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Emerging Trends in Fighting Spam | 26/03/08 | Symantec |
| Spam has been a serious problem for email administrators and users alike for more than five years, growing from one in six emails in 2002 to approximately three out of four emails today. In fact, after five years of dealing with spam and throwing significant resources at the problem, 54% of messaging decision-makers in mid-sized and large organizations still view spam as a serious or very serious problem according to a recent Osterman Research survey. | sponsored by![]() |
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Rootkits: What They Are and How to Fight Them | 2007-01-05 09:07:28 | Webroot Software |
| Rootkits are the latest IT security threat to make the headlines. Anyone who has heard of rootkits knows their nasty reputation: they cannot be removed, they can live on a computer for years without being discovered, and they can wreak havoc with the operating system.
This IT Briefing gives computer users a clear explanation of what a rootkit is, separates the facts from the myths about rootkits, and provides recommendations on how users can defend against rootkit infections, and detect and remove them from their systems. It concludes with a question-and-answer section with a security expert who has many years of experience fighting rootkits. Download "Rootkits: What They are and How to Fight Them" Now. |
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White paper: Security Inside Out | 2006-11-30 01:00:16 | Oracle |
| A primer on Information Security, this paper explores issues organizations face today and provides a strategy for tackling them effectively. It discusses the key solution areas enterprises need to adapt to secure information at the applications, middleware, as well as data infrastructure layers. | |||
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Me Code Write Good: The l33t Skillz of the Virus Writer | 2006-12-16 01:00:21 | Symantec |
| Viruses and worms pose some of the most formidable threats in the modern computer security landscape. With some virus writers on the bleeding edge of technology, making use of 0-day exploits and innovative techniques to circumvent system security features. However, for every Blaster, there's a worm that repeatedly attempts to infect the same machine. From exploitable vulnerabilities in their code to incomprehensible goofs there's no shortage of evidence that a large proportion of virus writers aren't quite as capable as they would like others to think. This paper takes a look at the legacy of these slightly less than expert level virus writers, and examines the threat they continue to pose. | |||
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Gartner's Magic Quadrant for E-Mail Security Boundary, 2006 | 2007-01-02 15:35:36 | MessageLabs |
| MessageLabs is noted for its outstanding antivirus protection, which has been successful at catching viruses before signatures were available from traditional antivirus vendors. Consequently, MessageLabs is able to offer a "100% virus detection SLA." Download the complete report by Gartner Research. | |||
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How to Build an Effective Mail Server Defense: A Multi-Stage Approach to Securing Your Email Communication | 2006-09-07 01:00:13 | GECAD TECHNOLOGIES |
| When speaking of mail server-related security, one tends to limit the issue to message applied security measures, and even more to Antivirus and Antispam protection. This is however only one stage in the more complex process of securing the server. This paper aims at identifying and explaining all security layers, highly important when choosing a certain mail server and consequently when configuring and using it. | |||
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Email Security - Beyond the hype and hyperbole | 2006-09-06 | Clearswift |
| This guide takes a common sense approach to the email security challenge, aiming to avoid hyperbole by highlighting the practical, common sense steps that can be taken to beat the hackers. It provides an overview of the most common threats as well as a discussion of how a layered approach to security is the best route to effective countermeasures. | |||
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Real Endpoint Security Ensures Protection and Compliance | 2006-12-16 01:00:21 | Symantec |
| It goes without saying that security and compliance governance policies are only useful if they are enforced 100% of the time. After all, determining security compliance after granting any network access is too late. Comprehensive endpoint security solutions defend against zero-day attacks, malicious insiders, and actions that do not comply with corporate security policies. Such solutions enable organizations to actively evaluate, protect, and remediate managed and unmanaged systems as they connect to corporate assets. Given the nature of the current threat landscape, enterprises require nothing less. | |||
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Microsoft Windows Vista: Setting a New Standard for Security and Privacy Through Innovation and Collaboration | 2006-12-09 01:00:17 | Microsoft |
| Microsoft's ultimate goal is to make Windows Vista the most secure PC operating system software in the history of Windows. With its forthcoming release, Microsoft is delivering an integrated and carefully configured system that brings greater clarity and focus to the desktop experience, as well as a new level of confidence in computing through improved security, reliability and manageability. | |||
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Protect Your Windows Systems | 2006-12-16 01:00:21 | Symantec |
| For most midsize organizations, Windows plays a major role in keeping their business running and their employees productive. But these organizations often fail to appreciate the vulnerabilities in Windows-based systems that place them at risk. Each day, midsize organizations face such challenges as backing up mission-critical data, protecting users from viruses and other "Malware," and keeping their customer information and other intellectual property from falling into the wrong hands. This paper explores these and other challenges that Windows-centric IT shops encounter today. It then shows why midsize organizations, which typically do not enjoy the level of IT resources of large enterprise operations, must act now to ensure the security and availability of their data, systems, and applications. | |||
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Email Security Doesn't need to be a gamble | 2007-03-14 06:05:34 | CipherTrust,Secure Computing |
| Email security doesn't have to be a gamble CipherTrust provides a consolidated messaging security appliance which enables organisations to eliminate spam, viruses, malware and other email forms of identify fraud. Consolidation enables: - simplified administration - freed resource - enhanced security - increased administrator and user productivity - reduced costs - increased user trust Download our FREE white paper .. |