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Home > Security > Security Policies A Security Policy is a plan of action for tackling security issues, or a set of regulations for maintaining a certain level of security. It can span anything from the practices for securing a single computer, to building/premises security, to securing the existence of an entire nation-state. Results 1 - 25 of 68 matches Sort Results By : Published Date | Title | Company name 2007 Gartner End Point Protection Magic Quadrant Report By : McAfee Published Date: Dec 01, 2007 This report from Gartner, Inc. discusses how traditional point product anti-virus, anti-spyware and personal firewall markets have been eclipsed by broader suites of related security technologies, which Gartner has labeled the EPP (Endpoint Protection Platforms). Various EPP vendors are evaluated based on their ability to execute in the marketplace and completeness of vision. Download Now 3 Reasons to Archive Email By : C2C Systems, Inc. Published Date: Jan 31, 2007 Compliance, capacity management and e-policy enforcement. Which factors are driving email archiving at your organization? And how do you pick a solution that solves your specific problems without breaking the bank? There are many internal and external forces driving the need to archive. Download Now 3 Steps for Bullet-Proof Wireless LAN Security & Management By : AirDefense Published Date: Apr 05, 2006 This paper outlines the specific elements of wireless LAN security (perimeter control, access control, date protection, and monitoring) and WLAN management (configuration, fault diagnostics, network usage, and policy enforcement). Reader will gain a keen understanding of how to effectively lockdown a wireless LAN and manage it for peak performance. Download Now Are Your Secrets Safe? Policy, Strategy and Technology for Ensuring Outbound Email Content Security By : Proofpoint Published Date: Nov 15, 2004 Email has revolutionized how businesses communicate. But email also makes it easy to transport confidential information and valuable intellectual property outside your organization — without anyone knowing until it's too late. To combat these threats, enterprises must develop clear policies for outbound email content and should adopt technology to monitor and enforce such policies. Download Now Automate Deactivation of Graduates' User Accounts By : NetWrix Published Date: Apr 14, 2008 At the end of an academic year, many thousands of students may permanently leave a school or university system. Once these users graduate, discontinue their education, or perhaps simply move away, IT administrators are left with a huge number of accounts that must be marked as inactive and then dealt with according to system policies. Download Now Automated Event Log Management for PCI DSS Compliance By : GFI Published Date: Jul 05, 2007 This white paper highlights why organizations need to implement event log auditing as an integral part of their security policy to meet industry standards such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). 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 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 Bringing UNIX/Linux Networks into Sarbanes-Oxley Act By : Symark Published Date: Oct 26, 2005 This document demonstrates how Symark PowerPassword-UME and PowerBroker work in tandem to protect the integrity of data across heterogeneous UNIX/Linux systems to help bring your system into compliance with FDA Regulation 21 CFR Part II requirements. 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 Compliance in the Mobile Enterprise By : Sybase Published Date: May 31, 2006 This paper provides guidance on how companies should rethink their existing management and security strategy to effectively secure mobile solutions in the workforce, over a wide array of devices, connections and applications. It details why mobile security must be included as a mission critical component of any enterprise strategy and implemented on a pro-active basis before any major security breach has the opportunity to negatively affect the enterprise. Download Now Compliance Multi-Tasking: Today's Security Priority By : Secure Computing Published Date: Feb 09, 2007 Driven by increasing regulatory scrutiny and the need to protect key corporate assets, concerns about compliance and data leakage have risen to the top of the priority list for today's corporate executives. This paper discusses multiple policies, procedures and processes corporations must consider to remain secure and compliant. Download Now Content Security: Blocking Spam and Unwanted Traffic By : Internet Security Systems Published Date: Feb 10, 2005 The Internet and email have stimulated huge productivity gains for employees. Workers quickly and easily access volumes of research on the Web and correspond with a mouse click. Unfortunately, businesses taking advantage of these tools are increasingly faced