A Guide to Email Regulatory Compliance
[ Source: Perimeter ]
August 2009-
Laws have been passed to more adequately secure private and sensitive information, many of them specifically requiring better email security. Secure your information exchange by acting on the essential tips provided in this whitepaper.
Beyond FTP: Securing And Managing File Transfers
[ Source: Linoma Software ]
August 2009-
Few managers realize the security and management risks that have blossomed in their organization with the prevalent use of FTP. This paper demonstrates how you can bring FTP into a modern framework that increases IT manageability while decreasing security exposures and adhering to growing compliance/auditing 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.
The Importance of Mobile Security
[ Source: Sprint ]
August 2008-
Sprint's head of mobile security, Mark Hasse, talks to Insurance and Technology about the role of security for mobile workers. Especially as Insurance agents and field workers take new mobile platforms and laptops out of the enterprise, there are concerns about losing or compromising sensitive financial and customer information. Hasse talks about the need for awareness, the important topic of securing data at rest, and the encryption solution.
Advances in Endpoint Data Security
[ Source: Credant Technologies ]
February 2008-
Data security has evolved beyond simply securing "bits on disks". To ensure data protection in today's dynamic IT environment, leading analysts recommend that security protects what matters most — the data. This requires a solution with a single, integrated security architecture and a data-centric, policy-based encryption approach that can be consistently enforced wherever the data resides — across heterogeneous
endpoint device types, operating system platforms, and end users. The paradigm must shift from Full Disk Encryption to ...
EMC Documentum Information Rights Management Extends Security and Control
[ Source: EMC ]
October 2008-
The EMC Documentum architecture for information rights management (IRM) helps global companies and government agencies actively control, secure, and track sensitive information, wherever it resides, beyond delivery to and access by authorized users. The system uses strong industry-standard cryptography combined with a unique client-server architecture. Documentum IRM Services’family of client applications or plug-ins works with a common policy server to secure and control electronic information. This white paper provides an overview of the technical ...
Knowledge-based Authentication Is Not Enough
[ Source: Global Crypto ]
February 2009-
Everyday millions of consumers login to financial institutions, brokerage accounts, trading platforms and other web sites using Knowledge Based Authentication (KBA) solutions. Typically these solutions ask users to respond to questions selected by the user during the web site’s initial enrollment process.
The assumption is only that particular user knows the correct answer to these common questions. But the reality is these solutions tend to create user confusion and do little to ...
The Latest Advancements in SSL Technology
[ Source: VeriSign ]
March 2008-
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is the World Standard for Web Security. SSL technology
confronts the potential problems of unauthorized viewing of confidential information,
data manipulation, data hijacking, phishing, and other insidious Web site scams by
encrypting sensitive data so that only authorized recipients can read it. In addition to
preventing tampering with sensitive information, SSL helps provide your Web site’s users
with the assurance of having accessed a valid Web site. Support for SSL ...
Balancing Risk and Productivity for Mobile Insurance Workers
[ Source: Sprint ]
August 2008-
Mobile services, like 3G, have made it possible for Insurance workers to remotely access vital information while they are out in the field, but this also introduces a great deal of risk. Mark Hasse, who heads up mobile security for Sprint, demonstrates the SprintSecure Guardian connection card at ACORD.
New Web Threats for 2009
[ Source: MessageLabs, Symantec Hosted Services ]
December 2010-
Email threats such as spam are well known, but there's another major entry point into your network, the Web! As companies have become more adept at stopping email threats, cyber-criminals have discovered new ways to infiltrate corporate networks through the Internet. Uncover the newest Web-based threats targeting businesses and learn how to stop them before they can disrupt your business. This whitepaper discusses how cyber-criminals use converged threats (email and web combined attacks) to manipulate ...