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How to Effectively Secure Your Network Against Mobile Threats [ Source: Marble Security ]

May 2013- The following whitepaper looks into eight critical mobile threats SMEs become vulnerable to when their network is open to the many mobile devices available today, remote employees, and personal devices being used for work. The overall goal is to educate on how to implement the right solution to protect against these critical threats and ensure the company network is safe and secure.

Nine Critical Threats Against Mobile Workers [ Source: Marble Security ]

May 2013- This white paper seeks to describe nine schemes used by criminal entities targeting employee-owned mobile devices to penetrate the corporate firewall and the risks they pose. The threats discussed here include:

• Malware, trojans and zero-day attacks
• Key loggers
• Compromised Wi-Fi hotspots
• Poisoned DNS
• Malicious and privacy leaking apps
• Jail broken and rooted devices
• Unpatched OS Versions
• Spear phishing
• Advanced persistent threats

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2013 Forrester Mobile Security Predictions [ Source: Marble Security ]

May 2013- The mobile market is evolving rapidly. Both the consumer and enterprise markets are experiencing major changes. Room exists for new innovations as well as for established players to develop new revenue opportunities. What challenges will various players in the mobile ecosystem face in the near future, and what opportunities will the market present to them? In this report, Forrester looks at current market and technology adoption trends and makes its mobile security predictions.

Secure the Enterprise with Confidence [ Source: IBM ]

May 2013- The explosive increase in cyberthreats poses an increasingly daunting challenge to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of intellectual property and other sensitive information. Conflicting opinions about operational risk, myriad point solutions for security technology, and dissimilar computing infrastructures create a puzzling landscape for security and risk professionals. To assess the market, Forrester Consulting interviewed 225 IT security leaders across North America and Western Europe about their firm?s information security investments. Roughly 60% of respondents reported revenues ...

Three Principles to Improve Data Security and Compliance [ Source: IBM ]

May 2013- News headlines about the increasing frequency of information and identity theft have focused awareness on data security and privacy breaches - and their consequences. In response to this issue, regulations have been enacted around the world. Although the specifics of the regulations may differ, failure to ensure compliance can result in significant financial penalties, criminal prosecution and loss of customer loyalty. In addition, the information explosion, the proliferation of endpoint devices, growing user volumes, and ...

Application Testing Strategies in the IBM z/OS Environment [ Source: IBM ]

May 2013- The IBM z/OS mainframe environment has earned a reputation for superior application performance, availability and data security while managing extremely large volumes of application data. To maintain a competitive advantage, organizations that manage their mission-critical operations on the IBM System z platform must continually look for improvements in technology, processes and best practices.

Understanding Holistic Database Security 8 Steps to Successfully Securing Enterprise Data Sources [ Source: IBM ]

May 2013- This paper discusses the eight essential best practices that provide a holistic approach to safeguarding databases as well as the array of enterprise data sources across the organization while achieving compliance with key regulations such as SOX, PCI DSS, GLBA, HIPAA and data protection laws.

Information Protection: The Impact Of Big Data [ Source: IBM ]

May 2013- This paper looks at this problem by first defining what enterprise information security and privacy involves, then looking at requirements that need to be met before introducing big data and identifying what impact this has on those requirements. It then takes a look of it at what one vendor, IBM, is offering in the area of big data and what it is trying to do to help customers bring big data technologies on board while ...

Connecting the Dots: Are You Seeing the Complete Big Data Picture? [ Source: FactSet Research Systems, Inc. ]

May 2013- Without an entity-based architecture, can you accurately understand risk? Without the ability to maintain a transparent view of exposure, are you getting the full picture? And even with complete coverage, is your reference data consistent for regulatory purposes?

Several recessions, a severe credit crisis, heightened regulatory oversight, and a squeeze on margins have made the last decade a bumpy ride. There are stringent regulations, causing firms to scramble to keep compliant; investment professionals ...

Expect More from your Web Infrastructure [ Source: Red Hat ]

May 2013- There's a reason Red Hat Enterprise Linux is consistently chosen as the operating platform for industry-standard performance benchmarks. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is designed to deliver scale-out and scale-up performance for small and large servers, offering documented scalability up to 4,096 CPUs and 64 Terabytes of RAM.

Linux in the Mainstream: Business Critical Workloads Quickly Becoming the Norm [ Source: Red Hat ]

May 2013- This IDC White Paper takes a look at the growth of Linux as a server operating system and how deployment form factors have changed over time. Today, commercial Linux has become a key platform across many workloads. This paper considers both workload data and the ecosystem that has grown up to support the opportunity for Linux deployments, including application software, application development and deployment software, and infrastructure software. Detailed case studies covering the Red Hat ...

Building a Bridge to the Next-Generation Data Center [ Source: Red Hat ]

May 2013- Making your datacenter more agile and responsive requires changes to tools and processes. Organizations can build a bridge to the next generation by selecting a widely adopted operating system as a foundational component.

How Red Hat Delivers a Secure Enterprise Platform for Next-Generation Datacenters [ Source: Red Hat ]

May 2013- Traditional security measures such as network firewalls are no longer enough to keep an enterprise secure. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux, security mechanisms are incorporated and applied at the core of every solution, and security is extended to include all the open source packages that make up Red Hat Enterprise Linux. As a result, customers experience a higher quality of service.

