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Website Security in Corporate America

Data suggests that American companies can expect to suffer an online security breach once every four years. Yet a substantial number of companies and organizations appear unprepared yet confident. How prepared are you and your company? Despite confidence, the data also points to a degree of baseless optimism. Find out how you rank among other IT managers testing your website's vulnerabilities.

2013 Website Security Threat Report

Each year, Symantec publishes a larger Internet Security Threat Report - this is a subset of that report which focuses on the threats that impact your website and online business. Looking back at the past calendar year it provides an insight into the state of the online world.

Reducing the Cost and Complexity of Web Vulnerability Management

Business owners and IT managers need a simpler way to detect critical Web vulnerabilities, prevent data security breaches, and protect their customers from identity theft. Learn how using vulnerability assessments to identify exploitable weaknesses and take corrective action can reduce the risk of hackers finding your site and attacking it.

The Shortcut Guide to Business Security Measures Using SSL

Over the past decade, businesses have had to adapt to an array of technical changes, including an increasingly hostile cyber environment. In this guide, we will examine major types of threats to information security that businesses face today as well as techniques for mitigating those threats. One of the most important tools available to us is SSL technology.

Reinventing Antivirus: How cloud architecture and behavior recognition are changing the security game and making traditional antivirus obsolete

Traditional Antivirus is Becoming Obsolete. Have you seen a lot of articles and blog posts with titles like "Is Antivirus Dead?" If so, there is a good reason: Traditional signature-based antivirus technology is rapidly heading toward obsolescence. But there are new approaches that can make antivirus effective and practical again. Here we will look at three of them: Client/cloud architecture; Behavior recognition; and Journaling and rollback.

Webroot SecureAnywhere Business Endpoint Protection vs. Seven Competitors

This report presents results and findings as a result of performance benchmark testing conducted for endpoint security products. The aim of this benchmark was to compare the performance impact of Webroot's SecureAnywhere Business Endpoint Protection product with seven competitor products.

Closing the Circle: How to get manageable endpoint, mobile device and web security together

In this white paper we will discuss: Why traditional endpoints and mobile devices require overlapping (but not identical) security solutions; How to enhance the protection of all endpoints by adding web security; Why today's threats require that endpoint protection and mobile device protection activities be moved to the cloud; and how Webroot makes it easy to "close the circle" by managing endpoint protection.

Making Smarter Mobile Access Decisions

Smartphones and tablets are everywhere today - embraced by soccer moms, college students and employees of large organizations. But for all their user-friendly features, mobile devices can represent a significant threat to corporate data. So what do IT departments need to know before deciding on the smartphone and tablet platform that is safe, easy to configure and flexible enough to meet the needs of employees and senior executives alike? That's one of the biggest challenges ahead for IT managers.

Effective Security in a BYOD Environment: Arming Your Organization Against the Unknown

As much as IT might like to lock down your network, BYOD is becoming the norm. Employee devices have the potential to bring more than convenience - they also enhance agility and efficiency, as well as create more productive collaboration and customer support.

The downside to a BYOD environment is more risk, since it opens new avenues for access to enterprise resources. To get ahead of threats, your IT needs to come up with a pragmatic strategy to secure data and assets from malware and theft - without impeding the flexibility BYOD can deliver for your enterprise.

Why Protection and Performance Matter

Protection and performance should not be mutually exclusive. Learn why they go hand in hand in this white paper, "Why Protection and Performance Matter." Outdated firewalls pose a serious security risk to your organization. Learn how Dell™ SonicWALL™ next-generation firewalls can provide both extremely high levels of protection and the performance your organization requires. By combining high-performance multi-core architecture and reassembly-free DPI technology, Dell SonicWALL next-generation firewalls overcome the limitations of traditional firewalls and enable enterprise businesses to scale their network security to meet the demands of emerging threats, while ensuring the network performance to meet key business objectives.

Anatomy of a Cyber-Attack

Do you know how to keep cyber-criminals out of your network? Cyber-criminals employ complex techniques to avoid detection as they sneak into corporate networks to steal intellectual property. They will do anything to find and exploit your weaknesses. Don't give the bad guys the keys to your network. Learn how to protect your organization from emerging threats in our e-book, "Anatomy of a Cyber-Attack." It provides insights into the tools and strategies used by cyber-criminals and how to stop them. It also describes different types of malware, including viruses and worms that can devastate your network - and your business.

IBM SmartCloud Desktop Infrastructure Reference Architecture: Citrix VDI-in-a-Box powered by IBM System x

What if you could implement a more dynamic end-user delivery model that allows you to utilize all the devices while maintaining control and rapidly deploying new applications and services to better serve your customers' IBM® SmartCloud® Desktop Infrastructure for Citrix® VDI-in-a-Box is simple all-in-one virtual desktop infrastructure software, built on IBM System x® servers and powered by the latest Intel® Xeon® processors, that can help you quickly implement desktop virtualization to drive productivity while lowering your IT costs.
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Virtualized Security is Different

In this short paper, we will look at six dos and don'ts for security in virtualized Data Centers. These best practices can help enterprises and service providers come to grips with the security challenges that apply to virtualized environments.

Why Device Fingerprinting Provides Better Network Security than IP Blocking

Unfortunately, most network security products rely on the equivalent of drivers' licenses: IP addresses associated with known attacks and spam. But there is a better way. In this short paper we will examine:
- Why IP reputation-based blocking doesn't catch smart cyber-criminals
- How device fingerprinting changes the economics of hacking
- How device fingerprinting works
- How global intelligence service based upon device fingerprinting can enhance your
network security infrastructure.

Data Center Web Apps need more than IP-Based Defenses and Next-Generation Firewalls.

Web apps have become the target of choice for cyber-criminals, "hacktivists" and government-sponsored hackers who have learned to evade conventional data center defenses by targeting application-level vulnerabilities. Read this whitepaper to further educate on two new technologies "Intrusion Deception" and "Application-level DDos Protection" which will ultimately misdirect and mislead attackers and deliver a fully automated DDoS protection system for websites and Web applications.