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Breaking the Bank - Vulnerabilities in Numeric Processing Within Financial Applications
White Paper Attackers will go to extraordinary lengths to compromise a financial application; the spoils are just too irresistible. So unsurprisingly these applications have higher requirements for data confidentiality, transaction integrity and... [13 Nov 2009]
Check Point IP Appliance Advantages
White Paper They are optimized for route processing and packet forwarding. IP Appliances are scalable, robust and secure. The platform started with no binaries and libraries and then added different elements to provide a compact and... [13 Nov 2009]
Audit Readiness for PCI (Payment Card Industry) Data Security Standard Compliance
White Paper Additional penalties can range from increased audit requirements to retraction of credit card processing privileges. Retailers that fail Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) audits can be fined up to... [13 Nov 2009]
HSPD-12 & FIPS 201 PIV II: How Government Standards Affect Physical Access Control
White Paper Federal Information Processing Standard 201 (FIPS 201) was developed to satisfy the technical requirements of HSPD- 12, approved by the Secretary of Commerce, and issued on February 25, 2005. In response to HSPD-12, the... [13 Nov 2009]
The Power-1 Performance Architecture: Delivering Application-Layer Security at Data Center Performance Levels
White Paper These attacks - disguised as legitimate traffic - require a deeper level of inspection that needs more processing power. Companies have always faced a tradeoff with network security. Do they lock down the network and... [13 Nov 2009]
Leveraging SaaS Technology for Web Application Security
White Paper The solution is automated security assessment products that leverage stateful processing to comprehensively examine Web applications and reveal vulnerabilities in hours rather than weeks. Information security managers... [13 Nov 2009]
Comprehensive Endpoint Security: New Endpoint Vulnerabilities Such as Web-Based Malware Are Increasing Information Security Risk in the Enterprise
White Paper Valuable data, e.g.personal identity and consumer credit card information, is stolen from target organizations such as retailers, data processing facilities and government entities, and quickly sold to the highest bidder... [13 Nov 2009]
Leveraging the Community Knowledge to Reduce the Protection Gap
White Paper This new approach improved laboratories' processing of files and leverage of the community's knowledge thanks to a shift in mentality: the PC was no longer treated as an independent unit, isolated from the rest of... [13 Nov 2009]
The Gold Standard for Operating System Security: SKPP
White Paper Because the operating system controls the resources (e.g.memory, processing time, devices) of the computer, it has the power to prevent unauthorized access to these resources and information flowing through them. [13 Nov 2009]
Mapping Light Communication SLA-Based Workflows Onto Grid Resources With Parallel Processing Technology
White Paper Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are currently one of the major research topics in Grid Computing. Among many system components for supporting of SLA-aware Grid-based workflows, the SLA mapping module receives an important position. [12 Nov 2009]
Adding the Easy Button to the Cloud With SnowFlock and MPI
White Paper They must learn new cloud APIs that are not germane to the problem of parallel processing. Those APIs usually take several minutes to perform their VM-management tasks, forcing users to keep VMs idling and pay for unused... [12 Nov 2009]
Virtualizing the Datacenter Without Compromising Server Performance
White Paper Physical servers' processing and computing powers have been increasing for the past years, giving rise to a new breed of multi-core and multi-bit processors, with unprecedented amounts of memory and disk space. [12 Nov 2009]
Enhancement Misconfiguration Management of Network Security Components Using Range Algorithm
White Paper When processing packages, conflicts due to rule overlaps can occur within the filtering policy. Many companies and organizations use firewalls to control the access to their network infrastructure. To solve these... [12 Nov 2009]
Top Ten Ways Shavlik Simplifies Configuration Management and Compliance Auditing
White Paper Amidst the publicity around data breaches at TJ MAXX((retail) and Heartland Payment Services (credit card processing), "Compliance" has become an urgent security topic. Yet there is no single definition of what... [12 Nov 2009]
Benchmarking Microsoft SQL Server Using VMware ESX Server 3.5
White Paper This paper presents the results of a benchmarking study, in which Brocade used an industry-standard online Transaction Processing Benchmark (TPC-C) in an ESX Server cluster to determine if ESX Server version 3.5 could... [12 Nov 2009]