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Defense in Depth: How Application Whitelisting Can Increase Your Desktop Security
sponsored by Faronics
 | White Paper: | Posted: 20 Nov 2009
| | Published: | 16 Nov 2009 | |
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No single technology guarantees security, however application whitelisting covers situations not addressed by firewalls or anti-virus utilities. This paper focuses on how application whitelisting can be effectively used as an important layer in your security scenario.
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Managing to Secure: Evaluating the Manageability of your IPS Solution
sponsored by TippingPoint
| White Paper: | Posted: 05 Nov 2009
| | Published: | 05 Oct 2009 | |
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The last thing network security managers need is more complicated management systems to learn. There are four management keys to an IPS solution: Speed of initial set-up; Ease of ongoing management; Flexible management interfaces; and IPS management scalability. This paper will take a good hard look at each of these manageability components.
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Three Waves, One Defense: How an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) Protects from an Ever-Broadening Threat Landscape
sponsored by TippingPoint
| White Paper: | Posted: 05 Nov 2009
| | Published: | 05 Oct 2009 | |
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For organizations trying to shore up network defenses, it's important to understand how the security threat landscape has evolved. Only then is it possible to determine the best use of network-security solutions -- particularly Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) -- to block ongoing and future waves of attacks. Read on to learn more.
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IPS vs. IDS: Similar on the Surface, Polar Opposites Underneath
sponsored by TippingPoint
| White Paper: | Posted: 05 Nov 2009
| | Published: | 05 Oct 2009 | |
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A common notion is that an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) is nothing more than an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) deployed in-line with blocking capabilities. This paper explains why that notion is incorrect.
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Eight Questions To Ask About Your Intrusion-Security Solution
sponsored by TippingPoint
| White Paper: | Posted: 05 Nov 2009
| | Published: | 05 Oct 2009 | |
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There is some confusion in the marketplace about intrusion-security systems. Intrusion Detection Systems and Intrusion Prevention Systems have similar names and tend to get lumped together into a single security category: Intrusion Detection and Prevention. But the capabilities and underlying design of these systems couldn't be more different.
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The Five Building Blocks of Attack Coverage: Assessing the Quality of your Intrusion Prevention System
sponsored by TippingPoint
| White Paper: | Posted: 05 Nov 2009
| | Published: | 05 Oct 2009 | |
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What makes one intrusion prevention system (IPS) better than another? The best way to answer that question is to assess each vendor's solution on the five building blocks of attack coverage: Knowledge of applications, threat engine performance, breadth and depth of coverage, accuracy, and timeliness.
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Are Proxy Anonymizers Putting Your Enterprise in Peril?
sponsored by M86 Security UK
| White Paper: | Posted: 27 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 01 Sep 2009 | |
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This free white paper explores how education and policy enforcement can help prevent the threat posed by proxy anonymizers. This white paper looks at how to go beyond a basic URL-based filtering solution and block Anonymous Proxies including stopping HTTPS, blocking inappropriate images and proxy pattern blocking.
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Email Security: Magic Quadrant for Email Security Boundaries, 2008
sponsored by Proofpoint, Inc.
| White Paper: | Posted: 22 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 22 Oct 2009 | |
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The email security market is maturing, but speed and breadth of spam detection, and management and reporting capabilities, continue to differentiate vendors. This paper will discuss what you need to know about spam filtering, outbound content filtering, and available email security solutions in various delivery models.
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The New Face of Intrusion Prevention
sponsored by Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
| White Paper: | Posted: 29 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 12 Jun 2009 | |
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Check Point IPS Software Blade gives breakthrough performance and protection at a breakthrough price. For more details, check out this paper, which highlights the numerous benefits of Check Point intrusion prevention protection solutions.
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Cost-Effective Data Leak Prevention Starts at the Source
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
| White Paper: | Posted: 25 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 01 Aug 2009 | |
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This IDC white paper presents the benefits to enterprises adopting a preemptive approach to IPC, the internal threats to business information, the impact of government regulations on the protection of data, and highlights how Oracle provides database security products that enterprises can leverage to protect themselves from costly data breaches.
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Options for Mobile Security
sponsored by CDW Corporation
| White Paper: | Posted: 08 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 04 Nov 2008 | |
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Read this brief paper to learn about the security risks of mobility and what CDW has to offer.
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Data privacy best practices: time to take action!
sponsored by IBM
| White Paper: | Posted: 04 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 01 Sep 2008 | |
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This white paper explains the steps you need to consider when developing your privacy strategy and implementing your first data privacy project. Find out how you can help your organization implement best practices in privacy protection and make your privacy project successful from start to finish.
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The Passing Storm: The Storm/Nuwar Botnet
sponsored by ESET
| White Paper: | Posted: 03 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 01 Sep 2009 | |
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This white paper provides a thorough explanation of one of the more potent malware classifications effecting systems and networks today – the Storm/Nuwar Botnet. While security software can mitigate the direct impact of Nuwar and other bot-related malware on individual systems, the wider effects of botnet activity need additional countermeasures.
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FireEye: Taking the Botnet Threat Seriously
sponsored by FireEye
| White Paper: | Posted: 01 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 29 Oct 2007 | |
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IT organizations have been subjected to a number of security plagues, but few of them have the potential for wide-spread havoc of the botnet. Gain new appreciation for the scale of the botnet threat, and how today's emerging solutions must answer the threat with a similar level of multi-faceted defense.
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Battling Modern Botnets
sponsored by FireEye
| White Paper: | Posted: 01 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 28 Apr 2008 | |
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The FBI ranks cybercrime among its top priorities in part because botnets are proliferating at an alarming rate, crossing corporate boundaries and spreading infections behind corporate firewalls. Learn how FireEye provides advance detection and a blended approach to today’s botnet problem that "traditional" solutions do not.
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