Vulnerability Management

This is the second part of a three-part white paper series. Part 2 describes how organizations can develop a security profile for themselves that will show them which of the Stage 1 controls they most need to build up and strengthen.

This is the third part of a three-part white paper series. Part 3 describes how to move on from the basic controls and how each organization should decide which, of all the extra security controls available, are right to be brought in next.

Frontier Nursing Services (FNS, Inc.) of Hyden, Kentucky provides health care to the underserved population in rural areas of southeast Kentucky and is committed to advancing nursing through education.

Just because your business is small, doesn't mean your data isn't just as critical as your Fortune 500 competitors. Like major corporations, small and midsize businesses are increasingly reliant on the critical data stored on their servers.

Choosing a solution for Vulnerability Management (VM) is a critical step toward protecting your organization’s network and data. Without proven, automated technology for precise detection and remediation, no network can withstand the daily onslaught of new vulnerabilities that threaten security.

The path to creating a secure application begins by rigorously testing source code for all vulnerabilities and ensuring that use of the application does not compromise or allow others to compromise data privacy and integrity.

A rewind button for applications, files and transactions? That's what continuous data protection (CDP) technology provides to managers of IBM AIX and i5/OS operating environments. CDP rapidly recovers accidentally deleted or otherwise corrupted data and provides many other valuable benefits. Read this informative eight-page paper to learn more about this breakthrough data protection technology.

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.

Managing hundreds or thousands of desktops or servers is time intensive and costly. Double-Take Flex can reduce the cost of management by booting single images from SAN or NAS, thereby increasing security and reducing management.

Secure at the Source: Save money and reduce risks by correcting software vulnerabilities early on in the development lifecycle. Download this free white paper to learn more.

This document briefly analyses the effects of platform and content-access interruptions on productivity, revenue, and compliance-related exposure, then introduces strategies to mitigate such interruptions.

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.

The goal of a security program is to choose and implement cost effective countermeasures that mitigate the vulnerabilities that will most likely lead to loss. This paper discusses the management of Risk and how Vulnerability Management is one of the few counter-measures easily justified by its ability to optimize risk.

A range of application security tools was developed to support the efforts to secure the enterprise from the threat posed by insecure applications. But in the ever-changing landscape of application security, how does an organization choose the right set of tools to mitigate the risks their applications pose to their environment? Equally important, how, when, and by whom are these tools used most effectively?

McAfee Labs foresees an increase in threats related to social networking sites, banking security, and botnets, as well as attacks targeting users, businesses, and applications. However, in 2010 McAfee also expects to see an increase in the effectiveness of law enforcement to fight back against cybercrime is also anticipated. Read this report to learn more about what to expect in 2010.

Today, when you make decisions about information technology (IT) security priorities, you must often strike a careful balance between business risk, impact, and likelihood of incidents, and the costs of prevention or cleanup. Historically, the most well-understood variable in this equation was the methods that hackers used to disrupt or invade the system.

Despite the six-year-old CAN-SPAM Act, spammers routinely abuse the law and continue to deliver their obnoxious email. One year ago, a major spam-hosting ISP was shut down, causing an impressive drop in botnet activity. Today, however, spam authors are more active and smarter than ever. Spammers love to tailor their messages to the news and the season. Read this report to gain a greater understanding of current spam threats.

Increased regulatory requirements, the need for transparency, and the desire to better manage and mitigate risks have combined to make Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) top of mind for both business and Information Technology (IT) executives. Business managers and IT security managers must work collaboratively and continuously to control access and authorization, guarding against fraud and mistakes, while providing the clear visibility that is prerequisite for sound corporate oversight to ensure profitability and compliance.

The increasing sophistication and dynamism of multi-vectored network attacks, including use of botnets to deliver threats deep inside the enterprise, requires rethinking network security. In light of this sophistication and the corresponding multi-pronged attacks, traditional exploit-based solutions fail to be effective countermeasures to secure the network.

One of your biggest challenges is evaluating and selecting vendor products and services. That's why Forrester created the Forrester Wave, making it easy for you to make well-informed decisions. This complimentary Forrester Wave report on Email Filtering ($1749 retail value) offers: An in-depth evaluation of email security filtering vendors, based on 57 criteria, a powerful Excel spreadsheet that allows you to easily compare products and get in-depth data and analysis about each one, and tools to develop a custom shortlist based on your company's unique requirements.

With new privacy and data security regulations increasing, organizations are asking questions. Do the new regulations help or hinder the ability to protect sensitive and confidential information? With these new regulations on the march, how can you remain competitive in the global marketplace?

New network vulnerabilities appear constantly and the ability for IT security professionals to handle new flaws, fix misconfigurations and protect against threats requires constant attention. However, with shrinking budgets and growing responsibilities, time and resources are at constrained. Therefore, sifting through pages of raw vulnerability information yields few results and makes it impossible to accurately measure your security posture.

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."

Alfred Ashley Group helps small businesses overcome the daunting prospect of buying, installing, and managing computer and telephone system solutions. Building in best-in-class and cost-effective security is vital for meeting customer expectations and achieving the company's revenue and profit goals.