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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.

OCC Bulletin 2008-16: A Blueprint for Compliance

The recent issuance of the OCC Bulletin 2008-16 alerted financial institutions to the risks posed by insecure. Historically, banks have lacked an effective and cost-efficient manner to analyze the security of software. Security testing has been limited to manual analysis by consultants, using internal teams with source code tools or trusting software vendors to test their own code. None of these approaches scale to cover entire application portfolios, and can add significant time and costs to projects. This whitepaper outlines how these limitations can be overcome by following five best practices that institutions can use to secure their applications.

A User-Centric Security Approach for the Dynamic Enterprise

Security solutions must be tied to both high-level corporate goals and to everyday end-user realities as a result of the potential for increased risk to enterprise assets. One recent and promising approach to reducing the risk associated with fast-evolving end-user realities is to reinforce security closer to enterprise end users. In practice, that means reinforcing security at the points where end users connect to the corporate network and reinforcing security for mobile users’ communications.

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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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Networking

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Security

Access Control, Anti Spam, Anti Spyware, Anti Virus, more...

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