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The Benefits of Identity & Access Management

Download this white paper to learn how IAM projects can be practical, affordable and provide quick ROI for companies of all sizes.

Leveraging Automation to Quickly Reveal Vulnerabilities

With web applications constantly evolving, finding vulnerabilities is a challenging, costly and time-consuming undertaking. Find out how Cenzic's powerful security solutions help information security teams quickly identify problems, regularly assess web application security strength and ensure regulatory compliance.

Cenzic Software: Identity Theft Laws And Application Security

The Cenzic Hailstorm® solution helps companies comply with AB 1950, allowing companies to use automated processes to manage their security. Hailstorm is a key tool for preventing breaches.

The Spyware Epidemic: Dealing with 'Legal' Malicious Code

In this Aladdin white paper you will discover an overview of spyware, security threats seen with spyware, the technical underpinnings to spyware, the technology challenges inherent in trying to block spyware, and spyware's legal issues.

Internal Network Security: Peakflow X and Relational Network Modeling

This white paper explains how complete network visibility and monitoring through relational modeling - enforcing legitimate relationships between hosts, machines and applications secures the internal enterprise network.

SSL VPN Checklist

The SSL VPN Checklist details important capabilities to consider when evaluating and comparing SSL VPN vendors and their technology solutions. Enterprise requirements are organized into six broad categories: application-level experience and support, security enforcement, flexible policy management and administration, ease of use, leadership and vision, and financial strength and reputation.

The Positive ROI of Managing Vulnerabilities with Automated Penetration Testing

This paper will demonstrate how real-world case studies reveal a significantly positive ROI, making the purchase decision easily justified. Since IT and security budgets are tight, to justify product acquisitions many organizations undertake an ROI analysis for new software purchases.

Compliance Multi-Tasking: Today's Security Priority

Driven by increasing regulatory scrutiny and the need to protect key corporate assets, concerns about compliance and data leakage have risen to the top of the priority list for today's corporate executives. This paper discusses multiple policies, procedures and processes corporations must consider to remain secure and compliant.

Ethical and Legal Responsibilities of Security Professionals

Gain a clearer understanding of the ethical and legal implications that come with a career in information security.

Information Security Career Planning

Information security is one of the hottest job fields in today's economy. And to have a successful career in information security, an individual needs certain essential skills and aptitudes. In this white paper you will learn what these skills are and also how to begin planning your career in information security.

Compliance. Protection. Recovery. A Layered Approach to Laptop Security for Corporations

This paper discusses the problems IT departments face with laptop theft, mobile data protection, IT asset tracking, and regulatory compliance such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, and California Senate Bill 1386.

Defining the Rules for Preemptive Host Protection

Protecting desktop and server, or host systems has rapidly become a high priority for organizations that want to ensure uptime and the availability of day-to-day business applications. Today's hybrid threats are growing faster, more complex and more destructive.

Virus Prevention Without Signatures

Viruses have been on the attack for more than 20 years, and the cost of dealing with them is escalating. Too many malcode (malicious code) attacks by viruses, worms, Trojans and the like are breaking through today's most prevalent system defenses: Antivirus (AV) programs. This whitepaper will discuss the full impact of virus disasters and what historically has been done to combat the problem.

Vulnerability Assessment for the Security Operations Center

This white paper explains the evolving needs for vulnerability assessment, the special requirements inherent within large enterprises, and how SecureScout SP from netVigilance meets those needs.

The Performance Advantage: NitroSecurity's Aggregation and Correlation Engine

NitroSecurity's Security Event Aggregation and Correlation Engine (N-SEAC) is a patented, key differentiator of the NitroSecurity IPS solution. It allows enterprise customers the ability to collect and analyze threat information more efficiently and in an accurate and timely manner.

Why Migrating to Triple DES Is Not Easy

In this white paper, we describe the basic characteristics of DES and triple-DES and look at the security properties that a financial transaction system will want to achieve. We then look at the problems related with a migration from DES to triple-DES; enumerating and discussing several points that we suggest should be considered.

Information Security Obligations Under UK Law

The law in the United Kingdom has various influences on organizational information security policy. As well as protecting the rights of individuals and organizations, it also imposes many duties and responsibilities. For organizations to meet their legal obligations a number of technical controls can be put in place.

Because Passwords Simply Aren't Enough

Historically, before computers and the Internet, business transactions were conducted face to face; establishing your partner's identity in such situations presented few problems. As human beings, we are well equipped to discern the extraorginarily subtle variations of the human face and voice to enable positive recognition and identification of our partner.

Business-Driven Information Security: The Key to Effective Executive Communication

This paper is a synopsis of the presentations given at the Preventsys "CISO Breakfast Series," a succession of seminars given across North America in January and February 2005. The speakers for each breakfast consisted of security professionals and executives who provided their views on how to more effectively align information security with business initiatives.

Effective Operational Security Metrics

Security professionals are constantly being asked to justify every security project. Security risks can often be difficult to measure and even more difficult to understand by people outside the department. The key to demonstrating improvement is to translate security information into business terms.

Protecting HTTP Traffic: Why Web Filtering Should Be Your First Line of Defense

This paper outlines the types of threats that leverage the Internet as a means of delivery and the risks that they pose to your organization. Learn the key drivers of a corporate security policy and how you can protect against HTTP-based threats using Web filtering as part of a multi-layered content security strategy.

Spyware: An Annoying and Dangerous Problem You CAN Eradicate

Spyware presents a daily threat to organizations. It can even lead to networks being exposed to malicious attacks. Find out about the specific types of spyware threats that are out there and how you can combat these threats today.

Unknown Attacks: A Clear and Growing Danger

Unknown attacks are quickly becoming the next great information security challenge for today's organizations. Get up to speed on what these threats really are and learn what security measures are available to keep your network safe from these attacks.

5 Approaches to Messaging Security: A Technical Overview of the Tradeoffs

This white paper reviews the five most common current approaches to messaging security. While the five approaches discussed here are not the comprehensive list of available solutions, they are the basis for most variations of messaging security solutions available today.

An IT-Friendly Approach to Secure Messaging

This white paper describes how Sigaba's secure email solutions minimize the burden on IT organizations through a combination of easy integration with existing enterprise systems and simple maintenance.

Addressing HIPAA Compliance Issues

This document details the mandated and proposed rules generally referred to as the "HIPAA requirements" and how they affect healthcare organizations and their business partners transmit medical information electronically.

Leveraging Change Control to Meet PCI Requirements

Learn how change control technology helps organizations comply with PCI DSS by tracking changes to critical files, determining if changes are authorized, and selectively preventing unauthorized change. Read this white paper on how you can relieve the burden of out-of-process and other unauthorized changes by using real-time monitoring and selective enforcement software.

Bringing UNIX/Linux Networks into Sarbanes-Oxley Act

This document demonstrates how Symark PowerPassword-UME and PowerBroker work in tandem to protect the integrity of data across heterogeneous UNIX/Linux systems to help bring your system into compliance with FDA Regulation 21 CFR Part II requirements.

