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whitepaper MSB Purpose-Driven IT: Service Management Best Practices as a Strategic Advantage for Medium-sized Businesses.2006-04-03 06:57:51
  MSB Purpose-Driven IT: Service Management Best Practices as a Strategic Advantage for Medium-sized Businesses. Do you know the costs of your network downtime? Are you monitoring your network performance and network security? Do you need help delivering your Compliance Management Strategy? This whitepaper discusses Service Management Best Practices. Learn how to improve uptime, reduce complexity and reduce IT costs based on solid reporting to simplify and accelerate your IT operations.   
whitepaper Cisco IOS IPS Supported Signature List2006-05-04 03:56:49 Cisco Systems
  Cisco Systems releases IOS Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) signatures in the form of "S-files", which are lists of signatures and their characteristics. Cisco S-files contain signatures for all Cisco IPS platforms: Cisco IPS 42xx sensors, Cisco ASA 55xx appliances, Intrusion Detection System (IDS) modules for Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series switches, and Cisco IOS IPS. As Cisco creates new signatures, it updates the S-files and increments the file name (e.g. S224 as of April 2006). Cisco IOS IPS supports most, but not all, of the signatures in the S-files. This is because the other platforms (e.g. 42xx sensors) support additional "IPS inspection engines" that Cisco IOS IPS currently does not.   
whitepaper Wireless Intrusion Detection Systems Including Incident Response & Wireless Policy2006-05-10 01:00:28 Infosecwriters.com
  For some time wireless has had very poor, if any, security on a wide open medium. Along with improved encryption schemes, a new solution to help combat this problem is the Wireless Intrusion Detection System (WIDS). In the security and wireless world this has fast become a major part of securing a network. This paper will cover details of what a WIDS is and can do, along with incident response, and creating a wireless policy.   
whitepaper Cisco IOS IPS Deployment Guide2006-05-04 03:52:33 Cisco Systems
  In today's business environment, network intruders and attackers can come from both outside and inside the network. They can launch Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks or Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks; attack Internet connections; and exploit network and host vulnerabilities. There is often no time to wait for human intervention - the network itself must possess the intelligence to instantaneously recognize and mitigate these attacks, threats, exploits, worms, and viruses. Cisco IOS Software Intrusion Prevention System (Cisco IOS IPS), with inline intrusion capabilities, is the first system in the industry to provide an inline, deep-packet-inspection-based IPS solution that helps enable Cisco routers to effectively mitigate a wide range of network attacks.   
whitepaper White Paper - Modern Network Security: The Migration to Deep Packet Inspection2006-02-24 01:01:25
  The past few years has seen a radical evolution in the nature and requirements of network security. There are many factors contributing to these changes, the most important of which is the shift in focus from so-called 'network-level' threats, such as connection-oriented intrusions and Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, to dynamic, content-based threats such as Viruses, Worms, Trojans, Spyware and Phishing that can spread quickly and indiscriminately, and require sophisticated levels of intelligence to detect. Where attacks like Smurf, Fraggle and the Ping of Death were the key threats in years past, now attacks such as "Microsoft IIS 5.0 printer ISAPI extension buffer overflow vulnerability" and "Unicode directory traversal" are more prevalent, albeit much less imaginatively named.   
whitepaper Identity Driven Management and Endpoint Integrity: A Technical Overview2006-08-03 01:00:11 Hewlett-Packard
  This white paper from ProCurve Networking by HP defines the networking function known as "endpoint integrity," or the process by which all endpoints attempting to connect to the network are examined in order to prohibit unsafe or otherwise non-compliant endpoints from gaining access. It goes on to describe how client-based and network-based endpoint integrity options work, and highlights the key differences between the three types of network-based endpoint integrity products on the market today, including:

  • Proprietary solutions
  • De facto standard solutions
  • Standard solutions

Finally, the paper explains how ProCurve's Identity Driven Manager (IDM) provides a richer, more robust, and future-proof implementation of endpoint integrity.

  
whitepaper Pushing Security to the Perimeter: Trusted Computing Technology Adapts to Changing Enterprise Needs2006-08-03 01:00:11 Hewlett-Packard
  Security concerns, identity theft and regulatory compliance requirements are converging to drive the enterprise's need for strong identity and access management (IAM) solutions. These solutions can include enterprise single sign-on (SSO), legacy authorization, user provisioning, advanced authentication hardware and software, and other endpoint security solutions. This IDC white paper reviews the growing need for network-based security as a fundamental component in the identity and access management (IAM) market and profiles ProCurve Networking by HP's Identity Driven Manager 2.0 with Adaptive EDGE Architecture to illustrate a cost-effective IAM solution that can help enterprises address their security concerns while increasing the value of their networks.   
whitepaper Optimizing IT Security whitepaper2007-01-03 01:00:23 Raritan
  Businesses today face a barrage of security threats that requires constant vigilance to safeguard the integrity of their critical IT services. While midsized businesses face the same risks as larger enterprises, they tend to have particularly tight IT resource constraints. Their central challenge therefore is not only to protect themselves from potential threats, but how to accomplish this within real-world IT resource constraints. So how can midsized businesses get the maximum security "bang" for their "buck?" Download this whitepaper for answers and more.   
whitepaper Understanding User and Group Entitlement Reporting2006-09-12 12:24:44 Symantec
  If you've got questions related to User and Group Entitlement Reporting, you're not alone—it's an extremely challenging aspect of network security and regulatory compliance. This white paper from Symantec explores the topic in depth, discussing the complexities involved in reporting and validating access grants. The paper underscores the regulatory requirements that are driving the need for better User and Group Entitlement Reporting, and goes on to explain how Symantec's bv-Control for Windows Version 8.0 specifically addresses the group and user entitlement issue.

  
whitepaper Runtime Integrity and Presence Verification for Software Agents2006-01-04 01:01:52
  Intel's firmware-based System Integrity Services offers a reliable method for run-time detection of attacks and intrusions that try to tamper with, disable, or circumvent protected software agents. By taking advantage of the capabilities of the system management mode in IA-32 processors, SIS becomes truly independent of the host operating system, and can reliably detect when an attack modifies or halts a protected program. The SIS architecture is not only practical in detecting many threats currently unaddressed in existing systems, but it consumes a relatively small amount of resources and time.