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Security Awareness: The Groundwork of Cybersecurity Culture

Wed, 05/03/2023
It’s a big world out there, and cybercriminals know you don’t have time for everything. A common fallacy is that they’re lurking in dark basements, bending their brands to maximum capacity to create highly sophisticated exploits that blow any current security system out of the water. More often than not, they’re not. Criminal hackers go after the...
Guide

Fortra's Complete Guide to Layered Offensive Security

Most organizations have a decent understanding of the types of defensive security tactics they need to employ to thwart cyberattacks. But offensive security techniques are just as important for detecting existing vulnerabilities that a threat actor has yet to discover and exploit. Learn how to approach offensive security from the ground up, including the value of using a layered security...
Infrastructure and Data Protection
IT Infrastructure Protection
Vulnerability Management
Offensive Security
Blog

Preparing for the Impact of PCI DSS 4.0

Thu, 11/10/2022
Stealing credit card data is a perennial favorite of cybercriminals everywhere, whose aggressive tactics to score sensitive accountholder details result in breach after breach for organizations small and large. In its most recent research on payment card fraud, The Nilson Report found $28.6 billion in losses for 2020 (nearly 36% in the U.S. alone),...
Compliance
Article

What is SNMP, and How Does It Work?

By Kevin Jackson on Thu, 03/03/2022
SNMP is one of the most widely accepted protocols for network monitoring. Here’s a quick summary of what is SNMP, how it works, and why it matters to network professionals.
Monitoring
Case Study

How Decatur City Schools Manages Their Growing Network with Intermapper

Through the years, there have been a lot of network changes at Decatur City Schools, a school district located in north Alabama. But one thing has remained constant, their reliance on Intermapper, the network monitoring solution from Fortra. “Before Intermapper, we didn’t have any insight into what was up and what was down,” said Gary Cloer, Decatur City Schools network specialist. “We were...
Monitoring
Datasheet

Why Upgrade from Showcase 9 to Showcase 10?

In addition to supporting and replicating the majority of the Showcase 9 feature set, the following features are available with Showcase 10 for IBM i business intelligence and data access.
IBM i Business Intelligence