perimeters
Comprehensive Compliance Controls for BusinessObjects Environments: Combining Intelligent Business Policy Controls With BusinessObjects XI and Database Auditing to Ensure Effective GRC Process
White Paper While organizations have made significant investments in firewalls and intrusion detection systems to protect their network perimeters, these systems have proven they cannot prevent authorized system users from accessing... [02 Sep 2009]
Securing your business - what to invest in
Comment The changing nature of organisations is also presenting a major security challenge as companies tear down their traditional perimeters to enable a more collaborative relationship with partners, suppliers and even customers. [11 Feb 2009]
Worms Vs. Perimeters: The Case for Hard-LANs
White Paper Network worms - self-propagating network programs - represent a substantial threat to the network infrastructure. Due to the propagation speed of worms, reactive defenses need to be automatic. It is important to understand where and how... [01 Oct 2008]
Regain Control Over a Critical Threat to Business Information Integrity and Data Privacy: Privileged Users
White Paper Most businesses harden the perimeters of their IT networks and systems to counter external threats that confront their computing infrastructure, such as those caused by hackers, denial of service attacks or malware. [09 Apr 2008]
Webcast: If it Ain't Broke, Break Into It: Best Practices for Penetration Testing and Remediation
White Paper Organizations spend a great deal of time and money securing their network perimeters from external threats. However, nearly half of the security breaches that were made public in 2005 were from insider attacks. [13 Dec 2007]
You Say I Need An Application Firewall?
White Paper In this paper, we will describe the evolution of firewalls from the standpoint of the controls that they apply on data, and we will explain why the currently accepted "state-of-the-art" firewall really represents a step backwards in most... [09 Jul 2007]
Critical Asset Protection, Perimeter Monitoring, and Threat Detection Using Automated Video Surveillance
White Paper Most airfields, for example, have open (unfenced) perimeters, high volume heterogeneous traffic, are easily accessed on foot or by water, and exist in areas where regulations providing a safety buffer are difficult to... [10 Dec 2006]
10 things you should know about using an executive IT recruiter
White Paper Identifying a recruiter that specializes in your area of expertise is as important as locating a firm that regularly works with individuals in your salary range and within your geographic perimeters. Establishing a good... [19 May 2006]
Your perimeters are "porous", companies told
News Security professionals have been advised to accept that organisations' perimeters are now open, and to start designing future systems architecture to account for this. Paul Simmonds, global information security director... [28 Apr 2006]
Flexibility boom presents security challenge
News Companies who have spent years securing their perimeters are now in danger of undoing all their hard work if they don't put in place education and solutions for dealing with portable media and remote working, warned Paul. [12 Oct 2005]
Ecommerce sites panned for lack of security testing
News A spokeswoman for the firm confirmed it continually tests its perimeters and is pleased with the results of such vigilance. Despite a series of high-profile online security blunders at leading retailers such as Argos and... [20 May 2005]
Devil's Advocate: When business gets in the way of security
Comment Perimeters are often in arbitrary places, though, when we look at how people behave. Is there any way around this conundrum? Security issues consistently top polls of senior IT professionals. Combined with the related... [21 Sep 2004]
Patching cycle is virus writers' dream come true
News The company decided to revamp its patching systems, limit the release of fixes to once a month, and augment the upgrades with several other security initiatives aimed at locking down its customers' network perimeters. [25 Feb 2004]
UK wastes £100bn annually - online procurement firm claims
News Automated systems also set strict perimeters on purchasing, meaning companies find it easier to stick to budgets and cut down 'maverick buying' where employees buy goods independently at a higher cost. [17 Aug 1999]