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The adoption of Agile development practices has increased as software developers strive to keep pace with customer and market demands. However, to fully realize the benefits of Agile, a repeatable process for creating secure, defect-free code is critical.

Today's enterprises are virtualizing desktops to lower costs and increase efficiency, but their endpoint security may not be prepared to safeguard them during this transition. Virtual desktops are as vulnerable to threats as their physical counterparts, especially when they are accessing the web. With over 2400 new malware attacks hitting per hour, physical and virtual endpoints are under increasing attack. To defend both, enterprises need a virtualization-aware solution designed to maximize security without compromising the performance and cost benefits of their virtual desktop infrastructure.

Enterprises are increasingly online and data-centric, and no matter what the purpose-connecting partners, personnel, suppliers, or customers-applications face a growing danger of cyber attacks. These targeted threats are greater and more sophisticated than ever before, and data security compliance becomes more stringent every day. Your company needs uncompromising security that enables you to modernize your datacenter with virtualization and cloud computing without reducing performance.

Read our whitepaper to understand the changing web threat in 2010 & equip your business to defend against it.

This paper raises real challenges for IT managers who have to protect the business against malware, keep internet bandwidth available for legitimate business needs and enforce acceptable use policies for the human resource department.

Part 1 describes the threat landscape as seen by SMBs, and describes the security controls that belong in Stage 1.

Stop unscrupulous insiders. A clever criminal can lull the boss into believing nothing is amiss. Systems designed to monitor the network for patterns of criminal or destructive behavior are much harder to fool. Learn how to put the right countermeasures in place and vastly reduce the threat posed by insiders.

Traditional anti-virus and host intrusion prevention approaches have proven to be ineffective against advanced threats and failed to keep up with the explosion in malware. Bit9 invites you to learn why analysts recommend Application Whitelisting as the key foundational layer for endpoint security.

Point-of-sale systems are often targeted by hackers looking to destroy a company's reputation and steal credit card data. Learn how this one-time corner store - now part of the world's largest food retailers - used Bit9's award winning Application Whitelisting solution to eliminate the threat of unauthorized and malicious software, satisfy PCI DSS requirements, and save millions in capital expenditure costs.

The cyber attacks targeting Google and others rang a loud wakeup call: the reactive approach of blacklisting known viruses is no match for today's advanced threats. Gartner's Neil MacDonald wrote, "Application Whitelisting at the endpoints would have stopped these attacks." Download this Microsoft MVP-authored whitepaper to learn how this proactive approach ensures only trusted software runs, rendering new malware useless.

In this HIMSS Analytics report, 52% of large hospitals report being breached in the previous year. The HITECH Act demands privacy for patient data. However, with today's advanced threats - more than privacy is in jeopardy. Modern malware can impact the integrity of medical systems and put patient safety at risk. Bit9 provides Advanced Threat Protection to detect and prevent modern malware. Learn more in: HITECH's Impact on Healthcare Privacy and Security.

Learn how this global market research firm transitioned from the now end of life Cisco Security Agent (CSA) to Bit9 Parity Suite's advanced threat protection: . preventing targeted, zero-day attacks . improving security across more than 36,000 endpoints . transitioning security alerts from Tier 3 staff to the help desk

How to address business continuity, information security, policy enforcement, and regulatory compliance challenges for your laptop users.

This white paper explores how integrating eLearning with traditional learning methods can help training organizations increase productivity, create a larger learning base and achieve organizational objectives faster.

To outsource or not to outsource IT security-that is the question for enterprises as they face increasingly complex cyber threats. Managed security services can help organizations alleviate the cost and complexity of proactively securing the IT infrastructure.

Threats abound in today's corporate networks. Keeping your enterprise and its assets secure requires a proactive security strategy. Discover the five most costly network security threats and see how you can protect your business with a layered security approach.

As consumers are constantly bombarded with messages that their online security is threatened, they can be hesitant to trust any kind of online transaction. If online transactions are your goal, the solution is to add trust signals to your Web site, such as those outlined in this white paper.

With everything from national security to regulatory compliance to the confidence of the citizenry at stake, the need for ironclad data security is greater than ever. Read what you can do to secure your organization’s file transfer from internal and external threats.

Comprehensive security management requires complete solutions for identity and access management, threat management and security information management. This white paper explores these issues and the need for a comprehensive solution for your business, and presents a summary of the CA security management solutions.

IDC's Identity and Access Management Compliance Forecast identifies superuser access as the cause of three of the top eight common sources of compliance risk. But what can your organization do to mitigate this risk?

Root. Administrator. Domain Admin. A superuser by any other name would smell as sweet. No matter what you call it, it’s the all-powerful accesses that can cause the most trouble in today’s network environments. All mature networks and many on their way to maturity incorporate controls to ensure that data is strictly controlled against compromise or inadvertent disclosure. But where problems still occur in today’s natively-managed networks is within the roles and responsibilities of its superusers. For this problem, IT departments are not necessarily at fault.

Learn about the growing threat of insider data theft, the extent to which most companies are vulnerable, and how McAfee security products enable businesses to protect their most valuable asset-their data.

Companies naturally benefit from the customer and worker satisfaction of the openness afforded by Web 2.0 and self-service approaches. But, as expected, the openness brings additional risk. IT Security expert and Ziff Davis executive editor, Salvatore Salamone examines changing hacker tactics and their ominous implications along what you can do to protect your organization from evolving blended threats.

This paper examines today's email threats, the current state of enterprise defenses, and plans to address emerging threats. Learn about a technology blueprint for enterprise email security called STAMP-McAfee's Seven Technologies for Advanced Email Protection.

Manage new web threats with a proactive security paradigm to help you secure Web 2.0 applications and protect your enterprise and the employees that use these applications on a daily basis.