In this expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchEnterpriseDesktop.com and BeyondTrust, you will discover the security tools essential for effectively managing your Windows systems. Explore the critical role Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer plays in security scanning measures. 

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. 

Secure in 15 -- Security practices you can use each day. Start with this "15 Minutes Month-at-a-Glance" calendar today. Each month, we'll send you additional tools and tricks to stay protected around the clock. 

Learn how employees and partners are engaging with IT assets and intellectual property. 

A well-run business needs a written IT security policy setting forth the use and administration of IT assets. Read this paper to learn the essentials of defining and implementing a security policy for your organization. 

Sawmill is a powerful hierarchical log analysis tool that runs on every major platform and operating system. 

This white paper is the first in a three-part series, each of which examines the challenge of implementing network security on equipment from Cisco Systems while maintaining the connectivity requirements of the business or enterprise. 

Watch this videocast to learn about a management tool that monitors your data center's physical infrastructure throughout its entire lifecycle, helping protect it from physical threats. Learn how you can leverage this tool to improve temperature and humidity monitoring, decrease malware and compliance threats. 

Read this brief data sheet to learn how Trend Micro's Endpoint Security Platform delivers pervasive visibility and control, speeds time to protection, and increases management efficiency. 

The last thing network security managers need is more complicated management systems to learn. There are four management keys to an IPS solution: Speed of initial set-up; Ease of ongoing management; Flexible management interfaces; and IPS management scalability. This paper will take a good hard look at each of these manageability components. 

This IBM white paper outlines the risks surrounding Web applications and reviews four layers of security needed in a strategy for end-to end Web protection. 

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. 

Join Tim Scannell, editor of SearchEnterpriseWAN.com, and Bojan Simic, expert in application performance management, WAN optimization, network management, and application delivery, as they discuss how to effectively manage and balance WAN performance with security safeguards on local and wide area networks.