Why the Financial Sector Needs to Focus on Automating Threat Intelligence
Threat intelligence is a necessary part of threat detection, yet is often ignored. Learn why financial institutions must focus on building their architecture for automated threat intelligence.
Preparing for GDPR: What the Financial Services Industry Should Know
Businesses around the globe are becoming increasingly data driven. This, in large part, has to do with the expectation of customization across the user experience. Financial institutions, for example, have been able to use customer data and customization to offer tailored services to their customers, such as loans or insurance, based on recent purchases or financial history. However, consumers are now being encouraged to re-take control of their own personal data. The new emphasis being placed on individual rights to data is clearly demonstrated...
The Primary Factors Driving Cybersecurity Investments in Education
Today’s schools are technology-rich environments. For example, they have long used internal systems to keep and track a variety of records, including the personal data of their students and faculty. Today, however, that tech infrastructure must be optimized to accommodate the shift to a new digital education model. Teachers are increasingly adopting new digital learning tools, with $9 billion being spent on K-12 digital curriculum tools in 2016. While schools often provide some devices for faculty and students, bring your own device (BYOD)...
Executive Insights: Managing Risk through Digital Trust
In the context of digital trust, effective cybersecurity can become an essential enabler of digital transformation. In other words, if organizations and users can’t trust their data, and trust that it is safe, they will not engage, and the Digital Economy will fail.
Higher Education: Critical Infrastructure and the Dark Cloud of Cyber Threats
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has identified 16 sectors that have been determined to be designated as critical infrastructure due to the debilitating effect on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination that would result from any of these sectors being compromised. Included in this list of 16 is the Government Facilities Sector, which covers, “a wide variety of buildings, located in the United States and overseas, that are owned or leased by federal, state, local, and tribal governments.”...
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Executive Insights: Achieving Digital Trust in a World of Data
Cybersecurity is at a critical tipping point. With massive volumes of data being generated and analyzed across the globe every day from a variety of sources and devices, an entirely new approach to network security is required. From both a business and technology perspective, traditional security paradigms are struggling to be agile and fast enough to move at the speed required in this new world. The linchpin to success going forward will be a business’ ability to flexibly secure its sensitive data and create digital trust with its customers.
The True Value of Data
Investigate technologies that employ automation to analyze suspicious attachments, Web sites, and other avenues of attack. Fortinet delivers proactive malware identification and an unparalleled depth of analysis capabilities. This includes machine learning analysis capabilities backed up by a dedicated team of human analysts. Ask how FortiGuard Cyber Threat Intelligence services can be leveraged with the Fortinet Security Fabric to provide the strongest malware protection available in the industry.
Channel Focus: Solving Security’s Growing Pains with Scalability
Going wireless with a customer’s network and cloud was once a leap. Now it’s simply the next step. According to Cisco’s latest Global Cloud Index, 92% of workloads will be processed in cloud data centers by 2020, and research from IDG shows worldwide spending on public cloud service will grow to more than $141B by 2019. As the use of the cloud grows, however, the potential attack surface becomes substantially larger and organizations are exposed to new risks. But that’s not all. While technology is evolving, so are customer...
The Challenge of Securing IoT
By now, everyone has heard the numbers. IoT is part of a networking revolution that is transforming the world. Experts predict that by 2020 there will be over 33 billion IoT devices deployed, or 4.3 Internet-connected devices for every man, woman, and child on the planet. Of course, IoT is more than just one thing. There are a variety of IoT devices and categories, each with their own implications. Consumer IoT includes the connected devices we are most familiar with, such as smart cars, phones, watches, laptops, connected appliances, and...
Accelerate 2017 Update General Sessions Overview – Day Two
The second day of Accelerate continued to raise the bar on both content and vision. Here is a quick overview of the general sessions: Opportunities – Phil Quade, Fortinet CISO Phil Quade recently joined Fortinet after three decades of service in the intelligence community, where he most recently served as the head of the Cyber Task Force at the National Security Agency. After examining key trends in the growth of cyber technologies, Phil provided the Accelerate audience with a unique view into where the accelerating transformation of...
