Achieving effective network security for small business requires a solution designed to fit your needs today and can adapt to tomorrow's threats. This paper examines how best to protect your network, as well as the benefits a secure environment offers. 

A small business network from Cisco helps you increase productivity without increasing your workforce. It's just one more way that Cisco helps small businesses gain and maintain a competitive advantage. 

Read this brief paper to learn how you can use ArcSight Express to monitor perimeter, network, and server security and to automate security operations. 

This whitepaper provides six tips for an SMB approach to protecting critical data. These tips used in conjunction with Double-Take Availability from Double-Take Software can help SMBs defend against crippling downtime and data loss. 

This white paper highlights two new additions to the Cisco Small Business Network Storage System (NSS) line of products. The Cisco NSS2000 Series is a 2-bay network attached storage (NAS) system, and the Cisco NSS3000 Series is a 4-bay system. 

Read this E-Guide to learn about an alternative to traditional antimalware testing, using your perimeter network security tools. Snyder lays out a step-by-step guide to validate your own malware including where to find sample test viruses, equipment needed, and the channels to test. 

Total Protection for Secure Business. Secure your business across systems, email, web, and data—all with one affordable solution created for the midsize organization. 

Systems--Secure every server, laptop, desktop, and device. Do you need automatic protection for your small business systems but want to offload the monitoring and updating work? Register today for a free 30-day evaluation of McAfee Total Protection Service. 

For small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), networks can do more than simply connect machines. They also deliver voice (telephone) and video, and connect functions such as sales and bookkeeping to make business more efficient, collaborative, and profitable. Read this paper learn about core network components and benefits. 

At a time when identity theft is running rampant, it's crucial to have sound practices for user authentication, customer authentication and partner authentication. Explore this E-Guide for expert tips on making the most of authentication tools on a small budget and how to use authentication to develop a secure system. 

Southern Management Corporation, a financial services company providing tax and loan services, required a tight lockdown of their cache of personal and confidential customer data, while allowing for easy administration from the small IT staff managing a widespread network. WatchGuard provided the perfect solution. Read on to learn how they did it 

The big news in this month's issue is the announcement of the winners of the fifth annual Security 7 Award. Other featured articles present tips for preventing future incidents and also explain how SOX compliance is hitting smaller public companies harder than the big guys. Read on for these great articles and more.