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Maximize Your Endpoint Security Solutions With Symantec Endpoint Encryption

whitepaper With the Symantec advanced encryption solution, encryption and authentication are transparent to the end user and performed with minimal performance impact, leading to no degradation in system performance.

Tags: storage management

[11 May 2008]

Busy Airport Becomes an Agile, Secure, Unified Enterprise With Sun Portal and Communication Products

whitepaper The company wanted to improve airport communication and information access; cut data center costs and time to deploy applications; and also provide user authentication and single sign-on for increased data protection.

Tags: data center

[06 May 2008]

PorKI: Making User PKI Safe on Machines of Heterogeneous Trustworthiness

whitepaper Public key cryptography can reduce this risk of attack, because authentication using PKI is designed to not give away sensitive data. However, using private keys on standard platforms exposes the user to "Keyjacking"; mobile users wishing to use...

Tags: pki

[02 May 2008]

Publishing Exchange Client Access With ISA 2006 - The Complete Solution (Part 2)

whitepaper User should confirm that forms-based authentication is not selected on the Exchange front-end server and enable RPC over HTTP on the front-end Exchange server. This paper explains Configuration settings for Exchange CAS/Front-End and the...

Tags: application servers

[23 Apr 2008]

Security experts criticise Phorm

News T is for Two-factor authentication A browser request is first sent via a switch to a machine on the ISP network, which then redirects the user to the Phorm Webwise server to have an anonymised cookie attached to it, allowing Phorm to serve targeted...

Tags: threat, ads, phorm

[18 Apr 2008]

Beware the insider security threat

Beware the insider security threat

News T is for Two-factor authentication But it is the insider that still poses the biggest risk according to all but one of silicon.com's 12-strong CIO Jury IT user panel. Security experts at the RSA security conference in San Francisco last week warned...

Tags: insider, security

[17 Apr 2008]

Microsoft: Vista security feature designed 'to annoy users'

News T is for Two-factor authentication David Cross, a product unit manager at Microsoft, was the group program manager in charge of designing User Account Control (UAC), which, when activated, requires people to run Vista in standard user mode rather...

Tags: vista, uac, microsoft

[14 Apr 2008]

TNET Webcast: How Microsoft IT Does Security Enhancements for Remote Access (Level 300)

whitepaper The attendee of this webcast will learn how Microsoft IT has dealt with remote access security with the latest generation of Microsoft products - Windows XP Professional, Windows Server 2003, Internet Authentication Service, Internet Security...

Tags: network security

[12 Apr 2008]

TechNet Webcast: Inside Application Layer Filtering (Level 300)

whitepaper The attendee will understand the SMTP filter model and the HTTP filtering engine, and see how these integrate with Internet Information Services 6.0, Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, and the Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service to help form a...

Tags: firewalls

[11 Apr 2008]

Password Security Guidelines

whitepaper A number of technologies are available for user authentication. This document introduces the basic concepts of network authentication. The most popular authentication systems are: In particular, it focuses on the use of user-IDs and passwords to...

Tags: biometrics, authentication, passwords, identity

[10 Apr 2008]

Cisco Security Advisory: IOS HTTP Authorization Vulnerability

whitepaper When the HTTP server is enabled and local authorization is used, it is possible, under some circumstances, to bypass the authentication and execute any command on the device. The workaround for this vulnerability is to disable HTTP server on the...

Tags: security management, device, authentication, vulnerability

[10 Apr 2008]

Consolidate and simplify UNIX system management with TFS UnixControl

whitepaper It is also designed to manage the identification and authentication of users, create user groups and roles, establish access control policies, ensure data privacy and integrity, and audit the entire process ?

Tags: unix, oxley, unix, sarbanes oxley

[10 Apr 2008]

handy.de - Germany's Mobile Portal #1

whitepaper They had to choose between User authentication via an Open LDAP Cluster or a MySQL Cluster. handy.de are - according to an independent study of Media Metrix (MMXI) - Germany's mobile portal #1 and e-commerce shop #3.

Tags: database management, cluster, mysql, mysql cluster

[10 Apr 2008]

Thin Client Solves Weighty Student Record Problem in California

whitepaper XML tags were used for Data handling, while security and user authentication are managed with digital certificates. California School Information Services (CSIS) was created with a mandate to help local education agencies (LEAs) develop and...

Tags: thin clients, client, education, reporting

[10 Apr 2008]

Reducing Costs and Improving Productivity with an Identity Management Suite, The Radicati Group, Inc.

whitepaper By implementing a password or certificate-based authentication framework, Identity Management enables organizations to maintain stringent security policies that govern application access. Identity Management is a set of processes which enable...

Tags: roi - tco, identity, management solution, policies

[10 Apr 2008]

BGI Enhances End User Productivity Using the Secure Reduced Sign-on Capability of the Windows 2000 Active Directory Service

whitepaper A business value analysis based on the Rapid Economic Justification framework, assessed by Gartner Measurement, confirmed that by using Microsoft Windows 2000 Active Directory service Barclays Global Investors could consolidate its IT assets and...

Tags: directory services, administrator, authentication, directory

[10 Apr 2008]

SCO UNIX and Vintela Authentication From SCO Combine for Efficiency

whitepaper As part of this initiative, GDF focused on redesigning how the organization would authenticate and manage user identities in their mixed Windows and UNIX environment. In 1999, GDF began reviewing its own internal organization and developed a...

Tags: directory services, unix, utilize, sco

[10 Apr 2008]

Google invites developers to play on the Bigtable

News It also provides access to other Google services and APIs to improve user or account authentication, although the search engine has confirmed it will not claim ownership of the applications once built.

Tags: bigtable, google

[09 Apr 2008]

UK record industry in illegal file-sharing crackdown

News T is for Two-factor authentication He said: "The latest version of LimeWire includes a BitTorrent client in it and the user interface has got much more friendly. More people than ever are able to illegally swap their music collections because...

Tags: p2p, drm, bpi

[27 Mar 2008]

Commercial Bank Raises Network Security and Remote Connectivity

whitepaper Windows Server 2008 Enterprise provides the bank with the complete set of identity and access services that the bank needs to provide user management, directory consolidation, single sign-on, strong authentication, information protection, and...

Tags: application servers, trust, consolidation, community

[23 Mar 2008]

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