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Dell SecureWorks has been positioned in the Leaders quadrant of Gartner's newly released Magic Quadrant for MSSPs, North America, 2011. The Gartner Magic Quadrant is a graphical portrayal of vendor performance in a market segment, including categories for leaders, challengers, visionaries and niche players. Criteria by which the vendors are measured include a company’s completeness of vision and ability to execute.
If you are evaluating how to meet an information security or compliance need, and want to be sure the investment will pay off for your organization, having credible information from a trusted authority is invaluable. This case study will help you. Read a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting, “The Total Economic Impact of Dell SecureWorks Managed Security Services.” (Study published Nov. 2011)
As mobile device usage in healthcare organizations and clinical settings has proliferated, risks and breaches have followed. This paper outlines how mobile devices are used today in healthcare and where the investments in this technology are heading. The paper also outlines what the common specific risks and breach repercussions are in using mobile devices, and how to mitigate these risks using four key tactics.
This paper outlines the federal Meaningful Use data security requirement, the penalties and incentives associated with Meaningful Use, and elements to create a successful strategy for developing a strong security posture. Also detailed is the importance of fitting a security risk analysis into the larger picture of maintaining HIPAA compliance.
Security concerns in healthcare have compounded as more providers move online due to increasing incentives and penalties in a complex regulatory environment where enforcement is encroaching. Concurrent with this trend, though, major breaches continue to occur, and are likely accelerating. Healthcare companies need to have a sound strategy in place for addressing these concerns, and a well-rounded understanding of the risk they are individually tasked with managing. This article explains some of these trends, outlines the risks involved, and offers potential solutions to reduce risk in an increasingly complex healthcare data environment.
Security is the major concern for companies that are considering moving their data and business processes to the cloud. To have sound security in the cloud, companies need to enforce precise access management controls and practice very disciplined, rigorous cloud vendor management. This paper offers 10 tips that businesses should implement in order to reduce the security risks in the cloud.
According to Dell SecureWorks' data, hacker attacks targeting its retail customers increased 43 percent between the last nine months of 2010 and the first nine months of 2011. From January through September 2011, SecureWorks blocked an average of 91,500 attacks per retail customer, as compared to 63,581 attacks per retail customer April through December 2010.
Small and mid-sized businesses are losing as much as $1 billion per year to cybercrime by some estimates, and SMBs are finding it more and more challenging to protect themselves. SMBs need to have comprehensive endpoint security in place as well as sound network security. This paper lists 8 simple steps that your organization can take to help protect financial data and minimize the risk.
This Tech Republic guide to SMB security is designed for small and mid-sized business owners and managers. It explains how you can defend your business against attack and theft across the digital domain, how you can set up layers of protection and how to protect your bottom line from both external and internal threats.
Today’s smartphones and tablets represent the easiest means for a hacker to gain access to your corporate network. Protecting these devices is much more difficult since they have fewer API’s and lack an operating system as robust as Windows or Linux. Organized crime is focusing on smartphones because it’s much easier to get the data they want. This paper describes the 10 most common smartphone threats and offers high level best practice suggestions for mitigating the risk.
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