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Advanced Threat Detection

The speed of doing business is steadily increasing. Unfortunately, this also applies to the business of malware and ransomware attacking your organization. Popular branches of cryptographic ransomware like Locky or CryptoLocker get reissued every five to 10 minutes, requiring a new signature. By nature, this is a showstopper for pattern-based defense layers like antivirus and IPS/ IDS. Today, threats spread at a high velocity, and it is not possible to detect a threat, isolate the signature, add the signature to the databases, and make it publicly and continually available within five minutes. By the time the database update is available, the threat has already compromised systems in a network and successfully covered up its traces

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Cloud-Native Ransomware – How attacks on availability leverage cloud services

whitePaper | December 13, 2022

Ransomware is a financially motivated crime with the goal of inhibiting business systems and obtaining a ransom payment. Historically, ransoming data residing in traditional on-premises enterprise workloads and government systems have resulted in ample financial gain for assailants using ransomware attacks.

DeltaV™ Mobile Security Manual

whitePaper | October 26, 2022

DeltaV™ Mobile provides read-only access to process data and alarms on mobile devices. The solution includes a combination of software and hardware integrated with your existing network

Google Cloud security foundations guide

whitePaper | April 19, 2021

This guide presents an opinionated view of Google Cloud security best practices, organized to allow users to adopt or adapt them and then automatically deploy them for their estates on Google Cloud. This document can be useful to you if you are a CISO, security practitioner, risk or compliance officer.

Closing the Human Error Gap in Cybersecurity

whitePaper | June 23, 2023

The increasing reliance on digital technology has made cybersecurity a critical concern for organizations worldwide. While technological advancements have provided businesses with unprecedented opportunities, they have also exposed them to a myriad of cyber threats. In this context, human error has emerged as a significant vulnerability. While an overwhelming majority of the human error related wrong decisions are unintentional, they can happen to anyone. This whitepaper aims to provide a comprehensive approach to closing the human error gap in cybersecurity, focusing on both cybersecurity awareness training and proactive security measures that minimize the need for users to be cyber smart.

Post-Covid-19: Digital Transformation and OT Cyber Security in Asia

whitePaper | November 2, 2022

Digital transformation has been dramatically accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic, requiring businesses and operations to quickly set up infrastructures to maintain business continuity. And no part of the network has been impacted more than the OT environment. New systems allow employees to operate from home and for equipment vendors to connect remotely to the network to maintain production. And as we emerge from the pandemic, organisations are now more cognisant of the advantages of scaling their business and operations beyond their traditional network perimeters than ever before.

Is Cyber Security Meeting Today’s Intensifying Challenges?

whitePaper | September 22, 2022

Cybersecurity has always been critical, but it’s taken on new urgency today. Cyberattacks have escalated in intensity and volume. At the same time, IT is experiencing the pressing challenges of a technology modernization revolution. Driving this tech revolution are remote work environments, a skills shortage and unprecedented growth in cloud deployments. These developments bring increasing requirements to proactively secure environments, deflect risks and rapidly respond to cyberattacks.

Advanced Threat Detection