News Article
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.
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
What Is Vulnerability Management? Process & Use Cases
By Antonio Sanchez on Tue, 07/23/2024
Recent years have seen confusion around how to define vulnerability management. In this blog, security expert Antonio Sanchez sets the record straight, exploring the technology’s process and use cases.
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...
News Article
IT Nerd: Exclusive Insights from Fortra’s 2024 Penetration Testing Report
By Chris Reffkin on Fri, 06/28/2024
Fortra CISO Chris Reffkin spoke with IT Nerd and shared valuable insights from Fortra’s 2024 Penetration Testing Report.
Blog
The Top 5 Benefits of Remote Network Monitoring
By Kevin Jackson on Mon, 06/10/2024
If your network equipment is located in multiple locations, or your IT team wants to monitor the network on-the-go, remote network monitoring can help.
News Article
Healthcare IT News: HHS Offers $50M to Help Providers Patch Ransomware Vulnerabilities
By Tyler Reguly on Fri, 06/07/2024
Is AI enough to help organizations keep up with constantly changing vulnerabilities? Tyler Reguly spoke with Healthcare IT News and shared his take on it.
News Article
ComputerWeekly: Critical Sharepoint, Qakbot-Linked Flaws Focus of May Patch Tuesday
By Tyler Reguly on Fri, 06/07/2024
Tyler Reguly spoke with ComputerWeekly about the elevation of privilege (EoP) vulnerability in Windows DWM Core Library.
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...
Blog
How to Make a Network Map in 5 Easy Steps
Thu, 03/21/2024
Your network is complex, but creating a helpful, dynamic map doesn't have to be - learn how to create a network map with Intermapper.
On-Demand Webinar
Control Costs and Boost Productivity with IBM i Automation
Tue, 03/19/2024
Our IBM i experts discuss the drawbacks of manual IBM i processing and how Fortra’s Robot Schedule makes automating your IBM i intuitive and effective.
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.
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.
Blog
How to Succeed at IBM i Security
Mon, 02/19/2024
Find out where security plans are running off course and how you can make a completely attainable plan to succeed.
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...
Article
Identifying Security Threats with Network Monitoring Software
By Kevin Jackson on Tue, 12/05/2023
Now more than ever, securing your infrastructure is critical to the success of your organization.