Review: Hot new tools to fight insider threats

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Network World Security Alert May 31, 2016 Review: Hot new tools to fight insider threats An entire industry has sprung up to provide a defense against insider threats. We tested products from Fortscale, Avanan, and PFU Systems, with each one concentrating on a different aspect of the problem. Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • 3 top tools to fight insider threats • Celebrity hacker Guccifer's confession gives us all a lesson in security • Up to a dozen banks are reportedly investigating potential SWIFT breaches • Stealth Falcon group uses custom spyware, fake journalists to target UAE dissidents • The shocking truth of how you'll be tracked online and why • Components of modern hacking operations • DARPA extreme DDOS project transforming network attack mitigation • DARPA wants to find the vital limitations of machine learning Video/Webcast: EMA Securing the New Digital Enterprise: Trackable, Controlled, and Authorized While document and file sharing is increasing rapidly, 97% of organizations cite file sharing as a high risk for information loss, and 75% believe their organization is currently at risk for data loss. Join us June 28th @ 11am PDT/ 2pm EDT to obtain guidance on how organizations can protect themselves from document sharing and e-signature risk while maintaining a high level of collaboration and productivity Read More ▶ 3 top tools to fight insider threats We tested three products, each concentrating on a different aspect of the insider threat problem. Read More ▶ Celebrity hacker Guccifer's confession gives us all a lesson in security A Romanian hacker known online as Guccifer pleaded guilty to hacking into 100 email and social media accounts belonging to American citizens, including former high-ranking government officials. Read More ▶ Up to a dozen banks are reportedly investigating potential SWIFT breaches Up to 12 banks have reportedly launched investigations into potential security breaches on their networks after hackers stole $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank earlier this year. Read More ▶ Stealth Falcon group uses custom spyware, fake journalists to target UAE dissidents Meet Stealth Falcon, a sophisticated and likely state-sponsored cyberespionage group, which is hell bent on conducting targeted spyware attacks 'against Emriati journalists, activists and dissidents.' Some of whom get disappeared. Read More ▶ The shocking truth of how you'll be tracked online and why Online tracking used to be all about getting you to buy stuff but in the future, it's going to be far more insidious and new tracking techniques, such as audio fingerprinting, are the tip of the manipulation iceberg Read More ▶ Components of modern hacking operations Security professionals aren't fully aware of how detail-oriented hackers are when developing an attack campaign. Read More ▶ DARPA extreme DDOS project transforming network attack mitigation Researchers with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have quickly moved to alter the way the military, public and private enterprises protect their networks from high-and low-speed distributed denial-of-service attacks with a program called Extreme DDoS Defense (XD3). Read More ▶ DARPA wants to find the vital limitations of machine learning That's the central question of a potential new DARPA program known as the Fundamental Limits of Learning (Fun LoL) which according to the researchers will address how the quest for the ultimate learning machine can be measured and tracked in a systematic and principled way. Read More ▶ Case Study: Teradata Case Study: Two Firms Adopt Teradata Managed Cloud Two companies cut costs, gain flexibility and ease administration by adding cloud data warehouse capacity. 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