Enterprise businesses require the control framework involved in the PCI DSS to help improve internal operational, security and audit performance. This white paper details how alignment of business and PCI goals is important to ensure continuity and meet all internal security standards. 

Authored by Ron Ben Natan, Ph.D., author of "HOWTO Secure and Audit Oracle 10g and 11g" (CRC Press, March 2009), this white paper describes 8 essential best practices that provide a holistic approach to safeguarding databases and achieving compliance. 

In a typical healthcare organization, hundreds to thousands of medical and support staff need to access patient data to do their job. How do you effectively enforce access controls to hospital information systems without hampering medical care efficiency and effectiveness? Read this paper and learn how. 

This paper examines the numerous ways that syslog messages can be used to enhance the secure deployment of an infrastructure of equipment from Cisco®. Syslog can not only be an essential auditing tool for network and administrative events, but also can be an effective troubleshooting tool. 

In this white paper, discover how you can effectively and efficiently control privileged accounts using the latest in adaptive access controls management. You will also learn about how to leverage the latest in Role-Based Access Controls. 

Read this chapter from “Implementing Database Security and Auditing” by database security expert, Ron Ben Natan Ph.D., to learn best practices and specific tips for effectively securing most database environments, including tracking security vulnerabilities, the anatomy of buffer overflow vulnerabilities, and database auditing. 

As the PCI DSS and its sister standards continue to evolve and gain momentum, organizations will have to bake compliance into their everyday operations in order to eliminate fire drills, contain costs, keep current customers, and attract new ones. Read this paper to learn how to comply with the global standard without breaking the bank 

Read this chapter from "HOWTO Secure and Audit Oracle 10g and 11g" (CRC Press, 2009) and learn how to secure Oracle by checking for weak passwords, configuring failed login policies, preventing DoS attacks with resource limits, and auditing user profiles. 

This paper offers a practical guide to implementing fine-grained access controls with ten aspects that are important to consider when planning an implementation of fine-grained access controls in a corporate server environment. 

Taxes are certainly not fun, but there is something worse: an audit. The good news is that there are ways to reduce the audit tax burden. This whitepaper outlines five methods organizations should consider to streamline their compliance efforts and thereby reduce their audit tax. 

Network service providers dealing with massive bandwidth demand are struggling to evolve their networks while keeping costs under control. Expenditures must be reduced and revenue per transported bit increased. Read this strategic white paper to learn more about a more value driven approach to network management. 

Unfortunately, many organizations focus their energy on simply passing their PCI audit and lose sight of the main objective of the PCI DSS -- securing cardholder data. They still suffer a security breach even though they pass the compliance audit. Read this solution brief to learn more about securing cardholder data and proving PCI compliance.