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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. [12 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 cases for... [09 Jul 2007]
Deploying Firewalls Throughout Your Organization
White Paper The rise of internal threats has come about by the emergence of new network perimeters that have formed inside the corporate LAN. Examples of these perimeters, or trust boundaries, are between switches and back-end servers, between different... [22 Feb 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 legislate or enforce. [09 Dec 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 for ICI, said: "As... [28 Apr 2006]
Network Security Evolving to Unified-Management Approach
White Paper Spyware and adware infections have become so widespread on enterprise networks that corporate IT departments are beginning to reinforce their network perimeters with a better mousetrap. This security strategy, known in IT circles as unified threat... [14 Apr 2006]
3Com TippingPoint Quarantine Protection
White Paper Infections from worms and spyware on traveling laptops and visitor or guest PCs, and the installation of unapproved applications like peer-to-peer file sharing, are common examples of how malicious code can circumvent hardened perimeters. [27 Oct 2005]
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]
Security Expansion Layers beyond the Firewall
White Paper Three additional security perimeters now can be leveraged in your security model. Some major benefits of combining the new perimeters in your infrastructure are, increased defense against nearly any scale Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS... [26 Sep 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 B&Q in recent years... [20 May 2005]
Putting the Tea Back Into Cyber Terrorism
White Paper When limiting such attacks to those that can be launched from the Internet the following comes to mind: Denial-of-Service attacks and breaching network perimeters remotely (e.g.hacking in). For some time now, the effectiveness of cyber attacks has... [21 Feb 2005]
Can Cyberterrorists Actually Kill People?
White Paper Crackers probe network defenses and attack undefended systems that have insecure perimeters. Chinese and American hackers hijack web-pages and use them to rattle digital sabres and spread nationalist propaganda. [16 Feb 2005]
Aviation Security: Further Steps Needed to Strengthen the Security of Commercial Airport Perimeters and Access Controls
White Paper The act also contained provisions directing TSA to take actions to improve the security of airport perimeters, access controls, and airport workers. In this report, GAO attempts to assess TSA's efforts to evaluate the security of airport perimeters... [21 Dec 2004]
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 topic of business continuity... [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]
