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Defending Against Advanced Persistent Threats: Strategies for a New Era of Attacks

The traditional dangers IT security teams have been facing and overcoming for years are being replaced by a far more hazardous, insidious form of attack: the Advanced Persistent Threat (APT). Although APTs are an emerging threat vector, their impact has already been felt in substantial ways. This white paper...

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Insider Threat Mitigation: I Have to Trust Someone, Don't I?

"Trust" does not mean giving employees unrestricted and unnecessary access to information. With the right security controls, organizations can significantly reduce their exposure to the risk of insider threats. The key is to find the right balance between employee enablement and control, while holding employees...

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Identity-Centric Security: Enabling and Protecting the Business

IT and the business are being impacted by many important trends-cloud adoption, increased mobility, the rise of social media, and the increasing flow of information across the extended enterprise. The old network perimeter is no longer relevant. Today's IT must deal with highly distributed identities across the...

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Why Strong Authentication is a Must for All Users

The trends impacting business today-cloud adoption, increased mobility, rise of social media and the increased amount of online data sharing- make the need for strong authentication more important than ever. The IT department can no longer firmly establish a network perimeter and rely on simple username and...

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It's All About the App: Mobile Security That Helps Enable the Business

Users spend, on average, 82% of their mobile minutes with apps and just 18% with web browsers. It's the lean, restricted functionality of mobile apps that makes them both convenient and task-oriented - and a major reason why they're so attractive to consumers and businesses. But mobile app development and the...

What Did You Do in School Today Junior? An Analysis of Application Usage On K-12 School Networks

Schools are embracing the use of technology to cut costs, to perform research, roll out computer-based classes and exercises and to compete for students. At the same time, the school administration is being asked by parents, state, local, regional or even federal governments to make sure that students and faculty are...

Browser-Based Filesharing: What are the Risks to University Networks?

Browser-based filesharing applications have made moving large files a very simple task for the masses. Large graphics files that cannot be sent via email due to size restrictions can now be transmitted using YouSendIt! or drop.box. These applications are easier to use than FTP and the risk of inadvertent sharing of...

Implementing an Employee Monitoring Program

Security and risk professionals recognize the value and benefits of implementing an employee-monitoring program. Privacy advocates and legal and human resources professionals see potentially unwarranted invasion of employee privacy as reasons not to monitor, or at least to restrict monitoring to instances where enough...

Mapping Security for your Virtual Environment

Is management of a virtualized environment a major concern? Does your business need a technology that helps you secure your virtual environments? With the growing popularity of virtualization in enterprise data centers, you need a virtual security solution that allows you to confidently adopt virtualization...