with daily onslaughts of spam and unwanted Web traffic. Download Now Controlling the Use of Instant Messaging and Peer-to-Peer Applications By : Internet Security Systems Published Date: Dec 13, 2005 Use of instant messaging applications-like AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger and ICQ-and peer-to-peer applications has grown significantly. Although the benefits of real-time communication offer a productivity benefit to corporate environments, instant messaging and peer-to-peer applications add significant vulnerabilities and risks to an enterprise's security posture. Download Now Controlling, Delegating, Logging and Auditing Root Actions with Symark PowerBroker By : Symark Published Date: Oct 26, 2005 The purpose of the document is to demonstrate the value of Symark PowerBroker as a tool for eliminating or reducing risk in environments where information security and risk avoidance are considered important. Download Now Datagate: The Next Inevitable Corporate Disaster? By : McAfee Published Date: Apr 01, 2007 Is data leakage the next wave of impending disaster that could sweep the global enterprise landscape? In a 2007 study conducted by Datamonitor, more than 60 percent of enterprises surveyed have experienced data leakage within the last year, and 33 percent believe it could put them out of business. Data leakage has the potential to change the face of business and the global economy if it continues to go unchecked. Download Now E-Policy Best Practices Guide By : St Bernard Software Published Date: Mar 31, 2006 Download this information-packed white paper by Nancy Flynn, Executive Director of the ePolicy Institute, for a no-nonsense look at the business risks and legal liabilities associated with employee misuse of the Internet, email, instant messaging (IM), and peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing technology. Download Now Effective Email Policies: Why Enforcing Proper Use is Critical to Security By : Sophos Published Date: May 07, 2008 The unmonitored and unguarded use of email by employees poses a multitude of risks to organizations. The distribution of inappropriate or offensive content, malicious emails, and the risks of data leakage all threaten working environments, IT resources and an organization's reputation. A comprehensive, transparent and enforceable email acceptable use policy (AUP), combined with robust email security solutions, dramatically reduces exposure to these risks. Download Now Effective Web Policies: Ensuring Staff Productivity and Legal Compliance By : Sophos Published Date: Apr 10, 2008 Employees increasingly expect to use the internet at work for their own personal use in return for longer hours, working from home and interrupting vacations. This has a number of security, productivity, bandwidth and legal ramifications that require organizations to create and implement a web usage policy that is backed up by effective web filtering tools. Download Now Eurekify Enterprise Role Manager for CA Identity Manager By : CA Published Date: May 12, 2008 Organizations are facing an explosion in the number of users of all types - employees, customers, partners and contractors - all of which need access to applications, data and other resources. While trying to provide access to the resources each user needs as quickly as possible, the organization must also ensure users do not have access to things they do not need. Download Now Fighting the Hidden Dangers of Internet Access By : St Bernard Software Published Date: Mar 31, 2006 Download this white paper from St. Bernard Software to read about a variety of contemporary, Internet-borne threats that are making it foolhardy for any business to provide unfettered Internet access for its users. Download Now FISMA Compliance: Making the Grade By : Qualys Published Date: Jan 30, 2006 A Qualys Guide to Measuring Risk, Enforcing Policies, and FISMA compliance regulations. Download Now FISMA Prescriptive Guide By : Tripwire Published Date: Mar 31, 2008 Discover how to achieve and maintain FISMA compliance to ensure security of systems and data. Download Now Guide to Effectively Remediate Network Vulnerability and Policy Compliance By : Qualys Published Date: Aug 09, 2007 Consistent, ongoing execution of vulnerability management and policy compliance is difficult, if not impossible to do on a manual basis. There are simply too many "moving parts" to juggle and act on in a timely and cost-effective manner. This guide provides a step-by-step guide for automating the vulnerability and compliance workflow process. Download Now How One Company Conquered the Audit Challenge By : Qualys Published Date: Aug 08, 2006 The Marine Corps Community Services (MCCS) manages a global network that serves Marines and their families. MCCS chose a managed service to conduct comprehensive vulnerability assessments and prioritize patches and fixes. 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