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As a security professional, you’re responsible for a constantly-evolving endpoint environment, with new threats and risks appearing daily. You already have in place the right technology to secure your objectives. Unlock the full potential of your Absolute DDS investment, and strengthen your endpoint security posture, with the Absolute DDS Health Check.

The Insider Threat comes in all shapes and sizes, making it a hard nut to crack for IT. Virtually anyone with approved access to your corporate network or data stores is an Insider. Traditional methods to protect data, such as encryption, become meaningless. An insider is already authorized to bypass these measures and access sensitive data. How do you protect your organization against the Insider Threat? The first step...

While 80% of organizations believe that security issues are impeding innovation, 37% believe that data security is impeding progress. A further 57% believe that security in general is likely to be compromised as organizations try to innovate quickly.

If you employ a defense-in-depth security strategy that combines multiple layers of technology to protect against a range of threats, you may also use a SIEM (security information and event management) solution to consolidate the various data feeds produced by your security layers, offering you a holistic view of all information inputs.

One-third (33%) of IT managers admit to successfully hacking their own or another organization. Nearly half of IT managers (45%) knowingly circumvent their own security policies. IT personnel are not following the same security protocols they’re expected to enforce. We revealed these results today in our new report, IT Confidential: The State of Security Confidence, which provides insight into the attitudes, behaviour, and confidence levels of IT when it...