ProtectWise partnered with Osterman Research to interview more than 400 security analysts in the United States in order to uncover the state of network security today across organizations with 1,000 or more employees. The research looked at the biggest security challenges from the inside out, from staffing priorities to the need for specialized roles.

This report offers the results of a survey that sought to understand the true nature and quality of a SECOP position.

This report offers a good look at Gemalto’s new service based security platform.

The digital trust perception gap, and other findings in this ground-breaking study, highlight the need for business leaders to understand how much consumers trust organizations, what drives digital trust, and the business impact of losing that trust.

This paper takes a look at how automating email security can create better security for an organization.

The 2014 Internet Crime Report highlights the IC3’s efforts to prevent and reduce the prevalence and impact of Internet crimes, and reveals at least two budding Internet crime trends. First, the increased use of social media has provided a quintessential goldmine of personal data for perpetrators. More victims are submitting complaints documenting how social media was utilized to perpetrate frauds, or indicating the perpetrator initiated a relationship through social engineering. Second, the emerging popularity of virtual currency has attracted perpetrators, who are capitalizing on the vulnerabilities of the digital currency systems.

Businesses @ Work takes an in-depth look into how organizations and people work today—exploring employees, partners, contractors, and customers, and the apps and services they use to be productive.

This whitepaper takes a look at the issues of using and implementing continuous monitoring and maintaining government compliance.

This edition of Spotlight features a selection of work carried out in 2017 by the Rand Corporation, to help meet new and evolving challenges. They have completed several studies that examine the implications of Brexit for the UK, the EU, and beyond. They have examined the potential of increasingly advanced technology, including in the areas of cybersecurity and digital transactions. And they have evaluated and recommended improvements to be made along the path to better systems in health, policing and education.

This report covers the challenges, trends and benefits of Content Filtering in a mobile-first environment.

When employees leave a company, whether voluntarily or involuntarily, it is quite common for them to take sensitive and confidential data with them. This paper examines this problem in detail and provides solutions for employers to mitigate the risks.

This report documents research conducted as part of a study entitled “Managing and Developing Reserve Component Capabilities in Sup- port of the Army’s Cyber Force.” The primary purpose of the study was to conduct initial research on how to train, manage, and develop the Army’s cyber force, with a specific focus on the Army National Guard and the U.S. Army Reserve.

In this report, they highlight key findings from a recent survey of more than 200 CIO’s and CISO’s, and outline how executives are actively revising security models to create a culture of cybersecurity and safeguard their organizations in today’s continually changing business environment.

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 .

From the report, “Today, there are a great many detection (identification and tracking) tools. However, there is not enough emphasis on trapping, resulting in a lack of effective trapping tools and techniques. An effective technique for automating the tracking of cyber attackers and, once found, trapping them, is deception. When implemented well, deception can automate and scale the hunting process, accurately identifying and tracking attackers, and trapping them to protect valuable assets while reducing valuable human resources in this never-ending competition of wits.”

This quarterly report from Netskope details information gleaned from providing cloud security to their clients.