Security Management

Online casinos generated $22.6 billion in global revenues in 2008, up from $17.6 in 2006. While the online gambling industry grows, so does organized fraud. Cyber criminals are working hard to uncover and sell people's personal information and share techniques on how to defraud online gambling sites. The online gambling industry stands to lose hundreds of millions of dollars annually to fraud exposure if effective anti-fraud strategies aren't put in place.

This paper examines how recent trends in Internet trust marks can help restore confidence in online shopping, and as concluded by at least one recent study, even induce those who do shop to spend more.

Businesses are experiencing a dramatic increase in spam and email-based attacks. These assaults not only hurt employee productivity, they consume valuable IT staff time and infrastructure resources. These threats can also expose organizations to data leaks, compliance issues and legal risks. Trend Micro's SaaS email security solution blocks spam, viruses, phishing, and other email threats before they touch your network, helping you reclaim IT staff time, end-user productivity, bandwidth, mail server storage and cpu capacity. Optional content filtering enforces compliance and helps prevent data leaks.

Read this interesting comparison about designing an intrusion defense strategy that identifies the value of business processes, and implements appropriate strategies to protect these systems using a layered defense approach is not only a good security practice, but also a regulation in many cases.

Online businesses today face a daunting battle in combatting online fraud and abuse. Existing identity-based and credit risk scoring systems are being challenged by fraudsters and fraud rings. They capitalize on cheap identities they use to repeatedly target a business or industry. Using device identification to establish device reputations and expose repeat offenders and fraud rings changes everything.

This paper covers why intellectual property law is ineffective in protecting the rights of small authors and publishers. It covers intellectual property rights (IPR), licensing controls, copyright, and copyright protection.

This white paper published by independent security research firm, Securosis takes a brutally candid look at triggers for considering a new security management platform, walking through each aspect of the decision, and presenting a process to migrate.

Create a step-by-step approach to IT security that will work for your business.

This is the third part of a three-part white paper series. Part 3 describes how to move on from the basic controls and how each organization should decide which, of all the extra security controls available, are right to be brought in next.

Read our latest whitepaper & create a step-by-step approach to IT security that will work for your business.

The goal of a security program is to choose and implement cost effective countermeasures that mitigate the vulnerabilities that will most likely lead to loss. This paper discusses the management of Risk and how Vulnerability Management is one of the few counter-measures easily justified by its ability to optimize risk.

This paper discusses the management of Risk and how Vulnerability Management is one of the few counter-measures easily justified by its ability to optimize risk.

Stopping inappropriate data access. This turnkey solution safeguards servers - where business data is stored and accessed - with a combination of software and managed security services that automate critical areas of security oversight. By monitoring and tracking system access, the solution is effective at enforcing security policies.

In this webinar, Randy Franklin Smith (Ultimate Windows Security) shows how application control is an important defense-in-depth measure that can provide detection and prevention of late-stage APT attacks.

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There is no question that mobile computing is growing at an exponential rate. This rapid transformation has seen security concerns outpaced by the ease of use, flexibility, and productivity of mobile devices. When vulnerabilities are exploited, the security of mission-critical data becomes a serious concern. Here we take a look at three of the top mobile application security threats facing businesses today and recommendations on how to mitigate the risk.

Today, when you make decisions about information technology (IT) security priorities, you must often strike a careful balance between business risk, impact, and likelihood of incidents, and the costs of prevention or cleanup. Historically, the most well-understood variable in this equation was the methods that hackers used to disrupt or invade the system.

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.

LANDesk Software and Lenovo have teamed up to create an integrated hardware and software management solution to manage your systems from a single console.

Stay ahead of online security attacks, such as phishing, by understanding how they work. Read this white paper to learn how phishing attacks work, and how to avoid them.

In a new video, security analyst Rich Mogull discusses mobile data protection topics and addresses many issues, including, the latest trends in mobile security, mobile device management, and mobile data protection.

Financial institutions understand the importance of keeping their site visitors safe while on their site, but they aren’t the only ones.  Read this guide to learn how to secure your site with SSL. Learn more today!

WikiLeaks and Stuxnet have illustrated a few fundamental IT Security issues that have underscored the need for Total Security Intelligence to counter advanced threats and to detect anomalous behavior.

Online visitors need reassurance that they are on a safe on the sites they visit.  One way to give them this reassurance is to display trust marks on your site. Learn more today!

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