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Home > Security > Intrusion Prevention An Intrusion Prevention System is any device which exercises access control to protect computers from exploitation. "Intrusion prevention" technology is considered by some to be an extension of intrusion detection (IDS) technology, but it is actually another form of access control, like an application layer firewall. The latest Next Generation Firewalls leverage their existing deep packet inspection engine by sharing this functionality with an Intrusion-prevention system. Results 1 - 25 of 102 matches Sort Results By : Published Date | Title | Company name Employee Fraud within Financial Services By : Actimize Published Date: Jul 11, 2007 According to the results of Actimize's 2007 Employee Fraud survey, which was managed by Infosurv, an independent research company, financial services institutions know that they have a significant and growing problem with employee fraud and are not fully prepared to handle the threat as attacks from organized crime, dissatisfied staff and financially distressed employees become more sophisticated. Download Now Best Practices for Wireless Network Security and Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance By : AirDefense Published Date: Apr 05, 2006 This white paper will explore what security challenges wireless networks present, suggest best practices to ensure Wireless LAN security, and demonstrate how AirDefense Enterprise, a Wireless Intrusion Detection and Prevention System, can help you define, monitor and enforce your wireless security policy. Download Now Wireless LAN Security: What Hackers Know That You Don't By : AirDefense Published Date: Apr 05, 2006 This document outlines how hackers are exploiting vulnerabilities in 802.11 wireless LANs and describes the widely available hacking tools. As a collection of already published risks to wireless LANs, this white paper is written to inform IT security managers of what they are up against. Download Now Managing Security in Organizations By : ALL ICT Ltd Published Date: Jan 12, 2007 The aim of this document is to assist organizations protecting their assets – tangible and intangible – through a Security Management Program. This program provides a holistic, hands-on, and consistent approach for securing the organization against serious security breaches, such as data leakage, while providing the organization with the required flexibility to adapt itself to the business needs and to remain competitive in the market. Download Now Automated Penetration Testing: Completing the Vulnerability Management Framework By : Aomega Published Date: Nov 06, 2006 Recent regulatory additions require that companies take proactive measures like penetration testing to enforce data privacy and integrity.  By deploying a distributed model companies can execute testing from different security levels which is important in challenging posture based on level of access. Download Now Monitoring Devices Help Protect Princeton Computer Science Facilities Against Intrusion By : Asentria Corporation Published Date: Aug 30, 2007 More than ever before, IT managers need to secure equipment and facilities against a variety of intrusive conditions that could cripple critical operations, resulting in system malfunctions, loss of data or intellectual property, damage to mission critical hardware or even theft of valuable physical assets. Such conditions often include environmental events, failure of air conditioning systems, power outages, and untoward human actions. Download Now Securing Hard to Patch Servers in Health Care Environments By : Blue Lane Published Date: Aug 14, 2007 Find out how Blue Lane's unique approach can help health care IT pros quickly secure hard to patch servers. Download Now Security and Identity Access and Management Outlook By : CA Published Date: Apr 25, 2007 To explore IT security and Identity Access and Management trends and developments, The Strategic Counsel conducted a survey of 642 large North American organizations covering: IAM Expectations, Critical Factors in IAM Solution Choice, Security Challenges and Costs, Security Investment, Impact of Lagging Security Investment, Most Important Areas for Additional Security Spending, Key Inhibitors to Additional Security Spending, Graphics. Download Now Leveraging Automation to Quickly Reveal Vulnerabilities By : Cenzic Published Date: Nov 30, 2005 With web applications constantly evolving, finding vulnerabilities is a challenging, costly and time-consuming undertaking.  Find out how Cenzic's powerful security solutions help information security teams quickly identify problems, regularly assess web application security strength and ensure regulatory compliance. Download Now Cenzic Software: Identity Theft Laws And Application Security By : Cenzic Published Date: Nov 30, 2005 The Cenzic Hailstorm® solution helps companies comply with AB 1950, allowing companies to use automated processes to manage their security. Hailstorm is a key tool for preventing breaches. Download Now Securing Web Applications: The Time Is Now By : Cenzic Published Date: Jul 01, 2006 Enterprises need to utilize software testing that can automatically review applications for security problems. This document examines the market drivers and technology associated with software security code review products and discusses