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Eliminating Security Trade-Offs With Cross-Platform Server Isolation: How CISO's Benefit From an Evolutionary Alternative to Firewalls and VLANs for Security Inside the Corporate Network
White Paper CISOs and CIOs face a continuous battle to provide robust data security without hindering the strategic objectives of the enterprise. The demise of the "moat-and-castle" approach to security, and the continued disintermediation of the... [13 Nov 2009]
The FactPoint Group: 12 Ways Unified Threat Management Firewalls Are Driving Security Consolidation
White Paper Just as virtualization has boosted server consolidation in data centers, so too are technology changes spurring consolidation of single-application security appliances on corporate networks Instead of one appliance per application,... [13 Nov 2009]
Firewall Operations Management
White Paper Managing network security for a large organization has become a highly complex operation involving dozens or even hundreds of firewalls. Multiple sites and teams, different hardware and software vendors - all of these... [13 Nov 2009]
Barracuda Web Application Firewall Ensures PCI DSS Compliance
White Paper Barracuda Web Application Firewalls protect networks against unauthorized access, data leakage, site defacement and other malicious attacks by hackers that compromise both the privacy and integrity of vital data. [13 Nov 2009]
A Comparative Analysis of DAM Vs. Native Database Auditing Vs. Database Log Analysis With a SIEM or Log Manager
White Paper It does make a lot of sense to use a DAM with a SIM so one has the holistic picture of database events in tandem with other security events such as the OS, application logs, IDS's and firewalls. One can benefit from... [13 Nov 2009]
Supporting Compliance With Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS)
White Paper PCI-DSS requires firewalls to limit external access to sensitive data, combined with a formal process for monitoring all changes to firewall configuration. The majority of the PCI-DSS requirements relate to network... [13 Nov 2009]
Best Practices for Deploying Intrusion Prevention Systems: A Better Approach to Securing Networks
White Paper First, it is important to remember that IPS can refer to network- and host-based IPS, firewalls, and modified networking equipment like routers and switches. Interest in intrusion prevention has been gaining ground since... [13 Nov 2009]
Consistency Verification of Stateful Firewalls Is Not Harder Than the Stateless Case
White Paper Firewalls play an important role in the enforcement of access control policies in contemporary networks. However, firewalls are effective only if they are configured correctly such that their access... [12 Nov 2009]
Easily Cleanup Firewall Clutter: Work More Effectively and Extend Your Hardware's Lifespan
White Paper In addition to enabling IT personnel to work more efficiently the AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer (AFA) enables organizations to significantly improve the performance of their firewalls not only increasing security through... [12 Nov 2009]
Practical Advantages of Fireware XTM for Hands-On IT Administrators
White Paper If the notion of firewalls being commodities was ever true, it certainly is not now. This paper is written for IT professionals currently comparing the merits of various network security appliances. In this era of... [12 Nov 2009]
Enhancement Misconfiguration Management of Network Security Components Using Range Algorithm
White Paper Many companies and organizations use firewalls to control the access to their network infrastructure. When processing packages, conflicts due to rule overlaps can occur within the filtering policy. To solve these... [12 Nov 2009]
360° Network Access Control With TippingPoint NAC
White Paper Yet, for all of the deployment of perimeter security firewalls, application security gateways, ID management systems, desktop protection software, and other network security devices, major network breaches leading to... [12 Nov 2009]
Making NAC Security-Aware With IF-MAP
White Paper Many enterprises have tools, ranging from DHCP servers to firewalls to authentication servers to malware scanners, and all of these tools have bits of information about a user or an endpoint. A long-standing difficulty... [12 Nov 2009]
Managing to Secure: Evaluating the Manageability of Your IPS Solution
White Paper Many quickly find their hands full with an abundance of new responsibilities, including managing firewalls, worrying about e-mail security, testing and deploying software patches, securing Web caches and gateways and... [12 Nov 2009]
Using NitroView and NitroGuard as an Anomaly Detection System (ADS): Benefits of NitroView and NitroGuard for Network + Security Anomaly Detection
White Paper The data collected may be sourced from virtually any relevant network device, including: network traffic flows (from Netflow or Sflow capable routers and/or using Nitro-Flow); alerts and events generated by NitroGuard; from any of the... [12 Nov 2009]
