Policy Based Management

Although the promise of reduced costs has appealed to many enterprises looking to migrate legacy network systems to virtualization, security experts warn that the move must not trump careful contemplation and scrutiny by today’s CIOs and IT leadership. Such a thorough examination must take into account the impact that virtualization will have on an organization’s overall security policy, the risk it imposes, how to mitigate such risk, how to implement access controls, and what best practices an organization can or should implement in its present IT environment. This new ebook from SC Magazine dives deep into the latest developments in the field to query several experts who lucidly explain best practices, with several use cases, and help filter out the hyperbole from the reality.

This report covers the high level synchronize your value chain message that includes all four business solutions pillars - MFT, B2B Integration Software, B2B Cloud, Transformation. Smarter Commerce is the path to delivering what today's customers demand. It puts the customer at the center of every aspect of the commerce lifecycle. But to execute on an effective Smarter Commerce strategy you need to make sure every part of your value chain is synchronized and working together seamlessly.

See why ROI potential has made unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) a top IT priority. Learn how cloud-based UC&C can boost productivity, overcome skill-set gaps, and lower TCO up to 40% with real-time, global deployment.

The business trend towards IT "consumerization" is being driven by cost savings and employee pressure to allow the use of employee-owned mobile devices to access corporate email and attachments. Businesses are scrambling to support greater mobility, but are justifiably concerned about the potential for consumerization to put sensitive data at greater risk. A new type of mobile data protection model is needed to overlay and augment emerging mobile device management (MDM) solutions to ensure sensitive corporate data remains secure and contained on an employee's personal device, without comingling with their private data. In this datasheet you'll learn how Digital Guardian's Enterprise Information Protection (EIP) technology platform extends its data-centric security model for hosts and virtual environments to include monitoring and controlling the movement of sensitive information to employee-owned devices through the Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) and Exchange ActiveSync (EAS).

As veterans of the privileged identity management (PIM) field, we've heard some unsettling stories from organizations whose PIM deployments did not provide the expected business value. We've also heard from organizations whose purchases led to years of expensive service engagements yet never delivered the agreed scope of work. There are several steps you can take to ensure your PIM solution helps you close critical security loopholes, makes staff members accountable for actions that impact IT service and data security, and lowers the cost of regulatory compliance. Download "Why Privileged Identity Management Implementations Fail" and avoid a failed, protracted PIM implementation

Without policies, education, and officially supported alternatives for sharing files securely, end-users will often overlook security in favor of getting the job done by using free, readily available alternatives. Read this Aberdeen Group Analyst Insight report to learn how top-performing organizations support business objectives of end-users while meeting security requirements.

A holistic, forward-looking and flexible IT security strategy can help organizations avoid common pitfalls and meet security threats head on in a cost and time efficient manner.

Proper management and accountability for the use of privileged accounts is not just a matter of bringing peace of mind to organizational leadership; it is also becoming a compliance obligation.

Read more about the risks and potential impacts of network downtime to revenue generation, business continuity, customer loyalty and more in the Verisign State of DNS Availability Report.

The fact is that IT may be in the dark about who is using mobile devices to access company data.

With the sordid history of Denial of Service attacks, and the classes of adversaries who leverage DDoS attacks, this paper sets the stage for a vendor neutral review of DDoS attacks. This paper written by Securosis explores the tactics behind the various attacks, leading into a discussion of the different tactics and techniques for defending against each attack type. Finally it wraps up by discussing existing incident response process to handle DDoS attacks.

Firewalls can't block many of today's cyber attacks and in particular the recent wave of DDoS attacks. Here's what you can do to stop them cold. For most organizations, one or more firewalls usually comprise the first line of defense charged with stopping unwanted and nefarious traffic coming into the network. Certainly organizations that have been in the headlines as of late had firewalls at their network perimeters. Perhaps they even had a cloud-based DDoS solution or an Internet service provider (ISP) clean pipe service in place. So what happened? How could the attack traffic get past the existing security measures to fully disrupt access to the critical Web applications? Why didn't the firewalls do their job? What can you do to stop these DDoS attacks?

Current market solutions are built to protect the enterprise and are too resource intensive for most organizations to manage. Learn five key components that any risk-based information security solution must include to cost effectively and efficiently protect confidential information and meet regulatory requirements.

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.

WinMagic Inc. along with the Ponemon Institute presents the results of the first ever survey looking into the total cost of ownership of full disk encryption. Key findings in the study (The True Cost for Full Disk Encryption) revealed that when compared to the potential damage caused by data disclosure, the cost of encryption is a fraction of the value it provides to businesses around the world.

Download this white paper, to learn how you can reduce the risk of hackers finding your site and attacking it by using automated vulnerability assessments to identify exploitable weaknesses and take corrective action.

This white paper explains the licensing and proper use of Symantec SSL Certificates for securing multiple Web servers and/or multiple domains and subdomains in the network configurations.

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.

Symantec Extended Validation (EV) SSL Certificates can be a key factor in helping increase customer confidence during online business transactions. More confidence can mean more conversions for customers with EV SSL certificates.

This white paper discusses 10 important tips your organization can use to secure employees' mobile devices. Read on!

Active Administrator is an extensive Active Directory management solution that addresses the auditing, security, recovery and health of Active Directory from one integrated console. This centralizes the management of the most important aspects of Active Directory and Group Policy so that administrators save time and have the most control over their environment.

Learn more about Automating Active Directory in this informative webcast and how it enables security professionals to automate repetitive tasks.

In this paper we go back to basics. We look at the kinds of security facilities needed now and in the future, and consider how to think about security

Unlock the true business value of IT security, and learn why companies of all sizes are choosing SaaS over on-premise solutions.

Find out how your organization can protect business-critical functions, minimize downtime and mitigate risk.