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Network Security consists of the provisions made in an underlying computer network infrastructure, policies adopted by the network administrator to protect the network and the network-accessible resources from unauthorized access and the effectiveness (or lack) of these measures combined together.
 
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100% Malware-Free Email: A Guaranteed Approach

By : Panda Security Published Date: Feb 27, 2008
E-mail is the primary communication tool upon which every business and corporation depends.  This communication source is also the battleground where cybercriminals use sophisticated email infiltration-techniques to propagate malware and attack corporate networks.
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Panda Security

12 Secrets to SMB Security

By : CopiaTECH Published Date: Mar 18, 2008
Larger businesses have more to lose in terms of absolute dollars, but it is the narrow profit margin under which smaller businesses work which makes it important for them to have their information backed up. Learn how to protect your small business in this guide.
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CopiaTECH

4 Key Qualities of Effective Host-Based Intrusion Prevention (HIP) Systems

By : Third Brigade Published Date: Aug 21, 2009
Organizations that need to protect business critical applications, and sensitive data and hosts recognize that traditional network defenses can be readily bypassed by attackers. This white paper defines four key qualities of an effective host-based IPS.
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Third Brigade

5 Approaches to Messaging Security: A Technical Overview of the Tradeoffs

By : Sigaba Published Date: Aug 21, 2009
This white paper reviews the five most common current approaches to messaging security. While the five approaches discussed here are not the comprehensive list of available solutions, they are the basis for most variations of messaging security solutions available today.
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Sigaba

7 Essential Steps to Achieve, Measure and Prove Optimal Security Risk Reduction

By : Qualys Published Date: Jun 15, 2007
Whether protecting five servers or 5,000, measuring the security status of your infrastructure and your organization's ability to rapidly mitigate emerging threats needs to be continuously monitored and measured. This paper details the essential aspects of putting into place a measurable and sustainable vulnerability management program.
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Qualys

7 Steps to Controlling Social Networking

By : MessageLabs Published Date: Sep 17, 2008
Social and business networking sites are changing the way people talk online. Sites like Facebook, MySpace and Bebo help friends stay in touch while LinkedIn and Plaxo mainly connect business users. They are very popular but present new challenges to IT managers. They seem to have come out of nowhere. For example, Facebook currently has 70m users, 40% of which are located in the US.  The rapid growth of such sites is part of the problem. Companies risk being caught off guard.  Learn how to protect your business from threats posed by online social networking in this 7 Step Guide for IT Managers.
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MessageLabs

A Cyber War has Begun

By : Technolytics Published Date: Oct 05, 2007
Recently, a series of cyber attacks on the Defense Department and Defense contractors in the United States as well as the Ministry of Defense and Parliament in the U.K. have created significant cause-for-concern by computer security experts. It is imperative you read this brief and learn how we're all vulnerable and what is being done to prevent these Cyber Attacks.
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Technolytics

Addressing the Superuser Threat: Securing Access to Server Operating Systems podcast

By : CA Published Date: Jul 25, 2007
IDC's Identity and Access Management Compliance Forecast identifies superuser access as the cause of three of the top eight common sources of compliance risk. But what can your organization do to mitigate this risk?
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CA

Anti-Malware Battlefield Tools: Customer Perspectives and Reference RFI

By : Burton Group Published Date: Apr 08, 2008
In this Methodologies and Best Practices document, Burton Group Research Director Daniel Blum recounts customer perspectives on the anti-malware battlefield playing out at the enterprise level. The document explores lessons learned, and what keeps customers awake at night even after good defensive strategies are in place. The Reference RFI alone is valuable for those switching anti-malware products, or seeking new ones.
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Burton Group

Antispam Whitepaper: How to Keep Spam Off Your Network

By : GFI Published Date: Jun 12, 2007
A buyers' guide to anti-spam software, this white paper highlights the key features to look for in anti-spam software and why.
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GFI

Application Security: No Room for False Positives

By : Cenzic Published Date: Nov 21, 2006
Enterprises are responding to new threat on communication protocols by hardening Web applications, and they are increasingly turning to Web application security assessment tools to improve the security of their applications. This report examines why high accuracy is critical to the effectiveness of the tools, and it discusses how Cenzic Hailstorm addresses this problem.
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Cenzic

Applications, Virtualization and Devices: Taking Back Control

By : Sophos Published Date: Dec 18, 2007
Employees installing legitimate but unauthorized applications, are a real and growing threat to business security and productivity. Removable storage media and wireless protocols make the challenge of securing data even more complex. This paper explains why control is important and highlights how integrating this functionality into malware protection is the simplest and most cost-effective solution.
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Sophos

Are We Doomed? Security Predictions For 2008

By : ESET Published Date: Feb 01, 2008
With the ever evolving threat landscape, what will 2008 hold for IT Managers?  This podcast provides a high level overview of a few trends to watch for this year.
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ESET

Are you responsible for monitoring of IT Security or data center operations?