Controlling, Delegating, Logging and Auditing Root Actions with Symark PowerBroker

The purpose of the document is to demonstrate the value of Symark PowerBroker as a tool for eliminating or reducing risk in environments where information security and risk avoidance are considered important.

Intelligent Defense for Enterprise Assets: The Need for Host Intrusion Prevention

Businesses today are under intense pressure to open up their networks, comply with increasingly rigorous regulatory requirements, AND ensure their IT assets are protected from attacks. This white paper explores these security challenges and explains how host-based Intrusion Prevention Systems play a critical role in an organization's overall security strategy.

The New Threat: Attackers That Target Healthcare Organizations (And what you can do about it)

Healthcare organizations are being targeted by financially motivated attackers that steal and sell valuable data, including identities and computing resources. This white paper defines the new threat, and outlines three important steps that providers can take to protect their critical systems.

4 Key Qualities of Effective Host-Based Intrusion Prevention (HIP) Systems

Organizations that need to protect business critical applications, and sensitive data and hosts recognize that traditional network defenses can be readily bypassed by attackers. This white paper defines four key qualities of an effective host-based IPS.

Protecting IT Infrastructures Against Zero-Day Network Attacks with Intrusion Prevention System Tech

This white paper is intended for Information Security and Information Technology professionals interested in understanding Zero-day Attacks, the various protection schemes available today and how Top Layer Network's Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) solutions provide the best mechanisms for protection from these types of attacks.

PCI Compliance: Are You Onboard?

This paper covers the basic requirements of PCI, with a focus on the administrative and technical elements of the program. It also reviews the validation requirements of the standard and potential sanctions for failure to comply.

Tokens Aren't Always the Answer: 4 Cases for Identity-Based Solutions

Authentication technologies such as tokens and smart cards help meet the challenges of protecting sensitive data and securing application access. This white paper presents four cases in which an identity-based solution provides a compelling, low-cost alternative or complement to strong authentication technologies.

A Virtual Hard Drive That's Like an Electronic Vault For Your Confidential Files

The success of an information security technology relies upon user acceptance. If users don't use the technology, the data will become vulnerable. Read why SafeGuard PrivateDisk is easy to use and accepted by users as well as administration alike.

Adapting to the Changing Landscape of Security

Organizations today face an increasingly complex work environment where security measures that were adequate even two years ago no longer meet regulatory mandates. This white paper discusses the changing landscape of security and suggests areas where businesses should re-examine their processes.

On-Demand Vulnerability Management

Learn how to start your own self-auditing process by setting goals and answering key questions about your infrastructure. This podcast examines what to look for in a self-audition solution, how to use vulnerability management to ease the pain and why your software solution really matters.

Online Demo: Vulnerability Management and Policy Compliance Overview

Take a Free tour of the Web-based Vulnerability Management and Policy compliance solution that pinpoints network vulnerabilities before hackers have a chance to exploit them.

Protecting Client Systems from the Crimeware Invasion

The IT threat landscape has changed from individual hackers disrupting network operations to organized crime stealing confidential information. Antivirus technology must be joined by a coordinated, multilayered defense that includes proactive vulnerability-based intrusion prevention, file-based intrusion prevention, and inbound and outbound traffic control.

Reduce the Risk of Costly Data Breaches: Three Pillars of Data Protection

Iron Mountain Digital advocates Three Pillars of Data Breach Protection to serve as a guide for customers establishing a PC security program: Policy Management and Control; Threat Monitoring and Response; and Data Backup and Restoration. This paper provides an overview of PC encryption and how to address the Three Pillars of Data Breach Protection.

NAC NAC: Who’s Really There? (And What Are They Bringing Inside)

This paper addresses several issues organizations should consider when analyzing the efficacy and costs of NAC solutions and looks at a complementary alternative technology based on TNT’s Identity™, which helps address and overcome some limitations of NAC solutions.

Secure Online Data Transfer with SSL

Get thawte's new introductory guide to SSL security which covers the basics of how it operates. A discussion of the various applications of SSL certificates and their appropriate deployment is also included along with details of how to test SSL on your web server.

Securing Your Apache Web Server with a thawte Digital Certificate

Find out how to test, purchase, install and use a thawte SSL web server certificate on your Apache web server with our step-by step guide. Throughout the guide, best practices for setup are highlighted to help you ensure efficient ongoing management of your digital certificates.

Securing Your Microsoft IIS Web Server with a thawte Digital Certificate

Find out how to test, purchase, install and use a thawte SSL web server certificate on your Microsoft IIS web server with our step-by -step guide. Throughout the guide, best practices for setup are highlighted to help you ensure efficient ongoing management of your digital certificates.

Automated Penetration Testing: Completing the Vulnerability Management Framework

Recent regulatory additions require that companies take proactive measures like penetration testing to enforce data privacy and integrity. By deploying a distributed model companies can execute testing from different security levels which is important in challenging posture based on level of access.

Security Design Principles

This white paper is an overview of the Nixu Security System and the various security principles it encompasses. Topics discussed include security design, application security, OS hardening, patch management, and more.

Securing Web Applications: The Time Is Now

Enterprises need to utilize software testing that can automatically review applications for security problems. This document examines the market drivers and technology associated with software security code review products and discusses how Cenzic is addressing this urgent need.

There's a Hole in Your Network: Vulnerability Management Is No Mystery

Learn how vulnerability management allows you to keep on top of these problems by identifying an organization's greatest security vulnerabilities and proactively recommending fixes.

How One Company Conquered the Audit Challenge

The Marine Corps Community Services (MCCS) manages a global network that serves Marines and their families. MCCS chose a managed service to conduct comprehensive vulnerability assessments and prioritize patches and fixes.

Don't Dread that Network Audit: Compliance with Government Regulation and Industry Standards

Security administrators need to be more proactive about preventing attacks, making vulnerability assessments a crucial tool in their portfolio.

Symantec Backup Exec 11d for Windows Servers: New Encryption Capabilities

Security and compliance risks are greater than ever, and businesses depend on their data being protected when stored internally and taken offsite. New encryption capabilities offered by Backup Exec 11d for Windows Servers offer secure protection from unauthorized access. Learn more about encryption capabilities in Backup Exec 11d.

5 Simple Solutions for Developing a Collaborative Endpoint Security

The classic definition of information security states that the goal is to protect information from possible breaches in confidentiality, integrity, or availability. This paper provides some context, then five simple solutions to help mid-sized organizations keep their end point security under control.

Automate Now! Achieve Immediate Cost, Productivity and Security Benefits by Automating IT

This Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) white paper takes a close look at automated IT management, especially for medium-sized businesses.

Fresh Approaches to Solving the Malware Problem

Organizations need to be protected from both known and unknown threats, and all the varieties and forms that sophisticated malware can take. Learn about the changing nature of malware attacks and how the Webwasher Anti-Malware from Secure Computing can provide a highly effective defense against malicious content.

Image Spam: The Latest Attack on the Enterprise Inbox

Spammers have now fired a new barrage of image spam using randomized images that appear identical to the human eye, yet appear to be entirely unique to most anti-spam software. Many of the changes to the images contained within spam messages are so subtle that they require a pixel-by-pixel examination of the image in order to detect the differences. Read how Secure Computing effectively addresses this problem.

