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Six Strategies for Defense-in-Depth: Securing the Network From the Inside Out
White Paper Instead, the network requires internal perimeterization and defenses. To address these threats, the corporate network should no longer be a single homogeneous zone in which users connect from anywhere in... [14 Nov 2009]
Application Security: No Room for False Positives
White Paper However, many of those avenues are protected with network defenses, so motivated attackers have turned their attention to Web-based business applications. As the value of transactions occurring over the Internet... [13 Nov 2009]
Scraping, Denial of Service, and Brute Force Attacks! Oh My!: Identifying and Controlling Automated Clients
White Paper Anti-Automation defenses are critical in today's web application security landscape. Only through the combination of all of these capabilities can organizations gain true protections against these threats. [06 Oct 2009]
The Impact of Messaging and Web Threats
White Paper The risks to organizations large and small are not theoretical - there are real problems that users and their employers face if they do not establish adequate defenses against the growing variety of malware, exploits and... [01 Oct 2009]
Protecting Against the New Wave of Malware
White Paper Malware of all types are becoming more virulent, their authors are becoming more adept at getting around current defenses, and the profits generated by malware are funding new and more dangerous threats. [01 Oct 2009]
Risks and Defenses Against Web 2.0 Threats
White Paper The presenter sheds light on risks and defenses again web 2.0 threats. While Web 2.0 threats and browser exploits are growing, one has little or no Capital EXpenditure (CapEX) to acquire... [01 Oct 2009]
Newer Threats and Newer Defenses Against Web 2.0
White Paper URL filtering has become a standard control to enforce policy for web traffic. However, with Web 2.0, where dynamic and user generated content becomes the norm, static URL databases are of limited effectiveness. [01 Oct 2009]
Top 10 Threats to SME Data Security
White Paper It also suggests practical techniques and defenses to counter each vector. When it spotted an issue that could impact SMEs negatively, it alerted subscribers with email broadcasts. Because subscribers are... [02 Sep 2009]
The Gestalt Approach to IT Security Takes Shape
White Paper Off late Enterprise IT defenses against malware or exploits are built by deploying a set of security appliances that mitigate specific threats. This appliance approach was very effective during the 1990s... [30 Aug 2009]
Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms
White Paper EPP vendors are competing on the strength of non-signature-based defenses, proactive management capabilities to reduce the attack surface, and data protection. The traditional blacklist antivirus capability is... [05 Aug 2009]
Emerging Trends in Fighting Spam
White Paper This white paper focuses on the problems caused by image spam, as well as other spammer techniques for delivering content through existing spam-blocking defenses. The paper also discusses Symantec's approach to solving... [05 Aug 2009]
The Advantages of a Hosted Security Model
White Paper The growing volumes of spam, viruses, worms, Trojans, blended threats and other issues, coupled with more sophisticated attacks from spammers and others, necessitates that organizations have robust and adaptable... [31 Jul 2009]
True Zero Day Protection: The Only Defense Against Evolving Security Threats
White Paper Zero day attacks are a growing threat to corporate networks, because they pass undetected through conventional signature-based defenses. This white paper explains the mechanisms of zero day threats and... [13 Jul 2009]
A Systematic Methodology for Firewall Penetration Testing
White Paper This paper advances the view that firewall testing should examine not only the ability of a firewall to resist attacks from external sources, but also the defenses of the entire network that the firewall protects against... [01 Jul 2009]
A Checklist for Network Security
White Paper Maintaining a safe computing environment requires vigilance and dedication to frequent, critical evaluations of threats and defenses. Although networking has made the explosive growth of computer... [18 Jun 2009]
