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Anatomy of a Ransomware Operation

WhitepaperSecurity Awareness

15 Sep 2022
Jake Williams

Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation: Evolving Federal Defenses with Cost-Effective and Maintainable Data Integration Solutions

WhitepaperCyber Defense

14 Sep 2022

Addressing Deepfake-Enabled Attacks Using Security Controls

WhitepaperCyber Defense

14 Sep 2022

SANS 2022 Top New Attacks and Threat Report - PT

WhitepaperSecurity Awareness

12 Sep 2022
John Pescatore, Terry Allan Hicks

SANS 2022 Top New Attacks and Threat Report

WhitepaperSecurity Awareness

12 Sep 2022
John Pescatore, Terry Allan Hicks

SANS 2022 Top New Attacks and Threat Report - ES

WhitepaperSecurity Awareness

12 Sep 2022
John Pescatore, Terry Allan Hicks

SANS 2022 Report: Detecting and Preventing Software Dependency Attacks

WhitepaperSecurity Awareness

30 Aug 2022
Jake Williams

SANS Protects: The Network

WhitepaperSecurity Awareness

30 Aug 2022
Matt Bromiley

Is It Time for Decentralized Identity?

WhitepaperCybersecurity Leadership

25 Aug 2022
Greg Scheidel

The Mandiant Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) Analyst Core Competencies Framework

23 Aug 2022
John Doyle

SANS 2022 Report: Moving to a State of Zero Trust

WhitepaperSecurity Awareness, Cyber Defense

17 Aug 2022
Matt Bromiley

SANS 2022 Report: Moving to a State of Zero Trust - spanish

WhitepaperSecurity Awareness, Cyber Defense

17 Aug 2022
Matt Bromiley