™ Global Intelligence Network, which is made up of approximately 69 million attack sensors and records thousands of events per second. These resources give Symantec’s analysts unparalleled sources of data with which to identify, analyze, and provide informed commentary on emerging trends in attacks, malicious code activity, phishing, and spam. The result is the annual Symantec Internet Security Threat Report, which gives enterprises, small businesses, and consumers the essential information to secure their systems effectively now and into the future.
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