Application Security: No Room for False Positives

Enterprises are responding to new threat on communication protocols by hardening Web applications, and they are increasingly turning to Web application security assessment tools to improve the security of their applications. This report examines why high accuracy is critical to the effectiveness of the tools, and it discusses how Cenzic Hailstorm addresses this problem.

Web Application Security: The Overlooked Vulnerabilities

This white paper identifies critical vulnerabilities that most organizations overlook when they secure their web applications. It also introduces host intrusion defense with deep packet inspection as a new, effective approach for shielding these vulnerabilities.

Cenzic: Application Security for Financial Institutions

The Cenzic Hailstorm® solution helps financial institutions comply with GLBA and other laws by automating risk assessment, checking for vulnerability to the injection of malicious code into Web servers, automating the testing of code and key controls during the software development process, and helping them respond to new vulnerabilities in the software development lifecycle.

Leveraging Managed Service to Automate Security Assessment

With web applications constantly evolving, finding vulnerabilities is a challenging, costly and time-consuming undertaking. The solution is automated security assessment products that leverage stateful processing to comprehensively examine web applications and reveal vulnerabilities in hours rather than weeks. Find out how Cenzic's ClickToSecure solution can help you secure your applications.

IBM DB2 Anonymous Resolution: Knowledge Discovery without Knowledge Disclosure

This white paper will examine the potential of a technological breakthrough to reduce trust-based risks and change the way organizations reach a harmonious balance between consumer privacy and information sharing.

IBM's Banking Data Warehouse and Basel II

This white paper will outline the components of the Banking Data Warehouse (BDW) and how they assist financial institutions to address the data modeling and data consolidation issues relating to the Basel II Capital Accord.

What's Missing from SEM? Security Management is More than Event Management

This white paper identifies what is required for a comprehensive and integrated security management solution and examines the difference between SEM, SIM and SIEM and the challenges of enterprise level security monitoring.

Neutralizing the Spyware Threat

Add spyware to the list of urgent security concerns. With resources already stretched thin in fighting viruses and stopping spam, companies now also have to defend against a threat that strikes silently and does much of its damage before it’s even detected.

Risk Assessment & Compliance: A Management Tool for the IT Security Infrastructure

Risk assessment is the cornerstone of security. The risk assessment process includes gathering information about the assets of the organizations, including all information assets, and all physical assets.

The Integration of Information Security, Integrated Systems Security & Physical Security

The single most important trend in security in the next ten years will be the integration of various security elements such as information security, physical security and integrated systems security into a single security function.

The Case for Holistic Security

The integration of information security and physical security is an important trend that is becoming more widespread across both private corporations and government agencies. Read more about how and why you should implement a more holistic security strategy in this whitepaper.

The Intersection of Security & Compliance: The New Risk Assessment

As corporate security policies and compliance regulations are created to address the increasingly dangerous post 9/11 environment, security risk management is becoming an increasingly important tool in corporate governance. Learn more in this white paper by RiskWatch.

Web 2.0 Security Risks. Are you protected?

This paper outlines these new threats and discusses the limited effectiveness of reactive legacy Web security solutions against those threats. The paper then outlines the new reputation based, proactive security paradigm that is necessary for securing Web 2.0 applications.

Exclusive Presentation of Utimaco: The Data Security Company

Utimaco has more than 20 years of experience providing exceptional data encryption and data security solutions to companies around the world. Download this video now to take advantage of this exclusive inside look at one of the premier data security solution providers on the globe.

Managing IT Security Risks

This paper considers the essential elements of a corporate risk program and discusses methods of dealing with risk, based on the type of risk and the level of risk tolerance adopted by the company. It also explains the essential elements of IT security risk management, and explores some technology solutions that can be used to significantly reduce the risk of IT security breaches.

Security Management: Aligning Security With Business Operations

Comprehensive security management requires complete solutions for identity and access management, threat management and security information management. This white paper explores these issues and the need for a comprehensive solution for your business, and presents a summary of the CA security management solutions.

Host Access Management: The Business Imperatives

This white paper discusses the primary business drivers for access management, then describes the critical requirements that your organization should consider before deciding on an access management solution.

CA Identity Manager: Integrated Identity Administration and Provisioning

An industry analyst recently did a study which predicted that a typical 10,000-employee company could save 14,000 hours of security administration time and 6,600 help desk hours annually by deploying Identity and Access Management Solutions. Download this white paper and discover why Identity and Access Management is a critical success factor for today's enterprises.

Web Access Management: The Business Imperatives

The Internet is transforming how businesses operate, providing ubiquitous and inexpensive connectivity for critical business functions with new Internet-related innovations coming steadily. That's why it remains a business imperative to prepare for an environment where the Internet is the foundation of all internal communications and operations as well as external interactions with customers and business partners.

CA SiteMinder: Security for Enterprise Web Applications

This technical white paper explains how CA SiteMinder provides all the essential security services required to meet the challenge of building and managing secure websites, while also including management features and technical capabilities that can reduce the total cost of ownership.

Regulatory Compliance and the IBM Mainframe: Key Requirements

Compliance requires strong security controls for mainframe environments also. This white paper discusses some major challenges that mainframes bring to compliance, and some key issues that need to be addressed.

PCI Compliance: The CA Solution

The PCI Standard was created to ensure consistency of security standards for credit card issuers and to assure cardholders that their account information is secure. It is critical that retailers comply with the PCI security standard as failure to do so may result in substantial fines or permanent expulsion from card acceptance programs.

FFIEC Compliance: The CA Solution

In October 2005, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) issued a guidance to improve security for online banking transactions specifically relating to two-factor authentication. This white paper provides an overview of the key requirements of the guidance, as well as how CA's solution can help an you to achieve compliance.

Identity Management and HIPAA Compliance

Many companies and organizations have been and continue to be impacted by HIPAA. These include healthcare providers (hospitals, group practices), payers (insurance carriers, HMOs), as well as claims clearinghouses, pharmacies, and the like. This paper provides some insight to how CA Identity Management solutions can help the organizations achieve HIPAA compliance.

Securing Web Services

While Web services offer many advantages over current alternatives, they still present key challenges, especially in terms of security. This document describes CA TransactionMinder in detail and is intended for technical people already familiar with Web services, XML security and CA SiteMinder, the company's market-leading access management software solution.

Extending Your Management Reach to Remote Users

White paper discussing how the LANDesk® Management Gateway in LANDesk® management solutions 8.6, along with LANDesk® Trusted Access™, help organizations extend the enterprise management of remote devices across the Internet without having to "punch holes" in the firewall or compromise the security of such devices or the corporate infrastructure.

Front-Line Malicious Code Defense for the Enterprise from a Single Management Console

This white paper discusses how the new LANDesk® Antivirus solution, available as an add-on to LANDesk® Management Suite and LANDesk® Security Suite, provides a competitively priced, front-line malware and malicious code defense for all network endpoints, including workstations, file servers, mail systems and Internet gateways.

