Systems--Secure every server, laptop, desktop, and device. Do you need automatic protection for your small business systems but want to offload the monitoring and updating work? Register today for a free 30-day evaluation of McAfee Total Protection Service. 

Read this E-Guide to learn about an alternative to traditional antimalware testing, using your perimeter network security tools. Snyder lays out a step-by-step guide to validate your own malware including where to find sample test viruses, equipment needed, and the channels to test. 

Implementing Web Content Control can seem intimidating. It represents the uneasy marriage of network administration and human resource management. With a little forethought, however, it becomes straightforward and very effective. Read this whitepaper for a step-by-step overview of a successful web content control implementation. 

Participants at industry conferences and events often ask where the right place to start implementing security is. This is similar to starting off a talk with a doctor by asking “What medicine should I take?” The answer is going to be more questions. This article presents three questions to ask yourself before starting a security implementation. 

In this E-Guide, security expert Mike Chapple reveals tips on finding sensitive information on the endpoint. Get a basic understanding of the algorithms used to detect sensitive information, software tools to assist you in your search for data, and two basic approaches for managing sensitive information. 

This paper examines the changing IT services market and why IT service providers need to improve the way they do business. 

This collection of slides from the Information Security Decisions Conference provides practical advice about securing your data. The presentation builds upon a basic, four-step model of discover, secure, monitor, and protect. Download these slides to learn how to overcome common data security issues. 

This guide describes seven typical mistakes of IT security compliance and how you can use these lessons to help your organization achieve its compliance goals. 

This white paper focuses on role-based access control (RBAC) and how RBAC is a rich and open-ended technology which is evolving as users gain experience with it. 

This video provides clear and actionable steps to protect an enterprise database and the data that it stores. Featuring Adrian Lane and Rich Mogull, specific points of emphasis include preventative controls, detection controls, and a data security life-cycle overview. 

A common notion is that an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) is nothing more than an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) deployed in-line with blocking capabilities. This paper explains why that notion is incorrect. 

There is some confusion in the marketplace about intrusion-security systems. Intrusion Detection Systems and Intrusion Prevention Systems have similar names and tend to get lumped together into a single security category: Intrusion Detection and Prevention. But the capabilities and underlying design of these systems couldn't be more different.