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Cities both produce large amounts of data and also consume large amounts of data. Analyzing this data can help policy-makers make more informed decisions and may uncover opportunities to optimize processes and systems and to reduce costs. It might also ultimately contribute towards better city planning, improving the quality of life of citizens. This white paper describes what is making cities “smarter”, how this modernization benefits citizens and the technologies behind these transformations. To fully take advantage of the technological revolution, leaders in each city need to better understand how to leverage all the data that is gathered, as well as the technologies behind the new “smart cities” paradigm. Local leaders need a holistic strategy to harness the power of this newly available data by removing unnecessary barriers for data processing and usage while taking into account security concerns.

Healthcare accounts for 21% of all cybersecurity breaches, making it the most affected business sector in the U.S. economy. Ongoing attacks are predicted to cost providers $305 billion in lifetime revenue over the next few years. Download this white paper to learn how to make healthcare cybersecurity stronger.

The gaming industry continues to grow rapidly, and it is projected to grow another 30% in the next three years1 . Online gaming is driving this growth as the industry is making a seismic shift from disk to digital. This shift comes with an abundance of opportunities and challenges, as digital gaming makes it easier than ever to get games into the hands of more players, in more places, in less time. TechValidate Research surveyed 131 Akamai Technologies, Inc. customer accounts to find out more about how gaming companies are innovating the marketplace and the challenges they need to overcome in order to do so. The results show the importance of web security, that acquiring and retaining new users is the biggest business challenge companies are facing, and that mobile is taking over as the most popular gaming platform.

For more than a decade, Cisco's security reports have been a definitive source of intelligence for security professionals interested in the state of the global industry. These comprehensive reports provided detailed accounts of the threat landscape and their organisational implications. Today, Cisco is publishing its second report for 2019: Defending against today's critical threats. This white paper looks back at the threat landscape over the past year, highlighting some of the key cyber security incidents during that timeframe. However, this isn't just another retrospective report, fondly looking back at events that have already come to pass.

With Dell™ One Identity Privileged Password Manager and Privileged Session Manager from Dell Software, managing privileged passwords is easy and far more secure. This white paper explains how.

The world set a new record for data breaches in 2016, with more than 4.2 billion exposed records, shattering the former record of 1.1 billion in 2013. But if 2016 was bad, 2017 is shaping up to be even worse. In the first six months of 2017, there were 2,227 breaches reported, exposing over 6 billion records and putting untold numbers of accounts at risk. Out of all these stolen records, a large majority include usernames and passwords, which are leveraged in 81 percent of hacking-related breaches according to the 2017 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. Faced with ever-growing concerns over application and data integrity, organizations must prioritize identity protection in their security strategies. In fact, safeguarding the identity of users and managing the level of access they have to critical business applications could be the biggest security challenge organizations face in 2017.

If your organization is one of the 95% of enterprises that operate in the cloud, you are already grappling with cloud security. And if your organization is one of the 85% of companies that use multiple Infrastructureas-a-Service (IaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) clouds, you have additional issues to consider. Compared to the days when organizations managed everything on-premises or only had a handful of cloud deployments, this new multi-cloud world exacerbates the expansion of the attack surface and makes threat containment and accountability more difficult. Further, pressure on security teams to protect everything in the multi-cloud environment is leading to reactive and expensive threat management. If you are a security leader tasked with meeting the challenges of a multi-cloud environment, eventually you’ll find that siloed cloud security strategies fall short of the mark. But don’t wait. Now is the time to consider a holistic security approach that reclaims control from dispa

Today’s headlines are replete with accounts of major corporations that have found themselves under attack for their enterprise data. For data center operators, ensuring the security and continuity of their clients’ business operations is a key and compelling imperative. See how Digital Realty approaches data center security.

Given the finite lifespan of SSL certificates and their widespread use throughout an organization, there are numerous reasons to take a lifecycle management approach. It’s critical to maintain an accurate accounting of SSL certificates that doesn’t rely on manual processes and tools. This guide — intended for IT and security professionals — outlines the key elements of a certificate lifecycle management process and how to provide adequate tools and training to implement this process.

You’ve heard the stories: a large Internet company exposing all three billion of its customer accounts; a major hotel chain compromising five hundred million customer records; and one of the big-three credit reporting agencies exposing more than 143 million records, leading to a 25 percent loss in value and a $439 million hit. At the time, all of these companies had security mechanisms in place. They had trained professionals on the job. They had invested heavily in protection. But the reality is that no amount of investment in preventative technologies can fully eliminate the threat of savvy attackers, malicious insiders, or inadvertent victims of phishing. Breaches are rising, and so are their cost. In 2018, the average cost of a data breach rose 6.4 percent to $3.86 million, and the cost of a “mega breach,” those defined as losing 1 million to 50 million records, carried especially punishing price tags between $40 million and $350 million.2 Despite increasing investment in security

Many breaches happen because of compromised privileged user accounts. Risks spread like wildfire in the dynamic traditional, virtualized and cloud environments common in enterprises today. One improperly authorized privileged account can cause widespread and irreparable damage to an organization’s infrastructure, intellectual property and brand equity, leading to sudden drops in market value, broad organizational disruption and costly compliance penalties. Effectively managing privileged access across your hybrid enterprise is an imperative to reducing security and compliance risks.

For many organizations, managing network vulnerabilities and risks is a lesson in frustration. Vulnerability scans are typically conducted in response to compliance mandates, and they can reveal up to tens of thousands of exposures—depending upon network size. Scan results are often a complex puzzle of misconfigured devices, unpatched software, and outdated or obsolete systems. And security administrators must struggle to quickly identify and remediate or mitigate the exposures that pose the greatest risk.

