Synthetic Identity Fraud Can I Borrow Your SSN

"Synthetic identity fraud made major headlines as far back as 2007, when “The Borrower Who Never Was” ran on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. 1 The article detailed the criminal activity of two individuals who were managing as many as 500 fake personas in 200 apartments in 14 states. In 2013, 18 individuals were initially indicted for running a $200 million credit card scam that created 7,000 new identities. These stories are clear examples of how synthetic identity fraud is growing as an area of concern. "

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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.

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N-able N-central Security White Paper

whitePaper | June 22, 2023

As an integral component of your IT management system, N-able N-central® complements an organization’s existing security policies and infrastructures. N-able N-central consists of a number of components that were specifically designed to provide flexibility as well as to ensure the integrity of the security of the networks on which N-able Ncentral operates.

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The Ethics and Security of Cloud Computing

whitePaper | October 17, 2022

Nearly four thousand years ago, Hammurabi engraved the laws of Babylon onto a stone plinth and revolutionized the codication of law. Today, lawyers of all walks of life are engaged in a new revolution, with the ability to practice law armed with nothing more than a tablet device and an internet browser—a revolution brought about, in large part, by the rise of cloud computing.

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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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Security Protocol and Data Model (SPDM) Architecture White Paper

whitePaper | September 26, 2022

This white paper presents an overview of the SPDM architecture, its goals, and a high-level summary of its use within a larger solution. The intended target audience for this white paper includes readers interested in understanding the use of SPDM to facilitate security of the communications among components of platform management subsystems.

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Reveal Risk Whitepaper: Measuring And Managing Cyber Resilience

whitePaper | March 3, 2023

Cyber Resilience (according to NIST) is “the ability to anticipate, withstand, recover from, and adapt to adverse conditions, stresses, attacks, or compromises on systems that use or are enabled by cyber resources.” Resiliency in cybersecurity is not a new concept. It has long been postulated as a goal or used to convey that a business needs to be ready for the unpredictable that can and will arise in a volatile cyber-risk climate. However, we have seen that there is a disconnect between current practices for evaluating & leading cyber programs, and understanding, measuring, & building true cyber resiliency.

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