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A Brief Guide to Securing Wireless Networks: Closing the Back Door in APA Style

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.

Tags: wireless lan, numbers, wireless security, wired

[16 May 2008]

Solid Windows Vista Protection

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...

Tags: security management

[15 May 2008]

A Closer Look at Endpoint Security

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...

Tags: network security

[15 May 2008]

Symantec Threat Report Documents Increasingly Sophisticated Attacks

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.

Tags: network security

[15 May 2008]

NHS Trust Cuts Software Deployment Costs With Update-Management Solution

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...

Tags: monitoring systems

[15 May 2008]

A Comprehensive Approach to Securing and Managing Endpoints

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...

Tags: network security

[15 May 2008]

Endpoint Security Simplified

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...

Tags: network security

[15 May 2008]

SAGEPOT: A Tool for Security Assessment and Generation of Policy Templates

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...

Tags: security management

[07 May 2008]

Protecting against tomorrow's threats today -- proactive security from SophosLabs

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...

Tags: network security

[03 May 2008]

Analysis of Vulnerabilities in Internet Firewalls

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...

Tags: firewalls

[24 Apr 2008]

A More Secure Approach to Dynamic Web Threats - Frost & Sullivan

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.

Tags: application security tools

[24 Apr 2008]

An Analysis of Security Threats and Tools in SIP-Based VoIP Systems

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.

Tags: voip - ip telephony

[18 Apr 2008]

Protecting Infrastructure & Business: HP SIM & HP Insight Control

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.

Tags: monitoring systems

[14 Apr 2008]

Getting ahead of security issues, compliance regulations and IT processes

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...

Tags: security management, download, edge, institute

[14 Apr 2008]

TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft Online Services Defends Against Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities (Level 200)

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...

Tags: software engineering

[11 Apr 2008]

Nessus Vulnerability Scanner

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...

Tags: security tools

[11 Apr 2008]

TechNet Webcast: Inside the Microsoft Security Response Center (Level 100)

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...

Tags: customer support services

[11 Apr 2008]

PolicyVis: Firewall Security Policy Visualization and Inspection

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.

Tags: firewalls

[11 Apr 2008]

Specifications of a High-Level Conflict-Free Firewall Policy Language for Multi-Domain Networks

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...

Tags: firewalls

[11 Apr 2008]

Importance of Web Application Firewall Technology for Protecting Web-Based Resources

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...

Tags: firewalls

[11 Apr 2008]

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