Improving Regulatory Compliance with Encryption

This white paper examines the role the encryption plays in minimizing corporations' risk while helping IT directors, security officers, and executives meet confidentiality mandates and satisfy legal requirements within particular geographical regions.

Securing Hard to Patch Servers in Health Care Environments

Find out how Blue Lane's unique approach can help health care IT pros quickly secure hard to patch servers.

Meeting and Exceeding PCI 1.1 Compliance Today

All merchants and service providers that handle, transmit, store, or process information concerning credit cards are required to be compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards requirements (PCI), or face contract penalties or even termination by the credit card issuers. This paper discusses the 12 requirements of PCI, and how Secure Computing's portfolio of security solutions can help enterprises meet and exceed them.

Dude! You Say I Need an Application Layer Firewall?!

This industry white paper takes the mystery out of the key differences in the main classes of firewall architectures. It was independently written by Marcus J. Ranum, a world-renowned expert on security system design and implementation. It includes fundamental lessons about building application layer firewalls, technical examples, and concludes with predictions about the future of firewall technology.

Data Defense: Protecting Sensitive Corporate Data

Until now, business leaders have been forced to depend on end user compliance with corporate security policies to protect sensitive data. Download this white paper and learn how to remove the need for special end user compliance to return the control and safeguarding of data to business leaders and IT management.

Monitoring Physical Data Center Threats

While well-understood protocols exist for monitoring physical devices such as UPS systems, computer room air conditioners, and fire suppression systems, there is a class of distributed monitoring points that is often ignored. This paper describes this class of threats, suggests approaches to deploying monitoring devices, and provides best practices in leveraging the collected data to reduce downtime.

Physical Security in Mission Critical Facilities

Before investing in equipment, IT managers must carefully evaluate their specific security needs and determine the most appropriate and cost-effective physical security measures for their facility. This paper presents an overview of the principles of personnel identification and describes the basic elements and procedures used in security systems.

7 Essential Steps to Achieve, Measure and Prove Optimal Security Risk Reduction

Whether protecting five servers or 5,000, measuring the security status of your infrastructure and your organization's ability to rapidly mitigate emerging threats needs to be continuously monitored and measured. This paper details the essential aspects of putting into place a measurable and sustainable vulnerability management program.

Controlling Information Extracted from a Database

Sensitive documents, files and intellectual property are extracted from a central repository such as a database, records management system, or document management system to complete daily tasks, however, extracting this information can lead to a security breach. Avalere provides the tools you need to control the proliferation of sensitive information throughout your organization.

Securing Virtualized Infrastructure: From Static Security to Virtual Shields

Andreas Antonopoulos, SVP & Founding Partner of Nemertes Research, discusses the challenges of securing the new virtual datacenter.

Change Control: Learn How to Address the Insider Threat

Learn why organizations need to limit IT administrator power to ensure operational integrity and assure compliance and how to implement robust change control processes and tools with this white paper.

Automating Vulnerability Management for PCI DSS Compliance

This white paper identifies the problems encountered in addressing network security risks through vulnerability management. It describes how automated vulnerability management contributes to compliance with industry standards such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and assists you in proactively identifying security weaknesses before these are exploited.

Automated Event Log Management for PCI DSS Compliance

This white paper highlights why organizations need to implement event log auditing as an integral part of their security policy to meet industry standards such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).

Identity Protection Services

Download this free paper about read about identity protection services and how it can help fortify the trust that customers place on their Financial Institutions.

Intrusion Defense: Is Your Castle Protected?

Read this interesting comparison about designing an intrusion defense strategy that identifies the value of business processes, and implements appropriate strategies to protect these systems using a layered defense approach is not only a good security practice, but also a regulation in many cases.

Vulnerability Management 101: What’s a Risk and How Can I Mitigate as Many as Possible?

What is the difference between a risk, a threat, a vulnerability and an exploit? Which product or solution can be employed to address my institution’s information security and compliance needs? This paper provides some clarity on the first question, and in the process, it should help to offer an answer to the second question, one of aligning concerns with solutions with vulnerability management.

Security and Identity Access and Management Outlook

To explore IT security and Identity Access and Management trends and developments, The Strategic Counsel conducted a survey of 642 large North American organizations covering: IAM Expectations, Critical Factors in IAM Solution Choice, Security Challenges and Costs, Security Investment, Impact of Lagging Security Investment, Most Important Areas for Additional Security Spending, Key Inhibitors to Additional Security Spending, Graphics.

PDF Spam: A Step Ahead of Image Spam

This white paper explains what makes spam such an unbearable problem and how spamming tactics are evolving daily to beat anti-spam software. The latest tactic is to use the common PDF file format to send image spam. By using PDF attachments to send images instead of embedding them in the body of the email message, spammers have taken the cat-and-mouse game with anti-spam software developers to a new level.

Learn to Improve Compliance Through Identity and Access Management

Managing the identities and access rights of those inside and outside the enterprise has become a primary concern for IT organizations today due to increasing regulatory compliance requirements and the ongoing need for IT to reduce costs and manage risk, while improving business performance.

An Integrated Architecture for Identity and Access Management

The most efficient path to containing the cost of IAM tools, meeting your compliance requirements and ensuring appropriate levels of security is with a solution that integrates industry-leading capabilities across the different IT architectures that are deployed in your IT environment.

Key Drivers of Identity and Access Management Solutions

IAM is a hot topic in security today. But why? This podcast will address the following questions: What's driving interest in IAM solutions? What are typical mistakes organizations make as they deploy IAM solutions? What are the most important benefits an IAM solution can provide?

The Importance of Web Access Management Systems

Given the massive investments in Web-based applications, the importance of identity-centric security is only growing. If you think that all WAM systems are basically the same, then this session is for you.

Password Management: Gateway to Managing Identities

Password Management is often the starting point of Identity Management projects. If not managed properly, the long term challenges of IAM projects are further complicated. In order to meet the enterprize challenges, comprehensive identity management solutions that incorporate password management tools need to be automated, centrally managed, support heteregenous IT environments and interoperate with other IAM suite of products.

Virtualization Security Playbook

Virtualization has become all the rage for companies interested in optimizing their servers and storage systems. This shift in data center architecture allows IT organizations to reduce operational costs and increase flexibility and responsiveness to changing business demands. But in this rush to virtualize, security can fall by the wayside.

Secure Remote Vendor Access to the Enterprise Data Center

Enabling IT equipment vendors to perform remote service on your data centers helps maximize uptime and lower TCO—but at what risk? Dial-up modems and VPNs introduce security vulnerabilities and lack sufficient auditing capabilities—making it virtually impossible to track external access and maintain data center security. Download this white paper to learn how you can manage security risks, lower service-related costs, achieve regulatory and internal compliance, and more.

The Top 5 Open Source Security Myths

Open source is just a method to reaching a goal, not a goal in itself. In this overview, "The Top 5 Open Source Security Myths," you will be introduced to some of the largest misconceptions regarding open source security.

Secure By Design

Guardian Digital's EnGarde Secure Linux is the world's premier secure operating platform engineered from Open Source Technologies. Written in an easy to read, plain-language format, you will get introduced to the full range of benefits that makes EnGarde "Secure By Design."

