Internet Security

Organizations across the globe continue to experience compromised data caused by malicious attacks, web application vulnerabilities or unauthorized changes. These organizations are also challenged to remain in compliance by the proliferation of diverse databases and platforms distributed across the enterprise -including cloud, commercial, OLTP and batch environments. IBM® InfoSphere® solutions for data security and privacy are designed to support a holistic approach, helping organizations protect its data against a complex threat landscape while remaining focused on business goals. Because the InfoSphere solutions are scalable and modular, organizations can focus on their most critical data protection concerns first, and then adopt other solutions over time. InfoSphere solutions for data security and privacy help your organization to: understand where the data exists; safeguard sensitive data, both structured and unstructured; protect production and non-production environments; secure and continuously monitor access to data; and demonstrate compliance to pass audits. View this demo and learn how IBM InfoSphere Guardium® database activity monitoring can help protect your sensitive data in distributed DBMS environments with a holistic approach to data security and compliance.

Data security presents a multi-dimensional challenge in today's complex IT environment. Multiple access paths and permission levels have resulted in a broad array of security threats and vulnerabilities. Traditional "fortress approaches" such as firewalls and IDS/IPS systems are no longer sufficient to defend against attackers who can easily bypass perimeter defenses. These security measures can't differentiate or prevent unauthorized traffic that appears to be legitimate. We invite you to read this new eBook: "Protecting against database attacks and insider threats" to learn the top five scenarios and essential best practices for preventing database attacks and insider threats.

As organizations utilize the Internet for almost every aspect of their business operations, a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack can put the entire enterprise at risk. Explore DDoS trends that took place in 2011 and learn what to expect in 2012.

Discover how DDoS attacks are getting larger, more sophisticated and dangerous. Learn the risks to Internet infrastructure, revenues and brand equity. Get insight about IT environmental changes. Read why a managed solution Like Neustar® SiteProtect offers better protection, for less money, than doing it yourself.

The search for a viable replacement to Cisco's CSA has resulted in frustration for many CSA customers, either taking a backseat to other projects or wasting precious time and resources looking at inadequate solutions. Matrix gets it. Time and again we've seen existing CSA customers seeking the same levels of protection and control provided to them by CSA for years that they have been happy with and depended on. If you have just started your CSA replacement search or if you are frustrated after looking at and rejecting many products that claim that they can replace CSA and feel like giving up and accepting a poor replacement option you have found the right resource to help you. This white paper is intended as a roadmap for CSA users to identify the key features of CSA that they must have in a replacement security product and the best available options including StormShield the new leader in endpoint behavioral protection.

Download this technical overview for a common-sense guide to automate your privileged identity security. You'll learn the fundamentals of what makes a good Privileged Identity Management solution, the steps you can take for a successful deployment, and ways to take advantage of your new software to maximize the return.

NBC News. Steve Wozniak. Sarah Palin-all victims of social media hacks. It goes without saying that the ubiquity of social media apps is creating concern amongst enterprise infosec organizations with respect to the measure they take to manage use of the applications across their workforces. Join Tyler Shields as he explores how enterprises can mitigate the security concerns that stem from these social media applications. Mr. Shields will also explore the motivations for these hacks-- Defamation of brand? Or a Trojan horse for IT and Infosec professionals-distracting them from the real breaches and threats to ensue?

Data leakage is a critical issue for CIOs. Companies are hitting the headlines for all the wrong reasons and human error is one of the biggest culprits. Organizations that get a firm grip on who's handling their data - as well as how and way - can mitigate the risk of sensitive data leakage and resultant reputation damage. Contextual information management solutions allow you to identify, monitor and protect data in use and in motion through deep content inspection, delivering context-aware security analysis and real time, multi-layered control.

Learn about the HIPAA/HITECH regulations affecting electronic protected health information (ePHI) and how to meet regulatory compliance through encryption of data at rest and encryption key management across the heterogeneous enterprise. Strong encryption, policy-based access controls, and secure key management provide a separation of duties and ensure consistency across both structured and unstructured data.

Which encryption technology is right for your enterprise? Discover the strengths and limitations of encryption approaches to protect data at rest, which data types to secure, whether to encrypt structured database data and unstructured information, audit and compliance requirements, how to manage policies and keys and minimize operating costs.

Ad hoc encryption is no longer adequate - leading to higher costs and increased risk. So, what's needed? An enterprise encryption and key management strategy that can extend across all sensitive data, in all formats, across the entire organization. Read this industry analyst report from Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) to understand the issues as you evaluate your encryption strategy.

