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.
Product Video
Sequel Data Warehouse ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) Overview and Demonstration
Wed, 06/26/2024
When data comes from all over your IT environment and is accessed in different ways by different users, your organization faces a lot of issues. Not only is the data inconsistent, but each database formats and delivers data differently. And there's no single filter through which all data goes to make sure it is high quality. That's where Sequel Data Warehouse can help. By accessing any data and...
On-Demand Webinar
How to Maximize Your BI Technology with a Data Warehouse
Watch this webinar to learn why Sequel Data Warehouse is the trusted tool for IBM i organizations to overcome the many types of data integration challenges.
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...
Article
What is Intelligent Process Automation (IPA)?
By Ravi Dirckze on Tue, 01/09/2024
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In nearly all industries, artificial intelligence (AI) is held up as the vision for the future, with the promise to transform every aspect of business. But not all hype lives up to reality....
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...
On-Demand Webinar
Your Side of the AWS Shared Security Model
Tue, 11/21/2023
Discover the breadth of solutions that Fortra offers to help you with your side of the AWS shared security model.
Guide
6 Cybersecurity Thought Leaders on Data Protection
Data protection is essential for the health and survival of any organization. Getting the support of corporate leadership is critical to fully protect your valuable assets. In this eBook, six experts share their perspectives of:The current challenges surrounding data protectionWhat the future of data protection may look likeWays to gain support within an organization for your data protection...
Blog
Generative AI in Cybersecurity
By Antonio Sanchez on Tue, 09/12/2023
Understand the challenges and benefits of generative AI on today’s cybersecurity landscape and learn how Fortra’s advanced cybersecurity solutions can help.
Blog
Accelerating Security Maturity with Fortra Bundles
Tue, 08/29/2023
In The Importance of Layering Offensive Security Solutions, Fortra experts underscore the advantage of developing a single source offensive security tooling portfolio. Read on to find out the necessary ingredients for a proactive strategy and why Fortra’s ability to combine and maximize solutions optimizes security and produces the most effective outcomes.The Five Elements of an Offensive Security...