Employee Fraud within Financial Services

According to the results of Actimize's 2007 Employee Fraud survey, which was managed by Infosurv, an independent research company, financial services institutions know that they have a significant and growing problem with employee fraud and are not fully prepared to handle the threat as attacks from organized crime, dissatisfied staff and financially distressed employees become more sophisticated.

Kaspersky Open Space Security Network Protection

Kaspersky Open Space Security offers new flexibility to network security by extending beyond the traditional workplace to protect an increasingly mobile and distributed workforce. We provide airtight protection against all forms of malware, including viruses, hacker attacks, spyware and spam.

What You Should Know to Get the Most From Built-In Security Protection

The good news is, today's enterprise has gotten very good at making sure its PCs and servers are secure. The bad news is, security threats are finding other ways into the enterprise – like through the printers. It's a serious risk in today's network printing environment, where devices often have all the complex functionality of computers. Think about it: Today's network printers have more vulnerable services running on them than network PCs do.

How HP Helps IT Secure Printing and Imaging Environments

Your printing and imaging environment could be the next battleground in the fight against network security threats. HP is ready to help, with an arsenal of print security controls including MFP user authentication, erase security, secure printing based on PIN authorization, secure printing to remote printers, and password-protected printing enabled by HP Web Jetadmin remote management software.

Wiegand Security Compromised

At the Defcon security conference on August 2007, a hacker and Defcon staffer who goes by the name Zac Franken, showed how a small homemade device he calls "Gecko", which can perform a hack on the type of access card readers used on office doors throughout the country.

CruSafe Project Personnel Tracking Case Study

Developed by Borer in conjunction with AND-Group, the CruSafe software and hardware system provides a state-of-the-art safety system specifically developed to address the key requirement for real-time tracking of personnel. AND CruSafe is a state-of-the-art safety system which has been specifically developed to address the key requirement for real-time tracking of personnel (often known as POB- Personnel On Board). CruSafe has already been proven to reduce muster times by 70%.

Meeting SOX, PCI, and HIPAA Compliance with Secure and Auditable Vendor Access

How secure are the VPNs and modems that your vendors and partners use to access your data center? Can you confidently track all activity to meet SOX, PCI, and HIPAA compliance requirements? Learn how Axeda ServiceLink for Data Centers empowers you to provide your vendors and partners with secure and auditable access to your mission-critical data center.

Strategies for Delivering Dynamic Security for Virtual Data Centers

Efficient and Effective Integrated SSO Solution

Increased pressure for cost-efficient administration, productive work environments and an array of strict government regulations are driving increased demand for integrated user Provisioning/SSO solutions that are affordable, easy to maintain and secure.

Top 10 Strategies to Fortify Your IT Infrastructure

Ten straightforward, proactive strategies to optimize your computers, network and systems for their best possible performance -- ensuring that your IT operation doesn't fail.

Application Security: The Missing Pillar of Software Quality

Security is everyone’s responsibility as it has severe impact on the business if not taken seriously. Learn how to integrate security throughout the software development lifecycle, not hastily add it to the end. Our white paper, Application Security: The Missing Pillar of Software Quality, will show you how to build security into an application without special security expertise and without delaying release schedules.

A Pragmatic Approach to Selecting the Right Single Sign-On Solution

Successfully implementing SSO solutions can be challenging both technically and organizationally. Deployments are impacted by a number of considerations including the number and nature of users being served, the environments they operate and the types of applications they use.

Butler Group Technology Audit: CA Identity and Access Management Suite (v.8)

Across all sectors of industry, business systems users demand access to information sources that need to be properly protected in order to ensure that information integrity is maintained. In today’s highly-regulated business environments, only users with the correct access privileges can be allowed to gain entry to key corporate information systems.

How Can Identity and Access Management Help Me with PCI Compliance While Improving Overall Security?

PCI Compliance has become a business requirement for any company involved in the processing of credit card information. It requires strong security controls over all systems and applications that process or store cardholder information. These controls serve to manage vulnerabilities and to control access to all confidential information.

IAM Trends: The Strategic Counsel Survey of 642 Enterprises

North American organizations continue to be challenged with security and compliance issues. Increasingly, they are using Identity Access and Management Solutions to improve security and compliance.

User Provisioning: Managing and Securing the Identity Chaos

Provisioning is a growing challenge for IT organizations. Dynamic and growing user populations, internal and external to the enterprise, are increasingly requiring access to multiple applications and systems.

PCI: How to Safeguard Your Customer's Data Against Threats

As incidents of identity theft and fraud skyrocket, companies are scrambling to keep up with complex attacks and effectively safeguard consumer information. If you store, process, or transmit cardholder data, comprehensive visibility, actionable intelligence and the ability to respond rapidly to threats has become paramount.

PCI Compliance Cost Analysis: A Justified Expense

New report issued by Fortrex, Emagined Security and Solidcore reveals the cost of PCI compliance is justified. Fortrex, in conjunction with Solidcore and Emagined Security have compiled a PCI compliance report that reveals the cost of a breach can easily be 20 times the cost of PCI compliance, more than justifying the up-front investment.

Prepare for Successful Audits: A Change Management Manager Checklist

This IT audit checklist guide includes advice on assessing the effectiveness of change management in a variety of areas. As companies grow more dependent on interdependent IT systems, the risks associated with untested changes in development and production environments have increased proportionately.

GlobalSCAPE Provides a Competitive Edge for Williams Lea

Williams Lea is a leading global provider of customized corporate information solutions. The company needed to reliably, easily and securely transfer sensitive files and implement a system to share files and ensure a business continuity/disaster recovery plan. Today, Williams Lea uses the GlobalSCAPE’s Enhanced File Transfer (EFT) solution to provide secure protocol support and encryption to protect data in transit and at rest.

Facilitating PCI-DSS Compliance

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard is a detailed series of 130+ requirements that anyone who stores or transfers credit card data has to comply with. However due to the protection it offers, the PCI DSS is fast becoming a security standard for all sensitive data that needs to be protected. The goal of the standard is to ensure security of data in transit and at rest while ensuring compliance is maintained.

Information Security for SMBs: Ensuring End-to-End Care of Data Assets

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) can benefit from the expansive use of information technology (IT) just as much as their larger counterparts. Indeed, in many cases they have to, because to trade they need to interact with business partners of all sizes and IT failure affects not just internal users but those of third parties.

40% PCI Non-Compliance? How to Beat The Stats Without Breaking a Sweat

New report issued by Fortrex, Emagined Security and Solidcore reveals the cost of PCI compliance is justified. These PCI requirements exist to protect sensitive data - yet, research indicates that these are among the least satisfied requirements across Level 1 merchants, with almost 40% non-compliance.

Combating Malware: Leveraging the Power of a Planet

A new white paper from Panda Security discusses the new breed of silent online threats that can bypass traditional antivirus programs and penetrate even the most highly 'protected' networks. Additionally, the sheer volume of malware has overwhelmed the antivirus industry as a whole. Collective Intelligence is a new global security model specifically designed to combat the next evolution of malicious code.