By : Anue Systems Published Date: Jun 29, 2009
As networks, security threats, and other requirements increase in complexity, monitoring of enterprise infrastructures has become a difficult yet crucial exercise. Monitoring Optimization, a new solution for making sense of the chaos, has emerged as an ideal solution for maximizing network coverage and maintaining optimal utilization of hardware monitoring tools. However, there is a third variable at play - the productivity of the staff responsible for managing monitoring, a staff that is shrinking in the wake of layoffs. This brief reviews how important the third variable is, and how Monitoring Optimization is the only solution to manage all three variables.
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Anue Systems

Attachment Spam: The Latest Trend

By : GFI Published Date: Mar 25, 2008
This white paper explains what makes spam such an unbearable problem and how spamming tactics are evolving daily to beat anti-spam software. In the space of two months, spammers have switched from image spam to using PDF, Excel and ZIP file attachments. By using these attachments to send images instead of embedding them in the body of the email message, spammers have taken the cat-and-mouse game with anti-spam software developers to a new level.
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GFI

Automated Event Log Management for PCI DSS Compliance

By : GFI Published Date: Jul 09, 2007
This white paper highlights why organizations need to implement event log auditing as an integral part of their security policy to meet industry standards such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).
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GFI

Automated Penetration Testing: Completing the Vulnerability Management Framework

By : Aomega Published Date: Nov 06, 2006
Recent regulatory additions require that companies take proactive measures like penetration testing to enforce data privacy and integrity.  By deploying a distributed model companies can execute testing from different security levels which is important in challenging posture based on level of access.
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Aomega

Automating Vulnerability Management for PCI DSS Compliance

By : GFI Published Date: Jul 09, 2007
This white paper identifies the problems encountered in addressing network security risks through vulnerability management. It describes how automated vulnerability management contributes to compliance with industry standards such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and assists you in proactively identifying security weaknesses before these are exploited.
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GFI

Banks and Data Leak Prevention

By : Quocirca Published Date: Feb 05, 2008
The financial services industry deals with a commodity that is primarily electronic — money. Consequently it spends more per employee on IT than any other industry.  Despite this, there is a worrying tendency for information that should be confidential to end up in the public domain. Why is this and what can be done?
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Quocirca

Benefits of Securing Servers: Enhanced Security, Compliance and Operational Excellence

By : Blue Lane Published Date: Aug 31, 2007
Needing to implement a patch management solution to comply with SAS 70, Davidson found the solutions on the market lacking. They either required significant resources to test all patches, or were expensive automated solutions. Then, Davidson learned about Blue Lane Technologies, a concept that Davidson loved.
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Blue Lane

Best Practices for Deploying LAN Security and NAC

By : Nevis Networks Published Date: Sep 04, 2007
Companies are yearning for a solution to guard their network from security risks such as external or untrusted users, and unmanaged endpoints on their internal LAN. NAC technology works well, but a strategic solution is required to fully address the problem of the dissolving network perimeter.
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Nevis Networks

Best Practices: LAN Security and 802.1X

By : Nevis Networks Published Date: Sep 04, 2007
While 802.1X has a growing presence, it's still immature and may not provide all the policy enforcement features commonly required in most organizations. This white paper focuses on the 802.1X standard for authentication and access control and how it compares to the Nevis approach for LAN security.
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Nevis Networks

Block Evolving Spam, Secure Your Network

By : MessageLabs Published Date: Jan 13, 2009
New spamming techniques are upon us -  419 spam, botnets, CAPTCHA cracking – what’s next from the 'bad guys'? Spam remains the biggest email-born threat to businesses. Learn how to protect your business.  FREE Whitepaper (PDF/40KB)
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MessageLabs

Building a Leak-Free Enterprise

By : Clearswift Published Date: Jun 09, 2008
In this white paper Clearswift address the question "Is it possible to build a leak free enterprise?" In addition to a Gartner research note on "Understand Data Leakage" we answer the question by describing 15 of the most common mistakes of web and email security and the associated risks and solutions.
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Clearswift

Building an Enterprise Security Operations Center

By : CA Published Date: Feb 06, 2007
Managing the security environment today poses a series of challenges for IT personnel and their organizations due to the daily onslaught of security data from varying security and network systems. This paper explores the requirements and best practices for setting up a Security Operations Center (SOC) within an organization.
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CA
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