This collection of slides from the Information Security Decisions Conference focuses on change management and keeping change from creating unnecessary risks. The slides offer tips on getting people to accept change, participate in change, and finally manage change. Read on to learn more about managing change to mitigate risks. 

As security threats grow in sophistication, securing critical data is becoming more challenging. Your exposure is increased and attacks are difficult to spot. In this webcast, White House Cybersecurity Advisor Howard Schmidt discusses what lies ahead in 2010 and makes key recommendations for an optimal defense strategy. 

The Endpoint Assessment Test is a free tool that scans a computer and assesses whether it is a security risk to your organization. Download it and discover the risks that your company's endpoints are hiding. 

Web 2.0 has radically changed the way information is disseminated and consumed. However, there must be controls in place to create a security balance that prevents serious risks. This Pocket E-Guide reviews the pros and cons of various Web 2.0 strategies for security and compliance. Find out if updating employee usage policies is enough. 

This collection of slides from the Information Security Decisions Conference presents an overview of some common web 2.0 security threats and how to deal with them. The presentation covers the evolution of threats, how web 2.0 is changing them, what vulnerabilities to focus on, and how to reduce risk. Download the slides to learn more. 

This whitepaper will examine PCI DSS and explain how Lumension® Compliance and IT Risk Management can help organizations reduce the cost of addressing compliance. 

Learn how the Lumension Security Vulnerability Management Solution helps organizations effectively minimize security risks through the proactive discovery of IT assets and automated remediation of software and configuration vulnerabilities. 

All organizations must face the realities of cyber security risks. Watch this webcast for an informative examination of cyber-risk, risk analysis, and risk mitigation options. 

Databases are an important part of a company’s infrastructure, but they also tend to be rich with attack vectors to exploit. This webcast explores the many potential PostgreSQL external vulnerabilities and then shows how those vulnerabilities can be secured. Watch this webcast to learn how to protect one of your company’s most valued assets. 

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. 

Banks need to get smarter, attract the right customers, implement customer level risk management, and implement risk adjusted customer relationship pricing and all of this is dependent on trusted data. This paper examines the impact of unreliable data on retail banks. It then defines the requirements needed to guarantee data reliability in banking. 

The senior technology executives at Sybase have written a new book that analyzes how risk management systems built on 20th Century architectures failed which caused the worst financial crisis in decades. This paper condenses the key analysis and strategies of the book and explains how to rebuild and fortify them to prevent future crises.