This Pocket E-Guide discusses the steps essential for balancing Windows security requirements with the needs and priorities of IT administrators. Gain insight into the common mindset of many of today's IT administrators and learn how to reasonably manage security risks while ensuring consistent usability and user convenience. 

This informative financial services solution brief focuses on the current issues and requirements surrounding compliance and security with a particular focus on vulnerability management. It provides the Financial Services IT manager with a realistic and informative perspective on their current security challenges. 

The IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force® research and development team discovers, analyzes, monitors and records computer security threats and vulnerabilities. According to X-Force observations, many new and surprising trends surfaced throughout the first half of 2009. Read this report to learn more. 

This white paper outlines the process for successfully integrating vulnerability scanning and remediation capabilities to ensure your organization maintains a secure environment while complying with internal and external security policies. 

Rapid changes within technology, new server and software deployments, and the evolving sophistication of attack methods used to infiltrate systems and steal data create the greatest set of challenges faced by security and IT administrators trying to keep their systems secure and within regulatory compliance. Interested in reducing security risk? 

Banks need to get smarter, attract the right customers, implement customer level risk management, and implement risk adjusted customer relationship pricing and all of this is dependent on trusted data. This paper examines the impact of unreliable data on retail banks. It then defines the requirements needed to guarantee data reliability in banking. 

Software vendors and enterprise organizations are increasingly using Common Language Infrastructure platforms like Microsoft .NET. However, using managed frameworks rarely includes an assessment of risks such as reverse engineering and algorithm exposure. Read this paper to learn about some approaches used to protect .NET applications. 

Databases are an important part of a company’s infrastructure, but they also tend to be rich with attack vectors to exploit. This webcast explores the many potential PostgreSQL external vulnerabilities and then shows how those vulnerabilities can be secured. Watch this webcast to learn how to protect one of your company’s most valued assets. 

This network-based scanning utility provides comprehensive visibility into the IT environment through in-depth scans and the automated discovery of all assets, both managed and unmanaged. Scan up to 25 nodes. 

In this expert Pocket E-Guide you will discover the five most common Linux security challenges that are currently overlooked in many of today’s businesses. Discover the pivotal role default installations, maintenance, and system testing play and learn why it is important to test Linux-based systems for vulnerabilities periodically and consistently. 

This brief document provides a listing of the six primary objectives for companies to meet in order to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). 

This video provides clear and actionable steps to protect an enterprise database and the data that it stores. Featuring Adrian Lane and Rich Mogull, specific points of emphasis include preventative controls, detection controls, and a data security life-cycle overview. 

Implementing a vulnerability management process is critical to protecting any business from harmful attacks. This whitepaper examines the importance of vulnerability assessment and the common myths surrounding security protection.