This report is discussing the rising trend of organizations properly prioritizing the risks and dangers of cyber threats.

This whitepaper seeks to provide aid to lawfirms and their need for security compliance with their clients.

Mandiant consultants’ role as the first responders to critical security incidents gives them a unique vantage point into how attackers’ motives and tactics are changing . The insights and analysis presented here represent their combined experience over the course of hundreds of service engagements . Over the last decade, they have helped clients across more than 30 industries around the globe .

Marsh & McLennan Agency surveyed 1,141 executives from small to middle-market organizations across North America, and found that they are clearly concerned about cyber risk — but, by their own admission, they do not have a grasp of how to protect themselves.

This report aims to compare the effectiveness of a selection of threat detection appliances. The products were exposed to internet threats that were live during the test period, as well as crafted exploit-based attacks.

This report discusses events of 2017 and lays out trends and predictions for 2018, including the secret of how to fight malware. In this report’s conclusion, they go a little more into detail, but ultimately the secret is “forgetting about” malware. If we focus on fighting malware, the battle is lost before it has begun.

This paper is designed to help you put together your organization’s network security policy.

This report discusses trends in the cyber security environment in Latin America from January to June 2015.

This paper from CCS 2017, presents a system that analyzes binary file appearance logs of machines to predict which machines are at risk of infection months in advance.

This report provides a collection of articles on Healthcare Security.

In this technical whitepaper they explain why there’s no single silver bullet answer to SQL injection.

From the report, “Overall, the power of big data analytics is clear, but some fundamental building blocks need to be in place if banks are to unlock that power for commercial benefit.”

This paper discusses the necessary element of collaboration that is required for success fighting cybercrime.

By providing an overview of the main areas of research and the key studies conducted in the field to date, and by making some initial recommendations about the potential role of insurers and governments in addressing cyber risks, this report lays the groundwork for discussion and future research on the development of the cyber risk and the cyber insurance market.

This first report in a multipart series, which appraises various cybersecurity occupations using natural language processing (NLP), examines the role of the CISO from the vantage point of employer job ads and CISO resumes . Findings show that the role and prominence of the chief information security officer (CISO) continue to expand and transform . CISOs are no longer seen as technologists tasked to manage their organizations’ security risks . Much more than security tacticians, CISOs are seen as business strategists who reach across organizational boundaries to build business-level relationships and orchestrate business strategies that enable digital transformation and govern compliance-related issues. Key takeaways of the analysis are broken into two sections: 1) hard and soft skills, and 2) education and career demographics .

In late 2017, Sophos sponsored an independent research study into the state of network security in mid-sized organizations across the globe. This research program explored the experiences, concerns, and future needs of IT managers, with particular focus on firewalls and network defenses.

This paper studies and explores the techniques and methods used by actors to spread fake news and manipulate public opinion to serve various motives ranging from personal and financial to political. It also discusses the three legs of the fake news triangle: the services that enable them, their appearance on social media sites, and the motivations behind these activities.

This is a recently updated eBook that lays out an action guide for compliance with the EU’s GDPR.

The NTT Security 2018 Global Threat Intelligence Report highlights notable threats, incidents and trends observed during the previous year.

In this white paper, they explore why people are the biggest vulnerability for most organizations, and whether it’s possible to ‘patch’ this vulnerability.

This Threat Report takes a look at some of the events of spring 2017. Specifically, it looks at criminal campaigns that leveraged exploits exposed by the Shadow Brokers, threat groups that used social media profiles, a threat group that attacked supply chains of large corporations, quickly evicting threat actors from a compromised environment.