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RSS false positivesApplication Security: No Room for False Positives
White Paper The Internet continues to be an agent for business operation. More and more people and organizations are using the Internet for critical business transactions; however, this success becomes its own worst enemy. [13 Nov 2009]
Stateful Assessment
White Paper The advantage of this approach is a dramatic increase in the number of vulnerabilities found, a decrease in false vulnerabilities (false positives), and validation inherent in the... [13 Nov 2009]
When Reputation Is Not Enough: Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall Predictive Sender Profiling
White Paper Throughout the growth of image spam volume, Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall's OCR techniques enabled it to maintain its target 95 percent effectiveness rating in the fight against spam with almost no false... [13 Nov 2009]
Web Browsers: An Emerging Platform Under Attack
White Paper And because scarce false-positives are less problematic at the gateway level, more aggressive heuristics are possible that permit the highest proactive detection rates. The first layer of malware defense... [12 Nov 2009]
Selective Alerts for Runtime Protection of Distributed Systems
White Paper In order to improve the efficacy of attack detection and reduce the amount of false positives, the paper proposes a novel scheme for runtime alert management. Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS)... [11 Nov 2009]
Closing the Tax Gap: Accurately Identify and Prioritize Tax Returns That Have a High Likelihood of Underreporting and a High Magnitude of Potential Collections
White Paper Advanced, nonlinear modeling from SAS adds even more precision, which translates into even better rank ordering, fewer false positives, higher revenues and faster return on investment. More sophisticated... [16 Sep 2009]
ViaLogy SPM Sensor Policy Manager
White Paper ViaLogy's flagship product, SPM Sensor Policy Manager, combines inputs from multiple networked sensors to provide a complete, real-time operational picture and reduce false positives and negatives.... [30 Aug 2009]
How Not to Look Like a Phish: Tips to Help Your Organization Minimize False Positives
White Paper Phishing is the criminal act of posing as a legitimate business via digital communications to extract information such as social security numbers, credit card numbers and banking account numbers. Businesses absorb more than 90 percent of... [15 Aug 2009]
An Intelligent System for Phish Detection, Using Dynamic Analysis and Template Matching
White Paper Most of the existing anti-phishing solutions fail to handle the fuzziness involved in phish detection, thus leading to a large number of false positives. Phishing, or stealing of sensitive information on... [31 Jul 2009]
Choosing the Right Email Security Deployment
White Paper Today's email-borne threats consist of viruses, spam, false positives, Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, spyware, phishing (fraud), regulatory compliance violations, data loss and more.... [31 Jul 2009]
University Uses Hosted Filtering Solution to Reduce Spam by 85 Percent
White Paper The university's IT staff were creating manual rules to block spam, an effort that generated too many false positives and was not the most productive use of their time. The university has reduced spam by... [27 Jul 2009]
Top Benefits of Symantec Protection Suite
White Paper Tired of all the false positives you get with anti-phishing products? See how Symantec can help protect against phishing threats with less than one in a million false... [14 Jul 2009]
McAfee M-8000 Network IPS
White Paper They must catch attacks traversing 10 Gbps links while producing nearly zero false positives. Several trends are converging to make 10 Gbps security a prescient issue for enterprises. Hosted web... [13 Jul 2009]
Spam Filtering Through Header Relay Detection
White Paper This paper discusses simple yet effective header verification techniques that can identify over 90% of current spam with less than 1% false positives, requiring only about 1 ms.of processor time per... [01 Jul 2009]
Stopping Spam by Extrusion Detection
White Paper Some relatively simple heuristics result in the detection of low numbers of "False positives" despite tuning to ensure few "False negatives". End users are often unaware that their... [01 Jul 2009]
