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Tripwire founder/CTO Gene Kim provides seven practical steps that IT organizations can take to mitigate the unique security challenges of virtualization. While some are directed specifically at virtualized environments, many of these steps are solid best practices that apply to both physical and virtualized environments.

Ensure Customer Confidence: PCI Guide for Merchants and Service Providers

The PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) delineates requirements that vendors must meet in order to conduct business transactions using payment cards. New PCI requirements that specifically focus on application security became mandatory in June 2008. With their own brands at risk, merchants and service providers must secure their applications from potential vulnerabilities to comply with PCI standards. This whitepaper helps Merchants and Service Providers understand and meet PCI DSS requirements.

Meeting the challenge of securing endpoints by unifying essential components in a single agent

Any organization concerned about information security would discover that endpoints are the universal Achilles heel of risk. Endpoints bring three significant new risks. First, attacks increasingly bypass traditional perimeter-focused security and enter endpoints and the enterprise network through a variety of methods, such as interaction with malicious Web sites. Second, a large number of endpoints are mobile so they may be used both inside and outside the traditional perimeter of security controls. Finally, endpoints present a huge logistical challenge to IT staff who often must manage deployment of policies and controls for multiple security agents on each physical device.

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Eliminating the Mobile Blind Spot - Extending Enterprise Security Coverage and IT Reach

While wireless broadband delivers continuous access to enterprise networks and boosts the productivity of mobile professionals, it also makes it increasingly difficult for IT managers to ensure the health of mobile laptops and the security of the sensitive data they contain. Laptops that leave the enterprise fall into a “mobile blind spot”, outside the reach of IT’s protective measures, vulnerable to loss, theft and intrusion. Read this paper to learn about a simple, secure way to bring visibility to the laptops caught in the mobile blind spot.

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