Healthcare regulations for IT security - such as HIPAA and the new HITECH provisions of HIPAA - are now broader than ever. This paper provides a quick overview of what you need to know about the latest security, privacy and data breach regulations for the healthcare industry. 

If users are the lynchpin of Identity Management, then groups are the catalyst to security and productivity. Your organization wants to provision users into Active Directory and keep that data accurate. When an organization provisions a user, they want them to be automatically added to the correct security groups and distribution lists. 

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. 

This collection of slides from the PCI DSS 1.2 Roundtable Dinner Reception, prepared by Mathieu Gorge, CEO of VigiTrust, presents an overview of PCI DSS regulations, how they’re changing, and what your organization can do to stay compliant. 

WatchGuard wants to show you why they are the leading provider of network and content security solutions. Eligible organizations can try out the superior capabilities and advanced functions of a WatchGuard XTM or XCS solution in their own network with no obligation to buy. 

Check out this case study to learn how Vesta implemented Tripwire® Enterprise to continuously monitor IT infrastructure for all unauthorized change, which helps maintain known, trusted, and compliant system environments and ensure audit requirements are met. 

This report covers benchmarked practices within information security and IT audit functions across more than 3,000 organizations that are directly related to better operational and financial outcomes, for managing the integrity of information, compliance with regulatory audit, and business risks related to IT users. 

Single sign-on has long been touted as the ultimate solution for a growing number of login and password-management challenges. This paper looks at the current standing of single sign-on authentication technology and explores the benefits, security concerns, costs and ROI that can come from the right kind of single sign-on solution. 

This article describes and discusses benefits of a research prototype, P-MAPS, a processor-measured service layer that dynamically reduces the trusted computing base (TCB) and verifiably improves the runtime security of user's applications, without interrupting the typical operation of the user OS. 

Polycom has achieved success as the global leader in telepresence, video, and voice communication. With more than 75 percent of the Polycom workforce either remote or mobile, the IT team looked for ways to boost the security of the company’s worldwide fleet of over 2,000 laptop computers. Read on to learn what Intel solutions made this possible. 

In this video, IT professionals from the Symantec ManageFusion Conference 2009, talk about the security benefits of Intel vPro technology - which include the ability to deploy software patches faster into the installed PC base, and the ability to quarantine infected PCs and remotely remediate them. 

This technical article provides an introduction to Trusted computing and its components, and is an comprehensive primer to IT departments evaluating security at the platform level.