4 Steps to Data Security Compliance: Technologies to Help Your Organization with U.S. Regulations

U.S. organizations that handle corporate and personal data must conform to certain government legislation to protect this private information from compromise, unauthorized access, interception, or corruption. However, organizations with little or no education of these mandates or suitable solutions will find their budgets and their manpower stretched too thin.

Are We Doomed? Security Predictions For 2008

With the ever evolving threat landscape, what will 2008 hold for IT Managers? This podcast provides a high level overview of a few trends to watch for this year.

Justifying Data Security: An Investment in Competitive Advantage

Locks on doors do not protect sensitive data. Security measures intended to keep the outside world outside do little to protect your data from internal leaks. In fact, eighty-one percent of data loss comes from unintentional, internal leaks, according to a study by the Ponemon Institute. Yet, few businesses take action, even after a leak has occurred.

Deep Content Control Keeps Data in the Enterprise

Information is at the heart of every organization and is often its most critical asset. Through accident or malice, it is sometimes exposed, representing a risk to compliance, business continuity, and an organization’s competitive advantage. While organizations focus on the prevention of outside attempts to access sensitive data, few acknowledge – let alone prepare for – the threat from within.

Banks and Data Leak Prevention

The financial services industry deals with a commodity that is primarily electronic — money. Consequently it spends more per employee on IT than any other industry. Despite this, there is a worrying tendency for information that should be confidential to end up in the public domain. Why is this and what can be done?

Lock Down Applications for PCI DSS Compliance

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard requires merchants and transaction processors to protect customer data, and firewalls play a major role in the process. This paper was written by Matt Sarrello, CISSP, contributing editor at Ziff Davis Enterprise and Michael Steinhart, senior editor at Ziff Davis Enterprise.

Panda Security for Business with TruPrevent Technologies

Today’s targeted malware attacks are infecting unsuspecting businesses at astonishing rates, rendering traditional antivirus solutions ineffective. Reported and known viruses are becoming less important compared to the increase in unknown threats and attacks.

The Need for Vulnerability Management

This guide describes the need for vulnerability management. It introduces the sources of vulnerabilities and their related fallout, then relates why the nature of modern threats to the network requires automated technology to counter sophisticated exploits. The guide defines elements of vulnerability management and how it controls the detection and remediation process.

Balancing Security & Profit: How Identity Verification Solutions Benefit Ecommerce

This whitepaper reviews how identity verification can be used to create a better balanced business that is secure and more profitable and also examines the benefits of integrating identity verification and knowledge based authentication solutions within your business.

Doing the Right Thing: How Age Verification Protects Kids Online

As a society we have established and live by a set of rules designed to keep merchandise and services intended for adults out of the reach of children. Yet, on the Internet, is is more like we live in the Wild West where anything goes. Logically we know these rules still apply. But enforcing them is a different situation.

Stock Spam- A Classic Scam

The “pump ‘n’ dump” stock scam has been around a long time. Learn how Internet criminals are perfecting it. Plus, see how one particular scam originated from a simple e-card, and how it played out for thousands either with or without the superior protection of the MessageLabs Web Security Services solution.

The Online Shadow Economy- A Billion Dollar Market For Malware Authors

In the underground digital economy, thousands of criminals conduct business in excess of $100 billion. In this white paper you’ll learn more about this highly specialized marketplace, and how it generates powerful tools to steal victims’ identities. You’ll also see why MessageLabs unique proprietary technology helps to disrupt this activity.

Spam Spikes- A Real Risk to Your Business

A close look at the data provides a clear picture of how spammers vary their tactics to overwhelm traditional corporate email defenses, through changes in duration, frequency and intensity among others. This white paper will help you understand these threats to your business, and how MessageLabs provides a unique solution.

Eliminate SPAM and Gain Productivity

Learn all about the dangers and the costs of spam in all its forms – from stock-touting to spreadsheet. Also, understand the drawbacks of traditional hardware- and software-based defenses, and the unique benefits of MessageLabs multi-layered, managed Anti-Spam solution; as illustrated by a real-world case study where MessageLabs stopped spam cold.

Facilitating PCI DSS Compliance

5 Keys to a Successful Identity and Access Management Implementation

Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a core element of any sound security program. But IAM is also difficult to implement because it touches virtually every end user, numerous business processes as well as every IT application and infrastructure component. As such, successful projects require input and cooperation from many internal groups, an effort that can be difficult to organize.

How Can a Security Management Solution Help Me Reduce Risk and Protect Assets While Reducing Costs?

Managing IT security has become an even greater critical business issue due to the increased number of online threats and the need to protect access to all IT resources. Download this paper to learn how the CA solution can help you meet your security management needs while providing a unique set of advantages to benefit both your security strategy and your bottom line.

Meeting the PCI Application Security Requirements: Building Compliance In

The PCI DSS is demonstrably becoming a de facto standard of due care for any organization responsible for the privacy and integrity of data. The increased focus on application security in the latest revisions of the PCI DSS can be traced directly to many of the recent high profile breaches, where insecure applications have proved to be the point of access for hackers, and the source of data loss.

Secure at the Source: Implementing Source Code Vulnerability Testing in the Development Life Cycle

Organizations should implement source code analysis tools as part of the software development life cycle to find and fix the highest number of security issues early in the project. This will result in a higher-quality product and lower overall application life cycle costs. Countless studies and analyst recommendations suggest the value of improving software security during the development life cycle (SDLC) rather than trying to address security vulnerabilities in software discovered after widespread adoption and deployment.

The Path to a Secure Application: A Source Code Security Review Checklist

The path to application security begins by rigorously testing source code for any and all vulnerabilities, to ensure the application will not compromise, or allow others to compromise, data privacy and integrity. This paper outlines the steps to secure source code development practices, and presents a source code security review checklist.

Trust, But Verify: How to Manage Risk in Outsourced Applications

This paper will discuss the need for addressing security concerns in outsourced applications, outline a framework for addressing those concerns, explore the role of source code review to assess and certify outsourced applications, and provide a sample contract addendum for including secure code requirements in RFP's and outsourcing contracts.

Allina Hospitals & Clinics Manages Laptops

As a leading healthcare provider with a state-of-the-art electronic health record system, Allina Hospitals & Clinics required a method to protect their rapidly growing laptop population from computer theft and potential data breach. Find out how the hospital system deployed a tracking solution to monitor 2,700 laptops on and off their network.

Webcast on Computrace Laptop Security

Learn how your organization can implement data protection solutions that meet or exceed compliance regulations. Secure, scalable mobility is the goal of the expanding enterprise – this pre-recorded Webcast provides a blueprint you can use.

The Network Box Anti-Virus Solution

More has changed in the past two years of computer virus protection, than in the previous 20 years. Statistics from the global network of Network Box Security Response centers show a dramatic increase in the number of distinct threats seen, with a dramatic decrease in the time taken for a threat to reach peak infection levels; new techniques for bypassing protection devices; spamming techniques for the initial propagation stage of virus seeding.

