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IT Security is a field of computer science concerned with the control of risks related to computer use. The means traditionally taken to realize this objective is to attempt to create a secure computing platform, designed so that agents (users or programs) can only perform actions that have been allowed. This involves specifying and implementing a security policy. The actions in question can be reduced to operations of access, modification and deletion.

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Countering Misconceptions about Data Encryption
By : Utimaco Published Date: Apr 06, 2007
Despite the advances in encryption techniques and vastly improved computer capabilities, however, many of the fallacies and outdated understanding about encryption persist. Sometimes these myths are even being perpetuated in popular technology publications where some authors and editorial staff fail to do their research thoroughly.
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Utimaco
10 Steps to Web Security
By : Clearswift Published Date: Nov 01, 2007
This short guide summarizes ten steps to web security. Do them all, and you'll be better protected than 98% of enterprises out there. But the target never stands still. More than the steps listed here, it's important to focus on the principles behind the steps, including: policy, vigilance, simplification, automation and transparency.

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Clearswift
12 Secrets to SMB Security
By : CopiaTECH Published Date: Jun 15, 2007
Larger businesses have more to lose in terms of absolute dollars, but it is the narrow profit margin under which smaller businesses work which makes it important for them to have their information backed up. Learn how to protect your small business in this guide.
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CopiaTECH
4 Key Qualities of Effective Host-Based Intrusion Prevention (HIP) Systems
By : Third Brigade Published Date: Jul 05, 2006
Organizations that need to protect business critical applications, and sensitive data and hosts recognize that traditional network defenses can be readily bypassed by attackers. This white paper defines four key qualities of an effective host-based IPS.
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Third Brigade
4 Steps to Data Security Compliance: Technologies to Help Your Organization with U.S. Regulations
By : SafeNet Published Date: Nov 19, 2007
U.S. organizations that handle corporate and personal data must conform to certain government legislation to protect this private information from compromise, unauthorized access, interception, or corruption. However, organizations with little or no education of these mandates or suitable solutions will find their budgets and their manpower stretched too thin.
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SafeNet
40% PCI Non-Compliance? How to Beat The Stats Without Breaking a Sweat
By : Solidcore Published Date: Jan 07, 2008
New report issued by Fortrex, Emagined Security and Solidcore reveals the cost of PCI compliance is justified. These PCI requirements exist to protect sensitive data - yet, research indicates that these are among the least satisfied requirements across Level 1 merchants, with almost 40% non-compliance. 

