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How to detect data leaks

Comment In addition to blocking data leaks, DLP tools can also help companies carry out a risk assessment on their data, allowing them to check where their sensitive data is stored and helping customers put it in more secure locations.

Tags: security, data protection, data leaks, comply

[19 Mar 2008]

How Cisco Delivers Software Throughout the Enterprise

whitepaper During 2002 and 2003, Cisco IT developed a compelling business case for upgrading its distribution systems for video, application acceleration through caching of HTTP static content, and HTTP worm and virus blocking.

Tags: monitoring systems

[04 Mar 2008]

ISPs' traffic handling in the spotlight

News But opponents, including the network operators, say they deserve flexibility to manage their networks as they see fit to serve their customers' interests - for instance, blocking spam and ensuring that use of high-bandwidth applications by some...

Tags: isps, bandwidth, fcc, questions

[25 Feb 2008]

Design and Implementation of a High-Performance Network Intrusion Prevention System

whitepaper Network intrusion prevention systems provide proactive defense against security threats by detecting and blocking attack-related traffic. The network processor acts as a customized load balancing splitter that cooperates with a set of modified...

Tags: network security

[08 Jan 2008]

Emerging Trends in Fighting Spam

whitepaper This white paper from Osterman Research 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 and...

Tags: anti-virus, image, spam, emails

[12 Dec 2007]

Emerging Threats: Stop Spam, Virus, and Fraud Outbreaks through End-to-End Attack Monitoring

whitepaper Rigid scoring techniques can end up blocking e-mail your users want. How MailFrontier's evidence evaluation system identifies the sender, analyzes the content, and applies a collaborative review of every e-mail using Sender Authentication and...

Tags: security management, spam, attack, protection

[12 Dec 2007]

Failures in a Hybrid Content Blocking System

whitepaper Three main methods of content blocking are used on the Internet: blocking routes to particular IP addresses, blocking specific URLs in a proxy cache or firewall, and providing invalid data for DNS lookups.

Tags: tcp - ip, cache, proxy, addresses

[24 Oct 2007]

SpyProxy: Execution-Based Detection of Malicious Web Content

whitepaper In contrast, the authors approach is to render and observe active Web content in a disposable virtual machine before it reaches the user's browser, identifying and blocking pages whose behavior is suspicious.

Tags: web content management, malware, pages, malicious

[06 Jul 2007]

Websense - The Head of the Class for the Northwest Tri-County Intermediate Unit

whitepaper When school administrators in Pennsylvania's Erie, Warren, and Crawford counties met earlier this year about filtering internet content, they knew one thing for sure: they needed to comply with the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) without...

Tags: security applications, filtering, protection, comply

[16 Jun 2007]

NCI Partners With Aladdin for Mutual Success

whitepaper It was the year 2000, and Toronto-based NCI was looking for the best gateway content security solution the market had to offer - one that would meet all their customer's specific needs - from anti-virus, to spam management, to blocking other types...

Tags: security applications, virus, gateway, criteria

[16 Jun 2007]

Detection and blocking techniques for combating spam

whitepaper This article explains how combining spam detection and blocking techniques, content filtering, and various analysis methods, it is possible to identify sources of incoming spam and also prevent spam from going out.

Tags: security management, methods, spam, minimize

[16 May 2007]

YouTube vs Viacom: 'It's about free speech' - Google

News He added, "we already have in place a digital hash blocking system" that identifies the digital "fingerprint" of content that has been removed for copyright reasons. Under the provision, service providers that host other people's content are "safe...

Tags: copyright, youtube, google, viacom

[01 May 2007]

Detection and blocking techniques for combating spam

whitepaper This article explains how combining spam detection and blocking techniques, content filtering, and various analysis methods, it is possible to identify sources of incoming spam and also prevent spam from going out.

Tags: security management, methods, spam, source

[16 Apr 2007]

Telecom Systems Integrator Endorses Trend Micro InterScan Gateway Security Appliance for SMB Clients

whitepaper Trend Micro's InterScan Gateway Security Appliance met their expectations, addressing the security points faced by SMB customers by blocking unwanted content and malware at the gateway before server or desktop system performance is affected.

Tags: gateway, smb, appliance, desktop

[07 Mar 2007]

Gruppo Cerutti Opens Up Their Network With CA's eTrust Solution

whitepaper With the assistance of LAN Service, Cerutti realized a DMZ (DeMilitarized Zone), blocking access to the rest of the company network. To protect their operations, they chose to use eTrust Secure Content Manager from CA.

Tags: lan, lan service, printing, ground

[28 Feb 2007]

Block or Unblock Automatic Picture Downloads in E-mail Messages

whitepaper This paper explains why blocking pictures can help protect the user from spam and how he can unblock pictures he feels are safe to download. To combat Web beacons, Outlook is configured by default to not automatically download pictures and other...

Tags: download, protect, configured, pictures

[14 Feb 2007]

Net neutrality back on the agenda in the US

News The Snowe-Dorgan legislation would bar network operators from blocking or degrading access to internet content and services, and from preventing consumers from connecting external devices to the network, with exceptions for security and other...

Tags: net neutrality

[10 Jan 2007]

UK leads fight against online child abuse

News By the end of the year Coaker said he expects 90 per cent of internet connections to be blocking access to websites blacklisted by the IWF. He said: "Blocking websites is a step we can and absolutely have to take," adding he hopes the remaining...

Tags: iwf, online child abuse, child porn, child abuse

[24 Oct 2006]

Aussie taxes to fund 'free' porn blocks

News The federal government in Australia is to spend AU$116.6m (£46.7m) to provide all Australian families with free internet pornography blocking software. According to the minister's spokeswoman, almost no ISPs currently offer any kind of content...

Tags: porn filter, australia

[21 Jun 2006]

NHS bans World Cup video streams

News And the blocking of these types of video and audio streaming services is likely to become a permanent measure to ensure the smooth running of the network. Len Chard, NHS CfH programme manager for N3 said managing access to streamed content at a...

Tags: nhs cfh, world cup

[19 Jun 2006]

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