To deliver effective information sharing and threat intelligence, the security industry must settle on a single set of threat-sharing standards, says David Duncan of the Internet security firm Webroot.

To mitigate the threat posed by malicious insiders or attackers who compromise real users' credentials, businesses must create and monitor a baseline of legitimate user behavior and activities, says Idan Tendler, CEO of Fortscale.

There's a big difference between threat data and threat intelligence, says Kevin Epstein of threat intelligence firm Proofpoint. Data alone is not enough to predict emerging threats, he says.

As organizations increasingly focus on securing critical data, they mustn't overlook one huge vulnerability: enterprise email. Steven Malone of Mimecast discusses the latest in unified email management.

BitSight Technologies conducted research on breached organizations and how they were impacted by botnets. The results are eye-opening, says CTO Stephen Boyer, offering insights from this study.

To secure the growing number of devices being used within enterprises requires organizations to be sure they're providing the right access to the right resources for the right people, says Ping Identity's Nat Klassen.

Automating processes could help organizations tackle the shortage of cybersecurity practitioners by making the job of analyzing threats simpler and more efficient, says Jessica Gulick, a vice president at security provider CSG Invotas.

Using behavior analytics is key to identifying hackers, says Mark Seward, vice president of marketing for IT security provider Exabeam

As the U.S. completes its payments migration to the EMV chip, merchants and card issuers should be bracing for an uptick in card-not-present fraud, says Carol Alexander, head of payment security at software provider CA Technologies.

As organizations move toward storing and processing more data on the public cloud, security needs be automated and based on sound policies to mitigate growing threats, says HyTrust President Eric Chiu.