Page 53 - White Papers in Governance & Risk Management

The State of Multi-factor Authentication

Multifactor authentication remains an industry best practice for preventing unauthorized account access. Our analysis this year found that, overall, 45% of businesses are using multifactor authentication. This is a significant increase from last year's 24.5%. Encouragingly, more businesses are augmenting account...

A Closer Look at Password Strength

Overall, Password Strength Scores follow the trends for Security Scores: As companies get bigger, on average their Password Strength Score goes down. For businesses with fewer than 25 employees, the average total Password Strength Score is 53. At more than 10,000 employees, the average score drops to...

Avoiding Poor Password Hygiene & Balancing Password Management with Authentication

Despite increased use of two-factor authentication, single sign-on, and biometrics, passwords are still the most common form of authentication. However, when a significant percentage of breaches are caused by weak, stolen, or reused passwords, it's clear passwords pose significant risks that can't be...

Artificial Intelligence: The End of the Beginning

AI and machine learning have made their way into the business and it's here to stay. Organizations that have already invested in the burgeoning technology are seeing benefits to both their top and bottom lines. In fact, enterprise use of AI and one of its offshoots - machine learning - is about to leap into the...

Predictive IT: How Organizations Use AI to Deliver Better User Experience

From protecting customer experience to preserving lines of revenue, IT ops teams are faced with increasingly complex responsibilities while being required to prevent outages that could harm the organization. Learn about the way your organization can utilize AI powered by machine learning to deliver a predictive IT and...

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning: Improving IT Operations & Product Innovation

Interest in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is soaring, but confusion and hype can mask the real benefits of these technologies. Organizations need to identify use cases that will produce value for them, especially in the areas of enhancing processes, detecting anomalies and enabling predictive...

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Vulnerability Intelligence Report

In this report, we provide an overview of current vulnerability disclosure trends and insights into real-world vulnerability demographics in enterprise environments. We analyze vulnerability prevalence in the wild, based on the number of affected enterprises, to highlight vulnerabilities that security practitioners...

Gartner: Secure Your Contact Center Against Fraud

By 2020, 75% of omni-channel customer-facing organizations will sustain a targeted, cross-channel fraud attack with the contact center as the primary point of compromise.* Read "Don't Let the Contact Center Be Your 'Achilles Heel' of Fraud Prevention" to learn why Gartner believes the technologies and techniques...

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Building a Secure Foundation to Reduce Cyber Risk

As the modern attack surface rapidly expands, companies must get the basics right. Yet each time a data security breach hits the news, there are reactionary questions are what could have been done to avoid the problem. More often than not these incidents occur because organizations commonly overlook basic security...

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Reducing Cyber Exposure From Cloud to Containers: 5 Key Learnings

When it comes to IT infrastructure, it's fair to say the perimeter has left the premises. In fact, the perimeter has mostly disappeared. We are living in a new reality, one crowded with new types of dynamic IT assets. Whether it's discovering short-lived assets like containers, assessing the state of cloud...

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Cyber Defender Strategies: What Your Vulnerability Assessment Practices Reveal

In this report we analyze real-world end-user vulnerability assessment (VA) behavior using a machine learning (ML) algorithm to identify four distinct strategies, or "styles." These are based on five VA key performance indicators (KPIs) which correlate to VA maturity characteristics. This study specifically focuses...

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Quantifying The Attacker's First-Mover Advantage

This research report examines the difference in time between when a public exploit for a vulnerability is published and when users actively assess it. These two events represent the first move the attacker and defender make. The premise of this paper is that this delta is an indicative metric in determining Cyber...

The Digital Transformation Age: Enhancing Business Agility Without Compromising Network Security

Most organizations are undergoing some form of digital transformation (DX). But DX initiatives bring complexity for network operations teams. With business-critical services distributed across multiple clouds, this leads to potential performance issues. Given these realities, it is no wonder that SD-WAN technology is...

Upgrading Your WAN Infrastructure

The traditional WAN is no longer an effective solution for today's distributed enterprise. Organizations are overcoming significant security and network issues by moving to SD-WAN. There are many different SD-WANs on the market today, and IT professionals should carefully review their options so they are not...

Achieving Business Agility Without Complicating Network Security

Most organizations are undergoing some form of digital transformation (DX), transforming how they bring products and services to the market - and deliver value to their customers. But DX initiatives bring complexity for network operations teams. With business-critical services distributed across multiple clouds, this...