Secure Desktop Solution: A Modern-Day Marriage of Business Benefit and Risk Reduction
[ Source: Novell ]
May 2008-
Traditional security is no longer good enough because complexity is increasing significantly. Traditional IT security was formerly provided by firewalls, antivirus solutions, and other security products. Such measures worked fine when security was defined around known threats and well-defined perimeter defenses. Now, a comprehensive security strategy must deal with the increased vulnerability of mobile assets and a threat environment that is smarter and more aggressive, organized, focused, and profit oriented. Download this white paper to ....
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. ....
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 ....
Security Information Management in the Payment Card Industry
[ Source: TriGeo Network Security ]
September 2008-
Simply deploying a security solution cannot guarantee meeting every Payment Card Industry (PCI) requirement in full. This whitepaper discusses the challenges of PCI compliance and how security information and event management (SIEM) provides the data visibility, log management, end-point security and active response needed to demonstrate and meet each of the 12 PCI compliance requirements.
IronPort 2008 Internet Malware Trends Report
[ Source: IronPort Systems ]
November 2008-
In 2007, Storm burst onto the scene and rapidly spread. A new form of malware that propagated using a combination of email and websites, it proved extraordinarily sophisticated. Storm and newer malware botnets that build on Storm’s strengths continue to affect and threaten Internet communication. To help explain the spread of Storm and current and future threats posed by similar malware, this report offers an examination of Storm and its history.
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 ....
Stopping Data Leakage: Exploiting Your Existing Security Investment
[ Source: Sophos ]
September 2008-
As attitudes to work and information continue to evolve away from those of the past, organizations are become more aware of the acute need to control the information that flows into, through and out of their networks. This paper demonstrates the need for a high-profile acceptable use policy to prevent data leakage, gives practical guidance on how to use current investments in IT security technologies at the gateway and endpoint to support this policy, and ....
Research Paper: VIPRE Takes a Bite Out of Bloatware
[ Source: Sunbelt Software ]
January 2009-
Protect your servers, workstations and networks with security software that won’t slow you down.
Preventive antivirus and antispyware packages are “must haves” in today’s networking environments. No company from the smallest business with 10 users up to the largest enterprise with 100,000+ employees is immune from the security threats posed by rogue code – which include viruses, Trojans, bots, zombies, spyware, spam and blended malware. The threats have become more sophisticated, pervasive and pernicious ....
Get More from Your IT Budget
[ Source: MessageLabs, Symantec Hosted Services ]
February 2009-
In uncertain economic times, it’s critical to spend your budget wisely. Unlike software or hardware solutions, hosted email security is simple to implement, easy to manage and does not require any additional IT staff to maintain or upgrade. Additionally a hosted email and web security service provides faster ROI, predictable costs with no hidden fees. Learn more in this new whitepaper.
The Attacker Within: How Hackers Are Targeting Enterprise Networks From the Inside Out
[ Source: Zscaler ]
August 2008-
As enterprise defenses evolve, so too do the attack vectors leveraged by those seeking to bypass such controls. We are entering an era where attackers are no longer working to punch a hole in the fortress surrounding enterprise IT assets from the outside. They don’t need to; they’re already inside. Thanks to the meteoric rise in the importance of Web-based traffic and a laundry list of vulnerabilities in Web-aware applications on ....