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Understanding Web Application Security

As enterprises move more of their business transactions online, they face the challenge
of defending a perimeter that grows increasingly porous. Proprietary data and business critical operations are being exposed through Web interfaces that are accessible from any where in the world and highly vulnerable to the Internet’s growing threat environment. The network firewalls that once locked down the enterprise perimeter are ineffective against Web-based attacks that are quickly rising in frequency, scale, and severity. These Layer 7 attacks now account for between 60 and 80% of all reported security.

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Xactly Corp

Xactly delivers a scalable, enterprise platform for planning and incenting sales organizations, including sales quota and territory planning, incentive compensation management, and predictive analytics. Using this powerful sales performance management (SPM) portfolio, customers mitigate risk, accelerate sales performance, and increase business agility. Combined with Xactly Insights™-- the industry’s only empirical big data platform, Xactly empowers companies with real-time compensation insights and benchmarking data that maximize the bottom line. With an open, standards-based architecture, Xactly seamlessly integrates within an enterprise’s existing infrastructure, with the ability to work with any ERP, CRM, or HCM application, while meeting the highest enterprise standards in security, reliability, and privacy.

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Acronis Cyber Protection Operation Centers Report: Ransomware dominates threat landscape

whitePaper | November 24, 2022

Acronis was the first company to implement complete integrated cyber protection to protect all data, applications and systems. Cyber protection requires the researching and monitoring of threats, as well as abiding by the five vectors of safety, accessibility, privacy, authenticity and security, or SAPAS. As part of the strategy, we’ve established four Cyber Protection Operation Centers (CPOCs) around the world to monitor and research cyberthreats 24/7.

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.

2023 Data Protection Trends Executive Brief Japan Edition

whitePaper | February 3, 2023

In late 2022, an independent research firm completed their survey of 4,200 unbiased IT leaders and implementers on a variety of data protection drivers, challenges, and strategies — including 286 in Japan. This broad-based market study on unbiased organizations is conducted annually on Veeam’s behalf to understand how the data protection market continues to evolve, so that Veeam can ensure product strategies and market initiatives align with where the market is going.

Cybersecurity Whitepaper 2018

whitePaper | December 12, 2019

Most of the Small to medium-sized companies are unaware about the ways in which they’re vulnerable. More than 45% mistakenly believe they’re not a viable victim. They are just too small a target in comparison to larger organizations and tend to have a blind eye towards the cyber threats they face, which is in sharp contrast to what attackers think.

Cisco’s Private 5G Solution Security Overview

whitePaper | October 12, 2022

Cisco’s Private 5G (P5G) solution, offered as a service, is designed to fit seamlessly into existing enterprise networks and provide private cellular networking capabilities for that enterprise. The solution builds on Cisco’s enterprise networking best practices and a clear understanding of enterprises’ understanding and expectations of private networks.

Security Overview Whitepaper

whitePaper | February 6, 2023

All encryption/decryption operations are only performed by RoboForm locally on user’s devices and never on the RoboForm Server. RoboForm Data Objects and other user data is never sent to the Server in an unencrypted form. All communication between RoboForm Clients and Server are conducted over encrypted channels only.

Understanding Web Application Security