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Today, when you make decisions about information technology (IT) security priorities, you must often strike a careful balance between business risk, impact, and likelihood of incidents, and the costs of prevention or cleanup. Historically, the most well-understood variable in this equation was the methods that hackers used to disrupt or invade the system.

The Business Case for Data Protection, conducted by Ponemon Institute and sponsored by Ounce Labs, is the first study to determine what senior executives think about the value proposition of corporate data protection efforts within their organizations. In times of shrinking budgets, it is important for those individuals charged with managing a data protection program to understand how key decision makers in organizations perceive the importance of safeguarding sensitive and confidential information.

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This white paper examines the compelling business and technical case for centralizing administration in Microsoft's Active Directory, describes how Centrify's integrated architecture enables you to extend Active Directory to your non-Microsoft platforms, and describes the Centrify Suite's unique benefits.

Information security has undergone a sea change in the past 10 years. Compliance mandates in the form of industry standards and Federal rules like NERC, FFIEC, HIPAA/HITECH and PCI-DSS are the new norm. To stay in compliance, IT teams need to be able to keep up with updatesand changes to existing mandates while also being prepared for new ones. To maximize efficiency, manage risk and reduce potential violations due to compliance failure, organizations need to implement security tools whose features support multiple specifications within and across different compliance frameworks.

McAfee recently bridged the MySQL security gap with a unique solution that combines an open source auditing plug-in with industry-leading database security modules — the McAfee MySQL Audit Plug-In.

Data breaches can carry very serious consequences, such as the revelation in February 2008 that that the Hannaford Brothers chain of supermarkets lost more than four million debit and credit card numbers to hackers. The bottom line is that organizations must implement Data Loss Prevention (DLP) systems to protect themselves against the growing array of threats they face from inadvertent and malicious data leaks from email, instant messaging and other systems.

To comply with today’s government and industry mandates, such as PCI, Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and GLBA, log data must be collected, regularly reviewed and archived. In addition, regular analysis and forensics can also be performed on the same log data to enhance overall security and availability. This paper discusses the challenges associated with effective log management and enables you to better define best practices and requirements for log management projects, as well as log management and review solutions.

To comply with today’s government and industry mandates, such as PCI, Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and GLBA, log data must be collected, regularly reviewed and archived. In addition, regular analysis and forensics can also be performed on the same log data to enhance overall security and availability. This paper discusses the challenges associated with effective log management and enables you to better define best practices and requirements for log management projects, as well as log management and review solutions.

How mature is your information security policy program? Do you have a set of outdated documents stored in a binder or intranet site? Or do you have a documented management program that keeps your policies up to date, your users informed and your internal auditors sleeping at night?

Learn the basics about security benchmarks, and specifically how the security benchmarks developed by the Center for Internet Security (CIS) can help you with your compliance initiatives.

Learn about the financial institution safeguards included in the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) and how your organization can institute an orderly set of compliance steps using an automated configuration audit and control solution.

This white paper is designed to guide network administrators and security managers to design, implement, and enforce wireless LAN security policies that enable every organization to fully reap the benefits of wireless LANs without experiencing undue management pains and security holes.

Identity theft is a major obstacle financial organizations must overcome to maximize the potential of online banking. USB strong authentication tokens with built-in smartcard technology combat identity theft and fraud, while helping banks meet regulatory compliance.

Recent regulatory additions require that companies take proactive measures like penetration testing to enforce data privacy and integrity.  By deploying a distributed model companies can execute testing from different security levels which is important in challenging posture based on level of access.

The Cenzic Hailstorm® solution helps financial institutions comply with GLBA and other laws by automating risk assessment, checking for vulnerability to the injection of malicious code into Web servers, automating the testing of code and key controls during the software development process, and helping them respond to new vulnerabilities in the software development lifecycle.

As corporate security policies and compliance regulations are created to address the increasingly dangerous post 9/11 environment, security risk management is becoming an increasingly important tool in corporate governance. Learn more in this white paper by RiskWatch.

This whitepaper will teach you the necessary steps any organization must take to comply with the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA). Based on the experienced insight of Alex Bakman, Founder, Chairman & Chief Technology Officer at Ecora Software and Khalid Kark, Senior Research Analyst at Forrester Research, this paper discusses how any organization can reduce compliance costs by automating the process of attaining and maintaining proper financial privacy and consumer data safeguard procedures.

A summary of the background of GLBA, the precedents it sets for securing nonpublic consumer information, and the responsibilities it places on senior management and IT departments to ensure customer data is safeguarded.

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The data security challenges for financial enterprises have never been as challenging as they are in today's turbulent times. Not only must financial enterprises comply with regulations such as SOX, GBLA and PCI along with a multitude of state regulations concerning customer privacy and electronic data security, they must also guard against the staggering costs—both tangible and intangible—that a security breach can incur.

The data security challenges in the healthcare industry have never been as challenging as they are today. Not only must healthcare providers comply with HIPAA regulations concerning patient privacy and electronic data security, they must also guard against identity theft as well more complex scenarios of insurance data theft, medical identity theft and the adulteration of health records.

This paper defines the different types of penetration tests, explains why the tests should be performed, details their benefits and even provides guidance for choosing the right vendor.