The Elements of Cyberdefense

From csoonline.com

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2.1 million people over eleven counties in North Texas depend on Tarrant Regional Water District (TRWD) for their water supply and flood control measures. As a critical part of our national infrastructure, they are well aware of the rising risk of advanced persistent threats, but they also have a small network team with no dedicated in-house security staff.

So how does a team like the one at TRWD master security and regain the upper hand? Should they find themselves face-to-face against sophisticated cybercriminals, it would be a true underdog story—but this small, savvy team in North Texas turned to ExtraHop Reveal(x) network detection and response (NDR) to help them prevent advanced threats.

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