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Solidcore
5 Approaches to Messaging Security: A Technical Overview of the Tradeoffs
By : Sigaba Published Date: Oct 20, 2005
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.
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Sigaba
5 Keys to a Successful Identity and Access Management Implementation
By : CA Published Date: Dec 11, 2007
Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a core element of any sound security program. But IAM is also difficult to implement because it touches virtually every end user, numerous business processes as well as every IT application and infrastructure component. As such, successful projects require input and cooperation from many internal groups, an effort that can be difficult to organize.
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CA
5 Simple Solutions for Developing a Collaborative Endpoint Security
By : KACE Published Date: Nov 10, 2006
The classic definition of information security states that the goal is to protect information from possible breaches in confidentiality, integrity, or availability. This paper provides some context, then five simple solutions to help mid-sized organizations keep their end point security under control.
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KACE
7 Essential Steps to Achieve, Measure and Prove Optimal Security Risk Reduction
By : Qualys Published Date: Jun 11, 2007
Whether protecting five servers or 5,000, measuring the security status of your infrastructure and your organization's ability to rapidly mitigate emerging threats needs to be continuously monitored and measured. This paper details the essential aspects of putting into place a measurable and sustainable vulnerability management program.
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Qualys
A Pragmatic Approach to Selecting the Right Single Sign-On Solution - Podcast
By : CA Published Date: Dec 28, 2007
Successfully implementing SSO solutions can be challenging both technically and organizationally. Deployments are impacted by a number of considerations including the number and nature of users being served, the environments they operate and the types of applications they use.
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CA
Addressing HIPAA Compliance Issues
By : Sigaba Published Date: Oct 20, 2005
This document details the mandated and proposed rules generally referred to as the "HIPAA requirements" and how they affect healthcare organizations and their business partners transmit medical information electronically.
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Sigaba
Allina Hospitals & Clinics Manages Laptops
By : Absolute Software Published Date: Feb 04, 2008
As a leading healthcare provider with a state-of-the-art electronic health record system, Allina Hospitals & Clinics required a method to protect their rapidly growing laptop population from computer theft and potential data breach. Find out how the hospital system deployed a tracking solution to monitor 2,700 laptops on and off their network.
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Absolute Software
An Integrated Architecture for Identity and Access Management
By : CA Published Date: Feb 16, 2007
The most efficient path to containing the cost of IAM tools, meeting your compliance requirements and ensuring appropriate levels of security is with a solution that integrates industry-leading capabilities across the different IT architectures that are deployed in your IT environment.
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CA
An IT-Friendly Approach to Secure Messaging
By : Sigaba Published Date: Oct 20, 2005
This white paper describes how Sigaba's secure email solutions minimize the burden on IT organizations through a combination of easy integration with existing enterprise systems and simple maintenance.
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Sigaba
Application Security: No Room for False Positives
By : Cenzic Published Date: Jul 01, 2006
Enterprises are responding to new threat on communication protocols by hardening Web applications, and they are increasingly turning to Web application security assessment tools to improve the security of their applications. This report examines why high accuracy is critical to the effectiveness of the tools, and it discusses how Cenzic Hailstorm addresses this problem.
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Cenzic
Application Security: The Missing Pillar of Software Quality
By : HP Published Date: Dec 18, 2007
Security is everyone’s responsibility as it has severe impact on the business if not taken seriously. Learn how to integrate security throughout the software development lifecycle, not hastily add it to the end. Our white paper, Application Security: The Missing Pillar of Software Quality, will show you how to build security into an application without special security expertise and without delaying release schedules.
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HP
Are We Doomed? Security Predictions For 2008
By : ESET Published Date: Dec 17, 2007
With the ever evolving threat landscape, what will 2008 hold for IT Managers?  This podcast provides a high level overview of a few trends to watch for this year.

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ESET
Attachment Spam: The Latest Trend
By : GFI Published Date: Aug 10, 2007
This white paper explains what makes spam such an unbearable problem and how spamming tactics are evolving daily to beat anti-spam software. In the space of two months, spammers have switched from image spam to using PDF, Excel and ZIP file attachments. By using these attachments to send images instead of embedding them in the body of the email message, spammers have taken the cat-and-mouse game with anti-spam software developers to a new level.
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GFI
Automate Now! Achieve Immediate Cost, Productivity and Security Benefits by Automating IT
By : KACE Published Date: Aug 23, 2006
This Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) white paper takes a close look at automated IT management, especially for  medium-sized businesses.
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KACE
Automated Event Log Management for PCI DSS Compliance
By : GFI Published Date: Jul 05, 2007
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).
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GFI
Automated Penetration Testing: Completing the Vulnerability Management Framework
By : Aomega Published Date: Nov 06, 2006
Recent regulatory additions require that companies take proactive measures like penetration testing to enforce data privacy and integrity.  By deploying a distributed model companies can execute testing from different security levels which is important in challenging posture based on level of access.

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Aomega
Automating Vulnerability Management for PCI DSS Compliance
By : GFI Published Date: Jul 06, 2007
This white paper identifies the problems encountered in addressing network security risks through vulnerability management. It describes how automated vulnerability management contributes to compliance with industry standards such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and assists you in proactively identifying security weaknesses before these are exploited.
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GFI
Balancing Security & Profit: How Identity Verification Solutions Benefit Ecommerce
By : IDology Published Date: Feb 03, 2007
This whitepaper reviews how identity verification can be used to create a better balanced business that is secure and more profitable and also examines the benefits of integrating identity verification and knowledge based authentication solutions within your business.
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IDology
 
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