Mission critical defense [ Source: HP ]

May 2013- Attackers don't work in silos. To defend against them, your defenses can't be siloed either. The teams, tools, and solutions you use in the response must be quick, decisive, and adaptive. Disparate teams must come together; information must be shared; and, it all must happen in near real time. Read this white paper and learn how to respond to attacks and how to mitigate risks as efficiently and effectively as possible.

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Mapping security for your virtual environment [ Source: HP ]

May 2013- Is management of a virtualized environment a major concern? Does your business need a technology that helps you secure your virtual environments?

With the gaining popularity of virtualization in today's enterprise data centers, you need a virtual security solution that allows you to confidently adopt virtualization throughout your data center without compromising on your existing security postures. Read this white paper to learn more.

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Big security for big data [ Source: HP ]

May 2013- In order to meet the current security problems faced by organizations, a new paradigm shift needs to occur. Businesses need the ability to secure data, collect it, and aggregate into an intelligent format, so that real-time alerting and reporting can take place. The first step is to establish complete visibility so that your data and who accesses the data can be monitored. Next, you need to understand the context, so that you can focus on ...

Providing security for software systems in the cloud [ Source: HP ]

May 2013- The software industry has learned that putting fancy boxes on the network doesn't fix bad software, cloud converts must focus on the risks they bring along with the software they deploy. This paper details risks to software deployed in the cloud and what steps to take to mitigate that risk.

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Designing a defense for mobile applications [ Source: HP ]

May 2013- To compete today, your business needs to have a mobile storefront on smart phones and tablets and with this comes risk. Instead of accessing your website from the safe confines of work or home, your customers can now perform sensitive transactions anywhere. As a result, mobile applications, and the devices and data they interact with, can now be more easily attacked.

Attackers will probe all components of your application for vulnerabilities, and the ...

Know the big three [ Source: HP ]

May 2013- There is no question that mobile computing is growing at an exponential rate. This rapid transformation has seen security concerns outpaced by the ease of use, flexibility, and productivity of mobile devices. When vulnerabilities are exploited, the security of mission-critical data becomes a serious concern. In this this white paper, learn about three of the top mobile application security threats facing businesses today and recommendations on how to mitigate the risk.

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2012 IBM X-Force Annual Trend and Risk Report [ Source: IBM ]

May 2013- The IBM X-Force Trend and Risk Report is produced twice per year: once at mid-year and once at year-end. This report provides statistical information about all aspects of threats that affect Internet security, including software vulnerabilities and public exploitation, malware, spam, phishing, web-based threats, and general cyber criminal activity. They are intended to help customers, fellow researchers, and the public at large understand the changing nature of the threat landscape and what might be done ...

The Tactical Realities of Building a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure [ Source: Insight/HP/Intel ]

May 2013- By leveraging HP technology, powered by Intel, Insight enhances your IT infrastructure's agility, scalability and deployment times. Learn how in The Tactical Realities of Building a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, a high-level tactical roadmap for successful VDI implementation.

The Business Analyst's Guide to Hadoop [ Source: Hortonworks and Alteryx ]

May 2013- Rapidly emerging as a transformative technology framework for storing and processing massive amounts of structured and unstructured data, Apache Hadoop plays a central role in Big Data. However, most Big Data strategies stall with IT challenges. In order to harness Big Data for competitive advantage, organizations must enable more than a handful of scarce IT specialists and expensive data scientists to access the information.

By making Big Data usable by business decision-makers and ...

Optimizing Your Wireless Network [ Source: Xirrus ]

May 2013- Driven by the rapid evolution of mobile devices, the move to cloud-based applications and data, and the continued development of new wireless technologies, Wi-Fi has become the network of choice for connectivity. Most new devices no longer have wired connectivity-for them Wi-Fi is the only option. IT managers now count Wi-Fi as an essential business facility.

Wireless Infrastructure Management in the Cloud [ Source: Xirrus ]

May 2013- Wireless devices have changed the way organizations and their users interact. Mobile smartphones, tablets, laptops, and wireless enabled devices have driven the mindset that wireless networks must be ubiquitous, fast, and constantly available. These are demands that have traditionally put organizations and their users in direct contrast with their IT departments, as constructing and maintaining wireless infrastructures have typically been time-consuming, complex, and costly endeavors.

Application Control at the Wireless Edge [ Source: Xirrus ]

May 2013- BYOD and cloud-based services are driving monumental changes in IT everywhere - they are no longer in control of what is running on their networks. The ability to provide a level of visibility and control over what is happening in the Wild Wild West of BYOD is mandatory for IT managers to do their jobs. The goal must be to ensure business-critical applications operate properly on the network and that in the least, there is ...

Demystifying 802.11ac [ Source: Xirrus ]

May 2013- 802.11ac is a new very high throughput Wi-Fi standard (final approval in 2014). It delivers data rates in excess of 1Gbps in its first phase of products with future iterations planned to take performance to nearly 7Gbps. 802.11ac maintains backward compatibility with existing 802.11 equipment to simplify network migration to the new technology.

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