Articles By: Recorded Future

Ransomware: Understand. Prevent. Recover.

Ransomware. The very name strikes fear in the heart of organizations. This type of malware attack isn’t new, but it’s more popular than ever before.

A Guide to Brand Protection: The Top Three Threats Facing Your Organization

Your brand is your most valuable asset, and has the potential to be your ultimate competitive advantage. Brands that have been methodically built over many years and decades can be destroyed overnight with a successful cyberattack — 80% of consumers will defect from a business that has compromised their data.

Executive Brief: Inside the Dark Web

Only 42% of companies are actively monitoring the dark web for threats. That is a surprisingly low number when so many threat actors are planning their next attack on the dark web. If your organization isn’t monitoring the dark web, you could be missing out on important information regarding your security.

Real Examples of Third-Party Risk: Lawsuits, Millions of Dollars, and Reputational Damage

Securing your own organization against threat actors is hard enough. Add in all of the ways you can be exposed to danger through your third-party vendors and the idea of being fully secure seems nearly impossible.

How Brand Protection Safeguards Your Customers and Your Reputation

Your organization’s most important asset is its brand. The brand encompasses everything — the people, services, products, interactions — that comes to mind when thinking about your organization. Any damage done to your brand as a whole has an outsize effect and can cause the public to lose trust, and ultimately choose another option.

Patch What Matters with Risk-Based Vulnerability Management

Patching vulnerabilities is critical for protecting an organization’s data and assets. 60% of breaches have been linked to a vulnerability where a patch was available but not applied. However, identifying which vulnerabilities are a priority is difficult, and relying on CVSS scores alone won’t do the job.

The Security Intelligence Handbook, Third Edition

The latest edition of our popular book paints a clear picture of security intelligence, as well as actionable guidance for disrupting the threat actors targeting your organization right now — and in the future. “The Security Intelligence Handbook” is your definitive guide for proactive risk reduction.

Digital (IT) Governance Is Broken: 9 Ways Enterprises Mismanage Their Cyber Risk

In this paper, security and risk experts Levi Gundert and Courtenay Brammar draw from consulting experience, candid conversations with security leaders, and empirical research to tackle this major issue facing enterprise organizations. Download this white paper to learn more about the issues currently plaguing enterprise cyber governance and the specific remedies for organizational leaders striving for an effective governance model.