White Papers

IDaas: The Promise and Value of Emerging Strategy

Industry analysts first coined the term Identity-as-a-Service, IDaaS in 2006. But today, the vast majority of IDaaS implementations still focus on the "A" - access management - leaving organizations to piece together the rest. "The promise of IDaaS involves getting all identity management...

Quantifying the Attacker's First-Mover Advantage

Tenable Research's analysis shows that how the race begins is a key indicator of how it will end. But, security teams have the power to reclaim the advantage by developing a risk-centric mindset and more agile vulnerability management. Download the report now to: Find out more about Tenable Research's analysis...

2018 Report: Security Awareness Training & Anti-Phishing

The 2018 State of the Phish Report presents analysis of data that can help CISO's and their teams identify opportunities to manage end-user risk. The report delivers the types of data infosec professionals are seeking as they develop their own security awareness training programs. Download this report to learn more...

The Forrester Wave : Web Application Firewalls

Applications are consistently amongst the top attack targets for bad actors, and our goal is to provide comprehensive protection where it is needed most. WAFs have evolved into tools that can greatly reduce the risk of an application breach. Today's top-performing WAFs are continually updated and offer a variety of...

Report: Securing the Enterprise Against Cyber Attacks

Businesses require better protection against malware and DNS-based exfiltration. To identify the most significant challenges to achieving a more secure enterprise, Ponemon Institute - a renowned research center committed to privacy, data protection, and information security policy - surveyed 604 IT and ...

Is Your Organization Operationalizing Threat Intelligence?

Finding threats in your big data can be like finding a needle in a haystack. Splunk Enterprise Security streamlines the process by extracting indicators of compromise (IOCs) in your threat intelligence data to help you pinpoint potential attack activity in your enterprise. Download this whitepaper to learn about a...

How Can You Detect Unknown Malware & Ransomware?

The traditional way of detecting an advanced malware or threat compromise in a Windows environment using an anti-virus or malware product can be difficult. Learn how the Splunk platform can simplify the process and protect your organization against advanced threats. Download this report to learn more about: How to...

How is Your Organization Mitigating Account Takeover?

This white paper looks at how payment innovation is impacting fraud departments and the growing importance of removing friction to improve the customer experience. The mobile and online channels are the future; being able to authenticate returning customers and determine who new applicants really are will be essential...

Behavioral Analytics and the Insider Threat

Behavioral analytics have taken the fast lane from emerging tech to mature practice. The key element that has made behavioral analytics move so fast and become something so important to security is that the focus has been not on the technology itself but on the value it provides the enterprise, notably when being...

The Threat Intelligence Maturity Model: What You Need To Know

Whether you are getting started with TI or seeking to expand an existing program, the Threat Intelligence Maturity Model provides a systematic guide to help you understand where your organization resides on the path to a mature threat intelligence program and how it can better apply threat intelligence to drive...

Data Security Under GDPR: How To Prepare For the Inevitable (French Language)

The European Union's (EU's) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which began enforcement on May 25, 2018, dramatically increases the penalties for failing to properly protect users' personal data. The maximum fines that can be leveraged against an organization eclipse penalties that have been imposed in the...

A Privileged Access Management Maturity Model for Digital Transformation and Automation at Scale

Organizations undergoing digital transformations are dealing with amplified concerns around risk and security, which isn't surprising. 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...

Using Threat Analytics to Protect Privileged Access and Prevent Breaches

Attackers are using a wider range of more sophisticated methods to infiltrate vulnerable systems. And although news of external breaches often dominates headlines, organizations must also be able to defend against insider threats. Many organizations have built an entire ecosystem to look for suspicious external...

Enforce a Zero Trust Security Model in Today's Hostile Environment

As companies leverage new cloud and DevOps workflows to build their digital business, security has not kept pace. Traditional perimeter security was never designed for today's reality. Download this whitepaper on a new security paradigm for today's hostile environment: zero trust. Learn why under this...

The Role of Deception Technology in M&A

A security breach is always a sensitive topic - but especially so during a merger or acquisition. When should a technology or security leader get involved in M&A? The short answer: as early as possible. Security really should play a prominent role before, during, and after the acquisition activity. Download...