This paper discusses how to defend against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks and strengthen your security controls. A DDoS attack involves flooding a server with traffic until it becomes overloaded and can no longer function. 

This case study describes how Alegent, a large healthcare system in Nebraska, implemented Courion Solutions to assist with their access assurance needs. Read on to learn what was changed and the benefits that were attained. 

To protect cardholder data, organizations must take steps to meet the latest PCI compliance standards. Find out how your company can safeguard data in this step-by-step guide. 

This paper explores the challenges with local privilege accounts in Windows Server 2003 R3 or 2008 R2 and uncovers an approach to address them, enabling you to centrally provision and administer Windows Server local accounts and easily centralize and implement security policies for the support staff controlling access to privilege accounts. 

Unencrypted and unsecure communication protocols are increasingly being replaced with Secure Shell (SSH). But while implementing SSH can improve security, allowing stronger authentication and secure tunneling of data between hosts, it also introduces a number of problems. View now to explore the common issues with SSH and how to address them.   

It is important for the IT Manager to know the basics of formalized project management. Why? Because every organization needs to be able to implement change and almost all important changes are defined or implemented through project teams. 

FoxT and Echelon One conducted a study to identify the persistent threats and appropriate actions that enterprises should consider when implementing effective server access controls. View now to uncover key findings and best practices for protecting against insider threats and the risk of theft and misuse of intellectual property and customer data. 

ITIL is becoming the next big thing in Information Technology. This paper outlines the origin of ITIL, who controls its contents, who are the biggest users, and why you should care. 

This resource identifies unique management controls and countermeasures that will allow your organization to implement a sound mobile security strategy that will cover both corporate and personal mobile devices. 

Collaboration Oriented Architectures (COA) describes information architectures that comply with the COA framework, which in turn is described in the associated COA Framework paper1. 

With the August 2011 PCI Standards Council update, internal tokenization has gained momentum as the lowest impact solution that large merchants can implement to achieve PCI compliance for stored cardholder data. In this session, independent expert Walter Conway discusses best practices for solution selection and implementation. 

In this paper, discover best practices for implementing an access governance framework and the specific access controls requirements for HIPAA/HITECH. 

Improve productivity and customer service with a lean approach to manufacturing. Read this white paper to learn how ERP works with lean to identify value and non-value components with your SAP system to give you a competitive edge.