Page 14 - White Papers in Standards, Regulations & Compliance

The Best Defense: Protecting Financial Data from External and Internal Threats

Whether it's from treacherous insiders stealing data or malicious cybercriminals hacking into company resources, financial institutions face risk from both inside and outside the organization. While each side of the coin poses unique threats, the financial sector can minimize the double-sided risks with very similar...

Rethinking Check Fraud: Taking a New Approach to an Old Fraud Type

Invisible to many is the fact that check fraud is growing despite decreasing item volume. Accounting for more than half of the $2 billion in deposit account fraud losses that U.S. banks suffered in 2008, check fraud presents a relatively easy attack vector for increasingly sophisticated and well organized...

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Best Practices for Managing Financial Services Compliance

Financial service organizations are constantly grappling with ever-changing, ever-mounting regulatory obligations to supervise and archive all discoverable content. This white paper discusses the fundamentals of financial services compliance. It then puts forth a case for considering archiving and security as a...

Cyber 2020: Asserting Global Leadership in the Cyber Domain

How should the United States respond as global competitors expand their influence over the Internet and build cyber capabilities? An analysis of the Internet in 2020 shows that the United States must develop a strategy that focuses on more than technology to retain its cyberpower status. Read this white paper and...

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Break From The Routine

With one IT department in five spending more than half its time and resources on routine updates, maintenance and administration of existing systems, it is not surprising that top business objectives such as business process improvements, reducing enterprise costs, increasing the use of information/analytics,...

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Managing Your Wireless Workforce

Explosive growth in the mobile workforce has led to increasing attention paid to the security of mobile data and devices. Mobile data security is most effective when implemented in a series of layers: installing smart firewalls, deploying anti-virus software, and using encrypted connections. True mobile security...

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Best Practices for Implementing a Security Process

There is no doubt that the threat facing organizations today is enormous. At the same time, many organizations believe that improving security technology is the answer to solving the complex security challenges of today. Security technology has evolved from static firewalls and anti-virus products to full suites of...

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Legal Risks of Uncontrolled Email & Web

Access to email and the Internet is a business critical application for most organizations, but the attributes that make such resources so essential inevitably generate significant risks for employers. Incidents of email and Internet misuse continue unabated. This paper considers some of the main risks that arise...

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Mobility, Employees & Policies

According to a 2009 survey by New York-based research firm Access Markets International (AMI) Partners, small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) are becoming increasingly mobile organizations. This paper will discuss the growing concerns these organizations face with an increasingly distributed and mobile workforce,...

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Securing Your Mobile Workforce

This three-part report describes how all businesses can benefit from SaaS services, in particular the variety of services that make up hosted services from Symantec. It also provides advice, best practices, and insight on how to create security and management policies for a distributed workforce.

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Gartner Magic Quadrant for Secure Email Gateway

This industry report covers the email gateway market. Gartner, Inc. positions Gartner in the Leaders quadrant in its 2010 Magic Quadrant for Secure Email Gateways (anti-spam, anti-virus, outbound content filtering, email encryption, intrusion prevention). In this report, Gartner analysts note that, "The e-mail...

Monitoring, Detecting and Preventing Insider Fraud and Abuse

This four-chapter eBook, written by security expert Dan Sullivan, describes the catastrophic effects that can occur from insider abuse and reveals effective techniques for countering them. The eBook examines: The range of insider threats - and the havoc they can wreak; Why conventional security controls...

Card Compromises - New Risks & Best Practices

The payment card industry is constantly challenged by a shifting terrain of fraud attacks. In recent years, attention has focused on massive breaches of cardholder data occurring through retailers and other institutions. But we're now seeing an abrupt rise in the incidence of card compromises resulting from attacks on...

The State of IBM i Security 2010

Did you know that a large percentage of systems are not configured correctly for proper security? Is yours one of them? The PowerTech annual State of IBM i Security Study has found: 77% of libraries have the Default Create Authority set to *CHANGE, giving the average user change rights to newly created files...

Reducing PCI Compliance Costs and Effort with SafeNet Transparent Tokenization

Tokenization is gaining increased adoption in a range of organizations and industries. By effectively taking PCI data out of scope, tokenization presents a host of benefits, helping organizations both boost security and reduce PCI compliance efforts and costs. This paper offers a detailed look at tokenization and...