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Leadership Brief

KuppingerCole’s Leadership Brief provides condensed research and advice for executives and decision makers in organizations. These two-page documents cover business challenges and advise on how to address them, focusing on the key issues and allowing decision makers to quickly identify the right solutions.
Product security as your biggest challenge: Start before it’s too late
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Product security as your biggest challenge: Start before it’s too late
The Internet of Things (IoT) has enormous potential to transform and benefit both consumers and industries, but along with it comes significant privacy and security implications. Addressing these...
Six Key Actions to Prepare for GDPR
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Six Key Actions to Prepare for GDPR
From May 2018, when the upcoming EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) comes into force, the requirements for managing personal data will change. This report identifies six key actions that...
Vorbereitung auf die EU-DSGVO: Sechs Schlüsselaktivitäten
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Vorbereitung auf die EU-DSGVO: Sechs Schlüsselaktivitäten
Mit der kommenden EU-DSGVO (Datenschutz-Grundverordnung) im Mai 2018 verändern sich die Anforderungen an den Umgang mit personenbezogenen Daten. Dieser Report identifiziert sechs zentrale...
Marketing Chatbots and GDPR
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Marketing Chatbots and GDPR
Chatbots are a recent trend in marketing automation, designed to enhance customers’ digital journeys and elicit more information from consumers. This report evaluates the impact of GDPR will have...
Mobile Connect
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Mobile Connect
Strong authentication via smartphones is available today in many countries. GSMA’s Mobile Connect specification can improve security and help banks and third party providers comply with the EU’s...
Cyber Hygiene: The Foundation for Cyber Resilience
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Cyber Hygiene: The Foundation for Cyber Resilience
Most cyber incidents result from poor cyber hygiene. To avoid these, organizations must make sure that all the routine tasks needed to keep their systems, data, and applications safe are performed...
EU NIS2 Directive
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EU NIS2 Directive
Every organization needs to take steps to ensure their cyber resilience and this updated directive provides a useful framework for this. This report provides a summary of the technical obligations...
Advanced IT security solutions for OT environments
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Advanced IT security solutions for OT environments
Industrial Control Systems operators are increasingly targeted by Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actors and cybercriminals as digital transformation accelerates. Many hitherto isolated systems...
Managing RDP Security Risks to Block Ransomware Attacks
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Managing RDP Security Risks to Block Ransomware Attacks
Remote working is becoming widespread for social and economic reasons, and one of the key enablers is the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). However, RDP is one of the most popular initial cyber-attack...
Security Fabric: A Methodology for Architecting a Secure Future
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Security Fabric: A Methodology for Architecting a Secure Future
Work from home, bring your own device, a professional cyber-crime industry, IoT & OT. We all have to face these challenges while fullfilling a zoo of endless requirements. It is complex to keep the...
Optimizing your Cybersecurity Spending
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Optimizing your Cybersecurity Spending
Prioritizing cybersecurity portfolio expenditures can be a very complex process. At best, the investments should be as low as needed but high enough to be prepared for future attacks and data...
Do I need Network Threat Detection & Response (NTDR)?
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Do I need Network Threat Detection & Response (NTDR)?
NTDR products/services are getting a lot of attention at conferences and in the cybersecurity press. But does your organization need it? We’ll look at what NTDR products do, reasons to consider...