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DEFINITION: A strong password is one that is designed to be hard for a person or program to discover. Because the purpose of a password is to ensure that only authorized users can access resources, a password that is easy to guess is a security risk. Essential components of a strong password include sufficient length and a mix of character types. A typical weak password is short and consists solely of letters  … 
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How to Secure Your Wireless Network
sponsored by Sophos, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Go beyond the basics and take a look at a number of tips that will help you balance security, manageability, and accessibility for both employees and guests over your enterprise wireless network.
Posted: 23 May 2013 | Published: 23 May 2013

Sophos, Inc.

Hot Tips for Securing Your Wireless Network
sponsored by Sophos, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Everyone from the home user to the corporate enterprise needs to secure their Wi-Fi network. This white paper offers 11 tips for securing your Wi-Fi network, including encryption, password management, and more.
Posted: 07 May 2013 | Published: 31 Aug 2012

Sophos, Inc.

Password Change Service - Avaya CallPilot
sponsored by Global Knowledge
WHITE PAPER: Administrators spend a lot of their time simply resetting passwords for users who have gotten locked out of their mailboxes because they forgot their password. This white paper shows an administrator how to set up and utilize Password Reset Service, introduced with CallPilot Release 5.
Posted: 29 Mar 2013 | Published: 20 Mar 2013

Global Knowledge

Top 8 Identity and Access Management Challenges with Your SaaS Applications
sponsored by Okta
WHITE PAPER: Read this whitepaper to learn the eight main identity and access management challenges associated with cloud and SaaS application deployment and what you can do to address them. Dive in and discover how you can ensure your company is getting the most out of their SaaS investment.
Posted: 14 Mar 2013 | Published: 14 Mar 2013

Okta

BYOD: The SMB Mobile Security Threat
sponsored by Webroot
WHITE PAPER: Did you know 69% of SMBs don't have a security solution in place for BYOD? Learn about this and much more inside this fact-filled resource on one of the biggest phenomena – and threats – that SMBs are facing today.
Posted: 14 Mar 2013 | Published: 14 Mar 2013

Webroot

Moving Beyond User Names & Passwords
sponsored by Okta
WHITE PAPER: Today's web applications are typically protected only with a user name and a password. Find out how multifactor authentication (MFA) can help provide your organization the protection it needs. Read on to learn more about MFA, MFA and cloud applications, working with VPNs, and more.
Posted: 14 Mar 2013 | Published: 13 Mar 2013

Okta

Avoiding insider threats to enterprise security
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: In an increasingly cloud-based IT universe, concerns are being raised and addressed regarding the security of privileged and shared accounts. See this white paper for more information on the latest in cloud-based security for privileged identities.
Posted: 07 Mar 2013 | Published: 07 Mar 2013

IBM

SAML 101 White Paper
sponsored by Ping Identity Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Read this whitepaper to learn how identity federation has helped provide a secure, private mechanism for organizations to share user identities. And discover how this solution can help you enhance security, limit risk and improve compliance by eliminating Web application passwords.
Posted: 04 Mar 2013 | Published: 31 Dec 2012

Ping Identity Corporation

BYOD Risks and Rewards: How to Keep Employee Smartphones, Laptops and Tablets Secure
sponsored by Sophos, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: The BYOD movement is unstoppable. While this trend is quickly turning from luxury to necessity for employees, it is more imperative than ever to understand its impact on corporate security models. This whitepaper explores the risks and rewards of BYOD and offers tips on embracing BYOD while ensuring your enterprise stays secure.
Posted: 08 Jan 2013 | Published: 31 Dec 2012

Sophos, Inc.

Mobile Device Management (MDM) Policies: Best Practices
sponsored by Fiberlink
WHITE PAPER: Uncover the top ten mobile device management (MDM) best practices that will help you control the mobile devices used in your workplace, reducing risks to corporate data without jeopardizing employee productivity.
Posted: 23 Oct 2012 | Published: 31 May 2012

Fiberlink

Ten Steps to Better, Stronger Passwords
sponsored by Global Knowledge
WHITE PAPER: Access this exclusive resource to discover 10 steps to better, stronger passwords that will keep your critical data safe and secure.
Posted: 08 Oct 2012 | Published: 08 Oct 2012

Global Knowledge

10 Essential Security Policies
sponsored by Global Knowledge
WHITE PAPER: Writing a corporate security policy might seem complex, but ultimately it is a collection of many small policies. These ten security policies (or sub-policies) are essential to every organization, regardless of size, location, age, mission, or the product or service produced, and are presented here (in no particular order).
Posted: 26 May 2011 | Published: 12 May 2010

Global Knowledge

Beyond Passwords & Outdated Physical Access Systems
sponsored by Entrust, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Learn why passwords and traditional physical access systems are simply inefficient in this day and age and discover how smart credentials are a vital component of your physical and logical access security strategy.
Posted: 05 Sep 2012 | Published: 31 Aug 2012

Entrust, Inc.

