This report summarizes the second annual SANS survey of IT professionals using a variety of cloud providers and service models, including SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS implementations. What has changed this year? Has the state of cloud security improved? Stayed the same? Worsened? Some of the top takeaways from this year’s survey include: • 70% of […]
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Cloud usage is now over 90% but IT is struggling to keep up. Are you? Cloud Adoption Grows. Concerns Remain. 1,400 IT Security professionals from around the globe report their organizations have been adopting cloud at a rapid pace and trusting more sensitive data to reside there.
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Over 90% of companies now use the cloud, yet IT is clearly struggling to secure these services. What’s alarming is that, as trust in public clouds grows, more sensitive data is being stored there, potentially exposing your enterprise. In fact, half of all organizations report tracing malware back to a SaaS application. A big culprit […]
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This whitepaper provides data points on malware and stresses the importance on emulation, which reduces “firefighting” and dramatically lowers security costs and freeing up resources for more strategic initiatives such as endpoint detection and response.
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Healthcare organizations are obligated by law to comply with the HITECH Omnibus Final Rule, which includes encrypting and protecting ePHI (Electronic Protected Health Information) data. Investigations and fines in the millions of dollars can be the results of noncompliance. This white paper outlines the basic steps toward better data loss prevention for healthcare organizations—from data […]
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This report takes a look at the state of “shadow IT” in companies worldwide, reveals some surprising results from the Stratecast survey of IT and Line of Business employees, and offers tips to IT and business leaders to help start addressing the risks associated with shadow IT in their own companies.
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This paper characterizes new web threats and explains why most security solutions in place today are ineffective. We then propose three key organizational principles for assessing and enhancing web security—security, control, and flexibility—and nine functional requirements that enable these principles. These new capabilities (and the RFP checklist in the appendix) will help you confidently allow […]
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This white paper describes a wide range of Internet-based attack methods and explains how Web Protection technology protects against them.
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Secure web gateways are essential in today’s connected world, but which proxy configuration should you choose: direct or transparent? This white paper guides you through the pros and cons and makes recommendations that will help you secure your company and your users more effectively.
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AV-TEST performed a comparative review of McAfee Web Protection in the cloud and Websense Cloud Security 2014. Both products offer network protection in the cloud by providing a cloud proxy service, where all web traffic of the customer is examined before being delivered to its user. The products were tested against a set of malicious […]
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