White Papers in Training & Security Leadership

Using Identity and Access Governance to Mitigate Data Breach Risks

While nearly three-quarters of cybersecurity professionals would grade their organization's ability to identify and mitigate a cyberattack, as above average or superior, nearly half have been subject to a spear-phishing attack and a third have suffered a malware incident in the last year. Further, over half of...

An Immune System for Cloud

Cloud security is not where it needs it be, and cyber-criminals know this better than anyone. The cloud itself encompasses a wide range of systems and services, and a single security team can often be responsible for securing workloads across AWS and Azure, email communications in Office 365, customer data in...

Cyber Confidence: Building a Trustworthy Security Posture

When it comes to the organization's overall security posture, which includes the technology stack but also incorporates elements such as procedures, processes and human behaviors, the confidence of the security professionals we interviewed was far from strong. In fact, 70% expressed some sort of dissatisfaction,...

Secure Document Sharing Across Multiple Networks

Government and defence are facing an unprecedented threat from cyber-attack. In the communication infrastructure, files or documents are an essential tool for citizen-to-government and real-time information sharing between networks of varying security classifications and enclaves. Weaponised files embedded with...

Skills Shortage: Assessing the True Impact

The global cybersecurity skills shortage is real, and it's deeply impacting organizations' abilities to implement and manage new technology tools. But worse, it's also affecting how organizations assess their adversaries. What does the security team need to do? What requires protecting in the business? Where is it,...

PSD2: An Opportunity to Innovate and Lead

In the past decade, financial institutions have undergone a significant digital transformation - delivering new levels of customer convenience and services through online and mobile channels. However, this represents just the beginning of an even greater change. Read this white paper to learn more about...

Threat Information Sharing: The Need for a Structured Approach

Developing safe and effective information sharing practices to foster greater interoperability presents big challenges. As information sharing becomes increasingly vital in building resilient cybersecurity, the need to put a strong, collaborative structure in place is critical. Although there are many options for...

Simplify the the Federal OPSEC Mission with Security Intelligence

Cyber threats pose a risk to federal agencies accomplishing their designated missions. By following best practices to simplify security intelligence, an agency reduces the burden on its security operations team and allows technology to do the work of surfacing and responding to cybersecurity threats. Download this...

How to Use GRC for PCI DSS Compliance

Implementing and maintaining Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is challenging in today's complex business and technology environments. Many financial institutions only partially comply. By incorporating PCI DSS into a holistic governance, risk and compliance (GRC) program, financial institutions...

Watson for Cyber Security Holds Power and Promise for Security Teams

How can a supercomputer help enterprise security teams respond to today's evolving threat landscape? Download and read this transcript of Martin Borrett of IBM and Ronan Murphy of Smarttech discussing the promise and impact of Watson for Cyber Security at this year's Infosecurity Europe in London, and learn...

Ready or Not? GDPR Maturity Across Vertical Industries

Companies in all sectors are faced with substantial challenges to prepare for GDPR. Regulators and supervisory authorities in charge of data protection wield a number of hefty sticks with which to enforce the new regime under GDPR. To help your organisation prepare, download this whitepaper and learn: If GDPR is...

Why GDPR is Important and What You Need to Do to Get to Grips with it

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is set to come into effect in May 2018. Every business, government, and public sector entity that touches European Union residents' data will need to rethink their data management approaches in order to stay compliant and thereby avoid massive new fines and bad publicity....

Best Practices for Audit and Compliance Reporting for Power Systems Running IBM i

It's not enough to comply with government and industry regulations such as SOX, PCI, MICS, and HIPAA. Organizations must also prove their compliance to auditors on a regular basis. Even companies not bound by regulatory requirements may need to confirm their adherence to internal IT security policies. But...

The Rise of Ransomware

The drop in value of stolen payment cards caused cyber criminals to adopt new tools, foremost among them ransomware. Having already caused a financial drain of $209,000,000 in just one quarter, organizations of all sizes are at risk. Download this infographic to see: Why ransomware-as-a-service is a new risk; The...

The Value of a Multi-layered Approach to Security

Organizations must adopt a multi-layered, defense-in-depth approach to online security to combat today's threat landscape. Rather than relying on just one or two of the so-called 'next-gen' techniques in isolation, a robust, multi-layered approach should involve a vast array of signature- and non-signature based...