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whitepaper Emerging Trends in Fighting Spam26/03/08 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
whitepaper User Model Transfer for Email Virus Detection2006-05-04 University of California
  Systems for learning to detect anomalous email behavior, such as worms and viruses, tend to build either peruser models or a single global model. Global models leverage a larger training corpus but often model individual users poorly. Per-user models capture finegrained behaviors but can take a long time to accumulate sufficient training data. Approaches that combine global and per-user information have the potential to address these limitations. The Latent Dirichlet Allocation model is used to transition smoothly from the global prior to a particular user's empirical model as the amount of user data grows. Preliminary results demonstrate long-term accuracy comparable to per-user models, while also showing near-ideal performance almost immediately on new users.

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whitepaper Model-Based Analysis of Two Fighting Worms2006-06-14 01:00:26 Kent State University
  Self-replicating malicious codes (worms) are striking the Internet vigorously. A particularly sophisticated recent introduction is the "Killer" worm (also called counter-worm or "Predator" worm). The goal of this research is to explore the interaction dynamics between a worm (prey) and an antagonistic worm (predator), using mathematical modeling. This paper models several interesting combat scenarios of two fighting worms, including the effect of antivirus on the system behavior. There are few novel findings of the enhanced model, such as the prediction of oscillatory behavior of interacting worm's population conforming to existing biological systems.   
whitepaper The New Apple of Malware's Eye: Is Mac OS X the Next Windows?2006-12-19 14:32:41 McAfee
  Apple has been perceived as a platform and technology that is "Virus free" and "Immune" to security flaws - particularly those that have plagued Microsoft over the past 20 years. But as Apple's Macintosh OS X operating system (Mac OS) gains ground in the market and Apple's consumer technologies, such as iPod and iTunes, continues to enjoy widespread popularity, security researchers and hackers will increasingly point their digital lock picks towards Mac OS and other Apple products, making Apple a growing target for malware attacks.   
whitepaper The Security Guide, 2006: Endpoint Security - Infiltration by Stealth2006-04-26 07:08:10
  AppSense Security Guide provides IT professionals and business managers with thought leadership in the area of endpoint security. Written by security experts at AppSense, the Guide is a vendor-neutral, best practice guidebook that offers top tips, a security checklist and an account of the changing nature of security threats to encourage companies to take a proactive approach to security. AppSense Security Guide is designed with the intention to educate readers about the changing nature of threats and to demonstrate, both quantitatively through reported statistics and qualitatively through industry anecdotes, the increasing need for an alternative approach to reactive security protection.   
whitepaper The Problems with Perimeter Security: Are firewalls and anti-virus software enough?2006-04-25 09:01:38
  Despite continuing enhancements in perimeter security, viruses, worms and other malicious code present an ever increasing threat to the security of enterprise systems. With more than 100,000 viruses already identified, new ones continue to fuel the fire: Phishing email scams and open-source botnets - networks of infected machines harnessed for malicious operations - represent a clear and present danger to the security of mission-critical systems, sensitive corporate data and the livelihoods of each individual user. This whitepaper contains statistics about the growing number of security threats present today, as well as best practices for security, including combining firewalls and reactive anti-virus software with an endpoint security solution to proactively fight viruses at the application level, regardless of how they are introduced.   
whitepaper SSL in High-Security Browsers2006-04-20 08:59:26 VeriSign
  Declaring war on security exploits, browser providers are collaborating with industry experts to make their products more secure. A new breed of high-security browsers, including Firefox, Opera, and the upcoming Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, give users clear indications of a site's trustworthiness. With an average online order value of £75 and rising abandonment rates, e-commerce sites stand to gain or lose veritably depending on how users perceive them through these new browsers.   
whitepaper Polymorphic Virus Detection Technology2006-06-08 01:00:27 Lappeenranta University of Technology
  Viruses have become a big threat nowadays, however there plenty of software products which can be suggested as protection tools. The aim of this paper is to describe briefly the way viruses work in general, giving emphasis to polymorphic viruses. Several algorithms of protection are defined in the paper to give a full overview of a problem. Furthermore, the paper tried to depict the details of antivirus work, using modern algorithms, like Stryker, produced by Semantics. For better performance, AVZ antivirus product is used, as very factual tool, designed for professionals.   
whitepaper Messaging Hygiene at Microsoft: How Microsoft IT Defends Against Spam, Viruses, and E-mail Attacks2006-06-02 01:00:29 Microsoft
  The prevalence of spam, phishing and malicious code (including viruses, worms, Trojan horses, macros, scripts, and unauthorized ActiveX controls) continues to be a growing concern for anyone who connects to the Internet or uses e-mail. From domain level spoofing identity theft at the personal level to malicious, orchestrated attacks on organizations, corporations, and government offices, no user is exempt from security threats related to e-mail today. Like many large companies, Microsoft is a target for security threats. Therefore, Microsoft IT is constantly vigilant about protecting its resources - from the data center to the desktop computer. Microsoft IT is approaching this issue proactively by continuously revising its strategies, implementations, and procedures for combating spam, viruses, and other e-mail attacks.   
whitepaper Rootkits, Part 1 of 3: The Growing Threat2006-11-28 12:45:47 McAfee
  In this paper, we distinguish between stealth techniques that are simply strategies for concealing files, processes, and activities, and the term rootkit, which has come to be associated with malware that conceals its activities.   
whitepaper Nucleus Research ROI Evaluation Report: Proofpoint and DeKalb Medical Center2006-04-01 Proofpoint
  Analyst firm Nucleus Research, the leading independent provider of return-on-investment based research and advisory services, recently worked with Proofpoint customer DeKalb Medical Center to understand the return on investment (ROI) it has realized by deploying Proofpoint to help comply with HIPAA regulations and block spam and viruses.

Nucleus found that DeKalb realized 138% ROI and complete payback on its Proofpoint investment in less than one year. This report from Nucleus Research describes the issues DeKalb faced and the key benefits they realized by deploying Proofpoint.