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The Weekly Round-Up: 06.11.09
Round-Up More complicated jobs - fixing a failed hard disk or clearing out a virus-ridden PC would "require additional barter items" such as bottles of whiskey, more beer or IT goodies, they reckoned, which seemed pretty good value. [06 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 30.09.09
Round-Up And it's not just ghosts and goblins getting excited about the impending spooky festivities: needless to say, virus creators are getting in on the act too. Either that or they'll get a virus on their PC. [30 Oct 2009]
Tangled Web : Undercover Threats, Invisible Enemies
White Paper Its Web Security service, for example, includes anti-spyware and anti-virus protection, as well as industry-leading converged threat analysis which ensures that threat intelligence learned from email is also applied to... [19 Oct 2009]
Revealed: The anatomy of an internet scam
News Scareware is fake security software, often heralded by an ersatz dialogue box warning unsuspecting users that their PC is under attack by malware or that it's at risk of a virus infection. Scareware is bad for your PC... [19 Oct 2009]
Antivirus Software and Disk Defragmentation
White Paper After years of anecdotal data from Diskeeper customers about the reduction in virus-scan times attributed to defragmentation, Diskeeper Corporation decided to investigate. Want to speed up your antivirus scans? [16 Oct 2009]
Enhancing Desktop and Laptop Security Performance with Disk Defragmentation
White Paper Using real-world scenarios, this study presents the impact of fragmentation on the performance of security scans from the most popular anti-spyware and anti-virus solutions on the market today. Security is vital, and so... [16 Oct 2009]
Who's afraid of malware? Four in 10 have never had a virus
News Despite an ever-increasing amount of malware in the wild, almost four in ten respondents to a silicon.com poll have never been hit by a virus. A silicon.com poll, which asked readers when their PC was last infected,... [05 Oct 2009]
Nortel IT Implementation Steps for New Access Enforcement Program
White Paper The paper recognized that inadequately-protected computers connecting remotely to the network could be a vector for virus and worm propagation. In a given month, 80 percent of Nortel employees access the network remotely... [04 Oct 2009]
Preparing for Tomorrow's Threat Today: What We Can Learn from the History of Malware and Defenses
White Paper Yesterday's virus is today's custom malware, while denial of service attacks have been replaced with botnets. There is one given in the IT security realm and that is change. The challenges faced by security professionals... [01 Oct 2009]
Gartner Presentation: Combating the Rising Tide of Web-Borne Threats
White Paper Hackers are not just interested in sending one virus to the PC; they're interested in gaining control so they can download all sorts of back doors, adware, spyware and malicious code. Companies should be implementing... [01 Oct 2009]
Astaro Security Gateway: Simplifying Email, Web and Network Protection
White Paper Dual Virus Protection Anti-virus & Spyware This brief yet highly informative interactive presentation discusses the Unified Threat Management Market, the fastest growing part of the security market in... [30 Sep 2009]
Top five strategies for combating modern threats: Is anti-virus dead?
White Paper Today's fast, targeted, silent threats take advantage of the open network and new technologies that support an increasingly mobile workforce. Organizations need innovative approaches to protect the web, email servers and endpoint. [30 Sep 2009]
Understanding the Total Cost of Ownership for Endpoint Security Solutions
White Paper Organizations considering moving to an endpoint security solution often assume that the costs of switching from their current anti-virus vendor will be greater than upgrading with that vendor. To shed some light on this... [30 Sep 2009]
Assessing endpoint security solutions: Why detection rates aren't enough
White Paper This paper highlights the pitfalls of simply looking at virus detection rates and investigates the effect of the rapidly developing IT environment and fast-moving threat landscape on assessment criteria. [30 Sep 2009]
International Marketing Company Gains Quick and Easy Messaging Disaster Recovery with Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services
White Paper Instead, the company replaced its MessageLabs spam- and virus-filtering service with Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services. Catalina Marketing needed an easy and inexpensive communications disaster recovery plan for use in... [22 Sep 2009]
