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As Learning Hinges on Devices and Apps, Challenges Increase.

IBM explore how to understand and unify endpoint management in education environments with an intelligent, cloud-based solution. This education focused whitepaper outlines and explores: A new curriculum for computing in schools; Common IT challenges for educational institutions; Ongoing management...

SSH Study: U.S., U.K. and Germany Executive Summary

A recently published 2017 survey of over 400 security professionals in the U.S., U.K. and Germany measured how well their organizations implemented security controls for SSH keys. The results show that most organizations are underprepared to protect against SSH-based attacks, with fewer than half following industry...

4 Steps to Protect SSH Keys: Stop Abuse of Privileged Access

SSH keys provide the highest level of access rights and privileges for servers, applications and virtual instances. Cyber criminals want this trusted status and invest considerable resources into acquiring and using SSH keys in their attacks. Even though SSH keys are the credentials that provide the most privileged...

Physical and Virtual Devices: How Cybercriminals are Exploiting Machine-to-Machine Communications

"Machines" as we know them are going through an identity crisis. Our increased dependence on them is so profound that even the definition of machine is undergoing radical change. The number and type of physical devices on enterprise networks has been rising rapidly, but this is outstripped by the number of...

The Evolution of MDM: Progression and Process

Simple MDM features are no longer sufficient in meeting today's complex enterprise data security requirements. And as the lines between smartphones, tablets and other endpoints continue to blur, UEM allows IT administrators to consolidate management of all device types, regardless of form factor, platform or OS...

A Smarter Way To Secure and Enable Endpoints

While alternative solutions provide incomplete coverage across computing platforms, MaaS360 delivers cognitive UEM across all endpoint types including smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktops, devices designed for the IoT, ruggedized devices and wearables. Download this security data sheet to learn about: A smarter...

Next-Generation Threats Need Next-Generation Solutions

One of the most common problems for enterprise security teams is how to respond effectively to the sheer volume of alarms they face every day. With so much noise, it can be hard for personnel to filter out false positives and find the real dangers to company systems, as well as the root problems underlying them....

Why Organizations Need to Invest More in Testing Their Own Defenses

If you want to anticipate a prospective hacker's moves, then you'd better be able to think like one. Whether corporations like it or not, they're actually being tested by cyber criminals as we speak. Download this whitepaper on ethical hacking and learn: The definition of then term "cyologist"; Why we need to...

Going Beyond Windows OS: Malware Protection for Mac OS & Mobile Android and iOS Platforms

Yes, malware commonly targets the Windows operating system. But if you limit malware analysis to Windows OS, you're leaving gaping vulnerabilities, says Christopher Kruegel of Lastline Inc. Here's how to maximize your analysis. One common limitation of malware analysis is that organizations focus too much of their...

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,...

2017 State of IBM i Security Study; Don't Leave Your Data Vulnerable

Another day, another data breach in the news. Ransomware at a hospital, the latest IRS breach, a phishing scam at Snapchat . . . you tune out the details. For every breach that makes headlines, dozens of other organizations have had data stolen or corrupted by hackers...or even their own users. Cyberthreats become...

The Top 5 Myths About Hybrid Cloud Security

Hybrid cloud security is a hot topic, especially with the massive growth of public cloud providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft® Azure�� and Google Cloud. With the emergence of the hybrid cloud, where workloads are deployed across physical, virtual, and cloud, security professionals are constantly being...

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,...

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...