This issue of information security magazine provides a step-by-step guide to securing database systems, explores the important factors in selecting a SaaS provider, presents a whole new approach to security management that has nothing to do with structure-driven policy architecture, and more. 

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. 

Security information management systems can now be used for proactive risk management and business intelligence. This Essentials Guide explains how this can be achieved. Read on to find articles that cover topics like today's SIM trends, incident response, threat management, and data analysis. 

This paper offers a question-and-answer style discussion of data loss prevention (DLP) and why it is essential for organizations to implement in today's depressed economic environment. 

This tool identifies the presence of all Windows applications installed on a specific computer or domain that you administrate.