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RSS blockingSpam threat to email marketing
News The report says this has "potentially catastrophic implications for their sender reputation" and again could result in ISPs blocking the marketing messages as spam. Marketing emails are at risk of being blocked as spam... [25 Nov 2009]
Shadow Surfing - Preventing Proxy Abuse in Schools
White Paper SmoothWall's pioneering Dynamic Content Analysis technology was developed in 2001(several years before most other vendors) and over the last 6 years has been extensively refined to maintain accuracy and eliminate... [13 Nov 2009]
The Tenets of Endpoint Control
White Paper Attackers develop targeted attacks, or modify well known attacks that have proven to be effective for years, that signature approaches have no chance of detecting, blocking, or removing. Enterprise IT is paying out large... [13 Nov 2009]
Understanding and Blocking the New Botnets
White Paper Botnets are widely regarded as the top threat to network security. This paper explains how botnets have traditionally worked, then contrasts the established model with startling botnet innovations that emerged in 2007 and are continuing... [12 Nov 2009]
Shavlik Security Suite
White Paper Shavlik Security Suite incorporates a broad scope of protection management including automated discovery, scanning, and patching of servers and desktops; virus and spyware detection; application execution blocking;... [12 Nov 2009]
Laying the IT Security Foundation - Corralling Conficker and Other Threats in an Evolved Environment
White Paper The traditional security approach addresses each individual attack as it crops up through a detect and blocking schema. However in today's ever-changing IT environment, sophisticated threats such as Conficker worm... [29 Oct 2009]
Fact Sheet : IBMXIV Storage System
White Paper Built from a grid of standard Intel®/Linux® components, it is connected in an any-to-any topology by means of massively paralleled, non-blocking Gigabit Ethernet. The IBM XIV® Storage System is a ground-breaking,... [13 Oct 2009]
WebDefend and the CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors
White Paper WebDefend can be deployed out of line, uniquely providing effective non-intrusive security for multi-application environments with full blocking capabilities. The WebDefend web application firewall is an advanced web... [06 Oct 2009]
Rule-Based Defense Mechanism Against Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks
White Paper It is expected to improve the availability, confidentiality and integrity of service by blocking the propagation of DDoS attacks earlier. Since the number of damage cases resulting from Distributed Denial-of-Service... [02 Oct 2009]
Enabling a safer internet: The positive approach to web security
White Paper This paper describes today's new web threats, highlights the need for a positive security model to replace yesterday's access-blocking approach, and describes the three pillars of protection organizations need to... [30 Sep 2009]
Apple's Snow Leopard: Embracing the brave new multicore world
News Blocking and tackling Apple began shipping Snow Leopard on Friday but the true importance of the Mac OS X update is likely to emerge much later. That's because Mac OS X 10.6 begins a long-term attempt by Apple to get... [01 Sep 2009]
IPS vs. IDS: Similar on the Surface, Polar Opposites Underneath
White Paper 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. Although IPS and IDS both examine traffic looking for... [25 Aug 2009]
Employee Web Use and Misuse: Companies, their employees and the Internet
White Paper There is a balance between monitoring and blocking web use in the workplace. Is it okay for employees to spend time on social networking sites, shopping online or downloading pirated music? What are the risks associated... [14 Aug 2009]
Understanding the Performance Impact of Non-Blocking Vs. Blocking InfiniBand Cluster Configurations on Dell M-Series Blades
White Paper This paper showed the impact of blocking factor on the performance of various applications run on Dell PowerEdge blade chassis. The bandwidth intensive NAS benchmarks that have collective communication pattern show... [07 Aug 2009]
Emerging Trends in Fighting Spam
White Paper This white paper focuses on the problems caused by image spam, as well as other spammer techniques for delivering content through existing spam-blocking defenses. Spam has been a serious problem for email administrators... [05 Aug 2009]
