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Information Security: DataDrain - How DLP tools can mitigate incidents and offer insight into where data lives by Symantec Corporation
In this article by Rich Mogull of Information Security Magazine and former analyst for Gartner, learn how Data Loss Prevention solutions help companies understand where their sensitive data is located, where it is going, how it is being used and can sometimes enforce...
Perspectives by Information Security Magazine
in the digital age. Information security and privacy teams within an organization must work together in addressing the lack of online privacy. It is not enough for the security team to evaluate a system and determine a level of risk based on physical and...
Mastering the Risk/Reward Equation: Optimizing Information Risks to Maximize Business Innovation Rewards by RSA, The Security Division of EMC
practices of 10 of the world's top information security leaders. For top-performing organizations, business innovation is not simply an event in time or a laboratory project to generate a new product. It is an on-going, inter-disciplinary, cross-...
Proactive Security Monitoring with RSA enVision® Platform by RSA, The Security Division of EMC
over a period of several years, the information security team wanted a more proactive approach to security monitoring. Actionable alerts about behaviors that pointed to potential security incidents were of particular interest. Read this white paper to learn more about...
Achieving Compliance in a Virtualized Environment by Tripwire, Inc.
how to mitigate risks. High profile information security failures resulting in the loss of cardholder data, confidential information, and personally identifiable information (PII) have substantially increased regulatory pressure. Many organizations must now...
Business Value Analysis Study: Backup and Recovery, Endpoint Management, and Endpoint Security by Symantec Corporation
and improve Aspirus' information security posture with solutions that address heterogeneity in the IT environment. Specifically, it needed to reduce the cost and labor associated with backing up data, delivering software and servers, and managing...
eBook: Strategies for Securing Virtual Machines by Information Security Magazine
eBook to learn about the special security concerns of virtualization and get best practices for securing virtual machines. Many companies are deploying virtualization technology in an effort to reduce costs and increase employee productivity. However...
eBook: 2009 Spending Priorities in the UK by SearchSecurity.co.uk
refocused IT priorities back on information security for 2009.

Check out this expert eBook and learn more about:

  • How your company can leverage the Data Protection Act, PCI DSS, and other compliance mandates to increase overall security
  • An overview of today's macro
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Viewpoint September 2008: Bug Finding is Ethical and Necessary by Information Security Magazine
name, address and phone number as information that needs protection ("Call in the Feds," July/August 2008)? I'm all for protecting information that is needed to hijack your identity such as Social Security numbers. But why include information that is designed to be...
What's Red Hot This Summer? Common Sense: Storage Bin 2.0 by Storage Magazine
know what's good for us. Information security, data deduplication and virtualization are booming. But as we finally put some of these common-sense themes into practice, we'll invariably expose the next set of weaknesses we'll have to contend with...
Best Practices for User Management on the System i by Safestone
employees account for 50% of known security incidents; almost twice the number attributed to hackers.

This white paper provides best practices to help you get started with user management. Read on to learn how to do the following:

  • Implement strong access
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PODCAST: Virtualization Security: Issues, Adoption and Strategy for Success by Stonesoft Inc.
to learn the basics of virtual security and find out how to establish best practices for integrating the protection needs of physical and virtual servers. Virtualization technology is being rapidly deployed by today's companies, but traditional...
Expert eBook: Encryption: Properly Securing Your Valuable Data by Information Security Magazine
of protecting confidential information are forcing companies to deploy encryption technology to mitigate the risks of loss and leakage.

Check out this expert eBook and learn about:

