This white paper provides insights into how host intrusion prevention systems deliver business value to enterprises, provide protection against zero-day threats, give IT time to test and deploy patches, and realize IT operational cost savings via centrally managed security and visibility of all endpoint security layers through a single console. 

Security information management systems can now be used for proactive risk management and business intelligence. This Essentials Guide explains how this can be achieved. Read on to find articles that cover topics like today's SIM trends, incident response, threat management, and data analysis. 

Read this chapter from "HOWTO Secure and Audit Oracle 10g and 11g" (CRC Press, 2009) and learn how to secure Oracle by checking for weak passwords, configuring failed login policies, preventing DoS attacks with resource limits, and auditing user profiles. 

The Secure Messaging solution enables more secure business communications from virtually any location or device, while preventing unauthorized use of confidential information. 

This paper explains how McAfee has developed 15 Minutes to a Secure Business. This unique approach to security management gives IT professionals a roadmap for ensuring a safe and secure IT environment, even with limited time. 

On the surface, virtualized datacenters appear to have all of the same vulnerabilities and security challenges as conventional datacenters. With virtual machines, new challenges minimize the effectiveness of traditional protections. Read on to learn what it takes to secure today’s virtualized data centers. 

The most common approach to securing a web application involves doing a single security test, usually a Web Application Security Assessment, when a development project is completed. While this is still a requirement, this paper discusses why security needs to be incorporated earlier and throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC). 

AppRiver needed a very fast, lightweight antivirus engine that would complement their SecureTide service. After a thorough evaluation process, they found ESET NOD32 Antivirus to be the most reliable and stable platform. It now protects more than 50,000 mailboxes for AppRiver. 

bwin Interactive Entertainment is an online gaming company that needed to quickly become PCI compliant, implement IT policies that would facilitate the company’s rapid growth, and generally ensure that their online offerings are all trustworthy, safe, and secure. Read this case study to learn how Tripwire solutions helped bwin meet all their needs. 

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. 

Authored by database security expert Ron Ben Natan, Ph.D., "HOWTO Secure and Audit Oracle 10g and 11g" (CRC Press) is the definitive 454-page guide for both security pros and DBAs. Chapter 2, presented here, covers topics central to hardening the database. 

Each month many companies, big or small, well known or unknown, experience a data security loss with the potential exposure of thousands to millions of sensitive customer or employee records. This brief examines cryptographic methods, specifically tape data encryption, to combat such security losses.