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How to Fortify Defenses Before Threats Materialize

By Chris Reffkin on Mon, 09/09/2024
Cyber threats are becoming more sophisticated and frequent, yet many organizations still face challenges due to limited resources. In ITSecurityWire, Fortra's Chris Reffkin highlights prioritizing remediation, closing the skills gap, and ongoing improvement.
IT Infrastructure Protection
Guide

Avoid These Common Ransomware Prevention Oversights

Most breaches and data losses are caused by simple "honest" mistakes that inadvertently create security weaknesses for attackers to target. In fact 68% of data breaches originate from some type of non-malicious human element*. When it comes to ransomware prevention, if you focus too intently on your defensive cybersecurity tactics, you may be overlooking some fundamental security measures, like...
Blog

Managing the Rising Tide of CVEs

By Mieng Lim on Fri, 07/26/2024
If you are watching recent security stats, you’ll likely spot an alarming trend.Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) are on the rise and expected to increase by 25% in 2024, reaching 2,900 CVEs per month¹. It’s not a huge surprise that the number of known vulnerabilities is growing, given the proliferation of systems and software. Unfortunately, average time to remediation is increasing as...
Blog

3 Components of a Proactive Security Strategy 

By Mieng Lim on Mon, 07/22/2024
Your organization might have many cybersecurity defenses in place, but defenses alone are not enough to protect you from today’s multi-faceted cyberattacks. Proactively adding a layer of offensive security assessment and testing helps you pinpoint your system weaknesses before they are exploited. Proactive security measures help you stay ahead of attackers by:Identifying vulnerabilities and...
Fortra Webinar
On-Demand Webinar

IBM i Performance Week

By Chuck Losinski
Robot Monitor and Performance Navigator are powerhouses when it comes to performance monitoring and management. That’s why it’s essential for your team to understand how to harness their raw potential and put them to work so that nothing you deem critical slips through the cracks. This webinar series is your chance!
IBM i Automation
Release Day 2024.2
Blog

Major Launches Announced on Release Day 2024.2

Fri, 05/17/2024
About Fortra’s Release Day Each quarter, we at Fortra get to roll out the fruits of our labors for the past few months. We showcase new features, updates, and even products. This Release Day features several groundbreaking projects. We’ve broken into the XDR arena and are thrilled to introduce you to our new offering. We’ve issued major releases for over a half-dozen of our flagship products....
On-Demand Webinar

How Fortra Enables Your Zero Trust Strategy

By Nick Hogg
The concept of using a Zero Trust architecture in cybersecurity has been around for more than a decade, and its fundamental principle of “never trust, always verify” sounds straightforward enough. However, there’s a lot of noise around Zero Trust, often generated by vendors promising that their solution is that magic silver bullet to all of your Zero Trust problems. This can muddy the waters and...
Infrastructure and Data Protection
Blog

Top 8 Benefits of Network Monitoring

Thu, 03/14/2024
Lack of network visibility makes life hard for IT. Network monitoring helps you stay ahead of outages with real-time visibility into your network health.
Monitoring
Guide

How to Get Started with IT Modernization

Modernization is more than simply switching from a green screen to a GUI. To have a truly modern IBM i data center, you must consider all areas of IT from your software and applications to your hardware and devices to the processes that support the whole operation. This guides helps you modernize your IBM i from the ground up.
IBM i Automation
Monitoring
On-Demand Webinar

The Two Faces of SQL on IBM i

By Chuck Losinski
Watch this webinar on how to tackle the two faces of SQL on IBM i. We demonstrate how you can both monitor SQL activity on your system while also creating user-defined SQL statements to retrieve and monitor nearly anything automatically for unlimited flexibility.
IBM i Automation
Blog

How to Recover After Failing a Cybersecurity Audit

Tue, 12/12/2023
While it’s important to adhere to compliance regulations, blunders do happen. What does it mean when these blunders lead to you failing a cybersecurity audit, and how can you recover? Consequences of Failing a Cybersecurity Audit Failing a cybersecurity audit can mean several things. First, there’s the up-front legal fines that come with falling on the wrong side of compliance. Here are a few...