IBM Endpoint Manager: Reaping the Benefits of a Unified Approach to Security and IT Operations Management [ Source: IBM ]
June 2012- In this report, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) analysts examine how IBM Endpoint Manager's combination of strong endpoint capabilities coupled with the flexibility of a highly adaptable, distributed processing architecture unifies the common objectives of security and IT operations management. Two successful customer use cases demonstrate the efficiency of IBM Endpoint Manager that enables a striking degree of scalability for some of the world's largest, most complex IT environments, while also successfully scaling down to small ...

Establishing a Data-Centric Approach to Encryption [ Source: Voltage Security ]
April 2012- Many data breaches occur at companies that already have a data security policy in place. What is the problem? Typically, intrusion detection and other technologies designed to keep intruders out of your system are built to protect against previously known hacking strategies. This approach exposes your IT systems to great risk as new methods of intrusion are constantly being devised. Learn how to protect corporate data with a data-centric encryption strategy.

Smartphone And Tablet Management: Best Practices Guide [ Source: Fiberlink ]
September 2011- More businesses than ever are confronting how to fully embrace mobile devices beyond their executive and sales teams. In a way, IT teams are being dragged into this. Many users have fully incorporated smartphones and tablets into their daily lives and use corporate-issued and personally-owned iPhones, iPads, and Android devices to access corporate data. They have also adopted application stores in their personal lives, blending activities like web browsing, games, and mobile payments with business ...

Auditing Software Acts Like A Server Security Camera [ Source: ObserveIT ]
January 2010- ObserveIT auditing software acts like a security camera on your servers. It provides bulletproof video evidence of user sessions, significantly shortening investigation time. Every action performed by remote vendors, developers, sysadmins, business users or privileged users is recorded. Video recordings include mouse click, app usage and keystrokes. Each time a security event is unclear, simply replay the video, just as if you were looking over the user’s shoulder.

ObserveIT is the perfect ...

nCircle Solutions for Automating the Consensus Audit Guidelines Critical Security Controls [ Source: nCircle ]
November 2010- Securing our federal infrastructure has become one of our nation’s top cyber security priorities. The Consensus Audit Guidelines (CAG) were created to begin the process of establishing a prioritized baseline of information security measures and controls for the Federal Government. Fifteen of the twenty security controls outlined in CAG can be monitored, at least in part, automatically and continuously.

The rapid rate of change present in an environment constantly under attack makes ...

Evaluating Managed File Transfer in the Cloud: What You Need to Know [ Source: Ipswitch File Transfer ]
December 2012- As you evaluate Cloud-hosted solutions for secure managed file transfer, you will need to evaluate cloud solutions compared to on-premise hosted solutions, and the tradeoffs of each. And this decision does not need to be "either-or"; for many companies an enterprise solution for managing secure file transfer encompasses both cloud hosted and on-premise options.

This white paper from Osterman Research details advantages to consider for managing file transfer operations in the cloud, and ...

Close Encounters of the Third Kind [ Source: IBM ]
December 2012- This white paper presents the results of a research study on the prevalence of client-side JavaScript vulnerabilities, conducted by the IBM Security (formerly, IBM Rational) application security team. For this study, the researchers used IBM JavaScript Security Analyzer (JSA) technology, which performs static taint analysis on JavaScript code that was collected from web pages extracted by an automated deep web crawl process. This kind of analysis is superior to and more accurate than regular static ...

3 Strategies to Protect Endpoints from Risky Applications [ Source: Dell KACE™ ]
November 2012- Cyber criminals have started to look for greener pastures—namely among third-party applications. Reduce the risk profile of PC and server operating systems and protect endpoint security from risky applications. Read the white paper today.

Bloor Research: The Economics of Cloud Managed Integration [ Source: Dell Boomi ]
November 2012- Application and data integration doesn't have to be slow and expensive. New cloud-based integration platforms dramatically speed results and lower costs, as outlined in this new report by Bloor Research. In this paper, you'll learn how Cloud Managed Integration:

   • delivers 2.5 times faster time-to-value
   • has nearly 40% lower total-cost-of-ownership (TCO)
   • is speeding results at AAA, Brady and Panasas

Three Steps to Mitigate Mobile Security Risks [ Source: Rapid7 ]
November 2012- Smartphones and tablets are everywhere. Most companies allow employees to use personal mobile devices to access corporate data, but they typically have very little visibility into which employees are accessing corporate data and what kinds of devices they're using. As a result, they are blind to the risks these devices present to their corporate data.

This white paper highlights key mobile security risks and describes how pervasive they are based on data from ...