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An Intrusion Prevention System is any device which exercises access control to protect computers from exploitation. "Intrusion prevention" technology is considered by some to be an extension of intrusion detection (IDS) technology, but it is actually another form of access control, like an application layer firewall. The latest Next Generation Firewalls leverage their existing deep packet inspection engine by sharing this functionality with an Intrusion-prevention system.
 
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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

4 Steps to Data Security Compliance: Technologies to Help Your Organization with U.S. Regulations

By : SafeNet Published Date: Jan 31, 2008
U.S. organizations that handle corporate and personal data must conform to certain government legislation to protect this private information from compromise, unauthorized access, interception, or corruption. However, organizations with little or no education of these mandates or suitable solutions will find their budgets and their manpower stretched too thin.
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SafeNet

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

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

Assessing Endpoint Security Solutions: Why Detection Rates Aren't Enough

By : Sophos Published Date: Mar 18, 2008
Evaluating the performance of competing endpoint security products is a time-consuming and daunting task. Enterprise decision-makers have to rely on independent competitive comparisons, performance benchmarks, and detection certifications, all covering different solutions and criteria, providing conflicting results.
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Sophos

Astaro Outperforms Cisco as an Integrated Security Solution at Devine Millimet

By : Astaro Published Date: Aug 10, 2009
The Cisco PIX firewall appliance at Devine Millimet, Attorneys at Law, needed replacement.
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Astaro

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 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

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

Best Practices for Wireless Network Security and Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

By : AirDefense Published Date: Apr 24, 2007
This white paper will explore what security challenges wireless networks present, suggest best practices to ensure Wireless LAN security, and demonstrate how AirDefense Enterprise, a Wireless Intrusion Detection and Prevention System, can help you define, monitor and enforce your wireless security policy.
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AirDefense

Block online fraudsters and identity thieves-by letting their own PCs snitch on them

By : ThreatMetrix. Published Date: Jan 30, 2009
This white paper highlights a surprising new approach to fraud prevention: remotely recognizing a fraudster’s PC (or other device). Even with identity (password/credit card) theft, the device stays the same!
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ThreatMetrix.

Cenzic Software: Identity Theft Laws And Application Security

By : Cenzic Published Date: Nov 29, 2006
The Cenzic Hailstorm® solution helps companies comply with AB 1950, allowing companies to use automated processes to manage their security. Hailstorm is a key tool for preventing breaches.
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Cenzic

Cenzic: Application Security for Financial Institutions

By : Cenzic Published Date: Nov 29, 2006
The Cenzic Hailstorm® solution helps financial institutions comply with GLBA and other laws by automating risk assessment, checking for vulnerability to the injection of malicious code into Web servers, automating the testing of code and key controls during the software development process, and helping them respond to new vulnerabilities in the software development lifecycle.
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Cenzic

Combating Malware: Leveraging the Power of a Planet

By : Panda Security Published Date: Jan 16, 2008
A new white paper from Panda Security discusses the new breed of silent online threats that can bypass traditional antivirus programs and penetrate even the most highly 'protected' networks.  Additionally, the sheer volume of malware has overwhelmed the antivirus industry as a whole. Collective Intelligence is a new global security model specifically designed to combat the next evolution of malicious code.
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Panda Security

Controlling the Use of Instant Messaging and Peer-to-Peer Applications

By : Internet Security Systems Published Date: Aug 21, 2009
Use of instant messaging applications-like AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger and ICQ-and peer-to-peer applications has grown significantly. Although the benefits of real-time communication offer a productivity benefit to corporate environments, instant messaging and peer-to-peer applications add significant vulnerabilities and risks to an enterprise's security posture.
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Internet Security Systems

Critical Scalability Considerations in Evaluating Log Management Solutions

By : ArcSight Published Date: Mar 03, 2009
This document provides an overview of the drivers for Log Management scalability and outlines the key requirements to consider as part of the evaluation process.
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ArcSight

Data Privacy - The Untold Story

By : IBM-America Published Date: Feb 23, 2009
This webcast features addresses the challenges of protecting corporate and confidential data. It focuses on the untold story of data privacy and many of the compliance challenges that companies now face. The webcast features Dennis Gaughan and Cynthia Babb and is 55 minutes and 33 seconds.
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IBM-America

Data Protection Solutions at Midsize Organizations

By : Trend Micro, Inc. Published Date: Apr 29, 2009
In January of 2008, a random sample of online technical newsletter subscribers at midsize companies (100-5,000 employees) received an email invitation to participate in a survey about data protection solutions use at their organizations. The goal of the survey was to identify sources of and/or reasons for information security breaches, and to better understand how businesses are planning to protect themselves against data leaks. The following report presents top line results of the study.
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Trend Micro, Inc.

Deep Content Control Keeps Data in the Enterprise

By : Websense Published Date: Feb 04, 2008
Information is at the heart of every organization and is often its most critical asset. Through accident or malice, it is sometimes exposed, representing a risk to compliance, business continuity, and an organization’s competitive advantage. While organizations focus on the prevention of outside attempts to access sensitive data, few acknowledge – let alone prepare for – the threat from within.
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Websense

Defining the Rules for Preemptive Host Protection

By : Internet Security Systems Published Date: Aug 21, 2009
Protecting desktop and server, or host systems has rapidly become a high priority for organizations that want to ensure uptime and the availability of day-to-day business applications. Today's hybrid threats are growing faster, more complex and more destructive.
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Internet Security Systems

Defining the Rules of Preemptive Protection: The ISS Intrusion Prevention System

By : Internet Security Systems Published Date: Aug 21, 2009
Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) are rapidly becoming an integral part of an effective network defense solution. Unfortunately, finding the truth in today's often overhyped market of network-based IPS offerings is no easy task.
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Internet Security Systems

Demystifying Web 2.0

By : Clearswift Published Date: Jun 09, 2008
Anyone who spends any time online cannot have failed to notice. People are using the Web in new ways; ways that make the 'brochureware' of the early Web experience look and feel decidedly flat. It's a new world, characterised by a wave of new jargon, brands and web based experiences. MySpace. FaceBook.  Wikipedia. Flickr. Twitter. YouTube. Mashups. Blogs. Newsfeeds. Download this white paper for a simple guide to the terms, opportunities and threats that Web 2.0 poses.
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Clearswift

Digital Fraud & Identity Theft Made Protection of Payment Card Information More Critical Than Ever

By : ArcSight Published Date: Mar 04, 2009
Whitepaper highlighting the twelve PCI DSS requirements and the technology necessary to address the PCI DSS 1.2 requirements.
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ArcSight

Disk Encryption & Advanced Password Protection: A Necessity for Financial Services Enterprises

By : Data Guard Systems, Inc Published Date: May 06, 2009
The data security challenges for financial enterprises have never been as challenging as they are in today's turbulent times. Not only must financial enterprises comply with regulations such as SOX, GBLA and PCI along with a multitude of state regulations concerning customer privacy and electronic data security, they must also guard against the staggering costs—both tangible and intangible—that a security breach can incur.
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Data Guard Systems, Inc

Dude! You Say I Need an Application Layer Firewall?!

By : Secure Computing Published Date: Feb 27, 2007
This industry white paper takes the mystery out of the key differences in the main classes of firewall architectures. It was independently written by Marcus J. Ranum, a world-renowned expert on security system design and implementation. It includes fundamental lessons about building application layer firewalls, technical examples, and concludes with predictions about the future of firewall technology.
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Secure Computing
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