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whitepaper Outbound Email and Content Security in Today's Enterprise, 20072007-07-01 Proofpoint
  How concerned are companies about the content of email leaving their organizations? And how do companies manage the legal and financial risks associated with outbound email? To find out, Proofpoint and Forrester Consulting (a division of leading analyst firm Forrester) conducted an online survey of technology decision makers at 308 large US companies during June 2007.

Email has emerged as the most important medium for communications both inside and outside the enterprise. But the convenience and ubiquity of email as a business communications tool has exposed enterprises to a wide variety of new risks associated with outbound email.

This report summarizes the findings of Proofpoint's fourth-annual study, including surprising statistics about how large companies manage the risks associated with outbound email, blog postings, media sharing and other electronic communications streams.

Download your free copy of this report and learn:
  • The top enterprise concerns about outbound email
  • Techniques these companies use to reduce outbound email risks
  • How much email contains "risky" content
  • The most common forms of non-compliant email content
  • What percentage of companies employ staff to read outbound email
  • The email policies adopted by large corporations
  • How many companies have fired employees for email policy violations
  • How many companies have fired employees for blog, message board and media sharing site policy violations
  • How common are email leaks of intellectual property
  • How common are email violations of privacy regulations
  • How common are leaks of confidential information facilitated by blogs, message-boards and media sharing sites
   
whitepaper Attestation of Identity Information2006-11-10 14:17:30 Oracle
  This Oracle white paper discusses the fundamental premise of attestation and the role of identity management in achieving cost-effective, sustainable compliance. Attestation is the requirement that management periodically certifies that only appropriate individuals have accessed sensitive information. While the cost of complying with the provisions of regulations like Sarbanes Oxley is high, the cost of non-compliance is even higher. Fortunately, today's robust identity management (IdM) solutions are reducing the overall cost of compliance providing automated processes to maintain a comprehensive audit trail of historical user privileges, including when, why, and through which systems information was accessed. Any IT decision maker who's seeking an end-to-end security solution that supports regulatory compliance will benefit from informative white paper from Oracle.   
whitepaper VeriSign TeraGuard: Securing Critical Information Assets Through Intelligent Data Collection, Expert Monitoring, and Analysis2006-08-04 01:00:11 VeriSign
  Email is the virtual nervous system with which one communicates internally with fellow employees and externally with the business partners and customers. The VeriSign Go Secure! for Lotus Notes service works with existing R5/R6 desktop clients and supports IBM Domino 5.02 or later; certificate requests are automatically approved using the Notes Internet password for verification. This seamless process makes it easy for administrators to deploy S/MIME Internet email security to a large number of users. The Go Secure! service allows for automatic publishing of digital certificates issued by the VeriSign Managed Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) service to the existing Domino directory and automatic retrieval of certificates for encrypting and signing of sensitive email messages.   
whitepaper Firewall Design: Understandable, Designable and Testable2006-04-27 Tsinghua University
  Firewalls are the cornerstones of network security. To make firewalls working effectively, firewall manager must design firewall rules and the rule order correctly. This paper presents a firewall management toolkit which makes firewall rules understandable, designable and testable. Understandable means that the rules shown to the manager are easily understood. Designable means that it is no need to design the rule order when modifying the firewall rules. Testable means that firewall rules can be tested without other device. This method is based on Security Policy Diagram (SPD, for short). Then a sequence of algorithms is applied to generate corresponding firewall policy from SPD to be understood, designed and tested.

Tags: Network Design, Security Tools		   
whitepaper Smartcard Firewalls Revisited2006-04-24 University of Hamburg
  Smartcards are being used as secure endpoints in computer transactions. Recently, the connectivity of smartcards has increased and future smartcards will be able to communicate over the TCP/IP protocol. This paper explores options for using a smartcard as an active node in a communication network rather than as an endpoint. The paper envisions in particular a proxy firewall running on a smartcard and combining the best of both worlds: the smartcard as a secure environment, and the proxy firewall for securing the network. Facilitating the various security options smartcards offer, it shows how to design a secure network firewall on a smartcard. The paper illustrates the usefulness of such a device in several scenarios.

Tags: Security Tools, Smart Cards		   
whitepaper Structured Firewall Design2006-04-04 University of Texas
  A firewall is a security guard placed at the point of entry between a private network and the outside Internet such that all incoming and outgoing packets have to pass through it. The function of a firewall is to examine every incoming or outgoing packet and decide whether to accept or discard it. This function is conventionally specified by a sequence of rules, where rules often conflict. To resolve conflicts, the decision for each packet is the decision of the first rule that the packet matches.

Tags: Security Tools		   
whitepaper Sprint Global Quality of Service: Guarantor of Application Delivery2006-09-09 01:00:12 Sprint
  With the typical company running between 50 and 300 applications over their wide area network, and large multi-national corporations running as many as 1500 applications on their networks, the focus is appropriately on the performance of these network applications to improve business productivity and reduce costs. But not all applications are equal and some require priority and delivery of their information before others. Quality of Service (QoS) is all about delivery of applications reliably, with the appropriate level of security. Sprint Global MPLS VPN, powered by Cisco Systems, delivers QoS at the edge of the network where bottleneck occur, between the service provider and customer edge routers.

Since Sprint has an all IP MPLS OC-192 core network that is flat, simple, and congestion free, with backbone link at 40% utilization or less, complex traffic engineering is not a requirement. Sprint offers six Classes of Service (CoS) between the customer edge and network edge routers, separating premium, business, standard, and best effort traffic for different applications. With Sprint, CoS is part of the Global MPLS VPN service and not an extra charge like you will see with many of its competitors. 		  
whitepaper Top 10 Ways to Rapidly Deploy Applications by Virtualizing your Identity Stores2006-11-10 14:17:30 Oracle
  Directory, directory synchronization, and virtual directory technologies are essential building blocks for deployment of an identity management strategy. At a superficial level, each technology serves a similar purpose: to provide applications with identity and group membership information for resources under management. Understanding what these respective technologies do and how and when to deploy them is essential to supporting a manageable environment. This paper describes the uses of directory, directory synchronization, and virtual directory technologies in enterprise environments. Learn how you can accelerate time-to-value by leveraging these technologies.   
whitepaper On Dynamic Optimization of Packet Matching in High Speed Firewalls2006-03-31 DePaul University
  Packet matching plays a critical role in the performance of many network devices and a tremendous amount of research has already been invested to come up with better optimized packet filters. However, most of the related works use deterministic techniques and do not exploit the traffic characteristics in their optimization schemes. In addition, most packet classifiers give no specific consideration for optimizing packet rejection, which is important for many filtering devices like firewalls. This paper presents a novel algorithm for maximizing early rejection of unwanted flows with minimal impact on other flows.

Tags: Security Tools