Intrusion Detection

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).

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

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

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.

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.

This paper is designed to provide a basic understanding of what heuristics are and how they are used in the anti-malware industry.

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.

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Read this Trend and Risk report from IBM® ISS X-Force® to learn statistical information about all aspects of threats that affect Internet security, including software vulnerabilities and public exploitation, malware, spam, phishing, web-based threats, and more!

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. 

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.

Network-Stop threats before they happen. This June 2009 study examines the financial impact and potential return on investment (ROI) for McAfee Network Security Platform intrusion prevention system (formerly McAfee IntruShield), using Adena Health System as a case study.

Keeping data secure in a mobile environment is not just a daunting challenge, but a critical requirement. Loss and theft of computers leaves sensitive data vulnerable, creating serious financial and legal risks.

In this whitepaper, the Ponemon Institute shares its findings on the use of encryption on laptops by corporate employees. It shows that many employees may not be taking the most basic precautions to secure their company laptop.

The greatest threat to enterprise data security comes from inside threats. Securing the enterprise requires an understanding of the data leak points, environment, people, and processes for managing sensitive information. This white paper explains how network-based and endpoint-based solutions can work together to provide the broadest protection available while ensuring scalability and manageability, and that employee productivity is not impacted.

Data breaches can carry very serious consequences, such as the revelation in February 2008 that that the Hannaford Brothers chain of supermarkets lost more than four million debit and credit card numbers to hackers. The bottom line is that organizations must implement Data Loss Prevention (DLP) systems to protect themselves against the growing array of threats they face from inadvertent and malicious data leaks from email, instant messaging and other systems.

In January of 2008, a random sample of online technical newsletter subscribers at midsize companies (100-5,000 employees) received an email invitation to participate in a survey about data protection solutions use at their organizations. The goal of the survey was to identify sources of and/or reasons for information security breaches, and to better understand how businesses are planning to protect themselves against data leaks. The following report presents top line results of the study.