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When Malware Attacks Your IBM i, AIX, and Linux Servers; True Stories From the Field

Businesses around the world are seeing an increase in malware attacks, including ransomware like CryptoLocker, Locky, and zCrypt. These attacks can result in weeks of downtime, and some of the most damaging data breaches originated with malware, including the Target breach in 2014. A robust malware defense could...

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Is the Promise of Behavioral Biometrics Worth the Investment?

Behavioral biometrics has been getting a lot of attention recently due to its ability to uniquely address the challenges posed by social engineering, account takeovers and malware. It is already considered the third most popular biometric technology (after finger and face) and tied with iris. Nonetheless, as an...

Ignoring Risks from Same-day ACH Will Cost You Big

Same-day Automated Clearing House (ACH) payment processing became a reality. While this represents a terrific opportunity for banks to be responsive to their customer's requirements for faster ACH payments, plus the ability to attract new customers from banks who choose not to offer the same level of responsiveness,...

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Making the Case for Continuous Authentication: Why 2FA is Not Secure Enough to Combat Online Fraud

Most organizations that enable users to perform online transactions have implemented security measures to address fraud. Currently, one of the most common safeguards used in a wide array of products/services is two-factor authentication (2FA). In recent years, 2FA has become employed by global tech leaders like...

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Fraud in The Mobile Era: A Hacker's Delight

As mobile devices eclipse computers and laptops as the preferred method of going online, fraudsters have followed users, porting their modus operandi -account takeover, social engineering, and malware based remote control attacks - to the mobile arena. Thus, hackers have many more opportunities to perpetrate fraud and...

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Oh, RATs! Current Fraud Detection Doesn't Catch Remote Access Trojans

Many IT professionals use remote administration tools to troubleshoot and fix PC problems remotely, just as if they were sitting behind the keyboard themselves. But these tools are also used for different purposes today. Both nation states and hacktivists use modified these tools, creating Remote Access Trojan's...

PCI Compliance: How Identity & Access Management Helps with Compliance While Improving Overall Security

CA Identity & Access Management (CA IAM) provides a comprehensive and proven solution for assuring PCI compliance, by ensuring the privacy of all confidential cardholder information. CA IAM provides strong control over access to all Web applications, systems, and data. It also provides complete vulnerability...

EMM Market Trends by IDC

This IDC study analyzes the enterprise mobility management (EMM) market in 2015. In addition to ranking of the top 14 vendors by revenue, it provides an overview of key market trends and events that helped shape the market landscape in 2015.

Superman or Superthreat? A Privileged User Risk Whitepaper

Privileged users are typically associated with a company's IT department and can include database administrators, network engineers, IT security practitioners, etc. However, across an organization there may be other privileged users that should not be overlooked. A privileged user can be anyone from account managers...

Breaking the Kill Chain: Stopping Data Breaches with Privileged Access Management

A new layer of security in organizations, focused specifically on the protection and management of identities, is a critical new requirement in efforts to stem the tide of breaches. Of these identities, none are so critical as those belonging to privileged users. Malicious users predictably follow a logical...

Financial Malware Explained

Today's cybercriminals are aware of the fraud prevention technologies deployed by most financial institutions, and they design attacks to circumvent these controls. Transaction anomaly detection and device ID approaches can be highly inaccurate, generating a large number of false positive alerts that can overwhelm IT...

Battling Fraud at the Root Cause

Recent attacks have shown that once a user's endpoint is infected with advanced malware, criminals can bypass most security layers, including two-factor authentication, device ID systems, risk engines and behavioral analytic systems. Banking malware such as Citadel, Zeus, Dyre and Bugat, incorporate advanced...

Omni-Channel Authentication: A Unified Approach to a Multi-Authenticator World

Authentication innovation is still in its infancy, and most companies are still combining more traditional passwords and PINs with cutting edge biometrics or contextual decisioning methods. The combination brings new capabilities to multi-factor authentication, but doesn't necessarily produce the best possible...