Yesterday's virus is today's custom malware, while denial of service attacks has been replaced with botnets. This paper examines the history of attacks of malware and the defenses needed to counter these attacks. 

While security pros try their best to educate and enforce policy, hackers are working tirelessly to gain your users' trust. This podcast, featuring Bit9's CTO Harry Sverdlove, discusses how to protect against the most common technique used in today's targeted attacks – spear phishing. 

The security of SQL Server database servers has become a top priority for database administrators. This article examines best practices that can be employed to secure Microsoft SQL Server 2000 databases. It provides an overview of the security model in SQL Server 2000 and discusses best practices you can employ to secure yours. 

<p>This Information Security Essential Guide on Threat Management explores the new strategies organizations are developing to tackle the threat of today’s growing malware threats and targeted attacks.</p> 

The recent surge in cyber attacks has forced organisations to align cyber security efforts across all of their operations, rather than focusing on IT, but CEOs now need to take the lead in protecting their organisations, this report from PwC argues. 

Natural disasters, attacks by hackers, a new application gone bad - any or all of these could result in costly disruptions and missed opportunities. Yet many businesses overlook business continuity planning. Learn how savvy enterprises are employing virtualization to strengthen disaster recovery plans. 

To protect against the thousands of new threats that emerge every day, organisations need to have complete visibility into the activity across their IT infrastructure. Tune in to this short video to learn how HP ArcSight Security Intelligence platform can help you gain better visibility and enable you to rapidly identify, prioritise and respond. 

<p>This 3-minute video explains the benefits of a network intrusion prevention system (IPS) and how one can help you reduce your exposure of risk while simultaneously cutting down your liability. View now to learn more.</p> 

<p>Question one featured in SearchSecurity.com's IT Decision Center on Antimalware asks top vendors in the space: Does your solution detect and alert drive-by infections and attacks carried out via infected web applications? Find out what these vendors have to say by accessing their answers to this question now.</p> 

<p>Most companies do not have time to thoroughly investigate all of the potential attack targets inside an application. This white paper explains how the use of software security analysis (SSA) and path methodologies can help you identify vulnerable code and improve application security.</p> 

Domain controllers have become an increasingly popular target for malicious hackers for its access to an organization’s sensitive and intellectual property. This case study uncovers how one international communications firm was able to protect 225 of its domain controllers using Bit9 Parity for Servers and the key benefits they gained. 

<p>In this 2-minute video, learn how a variety of businesses and organizations have utilized IBM solutions to ensure security success.</p> 

This white paper analyzes incidences of data loss from the past, especially ones associated with data centers and explores key findings, offering practical statistics that you can leverage to assist your data center security efforts.