The Network Box Anti-Spam Solution

What is spam? The dictionary definition is “unsolicited junk email – generally advertising some product sent wide-scale to a mailing list or newsgroup”. But that is just a broad definition, open to interpretation; one man's spam is another man's newsletter. If you ask an end-user, they will often define spam as “mail I don't want” – very precise from that particular user's point of view, but not implementable in a shared computerized system.

The Network Box Mail Portal

Network Box Mail Portal contains patent-pending technology, and implements a "virtual per-user administrative interface", extending delegation of manageability and maintenance of the security gateway down to the per-user level. This is an industry first. The Mail Portal system allows end users in organizations using SMTP email servers to have direct control of their quarantined emails for the first time.

Improve Compliance and Enable Business: CA Identity and Access Management

CA's Identity and Access Management solutions automate the management of a user’s identity to ensure that only properly authorized users can access critical IT resources.

Evaluating IT Security Options

Assessing IT security claims – especially in the all-important area of perimeter security – is difficult at the best of times. Vendors in this area often exaggerate their offerings (sometimes spectacularly!). It can be very difficult to compare products side-by-side. And compounding this problem is the lack of clarity in the terms that are used. It’s almost impossible to make rational comparisons between the different offerings available.

Regulations Shift Focus on Outbound Email Security

Email is the lingua franca of business today. It is the conduit that allows employees to share information, companies to work with partners, and increasingly, provides a way for companies and their customers to interact. Enterprises today deal with an ever-increasing number of email-related threats. Most are familiar with the problems of virus-infected email attachments and productivity-draining spam, but now companies must also address the threats posted by outbound email.

Messaging Security Goes Virtual

It doesn’t take a degree in accounting to understand that the ability to increase server and storage capacity without having to invest a dime in additional hardware translates into huge cost savings. Savings not only in terms of hardware costs, but also in the power consumption, heat dissipation and management costs associated with deploying additional hardware.

Red Condor: Image Based Spam

Your network is defenseless against image-based spam attacks. Red Condor reveals how a simple approach can result in a less than 0.01% false-positive rate while achieving long term spam block rates greater than 98%. Get this white paper to arm yourself against the latest malicious email threats. Follow the instructions below and you'll learn the secret to living in a spam-free world.

Assessing Endpoint Security Solutions: Why Detection Rates Aren't Enough

Evaluating the performance of competing endpoint security products is a time-consuming and daunting task. Enterprise decision-makers have to rely on independent competitive comparisons, performance benchmarks, and detection certifications, all covering different solutions and criteria, providing conflicting results.

12 Secrets to SMB Security

Larger businesses have more to lose in terms of absolute dollars, but it is the narrow profit margin under which smaller businesses work which makes it important for them to have their information backed up. Learn how to protect your small business in this guide.

The Final Buying Decision: Integrated Vs. Compatible

Words like “integrated” and “centralized” have been used to describe application software solutions for some years now, often because of marketing messaging that implies more interoperability than the given technology can actually provide to the business customer. The terms are broad enough to be almost meaningless in some instances. In the field of IT security, the sheer range of tools and techniques in the hacker or virus writer’s armory that one must guard against has driven up the number of solutions required to prevent attacks.

Attachment Spam: The Latest Trend

This white paper explains what makes spam such an unbearable problem and how spamming tactics are evolving daily to beat anti-spam software. In the space of two months, spammers have switched from image spam to using PDF, Excel and ZIP file attachments. By using these attachments to send images instead of embedding them in the body of the email message, spammers have taken the cat-and-mouse game with anti-spam software developers to a new level.

Managing Security in Organizations

The aim of this document is to assist organizations protecting their assets – tangible and intangible – through a Security Management Program. This program provides a holistic, hands-on, and consistent approach for securing the organization against serious security breaches, such as data leakage, while providing the organization with the required flexibility to adapt itself to the business needs and to remain competitive in the market.

Professional Services: Security Compliance & International Communication

Professional services firms need network services that can connect international operations reliably, flexibly, cost-effectively and securely. This Executive Brief highlights the major business and technology trends taking place in the professional services sector in Western Europe, focusing on the increasing internationalization of the industry and the advantages of adopting innovative ICT solutions.

Creating a Security-Rich Environment For Your SOA

For many organizations, applications have been moved to an SOA environment and now must be extended to offer a service interface to new sets of users that were not originally planned. Extending resources in this way requires that you reassess your security risk. To minimize any risk, you need the right level of security checks for user authentication and authorization.

Why Application Security is Crucial and What Companies Are Doing About It

Today, many organizations are increasingly reliant on software application development to deliver them competitive edge. Simultaneously, they are progressively opening up their computer networks to business partners, customers and suppliers and making use of next-generation programming languages and computing techniques to provide a richer experience for these users. However, hackers are refocusing their attention on the vulnerabilities and flaws contained in those applications.

The Right Tool for the Right Job: An Application Security Tools Report Card

During the 80s, war dialing and phone phreaking were the attacks that garnered all the headlines. In the 90s it was all about web defacement and the ubiquitous email virus. The last seven years have given rise to identity data theft and privacy concerns. For the past twenty years, organizations have focused on protecting the network; but in the last ten years it has become clear that the core threat is not, nor really ever was, access to the network.

Vulnerability Management for Dummies: How to Implement a Successful Vulnerability Management Program

As a business owner, or someone responsible for network security within your organization, you need to understand how to prevent attacks and eliminate network weaknesses that leave your business exposed and at risk. Vulnerability Management for Dummies arms you with the facts and shows you how to implement a successful Vulnerability Management program.

Windows Vista Misunderstood Security Breach

Windows’ newest technology, the User Account Control, found in the Vista operating system has been erroneously called an additional level of security by many computer security professionals. Instead, in the hope to reduce the incidence of malware, unauthorized software installation, and unintentional system changes the User Account Control separates standard user tasks from requiring administrator level password access.

Building a Reliable Data Center That’s Energy Efficient and Extra Secure

This InformationWeek article delves into the details of some of today’s most innovative data centers. You’ll read about data centers that cool with winter air, run on solar power, provision services without human involvement, and are virtually impenetrable. Any one of the tips – and there are dozens – could be a major breakthrough for your company.

IT Departments on Data Security: A Research Concepts Survey

A survey of 185 IT professionals finds that, although computer and data security are high priorities, they are surprisingly unprepared to prevent data breaches and computer theft. 1 out of 4 organizations surveyed had a data breach in the past year. Preventative measures are found to be consistently undermined, with only 1 in 100 employees consistently following security policy. This white paper explores the survey findings.

Proactively Reduce Risk and Improve IT Security in Physical and Virtual Environments

Learn more about the security risks and vulnerabilities faced by organizations, and the elements of a proactive security approach. Then find out how Tripwire helps organizations attain and maintain a good security posture using industry-leading configuration assessment and change auditing to harden systems against security breaches, automate compliance with security standards and policies, identify configuration changes, and resolve vulnerabilities.

Data Leakage: Protecting Against a Data Breach

Recent high-profile data breaches such as the TJX case mean you can no longer be lax about data leakage. Read this white paper to find out how to adequately protect your organization and also prepare for a breach.

Evolving Standards for Managed File Transfer: Do Recent Secure File Transfer Standards Measure Up?

