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Finding an Access Solution for Your Business

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Real-Time Mainframe SIEM 101

It has been more than ten years since the security industry combined SIM and SEM into the industry standard today known as SIEM, and a wide gap still looms between this pragmatic approach to IT security across distributed systems and those of its mainframe counterparts. Your sensitive data must be protected and...

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11 Guidelines for Minimizing Vulnerability for IBM z/OS while Improving Compliance

Google "mainframe security breach" and your browser will return some 168,000 entries. The same search for "Linux security breach" and "Windows security breach" yields 1.1 million and 3.05 million entries respectively. Now consider this: Seventy percent of the business and transactional systems around the world run on...

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Indicators of Compromise and Why It Takes Six-Plus Months to ID a Breach

Hackers will always find novel ways to bypass your security protocols, and fighting cybercrime has become less about prevention and more about stemming the bleeding. Ideally, if you can spot these indicators of attack, you can transform your organization's approach to data protection from reactive to...

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Mitigating Mainframe Security Risks with Endpoint Detection and Response

8 Steps to Shore Up Your Defense Against Cyberattack In the past, it was easy to take mainframe security for granted. The mainframe was locked down behind closed doors, and even if you were able to get into the room, you'd still needed the coding experience to hack it. Today, the mainframe is closer to the internet...

Compromised Credentials Monitoring Brief

Compromised Credentials Monitoring (CCM) allows users to monitor exposure of compromised credentials for their enterprise domains and customer email addresses to take action after breaches to mitigate risk of account takeover (ATO). Flashpoint's advanced technology quickly collects and processes data and credentials,...

Pricing Analysis of Goods in Cybercrime Communities

The thriving cybercrime economy of vendors hawking illicit offerings on underground marketplaces grants access to resources that reduce barriers to entry for crimes ranging from fraud to DDoS attacks. Pricing trends for these offerings shed light not only on their accessibility to threat actors, but also on how...

2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant

Gartner named IBM a Leader in the latest Gartner Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM). In the report, Gartner placed IBM furthest to the right for "Completeness of Vision."

E-Book: 5 Questions to Ask Before You Upgrade to a Modern SIEM Solution

Attackers are becoming more dangerous and as the regulatory compliance environment continuously evolves, basic tools just can't keep up. Ask yourself these 5 critical questions before upgrading to a SIEM solution.

2020 Ponemon Cost of Insider Threats Global Report

The 2020 industry benchmark report independently conducted by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by IBM Security and ObserveIT is now available. What are the findings and implications of an insider breach? Ponemon Institute's latest report is conducted to understand the direct and indirect costs that result from...

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Efficiently Protect Virtual Environments with Integrated Data Protection Appliances from Dell EMC

This ESG Lab Review documents the results of extensive performance testing conducted on the Dell EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA) and a competitive server grid appliance technology solution. Testing focused on the ability of each solution to efficiently protect virtual environments at...

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Dell EMC PowerProtect for Kubernetes

The cloud-native containerized applications that have emerged over the last decade were originally used for stateless web services. But today, cloud native applications have matured, and along with advanced container orchestrator capabilities, we are seeing customers deploy both stateless and stateful workloads in...

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Purpose-Built Backup Appliances: 2019 Results and 2020 Concerns

Purpose-built backup appliances (PBBAs) have been foundational components to many organizations' backup/recovery infrastructure for more than a decade. The importance of PBBAs is illustrated in the numbers: According to IDC, in 2019, the data replication and protection (DR&P) market was approximately $9.2 billion,...

Analysis of an Attack Surface

This report is a data-driven exploration of 5 areas of the attack surface where organizations lack visibility and the pathways hackers are using to exploit these blind spots. Report highlights include: The Global Attack Surface is much bigger than you think: RiskIQ observed 2,959,498 new domains (211,392 per...

Why Your Financial Institution Needs to Implement Network Security Policy Management

Financial institutions face two major network security related challenges while working to serve their customers: the constant demand to improve in order to successfully compete in the market and regulatory compliance. Yet, when it comes to security, the InfoSec team often uses slow, manual (and error prone)...