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whitepaper This paper aims to give a brief history of wireless security, educate the WLAN administrator about the dangerous vulnerabilities of wireless networking. Wireless computer networks (WLANs) are being used in greater numbers now than ever before.
[16 May 2008]
whitepaper It goes without saying that attackers follow security vulnerabilities, as these are a requirement for their success. Over the past several years, these vulnerabilities have increasingly moved up the application stack and away from the core...
[15 May 2008]
whitepaper Organizations today face a threat landscape that increasingly involves stealthy, targeted, and financially motivated attacks that exploit vulnerabilities in endpoint devices. Many of these threats can evade traditional security solutions, leaving...
[15 May 2008]
whitepaper It includes analysis of network-based attacks, a review of known vulnerabilities, and highlights of malicious code. The Symantec Internet Security Threat Report provides a six-month update of Internet threat activity.
[15 May 2008]
whitepaper Furthermore ensuring vulnerabilities could be reported in a timely manner and rectified quickly. St Mary's wanted to centralise its software installation procedure to reduce the number of people and time needed to roll out site-wide applications...
[15 May 2008]
whitepaper Organizations now face a threat landscape that involves stealthy, targeted, and financially motivated attacks that exploit vulnerabilities in endpoint devices. As today's IT professionals know all too well, managing the dynamics of their endpoint...
[15 May 2008]
whitepaper Today's SMBs face a threat landscape that involves stealthy, targeted, and financially motivated attacks aimed at exploiting vulnerabilities in endpoint devices. Securing endpoints is essential to protect assets and maintain a solid business...
[15 May 2008]
whitepaper One way to increase the trust in the existing security is to develop and maintain a set of comprehensive security policies directing the actions for preventing, eliminating or reducing security risks, threats, and vulnerabilities to an...
[07 May 2008]
whitepaper Constantly looking for new vulnerabilities to exploit, today's cybercriminals are using fast- changing, low-profile threats to surreptitiously infect and hijack computers across the business network. Spammed email, infected endpoint devices and...
[03 May 2008]
whitepaper As it is infeasible to examine and test each firewall for all possible potential problems, taxonomy is needed to understand firewall vulnerabilities in the context of firewall operations. This paper describes a novel methodology for analyzing...
[24 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Often enough the vectors used to exploit an unsuspecting user's vulnerabilities are not what you may think. Access to the Web is not an option anymore. However, criminal hackers have cost businesses billions.
[24 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Such tools have reached a high level of dependence among security professionals for evaluating potential vulnerabilities in such areas as operating systems, device configuration, networking protocols and applications.
[18 Apr 2008]
whitepaper The presenter of this webcast tell how an HP SIM & HP Insight Control environment scans & patches security vulnerabilities & ensures that sensitive information remains uncompromised.
[14 Apr 2008]
whitepaper There is a Tower Group white paper on the need for stronger consumer banking authentication, a study about innovative solutions for identifying, measuring, and optimizing operational risks and an ISS case study about staying on top of new...
[14 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities are a serious threat to providing Microsoft Online Services customers with a trustworthy computing experience. This webcast explains how inconsistently or poorly integrated validated output can cause XSS...
[11 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Typically these attacks are easily carried out by exploiting the vulnerabilities. This paper will cover a free open source tool that can be used to discover the vulnerabilities of a given system. Internet "Insecurity" is a major problem in today's...
[11 Apr 2008]
whitepaper The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) is a world-class resource for managing and resolving security vulnerabilities and incidents. The MSRC analyzes, develops and delivers security updates, tools and prescriptive guidance to help customers...
[11 Apr 2008]
whitepaper However, managing firewall policies is an extremely complex task because the large number of interacting rules in single or distributed firewalls significantly increases the possibility of policy misconfiguration and network vulnerabilities.
[11 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Without a global view of the network configuration, such a system is ripe for misconfiguration, causing conflicts and major security vulnerabilities. Multiple firewalls typically cooperate to provide security properties for a network, despite the...
[11 Apr 2008]
whitepaper While motivations of attackers against a victim's corporate and organizational assets remain the same (financial, IP, identity theft, services disruption, or denial of service, for example), web applications enable a whole new class of...
[11 Apr 2008]
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