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Brand Threats Masterclass
In 2024, organizations face growing brand protection challenges with online impersonation attacks targeting their assets through non-traditional means. These attacks are spanning channels not typically protected by corporate controls and leveraging AI to generate lures, making detection increasingly broad and mitigation nuanced. To better understand the top brand risks, Fortra held a roundtable...
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2023 Domain Impersonation Report
Current Domain Threats, Trends, and Techniques Domain impersonation is the foundation for a multitude of online threats. Because a domain is dynamic, identifying when and how it will be used for malicious purposes can be challenging for security teams, and requires constant monitoring for behavior that will validate removal. In the 2023 Domain Impersonation Report, we review look-alike domain...
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Preventing Domain Impersonation
How to Stop Look-Alike Domains and Spoofing In the first half of 2023, cybercriminals targeted company brands using an average of 40 look-alike domains per month. Domain impersonation threats trick users into giving away sensitive information by convincing them an email is from a trusted source or a website is authentic. It’s crucial that companies take preventive measures against look-alike...
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Fortra’s PhishLabs Recognized as Digital Risk Protection Market Leader by Frost and Sullivan
Cybersecurity firm also awarded Global Company of the Year for DRP
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YouMail and Fortra's PhishLabs Sign Mutual Referral Partnership
The agreement strengthens YouMail Protective Services' defenses with curated threat intelligence, while enhancing PhishLabs' security protections to block voice phishing (vishing) attacks.
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Response-Based Email Threats Targeting Corporate Inboxes Are The Highest Since 2020, According To Fortra's Latest Agari And PhishLabs Report
Response-based attacks targeting corporate inboxes have climbed to their highest volume since 2020, representing 41 percent of all email-based scams targeting employees, during Q2 of this year. This is according to the latest Quarterly Threat Trends & Intelligence Report from Agari and PhishLabs, part of the Fortra cybersecurity portfolio.
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Forta's Core Security Introduces New Ransomware Simulator
Core Security by Fortra, a leading provider of cyber threat solutions, today announced the addition of ransomware simulation to its penetration testing solution, Core Impact. Using an automated Rapid Pen Test, Core Impact users can now efficiently simulate a ransomware attack.
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Vishing Attacks Reach All Time High According to Latest Agari and PhishLabs Report
Vishing (voice phishing) cases have increased almost 550 percent over the last twelve months (Q1 2022 to Q1 2021), according to the latest Quarterly Threat Trends & Intelligence Report from Agari and PhishLabs, both of which are part of the Fortra cybersecurity portfolio.
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HelpSystems’ (now Fortra's) Data Security Week LIVE to Give Powerful Insights into Navigating Today’s Cyberthreat Landscape
Data security experts will present virtual, interactive sessions focused on protecting valuable information assets for attendees
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5th Annual IBM AIX Community Survey Findings
The AIX Community Survey, now in its fifth consecutive year, goes in-depth with IT teams to gain a unique perspective into how this platform is being used today and how teams envision using it in the future. Over the years, the respondents of the survey have expanded to include a variety of industries, geographies, and titles within IT. More than 100 IT professionals in North America, EMEA, and APAC participated in this year’s survey, and this input enables all of us to understand the role of AIX with new clarity.
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Integrating IBM i Security Events into Your SIEM
This guide discusses the technical issues relevant to logging IBM i security data and offers a solution for real-time awareness of security events and integration with SIEM solutions.
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Cybersecurity Insiders 2021 Malware Report
Malware and ransomware are some of the most destructive security threats affecting organizations of all sizes, from SMBs to large enterprises and government agencies. The 2021 Malware Report was produced by Cybersecurity Insiders and Fortra to reveal the latest malware security trends, challenges, and investment priorities. Here are some of the findings: More respondents see malware and ransomware...
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HelpSystems (now Fortra) Makes It Easier to Identify Security Events on IBM i
Fortra today announced the latest release of Powertech SIEM Agent for IBM i. The new version provides enhanced flexibility to meet the demands of increasingly complex IT environments.
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Download "A Guide to Practical Single Sign On"
The cost of managing user access to data and software applications with user IDs and passwords adds up quickly, but the solution is surprisingly simple. With single sign on (SSO), you can eliminate passwords—and the cost associated with them —by joining your IBM i, AIX, and Linux servers to your Windows domain for authentication. The key to achieving the ROI you want is to use a fresh, direct...
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Download "CIO Confidential: 5 Things Your IBM i Security Administrator Should Tell You"
Employees on the front lines often possess insight that manager, directors, and executives lack. Corporate leaders rely on feedback from these professionals, especially when it comes to emerging security threat. But for a variety of reasons, systems administrators might be reluctant to to speak up about critical issues related to IBM i, including the importance of consistently updating security...
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Download "How to Securely Deploy Access Client Solutions (ACS) for IBM i"
IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS) is the newest member of the IBM i Access family, replacing the IBM i Access for Windows client. ACS runs on most operating systems supporting Java. Because ACS uses different technology and deployment approach than IBM i Access for Windows, the considerations for securely deploying ACS are different than IBM i Access for Windows. Some of the considerations for...
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Weak Internal Security Causes Weak External Security
Long-time security expert, Pat Botz, recently joined Fortra. Botz goes way back in the computer industry. He wrote the Basic compiler and CAD tools for Control Data supercomputers and then lead the development of CAD tools for its AIX workstation line three decades ago. He eventually became a lead security architect for the IBM i platform, and left Big Blue a number of years ago to start his own security firm, Botz & Associates. Dan sat down to have a chat with Chris Heim, chief executive officer of Fortra, and John Vanderwall, vice president and business unit manager for security services at the company, as well as Botz, who now has a senior security services consultant position at the company.
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HelpSystems (now Fortra) Extends Security Monitoring to Amazon S3
Policy Minder has been expanded to empower security monitoring for data stored on Amazon S3, giving IT professionals peace of mind any misconfigurations or oversights will be detected and rectified.