Network Security White Papers

WHITE PAPER: It is no longer sufficient to rely on outdated firewall technology that only looks at the port, protocol, source IP and destination IP to determine if a session from the outside should be allowed inside the network.

Posted: 17 Mar 2011 | Published: 17 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: The IBM® InfoSphere™ Optim™ Data Masking solution provides comprehensive capabilities for masking sensitive data effectively across non-production environments, while still providing realistic data for use in development, testing or training. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 17 Mar 2011 | Published: 17 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: The SonicWALL® SuperMassive™ E10000 Series is SonicWALL’s Next-Generation Firewall platform designed for large networks to deliver scalability, reliability and deep security at multi-gigabit speeds.

Posted: 28 Feb 2011 | Published: 28 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: It can be a real challenge for IT administrators to efficiently deliver critical corporate solutions while also contending with employee use of wasteful and often dangerous applications. Critical applications need bandwidth prioritization while social media and gaming applications need to be bandwidth throttled or even completely blocked.

Posted: 28 Feb 2011 | Published: 28 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: In the near future, it is anticipated that all aspects of information technology will be movable, dynamic, and interactive – the access, the data, the workload, and all computing. End users’ mobile devices will access and store hundreds of gigabytes of data.

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 | Published: 17 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: If you’re currently evaluating Security Gateways, this guide will provide the analysis and decision support that will enable you make an informed choice. The following sections of the guide contain tools you can use to identify the right fit for your security architecture based on business requirements, cost, and complexity.

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 | Published: 14 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: An explosion in system and application vulnerabilities has been met with new ways to attack these weaknesses. In this paper, EMA analysts take a look at factors driving the need for increased security, and how new approaches to mitigating vulnerabilities such as virtual patching or remediation, provide more ways to deliver vulnerability management.

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 | Published: 31 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: In May of 2010, AV-Test.org performed endpoint security benchmark testing on five market-leading Enterprise endpoint solutions from Symantec, McAfee, Microsoft, Sophos and Trend Micro. Read this comparative report to see the results of these tests and how Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security stands distinctly apart from other products.

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 | Published: 31 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper examines the challenges with backing up corporate data on these remote users’ PCs and describes Copiun’s Constant Access Gateway option which allows IT organizations to securely backup remote and mobile users without opening any firewall ports or placing the backup server in the DMZ.

Posted: 17 Jan 2011 | Published: 17 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: With the imminent announcement of GFI MAX Remote Management’s new and greatly improved remote support tool ‘Take Control’ – it’s time to take a close look at the world of Remote IT Support.

Posted: 22 Dec 2010 | Published: 22 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how Data Loss Prevention products can identify high-risk network traffic that require intervention and how your IT staff can use an MFT solution to reduce your business risk from these transfers.

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 | Published: 14 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Today, Cloud is one of the most talked about trends in the IT industry. It’s a paradigm many believe will have a widespread business impact. However, while the term “Cloud”is relatively new, one of the core components, distributed computing, is well-established.

Posted: 09 Dec 2010 | Published: 09 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Cloud computing has been widely heralded as the "next big thing" in technology circles. At the same time it has arguably been overcomplicated in terms of the way it has been described. Check out this white paper to learn more about the security issues of cloud computing.

Posted: 05 Nov 2010 | Published: 05 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines an approach, based on monitoring network traffic, that delivers a unified view of network activity across virtual and physical components of the network.

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 | Published: 25 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: In this report covering January to June 2010, we examine various cybercrime incidents, the criminal’s use of multiple tools such as botnets, and look at threat trends and activity currently causing, and likely to continue to cause the most pain, cost and disruption to connected users across the world.

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 | Published: 22 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses why virtualization and cloud initiatives are putting so much pressure on workload management and security requirements and describes how emerging intelligent workload management approaches can potentially streamline operations.

Posted: 21 Oct 2010 | Published: 21 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to find out how WatchGuard Application Control lets you take back control of your network by keeping more than 1,500 applications in check, including IM, P2P, Facebook, Skype, YouTube, and many more.

Posted: 20 Oct 2010 | Published: 20 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: Through this white paper, PTS Data Center Solutions (PTS) personnel validate these energy efficiency savings estimates using the upgrade of the IT system within its own data center facility and operations as a test bed.

Posted: 19 Oct 2010 | Published: 19 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: Now that mobility has become an integral part of an enterprise's infrastructure, IT must now support and secure these mobile devices. Read this whitepaper to find out the unique security requirements that these mobile devices create and the three components of mobile security protection.

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 | Published: 20 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: The all new Intel® Core™ vPro™ processor family complements the new Windows® 7 operating system by building effective trusted computing and management mechanisms into the hardware. Read this paper to learn more.

Posted: 04 Oct 2010 | Published: 25 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this article from IBM to discover the details behind the definition: cloud computing is an all-inclusive solution in which all computing resources (hardware, software, networking, storage, and so on) are provided rapidly to users as demand dictates.

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 | Published: 21 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Your business depends on one thing: getting the right information to the right people at the right time. To gain a competitive advantage, improve customer service and access more business intelligence, you have to ensure fast and responsive application delivery to users wherever they are.

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 | Published: 14 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: In this article, we’ll talk about the four most common types of Web gateway network deployments. Sometimes referred to as forward proxies, these devices are used to secure Web access for an organization’s internal end users.

Posted: 09 Sep 2010 | Published: 09 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Threats abound in today’s corporate networks. Keeping your enterprise and its assets secure requires a proactive security strategy. Discover the five most costly network security threats and see how you can protect your business with a layered security approach.

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 | Published: 25 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the three most common sources of data breaches, and offers a broad perspective on what can be done to stop data breaches, as well as specific recommendations to take preventive action.

Posted: 23 Aug 2010 | Published: 18 Aug 2010