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When Should Technology or Security Leaders Get Involved in Mergers & Acquisitions?

When should a technology or security leader get involved in M&A? The short answer: as early as possible. Security really should play a prominent role before, during, and after the acquisition activity. Download this eBook to learn more about: High-profile incidents of cyber disruption during M&A; How security...

The Role of Deception Technology in M&A

A security breach is always a sensitive topic - but especially so during a merger or acquisition. When should a technology or security leader get involved in M&A? The short answer: as early as possible. Security really should play a prominent role before, during, and after the acquisition activity. Download...

Avoid Data Breaches from Compromised Credentials: Take Control of Identity

Identity management is becoming increasingly important in this era where massive data breaches and credential harvesting are a regular occurrence. To make matters worse, mobility and cloud have increased the attack surface. Businesses that have unreasonable expectations from users on access hygiene and rely on...

Businesses @ Work: Analyzing the Apps and Services of Finance Industry 2018

The apps financial services organizations depend on to fuel productivity, innovation and success are truly unique. But how is the industry evolving to adopt new technology that can offer the reliability, security and compliance it requires? Download Okta's annual Businesses @ Work report which provides an in-depth...

Experian Case Study: Transforming an Established Enterprise Built on Legacy Software

Experian is transforming from a credit reporting agency to a customer-driven data services company, and at the heart of all its services lies the need for secure, user-friendly authentication at every stage of the employee and customer experience. That's no small task, and they had to start with an established...

Case Study: Enhancing User Experience While Mitigating Risk

Restaurant reservation service OpenTable aims to create an amazing dining experience for its millions of users. Sift Science enabled OpenTable to scale a highly successful digital gift cards program without increasing risk. Read the case study to learn how to: Limit manual review; Move from a manual...

Top Cybercrime Threats to Financial Institutions in 2018

Financial institutions and their customers are no strangers to cyber threats, but attacks have evolved and have become specific to different types of organizations; banks, credit unions, insurance companies and private equity groups all face unique challenges. Threats exist from a range of actors including...

Bank Employee Offering Insider Information

This case study illustrates how Digital Shadows helped the head of threat intelligence at a bank discover a user on the dark web claiming to be a bank employee selling access to high net worth individual's accounts. The fact that the seller appeared to be an employee, this threat was of heightened priority to this...

A New Look at Email Security: How to Improve Detection of Malicious Payloads

File-less malware is a huge security challenge for organizations today, and traditional email security controls aren't sufficient to meet the challenge. It's time for a new approach email security. The big issue is: The malicious payloads shift so much. It's really easy to do 100 variants of the same malicious...

Application Security: Why the Whole Company Needs to be on Board

While board level executives understand the concepts and terms used in network security and perimeter security, application security, as a concept and discipline, is not quite firmly defined. AppSec is much different than other security domains, so applying the standard methods does not necessarily address the unique...

Why Your Organization Needs Better Endpoint Management

The current state of endpoint security is a "good news / bad news" situation. The good news is that in recent years there has been a modest trend towards fewer vulnerability disclosures, meaning slightly fewer potential ways for computing infrastructures to be exploited. The bad news is that an increasing percentage...

Conquering Complexity in Endpoint Management

As your endpoint infrastructure becomes increasingly complex, maintaining patch deployments and policies that cover vulnerabilities needs to be a top priority for IT professionals. A recent analysis by Aberdeen Group shows that the volume of critical endpoint vulnerabilities, and the percentage of vulnerabilities...

2018 State of The Phish Report ®

The 2018 State of the Phish Report presents analysis of data from tens of millions of simulated phishing attacks sent through our Security Education Platform. The report captures and delivers the types of data infosec professionals are seeking as they develop their own security awareness training programs. These...

Utilizing Deception Technology To Protect ATM Networks

Distributed deception technology does not provide a viable solution for defending ATM machines against attacks executed physically on the machines themselves. But it is arguably the most effective means of stopping the most damaging attacks - the ones executed against the larger ATM network or those enabled by...

Does Your Incident Response Plan Measure Up?

In many instances, we learn that companies have an incident response plan that looks good on paper but not in practice. The plan cannot just live in a manual that sits on a shelf. It needs to be a strategy that everyone agrees to, can evolve over time, is rehearsed often and can be carried out immediately when the...