Internet Security

This briefing addresses the confusion about the security of cloud hosting implementations and then outline the practices and technologies available to keep clouds safe in the areas where they do have unique vulnerabilities.

Learn why that's so, why traditional log and event management solutions don't provide the answer, and how a modern integrated product does.

The Most Common PCI Compliance Mistakes of Brick-and-Mortar Locations

Unfortunately, people are frequently seduced by the word "free" and overestimate the supposed benefits such products offer. In order to illustrate this type of malicious methodology, the case of a rogue product is analyzed here.

The traffic lights are always at amber on the Internet, because there are always risks, so here are some tips for reducing your exposure to attacks from cybercriminals.

3rd International Conference on Cybercrime Forensics Education & Training. What is the information that the end-user or end-site really needs to know about an incoming threat?

Bots and botnets suck, so what better teaching aid to help people understand them than a vacuum cleaner? It can be extremely challenging to attempt to explain technical concepts to non-technical people. There are two goals for this presentation. Click on this white paper to read about it.

Gene Kim, CTO of Tripwire, describes seven practical steps owners and operators of the bulk power system can take to meet the mandatory IT configuration requirements set forth in the NERC-CIP standards. These steps help owners and operators avoid costly penalties for non-compliance while also protecting the Critical Cyber Assets that control or affect the reliability of North America's bulk electric power system.

This report provides a report of the Top Computer Threats in the United Kingdom.

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.

How do you measure security effectiveness? Conventional security solutions may appear to be holding back targeted malware attacks but this eBook shows you how to check the performance of your current infrastructure. Whether you are 'secure', 'infected' or 'recovering', you can benefit from a Threat Discovery Assessment.

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.

This paper considers how Web-based security threats are evolving, within the context of IT trends including mobile, home computing and other forms of remote access that could all potentially increase the attack surface of the organization.

The software-as-a-service model can help you stay ahead of Web and email threats without breaking the bank on infrastructure and management. Find out more in this whitepaper.

Software as a Service (SaaS)-delivered e-mail and Web security suites offer a good solution that Butler Group recommends as part of a more comprehensive security architecture comprising gateway and end point-based security solutions. Find out more in this whitepaper!

Service Subscription Takes the Headache Out of Email and Web Threat Management. Read this white paper about the Seven Reasons to Adopt SaaS Security.

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."

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Explore a topic often overlooked during discussions about data security: the risk of insider threats. This report, "Stopping insider attacks: how organizations can protect their sensitive information," provides an overview of the issue of insider attacks and offers suggestions that may help organizations mitigate their risk. Plus, listen to a podcast about stopping insider threats.

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.

Online businesses today face a daunting battle in combatting online fraud and abuse. Existing identity-based and credit risk scoring systems are being challenged by fraudsters and fraud rings. They capitalize on cheap identities they use to repeatedly target a business or industry. Using device identification to establish device reputations and expose repeat offenders and fraud rings changes everything.

Learn what new and innovative techniques and solutions can be used to combat online credit application fraud, and how you can realize a true ROI by reducing losses and increasing operational efficiency within your fraud prevention process.