Privileged user accounts—whether usurped, abused or simply misused—are at the heart of most data breaches. Security teams are increasingly evaluating comprehensive privileged access management (PAM) solutions to avoid the damage that could be caused by a rogue user with elevated privileges, or a privileged user who is tired, stressed or simply makes a mistake. Pressure from executives and audit teams to reduce business exposure reinforces their effort, but comprehensive PAM solutions can incur hidden costs, depending on the implementation strategy adopted. With multiple capabilities including password vaults, session management and monitoring, and often user behavior analytics and threat intelligence, the way a PAM solution is implemented can have a major impact on the cost and the benefits. This report provides a blueprint for determining the direct, indirect and hidden costs of a PAM deployment over time.

The digital economy is transforming the financial services sector. The pace of innovation is accelerating, customers have higher expectations than ever, and new competitors are emerging from nontraditional markets. At the same time, financial services has long been a favorite target of cyber attackers, and despite firms’ best efforts, cybersecurity threats are rising and attacks are more successful than ever. Financial services firms need a more effective, adaptable approach to detecting and stopping cyberthreats.

Lieberman Software offers a solution today that helps secure unmanaged privileged accounts in your datacenter and prevent data breaches. Watch how we do it in this brief two minute video.

When Carnegie Mellon University required a way to automatically update and securely store privileged account passwords, the IT group turned to Lieberman Software. Lieberman's Enterprise Random Password Manager was operational in less than one day.

Without a reliable method to locate and change its privileged account passwords, Wings Financial was burdened with a variety of security and regulatory problems. Lieberman Software's Enterprise Password Manager solved all of this - find out how!

Download "Privileged Identity Management: An Executive Overview" to learn where privileged identities can be found on your network; the challenges to discover, secure and manage them; and why unsecured privileged account credentials are dangerous.

Organizations undergoing digital transformations are dealing with amplified concerns around risk and security, which isn’t surprising. Ensuring visibility and accountability for compliance, security and governance while enabling flexibility for digital transformation requires a fresh and more tightly aligned approach to who—and now what in the form of applications, services, machines and things—are given the keys to the kingdom: privileged access. Read this white paper to understand how the digital transformation journey requires thinking through a clear roadmap that spans multiple years, anticipating near- and long-term requirements from a privileged access management solution and ensuring scope and scale needs at a reasonable cost of ownership through the entire lifecycle.

Privileged user accounts—whether usurped, abused or simply misused—are at the heart of most data breaches. Security teams are increasingly evaluating comprehensive privileged access management (PAM) solutions to avoid the damage that could be caused by a rogue user with elevated privileges, or a privileged user who is tired, stressed or simply makes a mistake. Pressure from executives and audit teams to reduce business exposure reinforces their effort, but comprehensive PAM solutions can incur hidden costs, depending on the implementation strategy adopted. With multiple capabilities including password vaults, session management and monitoring, and often user behavior analytics and threat intelligence, the way a PAM solution is implemented can have a major impact on the cost and the benefits. This report provides a blueprint for determining the direct, indirect and hidden costs of a PAM deployment over time.

Privileged user accounts—whether usurped, abused or simply misused—are at the heart of most data breaches. Security teams are increasingly evaluating comprehensive privileged access management (PAM) solutions to avoid the damage that could be caused by a rogue user with elevated privileges, or a privileged user who is tired, stressed or simply makes a mistake. Pressure from executives and audit teams to reduce business exposure reinforces their effort, but comprehensive PAM solutions can incur hidden costs, depending on the implementation strategy adopted. With multiple capabilities including password vaults, session management and monitoring, and often user behavior analytics and threat intelligence, the way a PAM solution is implemented can have a major impact on the cost and the benefits. This report provides a blueprint for determining the direct, indirect and hidden costs of a PAM deployment over time.

Challenge Businesses today must reduce the risk of security breaches to protect the valuable data within their organizations. At the same time, IT auditors are increasingly enforcing ever more stringent requirements on the business. The bottom line is that privileged accounts and privileged access are being targeted by hackers as a new attack surface and focused on by auditors who are insisting on greater controls around privileged accounts. Opportunity The right privileged access management solution provides comprehensive protection for your missioncritical servers with powerful, fine-grained controls over operating system-level access and privileged user actions. Capable of enforcing access controls on powerful native Superuser accounts—like the UNIX® and Linux® root and Microsoft® Windows® administrator—this system-level, host-based privileged access management solution controls, monitors and audits privileged user activity, improving security and simplifying audit and compliance. B

Web and mobile applications are now top attack vectors for cyber attackers, accounting for more than a third of data breaches. As a result, securing the application layer has now become a high priority for enterprises. Enterprise application security testing solutions for Web, native, cloud and mobile applications are key to this strategy. In the latest Gartner 2015 Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing, Veracode has been positioned as a Leader for the third year in a row based on our completeness of vision and ability to execute in the AST market. Download the report for more on why Veracode's automated cloud-based service is in Gartner's “Leaders” quadrant.

Protecting your clients’ sensitive data is not optional. Data security is so important in accounting that suspicion alone leaves many firms to reject modern cloud software as new or unproven. However, the facts tell a different story. Read this revealing e-book for 13 security facts your organization needs to make the best decision for your clients: • How built-in data encryption keeps your data safe • Why more security pros are concerned with user behavior than cloud tools • What your firm should know to utilize the cloud with confidence

Accounting is full of big, busy deadlines, which means the ability to take your work home with you could be a game-changer. But can your personal devices ever be secure enough to manage your clients’ sensitive data? Surprisingly, this informative whitepaper shows that, with the right preparation, using your personal device can actually help you keep your firm more secure. • Why data encryption is often easier to adopt as part of a cloud initiative • What top security threat you are less susceptible to on personal devices • How to manage device updates and passwords for the greatest protection