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Making Your Website Safe for Online Buyers with the Qualys SECURE Seal
The number one concern of internet users is that a website will keep personal information safe and secure. Toward this end, many users look for a website to display a third party seal as evidence of security.
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Web Application Security for Dummies®
Web applications have become the Achilles heel of IT security. Web application vulnerabilities are now the most prevalent at more than 55 per cent of all server vulnerability disclosures.
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An Inside Job: Extending Enterprise Protection to Remote Laptops
IT managers face significant threats from remote workers and business travellers — in fact virtually any employee who takes a laptop home at night or on the road. To be clear, it's not the employees themselves who are the problem. What's happening is that remote workers are unintentionally and unknowingly infecting their laptops with spyware, Trojans, worms and other malicious code. Then they turn around and plug those laptops into the enterprise when they're back in the office. IT managers need to understand the severity of the situation, what's driving it and why it's only going to get worse. They can also familiarise themselves with tools that can help get things under control.
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Are Proxy Anonymizers Putting Your Enterprise in Peril?
Like many modern threats to enterprise security, the use of proxy anonymizers is largely part of a behavioural issue. Chances are, your company deploys web filters to fight off the threats lurking in cyberspace. And chances are, some of your employees have no trouble bypassing them by accessing web pages hosting proxy anonymizers, simple scripts that give surfers a way to get to sites that are officially off-limits. With so many new ones being created every day, ordinary filtering technology based on URL blocking just can't keep up. And because they don't raise red flags in log files the way unapproved sites do, they elude easy detection by IT security staff.
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IT Policy Compliance For Dummies
This eBook explains IT policy compliance and the steps your organisation needs to carry out to prove compliance to an independent auditor. After reading this book you'll know how to create compliance policies and prepare your IT operations to fulfil those requirements.
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Justifying IT Security - Managing Risk and Keeping Your Network Secure
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 optimise risk.
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PC-Disable Delivers Intelligent Client-Side Protection for Lost or Stolen Notebooks
Absolute Software*1 and Intel deliver a new level of theft deterrence and data defence through integrated hardware and software technologies for notebook PCs. Computrace,* a leading IT asset-management and security solution from Absolute Software, is taking advantage of Intel® Anti-Theft Technology (Intel AT) 2 which is designed into system hardware. Through Computrace, an authorised information technology (IT) administrator can remotely delete data on a notebook, or the notebook can now intelligently lock itself down and prevent an OS from booting. If the notebook is reported lost or stolen, the IT administrator simply flags it in the Computrace web portal and sets up a "poison pill" so the next time the notebook "phones home", it will be disabled. In both cases, whether the notebook locks itself down or receives a poison pill, and even if the hard drive is reformatted or replaced, anti-theft security options remain in place. Getting the system operational again is easy – authorised users can quickly restore the system with a one-time reactivation token provided by the IT department. IT now has a more reliable, robust approach to protecting assets and minimising financial and/or legal risk from lost or stolen notebooks.
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PCI Compliance for Dummies
Complying with the PCI Data Security Standard may seem like a daunting task for merchants. This guide explains how to protect cardholder data and comply with the requirements of PCI - from surveying the standard's requirements to detailing steps for verifying compliance.
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Responding to the New Information Risk Landscape
This paper analyses the trends and changing priorities of the emerging information security landscape, setting out a new action agenda for managing future information risks across a volatile and increasingly externalised business environment.
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Social Networking: the Pros, the Cons and the Solution
Social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and Bebo have permeated society and the workplace in recent years. With media giants such as ITV, News Corporation and Google buying up social networking sites - and other sites arriving on the scene constantly - there is little doubt that they are here to stay. Organisations are right to embrace these sites as an extra weapon in their sales and marketing armoury. However, they need to do so secure in the knowledge that organisational and employee security is not being compromised. Unfortunately, the extremely rapid growth in popularity of these sites risks catching many IT departments unprepared. Complacency is not an option for organisations faced with such a powerful, yet potentially problematic communications channel, which is why more and more organisations are turning to advanced content security technologies to mitigate the risks associated with social networking.
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The Human Factor in Laptop Encryption: UK Study
Encryption is one of the most important security tools in the defense of information assets. Ponemon Institute has conducted numerous studies on organizations’ use of encryption to prevent the loss of sensitive and confidential information. These studies have shown that encryption can be an effective deterrent. However, our studies also show that in order to be effective, encryption requires organizations and users to take appropriate steps to make sure sensitive and confidential information is protected as much as possible. Download this free white paper to read more.
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The Top 10 Reports for Managing Vulnerabilities
This paper cuts through the data overload generated by some vulnerability detection solutions. It covers the key aspects of the vulnerability management lifecycle and shows you what reports today's best-in-class organisations are using to reduce risks on their network infrastructure.
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Understanding and Selecting a Database Assessment Solution
Database Assessment is not just a security precaution, but an integral part of database operations management. This whitepaper provides the information necessary to understand the value of database assessments and properly evaluates products both individually and head-to-head so you can avoid common problems that occur in assessing databases.
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Web Application Security — How to Minimise Prevalent Risk of Attacks
The guide surveys typical web application vulnerabilities, compares options for detection, and introduces the QualysGuard Web Application Scanning solution - a new on demand service from Qualys that automates detection of the most prevalent vulnerabilities in custom web applications.
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Winning the PCI Compliance Battle
This white paper reviews the basics of PCI, including who must comply, compliance requirements, validation requirements and penalties. It also examines the key things to look for when selecting a PCI network testing service and introduces QualysGuard PCI.
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