PROTECTING OPERATIONS IN THE ENERGY SECTOR AGAINST CYBER ATTACKS

Driven by rising costs in exploration and production as well as by increasing competitive intensity and regulatory pressures, oil and gas companies are looking for new ways to increase production capacity and operational efficiencies. This has led to the rapid adoption of digital technologies to help run their organisations. As these technologies are implemented across oil and gas operations, they are creating what is now called the digital oilfield. It is the result of a convergence between IT and operational technology (OT), and represents a new way of doing business that is helping oil and gas companies reduce operational costs, improve efficiency and production, and comply with regulations.

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NETSCOUT is a market leader in real-time service assurance and cybersecurity solutions for today’s most demanding service provider, enterprise and government networks. NETSCOUT’s Adaptive Service Intelligence (ASI) technology continuously monitors the service delivery environment to identify performance issues and provides insight into network-based security threats, helping teams to quickly resolve issues that can cause business disruptions or impact user experience. NETSCOUT delivers unmatched service visibility and protects the digital infrastructure that supports our connected world.

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Recommended Criteria for Cybersecurity Labeling of Consumer Software

whitePaper | February 4, 2022

Software is an integral part of life for the modern consumer. Nevertheless, most consumers take for granted and are unaware of the software upon which many products and services rely. From the consumer’s perspective, the very notion of what constitutes software may even be unclear. While enabling many benefits to consumers, that software that is, software normally used for personal, family, or household purposes can also have cybersecurity flaws or vulnerabilities which can directly affect safety, property, and productivity.

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The State of Ransomware 2022

whitePaper | April 20, 2022

Sophos' annual study of the real-world ransomware experiences of IT professionals working at the frontline has revealed an ever more challenging attack environment together with the growing financial and operational burden ransomware places on its victims. It also shines new light on the relationship between ransomware and cyber insurance, and the role insurance is playing in driving changes to cyber defenses.

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Cybersecurity: A Comprehensive Risk Management Approach for Healthcare

whitePaper | August 19, 2022

Healthcare entities continue to face evolving cybersecurity threats that can put patient safety, privacy and operations at risk. Health information security breaches occur daily and will continue to accelerate as cyber-criminals recognize the value of patient data and the critical need for provider organizations to keep systems up and running. The cost of a data breach is astounding, and one few healthcare organizations can absorb as they continue to deal with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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2022 Trends in Securing Digital Identities

whitePaper | August 22, 2022

Managing the ecosystem of identities accessing enterprise resources has only gotten more complicated during the past several years. Between the increasing number of identities, the challenges posed by phishing attacks, and the continued growth of cloud adoption, enterprises are under pressure to ensure the army of remote workers, contractors, and employees accessing network resources are doing so securely and successfully.

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Protecting Against Sophisticated Bot Attacks

whitePaper | November 18, 2022

Bot-generated attacks have risen in visibility, and defending against these attacks is now a priority for most organizations. Yet challenges persist in accurately identifying bot traffic; protecting a distributed, heterogeneous application environment from these attacks; and minimizing the impact to legitimate users while doing so. To address these issues, intelligent protection against sophisticated bots is a necessity. This should include strong analytics coupled with human expertise, a frictionless user experience, and consistent coverage across different architectures and platforms. F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense, built on Google Cloud, supports these requirements and can help prevent fraud and abuse against public-facing web applications.

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C2 Password Security White Paper

whitePaper | November 24, 2022

In recent years, the necessity to create and maintain dozens or hundreds of online accounts with logins and passwords has become more and more prominent, especially with remote work on the rise and internet usage at an all-time high. Nothing is more secure than making sure that every one of your accounts that you create is using a unique or randomly generated password, but where do you keep track of all of these passwords, and how can you ensure that your password security is up to par?

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NETSCOUT is a market leader in real-time service assurance and cybersecurity solutions for today’s most demanding service provider, enterprise and government networks. NETSCOUT’s Adaptive Service Intelligence (ASI) technology continuously monitors the service delivery environment to identify performance issues and provides insight into network-based security threats, helping teams to quickly resolve issues that can cause business disruptions or impact user experience. NETSCOUT delivers unmatched service visibility and protects the digital infrastructure that supports our connected world.

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