  • Laptop encryption methods and tips for choosing the right strategy for
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Symantec Data Loss Prevention Product Overview V9 by Symantec Corporation
can share, access, and disseminate information in unlimited volume, and organizations have come to depend on it. In fact, it is enormously empowering. Yesterday's security approaches were aimed at securing the network. It's time to shift this focus to securing the...
8 Steps to Data Security Compliance by Symantec Corporation
evaluate and strengthen your data security processes, policies, and technology systems. The rise in data security breaches and trade secret violations over the past year is a wake-up call for executives-network security is not enough. Organizations must...
Operations Energy Management: From Data Center through Facilities by CA
power and cool the data center. Using information technology solutions to better manage the data center offers a new perspective and fresh approach to operations energy management that not only reduces costs associated with consumption but also supports...
5 Virtualization Do's and Don'ts by Information Security Magazine
the game for enterprise IT, but security doesn't have to be a barrier to implementation. Five years from now, few enterprises will use "real" computers. Everything done with databases, Web applications or file shares will be intercepted and emulated by...
Layer8: Data Leak Fatigue by Information Security Magazine
the more likely large amounts of information can be misplaced...
Face-Off: Chinese Cyberattacks: Myth or Menace? by Information Security Magazine
Security Experts Marcus Ranum & Bruce Schneier Offer Their Opposing Points of View on the U.S. Department of Defense and cyberattacks. Something is definitely going wrong with the U.S. Department of Defense and government...
Perspectives by Information Security Magazine
Within any profession, but seemingly prevalent in technology, there are those who talk the talk, and those who walk the walk. E-discovery begs the ultimate collision of legal and technology worlds. A retooling of thought toward a legal mindset is necessary to properly handle e-discovery requests. "Winging" a response or approach to a...
Data Security Solutions by Websense, Inc.
business while securing essential information, protect against data, and allow administrators to manage who can send what information where and how. Protecting customer and other confidential data from malicious and accidental leaks is one of the top business...
Free TRIAL: Security Explorer™ for SQL Server, Version 6.6 by ScriptLogic Corporation
Security Explorer for SQL Server simplifies the management of Microsoft SQL Server security, ensuring that access to privileged database information is restricted & playing a key role in standardizing security...
Regulations Shift Focus on Outbound Email Security by Proofpoint, Inc.
that allows employees to share information, companies to work with partners, and increasingly, provides a way for companies and their customers to interact. Enterprises today deal with an ever-increasing number of email-related threats. Most are familiar with...
System i Security Guide: 6 Common Lapses, Current Issues, and Reporting Tools by Bsafe Information Systems
This security runbook guides you through all stages of securing your system. Discover the importance of a company-wide commitment to security. This security runbook guides you through all stages of securing your system. Discover...
Oracle Advanced Security Technical White Paper by Oracle Corporation
Oracle Advanced Security provides transparent, standards-based security that protects data on the network, on disk and on backup media. Operating in today's global business environment presents numerous security and compliance...
Delivering Integrated Security, Recovery, and Archive Protection with Symantec Backup Exec 12 by Symantec Corporation
their infrastructures, their information, and their interactions by delivering integration to efficiently secure, recover, and archive critical information. Today's businesses must keep their infrastructures up and running 24x7. They must be...
Should You Install Messaging Security Software on Your Exchange Server? by Sunbelt Software
on Sunbelt Software's Ninja Email Security. This white paper discusses the detailed results of our survey on messaging security software and our conclusions about administrators attitudes regarding installing third-party software on the Exchange...
The Alarming Shift in Cybercrime: How Organized Attacks Now Target Your Wallet by Blue Coat
being spent on anti-virus and other security software, the dangers of becoming a victim of cybercrime are increasing. What was once the hobby of amateur hackers has become the business of organized groups around the world.

Cyberthieves want your identity and...
Two-Factor Authentication: The Right way to Prove Identity and Establish Trust by Quest Software
examines the need for stronger security for today's online business transactions. It explains the advantages of two-factor authentication identity, and provides information to help you build a case for a security solution implementation. This white...
New Application Security Regulations: Building Compliance In by Ounce Labs

Quickly identify the most serious security risks: Ounce’s unique analysis capabilities identify the most critical coding errors and design flaws

Maximize the effectiveness of your security stakeholders: The fastest time-to-results streamlines...
Related Best Practices
How to implement snapshots
either deduplicating primary data first, or deduplicating the snapshot once it's stored.

Employ security features to manage recoverability

Traditional backups are usually not recoverable by everyday users, but snapshots can often allow end users to recover the most recent copies of their files without the direct intervention of a storage administrator. While... More...

FAQ's
What should you do if you can't realistically encrypt everything, like many people are interpreting many of the security regulations to say?
Bottom line: Don't do it. You have to look at the security vulnerabilities in your own environment, determine what is at risk, decide just what you're trying to protect and follow the security/compliance laws and regulations pertaining to your own industry. Then, make informed... More...
Why should I encrypt tape?
Security is probably the main concern when it comes to tapes. We've seen a lot of companies move away from tape specifically for that reason.

But for companies that have very large investments or requirements for these tapes, security... More...