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• 2018 Phishing By Industry Report

  In this report, brand-new research from KnowBe4 highlights employee Phish-prone™ percentages by industry, revealing at-risk users that are susceptible to phishing or social engineering attacks. Learn more.

• Best Practices for Protecting Against Phishing, Ransomware, and Email Fraud

  This new Osterman Research paper outlines ten best practices to consider that show how a combination of risk assessment and audits of your current security posture, implementing end-user security awareness training, and establishing detailed security policies can protect your organization from ransomware, CEO Fraud and other phishing attacks. Learn more.

• Detect Advanced Threats with Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

  As malicious actors target endpoints with new types of attacks designed to evade traditional antivirus tools, security teams are looking to endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions for an additional layer of security. In this solution brief, you will learn how AlienVault’s approach to delivering advanced EDR capabilities enables you to automate threat hunting and detect evasive threats that traditional antivirus can’t. Learn more.

• Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Mid-Market Analysis

  This Executive Brief is based on the 2017 Frost & Sullivan report, “Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)—Global Market Analysis, Forecast to 2021” which provides an analysis of the SIEM market, examines the innovations driving that market and compares the positions of leading competitors. Learn more.

• Top 10 PCI DSS Compliance Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them

  In this white paper, we’ll walk through the most common PCI DSS pitfalls, and what you can do to avoid them. Despite the fact that PCI DSS has been in effect for over a decade, and most merchants are achieving compliance, some of the world’s largest retailers have still been hit by data breaches. The sad truth is that achieving compliance doesn’t guarantee data protection, even for large organizations. Learn more.

• Beginner's Guide to AWS Security Monitoring

  This report will examine a number of these concerns in detail, and specifically address how to avoid making costly mistakes that can leave data exposed. You’ll learn the 3 biggest concerns in cloud security and what steps to take to fix these concerns. Learn more.

• Insiders Guide to Incident Response

  Get All 5 Chapters of AlienVault’s Insider’s Guide to Incident Response in 1 eBook! The Insider’s Guide to Incident Response gives you an in-depth look at the fundamental strategies of efficient and effective incident response for security teams that need to do more with less in today’s rapidly changing threat landscape. Learn more.

• How to Build a Security Operations Center on a Budget

  Get All 5 Chapters of AlienVault’s How to Build a Security Operations Center (On a Budget) in 1 eBook! You'll get an in-depth look at how organizations with limited resources can set up a successful operations center for monitoring, detecting, containing, and remediating IT threats across applications, devices, systems, networks, and locations. Learn more.

• Five Endpoint Attacks Your Antivirus Won’t Catch: A Guide to Endpoint Detection and Response

  In this white paper you’ll discover how attackers have adapted their tactics to evade traditional antivirus, how these increasingly common attacks work, and how to detect advanced endpoint threats with EDR. Download it today to learn how to quickly evolve your threat detection strategy Learn more.

• Unified Security Management vs. SIEM: a Technical Comparison

  Get a full overview of the changing security landscape, and more importantly insight into the rapidly changing SIEM category, and the reasons that have led to those changes. To offer a complete picture of the changes to SIEM technology, it is valuable for some to understand the context of the SIEM market and how (and why) AlienVault differentiates itself form the traditional approach. Learn more.

• Best Practices for Office 365 Security Monitoring

  For many organizations, Office 365 marks an entry point into cloud computing—and with it, cloud security. As organizations migrate sensitive and business-critical data to the Microsoft cloud, many security concerns arise: Is our data secure? Who has access to it, both internally and externally? What if unauthorized users compromise account credentials? How can we detect ransomware and other malware in Office 365? What do we need to do to maintain compliance? Learn more.

• Beginners Guide to SIEM

  Need a crash course on SIEM? No problem. Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platforms provide real-time correlation of events generated from network security controls. Our security gurus will explain what SIEM is (and isn’t) and how to get up and running with it quickly and painlessly. Learn more.

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux

  IT organizations want to deliver greater business value by increasing productivity, delivering services faster, and remaining flexible to incorporate the latest innovations like cloud, containers, and configuration automation. Learn more.

• Increase Security of Public Cloud Workloads with Red Hat and Microsoft

  Advanced security features and tools deter threats and safeguard applications and data. Together, Red Hat and Microsoft deliver a production-ready cloud foundation that effectively addresses security concerns. Learn more.

• Hybrid Cloud Strategy for Dummies

  Cloud computing is proliferating and taking over the world of IT as we know it. Cloud computing also grows more complex and multi-faceted daily. Getting onto the cloud is easy. Getting it right is trickier. Learn more.