Criminals focus on exploiting web application vulnerabilities in order to plant malware and thus infect clients who visit websites. Read this report to learn more about the drivers behind web hacking, the vulnerabilities hackers exploit, and the types of organizations attacked most often. 

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. 

The monetizing of economic crime in Web 2.0 makes Web security a top priority for security pros. Traditional defenses are obsolete, so read this presentation transcript, taken from the video cast of the same name, and learn best practices for creating a new approach to Web security. 

The monetizing of economic crime in Web 2.0 makes Web security a top priority for security pros. Traditional defenses are obsolete, so view this videocast and learn best practices for creating a new approach to Web security. 

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. 

In this white paper, we'll take a look at access control lists, often referred to as access lists or ACLs (sometimes pronounced "ackels"). 

This paper explains how whitelisting (accepting only applications and behaviors that are on the approved list and denying everything else) provides a lighter, more agile alternative to blacklisting as a means to protect networks and end points. 

Here five things about Windows Server 2008 that are the less obvious, more esoteric, yet useful features or quirks. The following is a brief list of some things that I tend to assume that many people know, and I am constantly amazed by clients and students who really don't know them. How many do you already know? 

This paper shows how next-generation Sun servers, based on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, allow IT organizations to meet these challenges by delivering game-changing performance and virtualization improvements that help enable companies to leverage best practices for IT management, application deployment, work processes, and cost control. 

PCI DSS is an opportunity for security professionals to leverage compliance initiatives to improve security and risk management. This presentation transcript illustrates how organizations must go beyond “checklist” compliance to improve security and IT efficiency -- through automation, prioritization, and focused attention on the critical issues. 

This white paper will focus on discovering and implementing Cisco's Unified Mobility solutions so that we can give our mobile employees an easier, and yet, more robust way of communicating, no matter the wired or wireless network they are currently connected to. 

The Websense Security Labs Team provides a review of recent threats in this presentation transcript. Learn more about techniques for defending your organization from Web threats. Techniques include the monitoring, classification, and identification of all Web content in real time. Read on to learn more.