Managing Application Performance by Understanding Applications
[ Source: Shunra ]
April 2008-
IT organizations are considering application delivery from new perspectives due to the automation of key business processes, and the fact that acceptable application performance is continually becoming more difficult. The goals of this white paper are to:
• Identify some of the key issues that make ensuring acceptable application performance so difficult.
• Describe how IT organizations can use WAN emulation tools to improve application performance, plan for change and improve relationships ....
How to Resolve the Challenges of Biometric Technology Integration, Deployment, and Support
[ Source: M2SYS Technology ]
March 2008-
Biometric authentication components are emerging as an essential part of comprehensive business software applications and will play a central role in existing and future applications, networks, and information storage facilities. These biometric components utilize physical traits or behavioral characteristics for reliable identity authentication. Application developers, integrators and software solution providers are challenged with growing demand for biometric security features and functions. With a wide variety of biometric ....
A Process-based Approach to Protecting Privileged Accounts
[ Source: Symark ]
August 2008-
This paper discusses best practices for privileged account access management and privileged password management (PPM), and shows how the Symark PowerKeeper appliance creates a “defense in depth” across the IT portfolio. PowerKeeper is a secure, hardened appliance that provides both a mechanism and a “process” to ensure best practices to secure and control access to any accounts deemed “privileged” or sensitive and thus sharply reduce the likelihood of fraud or theft of proprietary data. ....
Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers
[ Source: Citrix ]
July 2008-
Gartner summarizes its view on Application Delivery Controllers, evaluates strengths and weaknesses of solutions, and provides Magic Quadrant reporting for a quick comparison across all vendors. Learn from Gartner how you can benefit from an all-in-one device that delivers the highest levels of availability, performance and security
Does Size Matter? The security challenge of the SMB
[ Source: McAfee ]
September 2008-
Just because a business is small, doesn’t mean it’s immune to security threats. Security challenges facing Small and Medium Businesses in North America are on the rise. For businesses of all sizes, viruses, hacker intrusions, spyware and spam can lead to lost or stolen data, computer downtime, decreased productivity, compliance issues, lost sales and even loss of reputation. According to a recent survey conducted by McAfee, many small and medium sized businesses felt they ....
Data Leakage Worldwide: Top Risks and Mistakes Employees Make
[ Source: IronPort Systems ]
November 2008-
The findings from a global security study on data leakage revealed that the data loss resulting from employee behavior poses a much more extensive threat than many IT professionals believe. Commissioned by Cisco and conducted by U.S.-based market research firm InsightExpress, the study polled more than 2000 employees and information technology professionals in 10 countries. Cisco selected the countries based on their diverse social and business cultures, with the goal of better understanding whether these ....
Special Report on Modernizing Messaging Infrastructures
[ Source: Sendmail ]
November 2008-
Sendmail's "Special Report on Modernizing Messaging Infrastructures" features a Gartner research note titled "Signs Indicate a Train Wreck Is Coming, Unless You Modernize IT" (Scott. D. Nelson, Valentin T. Sribar, and Andy Kyte, August 27, 2008) and success stories about how Sendmail customers have avoided potential IT messaging infrastructure train wrecks.
In this research note, Gartner outlines the top indicators of a potential IT train wreck in its response to the central question, ....
XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) Introduction
[ Source: V.A.P.T. ]
April 2008-
In this Whitepaper, we will cover the outline of how to prevent XSS attacks, how they work, and why they are so successful. Take a look at why this attack is so popular and how it affects some of the largest corporations in the world.
Coming To An Online Bank Near You
[ Source: Checco Services Inc. ]
February 2006-
The FFIEC has created an initiative where enterprise e-business is measured not simply by corporate liability but by the protection of the enterprise customer. Although the guidance may be missing a legislative bite, it is prudent for the financial institutions to plan an implementation path for multifactor online authentication within this fiscal year. The use of keystroke biometrics along with proper access control policies, logging, and auditing can create a cost-efficient and truly reasonable ....
Unraveling Web Malware
[ Source: FireEye ]
September 2009-
There has been a rapid rise in the use of web blended threats to exploit client browsers and operating systems. These can lead to infection by bots which can be controlled remotely. Eleven percent of the world’s computers are enmeshed in at least one botnet and 72% of corporate networks with more than 100 computers have an infection.
Obfuscated code and encrypted exploits are increasing in prevalence. The point of these exploits is to ....