Mobile clients are an increasingly important channel for consumers accessing Web 2.0 and enterprise employees accessing on-premise and cloud-hosted services. This white paper explains how an identity management architecture, with the help of both SAML and OAuth, can support the two broad categories-web applications delivered through the browser and native applications installed onto the device-by providing a single consistent and cohesive identity infrastructure for both.

Preventing data misuse by trusted users is the hardest information protection challenge to solve. More than ever, the growing need for "anytime, anywhere" data collaboration to support business strategy creates new opportunities for privileged insiders to compromise classified information. Traditional IT security measures which simply control unauthorized network or application access are ineffective, as insiders already have full authorization to the data. A data-centric security approach is required to defend against the Insider Threat. In this datasheet, you'll learn about proven strategies and technologies to detect, deter, and prevent insider threats to sensitive data.

Today's most dangerous cyber threats to businesses are known as Advanced Persistent Threats (APT). Custom-built to target and steal a specific company's sensitive data, APT are almost always invisible to traditional network security technologies. Understanding how your organization can efficiently defend against APT through effective strategies and proven counter technologies is a critical component for companies in highly-competitive global markets. This data sheet will provide a brief overview of how to successful manage APT.

VDI and VM solutions are valued for their cost effectiveness and flexibility, but can create new information risks because infrastructure-dependent security solutions - like DLP, access control, or network security appliances - are unable to identify, monitor, or enforce identity-based data usage policies within virtual environments. In this datasheet learn how Verdasys Digital Guardian enables businesses to maximize the competitive advantage of virtual environments without sacrificing their ability to protect sensitive data.

A company's Intellectual Property (IP) often represents both a significant portion of its assets, and a critical component of its competitive differentiation. IP comes in many different forms and can include "structured" types like spreadsheets and documents, or "unstructured" types like images, formulae or software code. Whatever form it takes, the potential value of any IP is determined by the risk of its acceptable use. In this whitepaper, learn how Digital Guardian is used to enforce risk-based policies within collaborative environments that increase both the security and productivity of IP without sacrificing one for the other.

Companies must allow privileged users to freely handle Intellectual Property, and trust they will use it securely at all times. But how does a company detect, deter, and prevent insider threats to their critical IP without impacting the business process? In this datasheet, you'll learn about a real-life crisis a Fortune 100 company faced when one of their senior researchers was caught stealing trade secrets worth over $400 million, and how they used Digital Guardian to successfully implement an enterprise information protection program that could discover, measure, and manage the risk to its IP across 50,000 users without impeding their ability to innovate and collaborate productively.

One of the biggest challenges in information security is Identity and Access Management (IdM). How do you control who has access to what systems and technology within your enterprise? This problem becomes even more difficult in the public cloud. The ability to control the technology is limited and it's difficult to leverage tools such as single sign on/federation products. This paper provides best-practices for overcoming the challenges involved with safely and securely managing your users within public as well as private clouds.

The report explores the correlation between the current use of patch management and the level of endpoint-related risk that companies are effectively accepting.

The report underlines what we like to call the known/unknown challenge - the great divide between what programs you think you have installed and what you actually have installed, and what you then choose to patch.

This paper explores how rise of Data-Driven Security is explored, along with the advantages of data-driven tactics that can vastly improve the effectiveness of threat detection and response, and the emergence of data synthesis that delivers strategy-enabling insight from these new approaches.

Information is one of your enterprises biggest assets . Yet while companies invest heavily in SAP systems, many overlook the fact that 80 percent of data is actually stored in files. While plenty of file storage and sharing methods abound - what looks like a good deal on the surface can end up costing plenty in the end. Read the white paper to discover more about the true cost of "free" file sharing systems and file sharing best practices.

Adherence to data security policies and mandates for compliance or governance is the most important objective for executives in companies running SAP. But many reveal that their data security policies are lacking. Traditional methods of managing file transfers can't prevent or protect your enterprise from compliance violations: they're insecure, inefficient, and non-auditable. This situation leaves a serious gap in compliance strategies. Learn how to close this gap with managed file transfer.

Your enterprise has invested heavily in SAP. But data exchange restrictions can limit the ability of your chain supply to reach its maximum potential. Large data files, FTP spaghetti and unreliable network connections all limit your ability to send and receive information. Just one of these problems is enough to raise costs and risks, and create long waits for data to come through. Read the white paper to find out how Managed File Transfer ensures your data flow is secure and speedy.

This paper breaks down attack sources into four categories: external, malicious insiders, accidental insiders, and unknown. Breach categories are limited to areas that are most directly associated with data centers.