Two-factor Authentication: A Tokenless Approach
sponsored by PortalGuard
WHITE PAPER: Learn about a flexible, cost-effective and easy-to-use two-factor authentication solution that offers greater security for your organization than leveraging password authentication alone.
Posted: 15 Aug 2012 | Published: 15 Aug 2012

PortalGuard

Mobile Device Management Cloud Report
sponsored by Zenprise
WHITE PAPER: This quarterly report on mobile device management (MDM) cloud practices explores the latest trends surrounding the device enrollment, application usage, and security of mobile devices in the enterprise.
Posted: 10 Aug 2012 | Published: 10 Aug 2012

Zenprise

The Ten "Must Haves" for Secure Mobile Device Management
sponsored by Zenprise
WHITE PAPER: Uncover the risks mobile devices bring to your enterprise and how an end-to-end mobile security framework can help you monitor, control, and protect the devices accessing your network and corporate data and applications.
Posted: 03 Aug 2012 | Published: 03 Aug 2012

Zenprise

Unified and Intelligent Identity and Access Management
sponsored by Dell Software
WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, discover an intelligent, unified approach to identity and access management. Learn how to simplify provisioning, single sign-on, role management, multifactor authentication, privileged account management, and password management. See how you can enhance security—and improve user and IT productivity.
Posted: 08 Jul 2011 | Published: 08 Jul 2011

Dell Software

Sophos Security Threat Report 2011
sponsored by Sophos, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Let our new 2011 Security Threat Report be your weapon in the battle against malware. It describes the significant threats of 2010, what to watch for in 2011, and more importantly, what you need to do to get ahead of them.
Posted: 07 Feb 2011 | Published: 07 Feb 2011

Sophos, Inc.

Password Management Best Practices
sponsored by Hitachi ID Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This document describes and justifies password management best practices as applied in medium to large organizations. It offers reasoned guidance to IT decision makers when they set security policy and design network infrastructure that includes passwords.
Posted: 03 Jun 2010 | Published: 03 Jun 2010

Hitachi ID Systems, Inc.

Password Management Project Roadmap
sponsored by Hitachi ID Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: As today’s organizations deploy an ever-growing number of complex systems, password management problems choke help desk systems, cause expensive delays and lost productivity, and threaten to compromise security. This document will guide you through the entire life of a successful password management project.
Posted: 03 Jun 2010 | Published: 03 Jun 2010

Hitachi ID Systems, Inc.

Social Engineering: Hacking People, Not Machines
sponsored by AVG Technologies USA, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Hackers are often portrayed as technical geniuses plying their trade through the use of complex computer code. But gaining access to a computer can be as simple as fooling someone into a revealing a password. Read this paper to learn more about social engineering threats and how to defend against them.
Posted: 31 Mar 2010 | Published: 31 Mar 2010

AVG Technologies USA, Inc.

The Total Economic Impact of CA Identity Manager
sponsored by CA Technologies.
WHITE PAPER: In January 2010, CA commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying CA Identity Manager (CA IM). Read this paper to learn what they found.
Posted: 02 Mar 2010 | Published: 19 Feb 2010

CA Technologies.

The RSA Authentication Decision Tree: Selecting the Best Authentication Solution for Your Business
sponsored by RSA, The Security Division of EMC
WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an overview of the Authentication Decision Tree; examines the five factors critical to selecting an authentication solution; and offers a clear guide to selecting the right solution that effectively balances risk, cost and end user convenience.
Posted: 12 Nov 2009 | Published: 18 Mar 2009

RSA, The Security Division of EMC

Guide: Desktop Authority Password Self-Service
sponsored by ScriptLogic Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Desktop Authority® Password Self-Service™ provides an easy-to-use, robust system for allowing users to reset their own forgotten passwords or locked accounts, eliminating the biggest source of help desk calls.
Posted: 27 Aug 2009 | Published: 03 Jun 2009

ScriptLogic Corporation

Is Your Data at Risk?: Why Physical Security is Insufficient for Laptop Computers
sponsored by Sophos, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Evaluating the various data security options to protect your PCs can be challenging. This paper examines the options, discusses why passwords alone are not sufficient and makes the case for strong data encryption.
Posted: 17 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009

Sophos, Inc.
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PASSWORDS DEFINITION (continued): …  in a single case.When people create passwords, they often defeat the purpose by choosing parts of their names, the names of their pets, or even the word "password," itself, which was the most commonly used password for many years. Now that many password policies require the inclusion of a numeral, the most common password is "password1."You can make your password much harder to break by using more characters, mixing upper and lower case letters, and including numbers and special characters. According to a security guide from Texas A&M University's Research Foundation, a six-character, single-case … 
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