Intrusion Prevention

Stronger Measures Have Become Essential To Defend Against Growing Attacks. Database security is the last line of defense, so it deserves greater focus on the protection of private data from both internal and external attacks than IT pros have traditionally given it.

This industry report covers the email gateway market. Gartner, Inc. positions Gartner in the Leaders quadrant in its 2010 Magic Quadrant for Secure Email Gateways (anti-spam, anti-virus, outbound content filtering, email encryption, intrusion prevention).

The Cisco PIX firewall appliance at Devine Millimet, Attorneys at Law, needed replacement.

The response to possible bank card fraud is one of the most important factors affecting the relationship that customers have with their bank. For customer-centric financial institutions who issue millions of bank cards, any instance of possible fraud is both a business risk to be managed and an opportunity to strengthen customer relationships.

Cryptography means more than just data encryption, but harnessing its full potential requires careful planning. Here's how to build and deploy an effective enterprise encryption strategy. Encryption has never been more important. As an ever-growing number of systems fall prey to malicious attack, encryption provides a last line of defense against data theft and other nefarious activities. In this Deep Dive, renowned security expert and InfoWorld contributing editor Roger Grimes provides a comprehensive guide to the uses, inner workings, weaknesses, and management issues related to encryption.

This white paper provides a road map to the most effective strategies and technologies to protect data in AIX environments and provide fast recovery should data be lost or corrupted due to accident or malicious action. The paper also outlines the benefits of continuous data protection (CDP) technologies for AIX.

Small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) however, sometimes leave themselves open to risks, largely because they lack the resources to implement countermeasures. Beyond the well-understood productivity drain that spam inflicts on businesses, threats posed by illicit email circulating through a network are causing many security professionals to rethink protective measures. Learn how to combat spam, mitigate security risks, and restore productivity to companies grappling with an influx of illicit email.

Granting web access to employees poses challenges to IT administrators and introduces unique security risks. Even as companies have perfected their security techniques to guard against network intrusion, hackers have devised new ways to deliver payloads of malware - luring network users to pull in the infected packages during everyday web transactions. To combat these problems, many small- to mid-sized businesses are recognizing the advantages of an all-in-one solution as implemented in a secure web gateway.

Email is the nervous system of most companies. It answers everyday questions. What do I do next? What did we agree? What happened? How did we do it last time? Who do I need to talk to?

This paper provides a quick overview of what you need to know about the latest security, privacy and data breach regulations for the healthcare industry.

This free email encryption whitepaper from Osterman Research discusses key issues around the encryption of both email and file transfer systems, some of the leading statutes that require sensitive content to be encrypted, and suggestions for moving forward with encryption.

In a mobile environment, data, not just employees, is also mobile. Loss of a laptop that contains trade secrets or confidential data can be costly - not just to business, but to consumers - and the cost of a single data breach can run into the millions.

With all the benefits and opportunities the Internet provides, it can also be a very inhospitable place, requiring organizations' constant vigilance to protect themselves from attack. To better understand important security issues affecting organizations today, IDC recently completed a survey of more than 260 IT and Firewall managers and executives in the US and Europe that aimed to profile their organization's firewall deployments.

Data Security has been at the forefront of what CIOs are thinking about today. Discover why data security remains so important for the adapting enterprise today. This webinar interviews Brian Stevens, CTO of Red Hat, and is approximately 14 minutes long.

Medium organizations around the globe are increasingly concerned about cyberthreats, and the rising number of incidents shared publicly certainly justifies their worries. In the first half of 2009, for example, McAfee Labs saw almost as much new malware as it did in all of 2008. At the same time, most organizations have frozen or cut their IT security budgets. Threats up, budgets down. This is what we call the "security paradox."

Medium organizations around the globe are increasingly concerned about cyberthreats, and the rising number of incidents shared publicly certainly justifies their worries. In the first half of 2009, for example, McAfee Labs saw almost as much new malware as it did in all of 2008. At the same time, most organizations have frozen or cut their IT security budgets. Threats up, budgets down. This is what we call the "security paradox."

Stopping inappropriate data access. This turnkey solution safeguards servers - where business data is stored and accessed - with a combination of software and managed security services that automate critical areas of security oversight. By monitoring and tracking system access, the solution is effective at enforcing security policies.

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One of the world's largest MMORPG publishers uses iovation to keep their games safe for their valued players, and the fraudsters out.

If you were a hacker, would you rather attack Bank of America or Bob's Bike Shop? If you are a smaller organization, is your data less valuable? The reality: mid-size organizations face as many, if not more, threats. Why? You have less time and resources dedicated to protecting against every risk. Find out the cost savings and protection benefits that are achieved when you take a methodical approach to closing your security gaps. Read more.

Healthcare providers have an obligation to protect patient data from internal and external threats. But they still need immediate access to that critical data, 24x7. Find out with this e-kit how IBM can help you reduce risk, enhance data security and patient privacy, and comply with regulations—all while reducing operating costs. 

GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP/Lotus is a server based anti-spam, anti-phishing and email management solution, which is used by 80,000 customers worldwide. The latest version uses two anti-spam engines, along with advanced spam filtering techniques, to give administrators a high spam capture rate straight out-of-the-box, with minimal configuration. GFI MailEssentials also minimizes false positives, so you do not need to worry about important emails being marked as spam.

Identity Theft is and has been a clear and present danger for consumers and businesses alike. Read this paper to learn how you can prevent identity theft through Identity Verification and how to protect your online business.

Find out whether your health company's network systems are well enough to pass an internal security checkup, or are running the risk of a much more invasive examination by federal regulators and plaintiff's lawyers.

In this commissioned report, Forrester Research examines the financial impact and potential return on investment that an organization might realize from implementing McAfee's Network Security Platform IPS. To determine the impact, Forrester examined the costs, benefits, flexibility, and risk elements that a McAfee customer, Adena Health System, experienced when it implemented the McAfee Network Security Platform.