Knowledge is Power: Guide to Protecting Your Website

In 2012 Symantec performed more than 1,400 website vulnerability scans each day. More than half the websites scanned were found to have unpatched, potentially exploitable vulnerabilities. Of the vulnerable sites, one quarter were actually infected with malware that could infect visitors and lead to the sites being blacklisted by search engines. These figures show that millions of legitimate websites are at risk from serious attack and exploitation by internet criminals every day. Download this white paper to learn more about how you can protect your site with proper security and monitoring.
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Does Application Security Pay? Measuring the Business Impact of Software Security Assurance Solutions

With the escalating number and increasing sophistication of cyber attacks, perimeter defenses are no longer enough. Enterprises must ensure application vulnerabilities don’t open doors for hackers. Mainstay surveyed 12 organizations that implemented application vulnerability testing with HP Fortify.

Their findings: HP Fortify customers reduced application vulnerabilities from hundreds to tens, the average time to fix them from weeks to hours, and time-to-market delays due to vulnerabilities from 120 days per year to none. And companies who used HP Fortify on Demand-a cloud-based solution-saw results and achieved time to value faster. Read the report to learn how.

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Why you need a next-generation firewall

Next-generation (NG) firewalls, with features such as deep packet inspection, intrusion detection, application identification, and granular control, are important weapons in the battle against hacking and malware. Mobile applications have taken the overall scheme of corporate IT, and NG firewalls enable organizations to incorporate full-stack inspection to support intrusion prevention. This white paper explores the reasons for implementing NG firewalls and lays out a path to success for overburdened IT organizations.
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IDC Spot Light – HPArcSight ESM Solution Helps Finansbank to Combat Fraud and Increase Customer Satisfaction

Turkey's Finansbank needed a way to spot potential fraud among millions of electronic transactions. But implementing a commercial fraud management application would take 18 months-far too long. Based on their experience using HP ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) for IT security operations, they decided to adapt HP ArcSight ESM for fraud management.

Within six months Finansbank was able to use HP ArcSight ESM to authorize transactions in near real time. Using its flexible rules engine and advanced correlation, they reduced false positives by 90% and the time to resolve flagged transactions by 80%. Read the report to learn how.

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SSL 101: A Guide to Fundamental Web Site Security

As use of the internet has grown, the web has also become more popular with scammers, identity thieves, and other cybercriminals. Fortunately there is SSL, a standard solution for protecting sensitive information online. But there's more to SSL than just basic safety. In this guide, you'll learn about what SSL does, how it works, and how it can help build credibility online.
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Choosing the Right Security Solution

This paper discusses how online businesses can instill trust and confidence in their websites, protect valuable brands, and safeguard customers' sensitive information. It is critical to choose e-commerce security solutions that continually evolve and extend to address a range of ever-changing needs. SSL-based security platforms with solid track records of meeting new challenges are the best way to defend, and future proof, e-commerce environments against a growing and dynamic Internet threat environment.
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State of security operations 2014 report of capabilities and maturity of cyber defense organizations

As the incidence and cost of cyber crime have escalated, organizations have responded by establishing security operations centers (SOCs) to detect and counter cyber attack and to assure compliance with industry guidelines. But how capable are SOCs, and where is the greatest opportunity for improvement?

HP Security Intelligence and Operations Consulting has performed maturity assessments evaluating people, processes and technology in 69 SOCs. This report presents their findings on the measured maturity level of SOCs by industry. Read it to understand: Areas needing the most improvement; Lessons learned; and Recommendations on target maturity levels for enterprises and managed security service providers.

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Securing your IT Infrastructure with SOC/NOC collaboration

This white paper explains why integrating your log management solution with IT operations is beneficial to both your network operations center (NOC) and security operations center (SOC). It can help you seamlessly integrate log management into your IT operations strategy, create collaboration between your SOC and NOC that empowers your organization to effectively manage your IT infrastructure while simultaneously ensuring its security.
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10 Ways to Build a Better Big Data Security Strategy

When it comes to enterprise security, Big Data is part of the problem-and it is part of the solution. Collecting vast amounts of data from disparate sources-including the cloud-exposes the enterprise to new threats and creates vast new stores of data you must protect. But you can apply Big Data techniques for finding insight in mountains of data to find security threats as well.
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Protecting your business data: Five Dos and Don’ts for SMBs

Small and midsized businesses have a particularly challenging time protecting company data. They have many of the same security and backup challenges as large enterprises, but fewer resources in terms of funding, time and specialized expertise.

The stakes are high: Symantec's State of Information Survey 2012 gathered information from more than 2,000 IT managers at companies with between five and 250 employees. Asked about the consequences of losing business data, the managers cited loss of customers (49%), brand damage (43%), increased expenses (41%) and decreased revenues (37%).The amount of data that businesses need to protect is also increasing rapidly. In the same survey, IT managers projected data stores at small and midsized businesses will grow 178% during the next year.

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Security and the Cloud: Perfect Match

Why are security and the Cloud a perfectly matched pair for your business? Independently, they have lots of benefits. Security protects your key devices, like PCs, and mobile devices, from cyber-thieves' malware, viruses and other nasty threats that can compromise, or even destroy, your business' critical information. Cloud technology, on the other hand, might seem complicated but it's really a simple way to use sophisticated software, like security technology, without the day-to-day hassles of software updates, hardware maintenance, and other expensive and time-consuming tasks.

But both are better together - especially for small and medium businesses who want to protect their key information, but don't have a full-time IT shop to support the infrastructure.

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How to build a scalable, security-rich private cloud – in weeks, not months

If your organization is looking to work faster - and with greater agility - you probably know that a private cloud could be a good solution. But you should also know that traditional methods for implementing an automated private cloud using PaaS can take up to six months. With IBM Private Modular cloud, however yours can be deployed in weeks. Learn how IBM Private Modular Cloud can help you build and deploy a security-rich private PaaS cloud environment that leverages customizable modules which can scale to meet your specific business and IT needs.
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Why you need a next-generation firewall

Next-generation (NG) firewalls, with features such as deep packet inspection, intrusion detection, application identification, and granular control, are important weapons in the battle against hacking and malware. Mobile applications have taken the overall scheme of corporate IT, and NG firewalls enable organizations to incorporate full-stack inspection to support intrusion prevention. This white paper explores the reasons for implementing NG firewalls and lays out a path to success for overburdened IT organizations.
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