Learn about security information management systems (SIMs) and how they support a security information lifecycle of collection, alerting, reporting, and forensics. 

Data breaches run rampant and there is very little information about how to build a practical, effective data security program. We'll detail the steps to take and the technologies available to keep your organization's most valuable information assets safe. Read on to learn more about protecting the database without threatening the budget. 

Check out this white paper to learn about the top 5 misconceptions about data protection and how your company can effectively address them to increase the security of its information assets. 

Merchants who process payment cards need dedicated wireless monitoring systems that offer full traffic analysis and comprehensive security solutions to identify wireless security loopholes, provide solutions, and document compliance for audits. Read this white paper to learn more about ensuring PCI compliance in your wireless network. 

This study looks at what senior executives think about the value of corporate data protection efforts within their organizations. It is important for those individuals charged with managing a data protection program to understand how key decision makers in organizations perceive the importance of safeguarding sensitive and confidential information. 

This white paper will share the findings of a global, multi-industry study (sponsored by Google) of 1,125 IT decision makers to track perceptions about cloud computing and the key business drivers behind the growth in cloud-based solutions. 

This video describes how organizations can effectively interpret particular requirements from regulations such as HIPAA and PCI and implications these interpretations have on compliance activities, administration, and auditors. 

No security system will keep your organization absolutely secure. As long as assets exist on the network, you have to assume that some threat exists that is capable of finding and exploiting the vulnerabilities in your security. If it doesn’t exist today, it probably will tomorrow. Read this paper to learn a better way of thinking about security. 

Read this Trend and Risk report from IBM® ISS X-Force® to learn statistical information about all aspects of threats that affect Internet security, including software vulnerabilities and public exploitation, malware, spam, phishing, web-based threats, and general cyber criminal activity. 

Entraction has no reservations about the effectiveness and efficiencies that are possible using device fingerprinting paired with device reputation; this is real data pulled from the user's computer, coupled with fact-based evidence of fraud from that computer's past. Read this case study to learn about how Entraction is fighting fraud. 

This issue of Security Information Magazine features the 2009 Readers’ Choice Awards. For the fourth consecutive year, our readers voted to determine the best security products. A record 1,721 voters participated this year, rating products in 17 different categories. There’s also a great article on the facts and myths about encryption and more. 

Read this paper, which is a transcription of a presentation where speakers Stuart McClure, VP of Operations & Strategy, Risk & Compliance Business Unit, at McAfee Incorporated and Evelyn de Souza, Senior Manager, Risk & Compliance, at McAfee discuss application whitelisting and its benefits.