One of the best ways to secure database infrastructures - plus comply with regulations and pass your audits - is to regularly perform security assessments of your database environment. Read this quick little data sheet to learn about some of the advantages of using automated vulnerability assessments. 

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. 

Check out the IBM Rational Web application security e-kit to gain information and tools that reduce online threats and offer insights about web application security issues. 

Download Rational AppScan Standard Edition V7.8, previously known as Watchfire AppScan, a leading Web application security testing tool that automates vulnerability assessments and scans and tests for all common Web application vulnerabilities including SQL-injection, cross-site scripting, and buffer overflow. 

Botnets are widely regarded as the top threat to network security. This paper explains how botnets have traditionally worked. It also explains why the latest innovations make bots a more serious threat than ever and includes defensive countermeasures. 

Due to the recent economic downturn, many small businesses have to assess how budget cuts and reduced headcount are going to affect their network security posture. Read this white paper to ensure that the health of your network security is being properly addressed. 

Are you PCI DSS compliant? This self assessment questionnaire will help you find out. 

RF sources and wireless devices can influence your Wi-Fi network's performance and security. AnalyzeAir software is an easy to understand, fast-start solution that helps you see, monitor, analyze, and manage your RF environment. 

Enterprise users and their data have never been further apart. Business pressures that keep employees out of headquarters and close to customers and partners have met head-on with other drivers that are bringing far flung servers back to the datacenter. 

IT organizations like yours are under pressure to deliver fast and responsive applications to users wherever they are. But you also have to protect data, systems and applications from malicious threats to ensure all your users can confidently transact business across your distributed network. 

Security has always been an important part of any IT infrastructure. This white paper has tips to help improve your awareness of some of the more important risks threatening your Microsoft infrastructure. 

This paper presumes that your enterprise already has a data network security policy in place. It examines the many different settings that are available to help secure the Cisco IP Phones from potential hacker attacks, and it looks at a selection of Cisco secure infrastructure technologies that are especially useful for protecting voice systems. 

This document focuses on each level of security, starting at the server level and working our way down to database objects such as Server Security, Database Security, Schema Security and Object Security.