how Cenzic is addressing this urgent need. Download Now Cenzic: Application Security for Financial Institutions By : Cenzic Published Date: Nov 30, 2005 The Cenzic Hailstorm® solution helps financial institutions comply with GLBA and other laws by automating risk assessment, checking for vulnerability to the injection of malicious code into Web servers, automating the testing of code and key controls during the software development process, and helping them respond to new vulnerabilities in the software development lifecycle. Download Now Data Leakage: Protecting Against a Data Breach By : Clearswift Limited Published Date: Jun 29, 2007 Recent high-profile data breaches such as the TJX case mean you can no longer be lax about data leakage. Read this white paper to find out how to adequately protect your organization and also prepare for a breach. Download Now Web 2.0 and Security: What Can Go Wrong By : Clearswift Limited Published Date: Jul 06, 2007 New Web  2.0 applications can open up glaring holes in your organisation's security. Read this white paper to find out what can go wrong, and what steps you can take to prepare for the worst. Download Now The Final Buying Decision: Integrated Vs. Compatible By : CopiaTECH Published Date: Nov 26, 2006 Words like “integrated” and “centralized” have been used to describe application software solutions for some years now, often because of marketing messaging that implies more interoperability than the given technology can actually provide to the business customer. The terms are broad enough to be almost meaningless in some instances. In the field of IT security, the sheer range of tools and techniques in the hacker or virus writer’s armory that one must guard against has driven up the number of solutions required to prevent attacks. Download Now Learn More About Penetration Testing Software: Taking the Guesswork Out of Vulnerability Management By : Core Security Published Date: Oct 26, 2005 This IDC white paper examines key trends in the vulnerability management and assessment (VA&M) market and identifies the value of penetration testing as part of a comprehensive security methodology. Download Now How Institutions Should Respond to Data Breaches By : Debix Published Date: Jun 12, 2008 Fraud preventative solutions are designed to avert new accounts fraud before it occurs. The strategic advantage of fraud prevention therefore lies in the ability avoid losses to institutions and consumers. Download Now Testing Password Safety: A Key to Securing a Corporate Network By : ElcomSoft Published Date: Oct 18, 2007 Information protection gets much attention these days. Many have realized that their data is a treasure, which not only should be treated properly, but should be protected as well. So a few dollars spent on defending against security threats now can reap millions in avoiding future losses due to hacking of your enterprise network. Download Now Size Does Matter: Advantages of Distributed Password Recovery By : ElcomSoft Published Date: Oct 18, 2007 Information is crucial in decision making. No wonder that protection of information is paid much attention. The most part of information is created and stored digitally (Microsoft Office documents, different databases, and financial data in Intuit Quicken etc). Thus software and hardware means of protecting information are the first to talk about. Download Now The Spam-ish Inquisition: Saving Time and Energy on Junk Mail By : ESET Published Date: Nov 19, 2007 Spam looks like a simple enough issue until you have to try to define it: after all, we all think we know it when we see it. Most people have a working definition along the lines of “email I don’t want.” While that’s perfectly understandable, it is difficult to implement technical solutions based on such a subjective definition. Read this paper to learn why SPAM is more than just unwanted email. Download Now Attachment Spam: The Latest Trend By : GFI Published Date: Aug 10, 2007 This white paper explains what makes spam such an unbearable problem and how spamming tactics are evolving daily to beat anti-spam software. In the space of two months, spammers have switched from image spam to using PDF, Excel and ZIP file attachments. By using these attachments to send images instead of embedding them in the body of the email message, spammers have taken the cat-and-mouse game with anti-spam software developers to a new level. Download Now Why One Virus Engine is Not Enough By : GFI Published Date: Jan 02, 2007 This white paper examines why having multiple anti-virus scanners at mail server level substantially reduces the chance of virus infection and explores ways in which this can be achieved. Download Now The Corporate Threat Posed by Email Trojans By : GFI Published Date: Jan 02, 2007 Describing what trojans are and why they pose a danger to corporate networks, this paper discusses the need and method to protect your network from the threat of trojans. Download Now Why You Need an Email Exploit Detection Engine By : GFI Published Date: Jun 12, 2007 Virus-writers are using increasingly complex and sophisticated techniques in their bid to circumvent anti-virus software and disseminate their viruses. Anti-virus software, though essential, cannot combat such threats alone; an email exploit detection tool is also necessary. 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