Business to business (B2B) process integration demands secure and reliable communications between companies. Traditionally, sensitive data has been shared between organizations over dial-up connections, dedicated point-to-point links or Value Added Networks (VANs). This paper details the high level file transfer requirements and contrasts them with the capabilities of different types of solutions.

Is Unsecured FTP Putting Your Organization at Risk?

Business communications over the Internet - including the need to transfer files containing business-critical data - are central to an organization's productivity in today's competitive environment. But there are surprisingly few options for conducting this aspect of day-to-day operations easily, securely, and with the ability to centrally manage and track such transfers.

How to Win the Battle Against Spyware with Next Generation Technology

Spyware is on the rise and has been the cause of many data breaches. Stopping it needs to be a strategic part of an organization's overall security plan. Reactive signature-based anti-virus and firewall technology is not a complete solution to prevention. Read this white paper to learn the top five behaviors associated with data theft and how advanced behavioral detection solutions is an effective technology for stopping spyware and can identify and prevent legitimate applications from being misused.

Extending Network Monitoring Tool Performance

This paper explores how monitoring tools can achieve higher levels of performance without forklift upgrades. It proposes a variety of ways to extend their efficiency, including the use of a stand-alone content filtering device to offload monitoring tools by pre-filtering traffic and assisting with common tasks.

Identifying & Thwarting Malicious Intrusions

Rootkits, Trojans, ransomware, Denial-of-Service and much more – this newly released white paper from MX Logic covers the everchanging security threat landscape. Learn what malicious intrusions are out there, how to identify them and how to keep your network safe.

What's the Big Deal with Managed Security Services?

In this recent report, the Aberdeen Group’s research revealed that 100% of Best-in-Class companies consume some managed security services as part of their security strategy. The most widely deployed and easiest to implement managed security service is email security.

Strong Authentication Technical Whitepaper

In the past, authentication solutions were either easy to use and inexpensive, but insecure (such as username/password) or very secure but expensive or difficult to implement (such as OTP tokens and smart cards). Arcot offers a third option: WebFort, a software-only, two-factor authentication solution. It delivers the right balance of cost, convenience, and strength.

10 Steps to Web Security

This short guide summarizes ten steps to web security. Do them all, and you'll be better protected than 98% of enterprises out there. But the target never stands still. More than the steps listed here, it's important to focus on the principles behind the steps, including: policy, vigilance, simplification, automation and transparency.

Top Security Vulnerabilities in Web 2.0 Applications

Web 2.0 applications can be more vulnerable to exploitation by hackers than their predecessors. When Web 2.0 applications push functionality and code to users, they provide hackers with information that can be used for formulating attacks. This white paper defines some of the common technological components of Web 2.0 applications and discusses ways of securing them against exploitation.

Evaluate NAC for your Enterprise

Looking for a network security solution? Whether you've already adopted NAC for your enterprise or are researching options, download this helpful survey presented by IDC about NAC benefits and vendor overviews.

How to Block NDR Spam

Spam generates an enormous amount of traffic that is both time-consuming to handle and resource intensive. Apart from that, a large number of organizations have been victims of NDR spam that has an effect similar to a Distributed Denial of Service on the email system. In this paper we provide a technical explanation of NDR Spam and recommend solutions that can prevent or limit exposure to this kind of unsolicited email.

What to Ask When Evaluating Messaging Security Systems

Email threats are growing in number, sophistication and severity making it critical to deploy a messaging security infrastructure that can protect your organization from these threats. This Osterman Research paper outlines a number of factors to consider when evaluating competing email security appliances and explains how Sunbelt Software’s Ninja Blade is solution worth short listing.

Quantum Cryptography: The Future of Secure Communications

Quantum Cryptography is an emerging technology that may offer new forms of security protection. Relying on the laws of quantum mechanics, transmission is carried by a single particle that can only be measured one time, making encryption and decryption difficult to compromise. Businesses are evaluating architectural solutions using Quantum Cryptography to understand its potential benefits. Future implementations of the technology may soon make it more available for enterprise business.

No More FTP: Eliminate FTP and Email Attachment Issues

Today’s business environment requires ad hoc and instantaneous sharing of information. Systems for sending large files have not kept pace with the needs of today’s enterprise, where increasingly large and sophisticated business documents, files and media need to be quickly transmitted and shared with coworkers, business partners and customers around the world.

The Great Email Security Debate: Appliances, SaaS, or Virtual?

Hardware appliances. Software. Software as a Service (SaaS). Virtual appliances. The variety of deployment options for the latest solutions for email security and data loss prevention seems endless... so where do you start when you're trying to evaluate solutions for your organization, knowing that making the wrong choice could have serious negative consequences for your infrastructure, IT resources and email users?

Getting in Compliance With Government Data Regulations By Leveraging Online Security Technology

Learn how to stay in compliance with various government data regulations when you read this white paper from VeriSign, "Getting in Compliance With Government Data Regulations By Leveraging Online Security Technology."

Web 2.0 and Security: What Can Go Wrong

New Web 2.0 applications can open up glaring holes in your organisation's security. Read this white paper to find out what can go wrong, and what steps you can take to prepare for the worst.

Effective Security with a Continuous Approach to ISO 27001 Compliance

The Tripwire Enterprise solution provides organizations with powerful configuration control through its configuration assessment and change auditing capabilities. In this white paper, learn how with Tripwire Enterprise, organizations can quickly achieve IT configuration integrity by proactively assessing how their current configurations measure up to specifications as given in ISO 27001. This provides immediate visibility into the state of their systems, and through automating the process, saves time and effort over a manual efforts.

Optimizing Infrastructure Control

This paper outlines the nature of infrastructure integrity, change auditing, and compliance solutions. It describes how an investment in configuration assessment and change auditing solutions can stabilize IT operations, lowering the operational costs associated with the IT infrastructure; be a force multiplier; and provide a solid foundation that increases the effectiveness of the investment in information security.

Right-Sizing a Security Management Appliance: Why Intellitactics Chose NEI

NEI, a leading provider of server appliance products and services for storage, security and communications software vendors, was selected by Intellitactics, an innovative provider of enterprise security management software and appliances, to develop a new line of products. This paper describes NEI’s holistic approach to integrating hardware, OS, management software and services, which enabled Intellitactics to accelerate the development and launch of their SAFE appliances.

Organised Crime Goes for Gold at Beijing. Latest Report by MessageLabs

Organised crime is joining athletes across the globe in training for the Games. And it's your corporate secrets that are up for grabs. In the past 6 months MessageLabs has intercepted 13 separate Olympic-themed Targeted Trojan attacks across several data-rich industries.With Targeted Trojans on the rise and able to evade conventional security mechanisms, MessageLabs is currently intercepting attacks that exploit the Olympics to appear authentic and attractive, but contain dangerous malware designed to steal corporate secrets.

Employee Education Pack by MessageLabs - Strengthen Your IT Security with End-User Education

At MessageLabs, we understand that deploying best practices in security means working with the people around you - and we'd like to help! Download this free pack of resources to help educate your employees about the latest threats and best practices around email and web security.