Security Policies

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New technologies emerge every day, but not all of them pay off, and adopting them too early might be risky for your organization.

The whitepaper provides a means to visualize the complexity of cybersecuirty and a way to achieve effective solutions.

This three section white paper explains strategies on how to develop, apply, and maintain a security program.

This paper defines the different types of penetration tests, explains why the tests should be performed, details their benefits and even provides guidance for choosing the right vendor.

This document is intended to give a broad overview of our security policies, processes and practices current at the date of writing.

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In this webinar, Jack Heine, Research VP, Gartner, and David Holyoak, CIO of accounting firm Grant Thornton, discuss how to facilitate mobility while minimizing the risk of data exposure using web-based management and anti-theft capabilities.

The Internet and email have stimulated huge productivity gains for employees. Workers quickly and easily access volumes of research on the Web and correspond with a mouse click. Unfortunately, businesses taking advantage of these tools are increasingly faced with daily onslaughts of spam and unwanted Web traffic.

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.

To successfully deploy Single Sign-On today, most organizations have a set of key requirements that must be met. Here are some tips on how focal Point can help organizations seeking Single Sign-On meet those requirements.

Download this information-packed white paper by Nancy Flynn, Executive Director of the ePolicy Institute, for a no-nonsense look at the business risks and legal liabilities associated with employee misuse of the Internet, email, instant messaging (IM), and peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing technology.

Download this white paper from St. Bernard Software to read about a variety of contemporary, Internet-borne threats that are making it foolhardy for any business to provide unfettered Internet access for its users.

This paper provides guidance on how companies should rethink their existing management and security strategy to effectively secure mobile solutions in the workforce, over a wide array of devices, connections and applications. It details why mobile security must be included as a mission critical component of any enterprise strategy and implemented on a pro-active basis before any major security breach has the opportunity to negatively affect the enterprise.

Authentication technologies such as tokens and smart cards help meet the challenges of protecting sensitive data and securing application access. This white paper presents four cases in which an identity-based solution provides a compelling, low-cost alternative or complement to strong authentication technologies.

This ITIL and IT security white paper explores the challenges IT departments and their businesses are facing today, and provides examples of what these problems look like in real life.

This document describes how Likewise improves the security of Linux and UNIX computers by allowing computers to authenticate and authorize users through Microsoft Active Directory.

While IPSec VPN implementation has traditionally been viewed as expensive and time-consuming for large organizations, Quocirca has found that the next generation of IPSec VPN technologies has addressed these management headaches through automation, integrated security policy management, and centralized control.

At the end of an academic year, many thousands of students may permanently leave a school or university system. Once these users graduate, discontinue their education, or perhaps simply move away, IT administrators are left with a huge number of accounts that must be marked as inactive and then dealt with according to system policies.

The ability to monitor, track and report usage based on actual user identity and applications provides for quicker reaction time, easier reporting for compliance, as well as more visibility into the network. Learn about a complete line of solutions for effective identity-based policy enforcement.

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This white paper highlights why organizations need to implement event log auditing as an integral part of their security policy to meet industry standards such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).

In this white paper, we explore how the uncontrolled use of portable storage devices such as iPods, USB sticks, flash drives and PDAs, coupled with data theft techniques such as ‘pod slurping’, can lead to major security breaches.