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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,... [12 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... [05 Oct 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... [02 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]
Taxonomy of Conflicts in Network Security Policies
White Paper Policy conflicts may cause serious security breaches and network vulnerability such as blocking legitimate traffic, permitting unwanted traffic, and insecure data transmission. Network security polices are essential... [11 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... [24 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]
Scalable Alternatives to Virtual Output Queuing
White Paper To avoid head of line blocking in switches, Virtual Output Queues (VOQs) are commonly used. However, the number of VOQs grows quadratically with the number of ports, making this approach impractical for large switches. [31 Jul 2009]
E-mail and Web Security SaaS
White Paper The Web security suite comprises anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-phishing, application blocking, and URL filtering. Webroot is an established security provider of Software as a Service (SaaS)-delivered e-mail and Web... [31 Jul 2009]
Mobile payments: Standalone systems blocking the way
News Take-up of mobile payments is being held back by the lack of interoperability between banking systems in Europe, analysts believe. While traditional online banking has achieved a degree of popularity - some 30 per cent of the UK... [22 Jul 2009]
Cascadia Labs URL Filtering and Web Security
White Paper In addition to blocking Web pages that contain sexually explicit, violent, or illegal content, these products also play an increasingly important role in securing corporate networks - they can provide a first line of... [13 Jul 2009]