Analyzing data can generate transformative insights, whether for individualizing marketing campaigns, understanding business risks or creating smarter cities. Leading organizations are looking to develop more and deeper insights by extending their enterprise architectures to accommodate data from new sources. When...
As networks continue to grow in size, complexity and level of business importance, the potential for malicious attacks grows right along with them. Today, there are hackers working around the clock, plotting threats through spyware, worms, botnets and shell code to exploit new vulnerabilities. Responding to these...
Major data breaches affecting some of world's largest organizations have elevated cyber security to a top concern of executives and board directors. These data loss events can result in serious repercussions for businesses, including financial damage.
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As organizations strive to securely deliver high-quality, high-availability services to users around the world, they grapple with ever-changing user populations, access points and applications that are increasingly dynamic, distributed and mobile. While the traditional forms of server, network and data security are...
An enterprise today runs hundreds, if not thousands, of applications, many of which harbor vulnerabilities that make them gateways for attack. Web applications, which provide a two-way path for employees to access the outside world and outsiders to access enterprise resources, now account for 31 percent of all...
Organizations of all sizes and types find a lot to like about cloud computing, including greater operational efficiencies and lower costs than with traditional IT deployments. However, many still have lingering concerns about reduced visibility into cloud infrastructure, less control over security policies, new...
Just when you thought it was safe to go mobile, everything is different. The risks are different. Only a few years ago, predictions stated that smartphones and tablets had little vulnerability to malware and hacking. But in the one-year period ending March 2013, malware aimed at mobile platforms grew 614 percent,...
Of all the questions organizations face in protecting against cyber attacks, one may be paramount: How long does it take to thoroughly investigate a security incident? Ideally, the answer should be that attackers and their dirty work have virtually no time at all. But in reality, many organizations give attackers all...
As the demands of an increasingly complex threat landscape have been compounded by the shift of functionality toward applications, the common needs of a diverse
range of network security requirements have led to overlaps in emerging technologies that are forging a convergence of functionality.
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Most financial institutions used to allow customers to log in to their accounts with a simple username and password. But passwords are notoriously insecure - many users choose weak passwords that can be easily guessed or cracked. In an effort to help strengthen security, large numbers of banks began using a second...
Any device that can communicate with anything else provides a potential open door for the valuable information it accesses and that an organization is responsible for protecting. In our rush to connect everything together, secure information handling is very often an afterthought, if ever even a thought at all.
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Mention cloud services to healthcare IT insiders and responses will vary from caution and trepidation to earnest interest. The advantages of low cost, on-demand cloud-based services are clear. However, managing their use and matching an organization's developmental, compliance and risk requirements to the right...
Collaboration is a critical investment for many organizations looking to drive competitive advantage by better arming knowledge workers with information, access to expertise, and the ability to act collectively on trusted content. Forrester data shows that over 50% of organizations have implemented or are expanding...
The dynamics of the world economy and the demands on governments at all levels put increasing pressure on organizations to reduce costs while seeking new opportunities to grow and differentiate their products and services. The pervasiveness of the Internet and mobile devices is fostering multi-channel customer...
The pursuit of creating competitive differentiation and accomplishing desired outcomes, such as adding incremental value to the business, is top of mind for most organizations-both for profit and non profit. Aberdeen surveyed 585 organizations across the world as part of its September 2013 Aberdeen Business Review...
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