Stop Spam, Viruses and Spyware: Endpoint and Perimeter Malware Guide
By: Webroot Software
IT systems are under constant, increasingly sophisticated attack. Today's cyber criminals are using highly evolved, blended malware to access corporate and customer data at an alarming rate. Additional layers of protection at the perimeter are essential to combat the sheer volume of this increasing threat and to prevent networks from being clogged by spam.
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Extending Network Monitoring Tool Performance
By: Net Optics
This paper explores how monitoring tools can achieve higher levels of performance without forklift upgrades. It proposes a variety of ways to extend their efficiency, including the use of a stand-alone content filtering device to offload monitoring tools by pre-filtering traffic and assisting with common tasks.
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Best Practices for Audit and Compliance Reporting for IBM AS/400 (System i)
By: PowerTech
Compliance with regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI, HIPAA and GLBA requires regular audit reporting against critical information technology (IT) assets. This whitepaper outlines the key items that need to be reviewed on AS/400 (System i) for both configuration data and transactional log information from the audit journal.  The white paper also provides guidance on integrating the AS/400 with Security Information Management (SIM) solutions.
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Appliance Update Management
By: NEI
Appliances are complex combinations of hardware and software that enterprises put into production environments to meet specific - and often critical - computing needs. Offering high performance and reliability with minimal IT involvement, appliances are the delivery vehicle of choice in several key segments of the technology industry, including security, storage and telecommunications.
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Assessing Endpoint Security Solutions- Why Detection Rates Aren't Enough
By: Sophos
Evaluating the performance of competing endpoint security products is a time-consuming and daunting task. Enterprise decision-makers have to rely on independent competitive comparisons, performance benchmarks, and detection certifications, all covering different solutions and criteria, providing conflicting results.
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Using Virtualization to Maximize Your IT Environment
By: CA
The business of managing IT infrastructures has reached a crossroads. The number of global players is shrinking through mergers and acquisitions while the playing field, also known as the customer's IT environment, has become exceedingly complex and difficult to manage. This working paper presents CA's corporate and technology strategy behind appropriate virtualization management positioning and commitments as an important element in preparation for the move toward that model in your IT environment.
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How to Plan, Configure, and Maintain a HP StorageWorks 3 Data Center Replication Solution
By: HP
To stay competitive in today's business climate, organizations must find ways to meet their business needs while controlling IT costs. IT departments face flat budgets and, at the same time, find that their organizations have become increasingly dependent on uninterrupted access to business-critical data. In today's world, prudent IT administrators prepare to recover from two types of disasters as part of a complete Business Continuity and Availability (BC and A) plan.
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Messaging Security Goes Virtual
By: Proofpoint
It doesn't take a degree in accounting to understand that the ability to increase server and storage capacity without having to invest a dime in additional hardware translates into huge cost savings. Savings not only in terms of hardware costs, but also in the power consumption, heat dissipation and management costs associated with deploying additional hardware.
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