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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...

Payment Services Directive (PSD2): How to Comply?

The European Banking Authority (EBA) recently published its long-awaited final draft of the Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) and Common and Secure Communication (CSC) under the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2). Download this whitepaper to learn: Background...

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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...

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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...

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Why Micro-segmentation Matters Now

Due to the increase in security breaches over the past few years, you know that legacy approaches to data center security are not adequate. Micro-segmentation could be the answer - but what does it really mean and how do you do it? Read this solution overview to find out.

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Extend Security and Control from the Data Center Edge to the Core

Discover how micro-segmentation, delivered through network virtualization, provides comprehensive data center security, accelerates delivery time, and enhances the agility of your data center. Download the eBook here. Build a fundamentally more agile, efficient and secure application environment with VMware NSX...

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Seven Reasons Why Micro-Segmentation is Powerful to Have and Painless to Add

This brief explains why it's time to take the next step toward the software-defined data center, and apply network virtualization and micro-segmentation to the network. It empowers infrastructure architects to react quickly to prevent breaches. Build a fundamentally more agile, efficient and secure application...

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A New Approach to Data Center Security

This handy guide highlights some of the key benefits of securing your data center from within using micro-segmentation. Get started now. Build a fundamentally more agile, efficient and secure application environment with VMware NSX network virtualization featuring Intel® Xeon® processors and Intel® Ethernet...

Making the Complex Simple: An Analysis of Multi-factor Authentication

Despite understanding the need for multifactor authentication, many financial institutions struggle with the complexity of implementing effective solutions. "Let's talk about what this complexity looks like...The average MFA initiatives have been ongoing for six years. On average, four point solutions are deployed...

How to Integrate and Adopt Security within the Healthcare Sector

The integration of technology within the healthcare sector continues to create seismic changes in how individuals receive medical care. Yet in their rush to adopt technology designed to improve the consumer's experience, organizations within the healthcare industry face the very real threat of sensitive patient...

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...

Next Generation Criminal Fraud Detection

Much of the currently used statistical-based fraud detection methodology is creating significant challenges for both organizations and end users. These statistical models generate high false positive rates and provide a risk score that does not effectively distinguish between legitimate and malicious activity. With...

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...