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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 67 matches Sort Results By : Published Date | Title | Company name 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 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 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 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 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. Download Now IT Departments on Data Security: A Research Concepts Survey By : Absolute Software Published Date: Apr 17, 2008 A survey of 185 IT professionals finds that, although computer and data security are high priorities, they are surprisingly unprepared to prevent data breaches and computer theft. 1 out of 4 organizations surveyed had a data breach in the past year. Preventative measures are found to be consistently undermined, with only 1 in 100 employees consistently following security policy. This white paper explores the survey findings. Download Now NAC at the Endpoint: Control Your Network Through Device Compliance By : Sophos Published Date: May 23, 2008 Protecting IT networks used to be a straightforward case of encircling computers and servers with a firewall and ensuring that all traffic passed through just one gateway. However, the increase in mobile workers, numbers and type of device and the amount of non-employees requiring network access, has led to a dissolving of that network perimeter. Download Now On-Demand Vulnerability Management By : Qualys Published Date: Aug 08, 2006 Learn how to start your own self-auditing process by setting goals and answering key questions about your infrastructure. This podcast examines what to look for in a self-audition solution, how to use vulnerability management to ease the pain and why your software solution really matters. Download Now PCI Compliance: Are You Onboard? By : Tripwire Published Date: Jan 26, 2007 This paper covers the basic requirements of PCI, with a focus on the administrative and technical elements of the program. It also reviews the validation requirements of the standard and potential sanctions for failure to comply. Download Now Proactively Reduce Risk and Improve IT Security in Physical and Virtual Environments By : Tripwire Published Date: Mar 21, 2008 Learn more about the security risks and vulnerabilities faced by organizations, and the elements of a proactive security approach. Then find out how Tripwire helps organizations attain and maintain a good security posture using industry-leading configuration assessment and change auditing to harden systems against security breaches, automate compliance with security standards and policies, identify configuration changes, and resolve vulnerabilities. Download Now Strengthening Network Security with On Demand Vulnerability Management & Policy Compliance By : Qualys Published Date: Aug 28, 2007 Despite defensive efforts with firewalls, intrusion detection, antivirus and the like, criminals, careless employees and contractors have exposed more than 158 million digital records of consumers' personally identifiable information since 2005. This security guide describes the requirements and on demand software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution called QualysGuard for effective vulnerability management and policy compliance. Download Now Stopping Data Leakage: Exploiting Your Existing Security Investment By : Sophos Published Date: Jun 20, 2008 As attitudes to work and information continue to evolve away from those of the past, organizations are become more aware of the acute need to control the information that flows into, through and out of their networks. This paper demonstrates the need for a high-profile acceptable use policy to prevent data leakage, gives practical guidance on how to use current investments in IT security technologies at the gateway and endpoint to support this policy, and describes where new investment should realistically be made. Download Now UNIX Host Access Management with CA Access Control By : CA Published Date: May 07, 2007 UNIX and Linux systems have inherent security issues that pose high risk to the business objectives of complying with regulations and data protection.  To reduce security risks, you need full superuser containment and the ability to enforce strict access control to critical system resources through centralized and automated policy management across different platforms. Download Now Vulnerability Management for Dummies: How to Implement a Successful Vulnerability Management Program By : Qualys Published Date: Mar 28, 2008 As a business owner, or someone responsible for network security within your organization, you need to understand how to prevent attacks and eliminate network weaknesses that leave your business exposed and at risk. Vulnerability Management for Dummies arms you with the facts and shows you how to implement a successful Vulnerability Management program. Download Now Voting in America: Human and Technical Factors Integral to Democratic Elections By : Fortify Published Date: Oct 14, 2008 Fortify's report summarizes electronic as well as traditional methods of voting including absentee ballots.  This voting guide will provide recommendations for voters who want to make sure their vote counts and for federal and state governments on how to devise efficient and accurate voting processes and systems. Download Now What's Missing from SEM? Security Management is More than Event Management By : NetIQ Corporation Published Date: Jan 10, 2007 This white paper identifies what is required for a comprehensive and integrated security management solution and examines the difference between SEM, SIM and SIEM and the challenges of enterprise level security monitoring. Download Now LAN Security: Identity-Based Solution Guide By : Nevis Networks Published Date: Sep 04, 2007 The ability to monitor, track and report usage based on actual user identity and applications provides for quicker reaction time, easier reporting for compliance, as well as more visibility into the network. Learn about a complete line of solutions for effective identity-based policy enforcement. Download Now Privacy, Compliance, and International Data Flows By : NetIQ Corporation Published Date: Jun 14, 2006 Mandatory compliance requirements often vary or conflict. Discover the major issues and appropriate actions organizations must take today to protect the privacy of information and meet legal and contractual requirements. Download Now 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 Wireless Security: Ensuring Compliance with HIPAA, GLBA, SOX, DoD 8100.2 & Enterprise Policy By : AirDefense Published Date: Apr 05, 2006 This white paper is designed to guide network administrators and security managers to design, implement, and enforce wireless LAN security policies that enable every organization to fully reap the benefits of wireless LANs without experiencing undue management pains and security holes. 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