Networking

Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) are rapidly becoming an integral part of an effective network defense solution. Unfortunately, finding the truth in today's often overhyped market of network-based IPS offerings is no easy task.

Mobile and remote workers of all types need high-quality connections to the Internet and to their corporate networks. They need connections from branch offices, homes, airports, hotels and other locations around the world. This truly becomes a security challenge as network managers scramble to meet these needs.

Use of instant messaging applications-like AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger and ICQ-and peer-to-peer applications has grown significantly. Although the benefits of real-time communication offer a productivity benefit to corporate environments, instant messaging and peer-to-peer applications add significant vulnerabilities and risks to an enterprise's security posture.

This paper explains the numerous places where VoWLAN can go to work, why most offerings fail to make it work, and how only Meru Networks' standard-based solution puts the power of VoWLAN to work at enterprise-scale.

This industry report gives you the information you need to make decisions about how to secure your network by controlling access and by preventing endpoint infections and policy violations.

This Yankee Group White Paper, compliments of NetSuite, shows how on-demand applications can significantly reduce cost vs. on-premise applications. See how to reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) of deploying & integrating CRM & accounting/ERP applications.

This white paper explains the evolving needs for vulnerability assessment, the special requirements inherent within large enterprises, and how SecureScout SP from netVigilance meets those needs.

NitroSecurity's Security Event Aggregation and Correlation Engine (N-SEAC) is a patented, key differentiator of the NitroSecurity IPS solution. It allows enterprise customers the ability to collect and analyze threat information more efficiently and in an accurate and timely manner.

NitroSecurity's Active Network Response is a new security model that delivers network protection closer to the users at the network edge - stopping attacks before they can propagate throughout the network. 

Building a scalable, secure, and highly available SaaS infrastructure can be a daunting undertaking for a software company. This step-by-step guide lets you know what you need to consider.

It's confusing and sometimes overwhelming. Learn about common misconceptions about network and system management software and the distortions that software vendors promote when it comes to marketing their product's features.

A security breach on a workhorse platform like a mainframe could be disastrous. Find out why PKWARE's SecureZIP is ideal for providing file security for data stored and transferred on mainframes.

Regulatory and business requirements are driving the need for protecting information stored and transferred electronically. PKWARE provides an introduction to protecting your most valuable asset - your data.

Strong security policy, procedures and technology are major requirements, especially for protecting the remote systems used for telework and the sensitive information stored on those devices.

Much has been written and discussed about Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) as it relates to compliance, corporate governance, financial controls and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX). Until now, there was very little available to the risk manager on how to apply ERM to day-to-day operations.

This paper is a synopsis of the presentations given at the Preventsys "CISO Breakfast Series," a succession of seminars given across North America in January and February 2005. The speakers for each breakfast consisted of security professionals and executives who provided their views on how to more effectively align information security with business initiatives.

Download this report on how to implement a successful environmental compliance strategy for the long term. Learn about new strategies for complying with upcoming environmental regulations, as well as the compliance shortcomings common to many companies in a new research report by AberdeenGroup.

Security is one of the main issues when deploying Web services in the enterprise. This white paper discusses the advantages of an appliance over an agent-oriented architecture for Web services security, how cross platform interoperation is immediate with a hardened appliance, and why web services security is different from web server security.

This white paper introduces the requirements for an XML infrastructure that is designed to ensure the opportunities and benefits of SOAs and Web Services can be realized.

Choosing an on-demand Customer Relationship Management (CRM) vendor can be a daunting task, especially for the price conscious consumer who lacks the budget for intensive research. This white paper will arm SMBs with the right questions to ask when evaluating on-demand or hosted CRM vendors.

This paper outlines the types of threats that leverage the Internet as a means of delivery and the risks that they pose to your organization. Learn the key drivers of a corporate security policy and how you can protect against HTTP-based threats using Web filtering as part of a multi-layered content security strategy.

Unknown attacks are quickly becoming the next great information security challenge for today's organizations. Get up to speed on what these threats really are and learn what security measures are available to keep your network safe from these attacks.

This white paper discusses how HTTPS filtering (SSL scanning) from Secure Computing provides companies with the means to counter these threats by fully extending their Internet usage policies to HTTPS traffic, and thereby proactively closing that last known major network security hole.

This white paper reviews the five most common current approaches to messaging security. While the five approaches discussed here are not the comprehensive list of available solutions, they are the basis for most variations of messaging security solutions available today.

The world of super computing has changed in recent years, moving from a scale-up, monolithic, expensive architecture to the scale-out clustering of low cost microprocessors, also referred to as High Performance Business Computing (HPBC) clusters.