Enterprise Mobility: How to Unshackle Your Mission-Critical Applications ~ Sponsor
Learn the key issues a multi-national enterprise needs to consider when determining the requirements for deploying a global wireless messaging project. Multi-national enterprises must be prepared to reckon with a mobile workforce that will grow larger every year, driven by the requirements of global business and the increasing need to stay in close contact with customers and increase productivity while keeping an eye on the bottom line. The paper describes how the Good Mobile Messaging solution addresses those key issues, and finally, provides two case studies of recent Good Technology customer deployments.
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Survey on Portable Storage Devices: iPods - What You Don't Secure Could Hurt You ~ Sponsor
Credant Technologies' Survey on Portable Storage Devices asked 323 IT professionals about the potential security impact of iPods, USB flash drives and other devices in order to discover what security impact these new devices have on the workplace. Surprisingly, although organizations see rapid growth in such device usage, few have a solution to prevent widespread data loss. The survey respondents were asked a series of questions and their responses are detailed in this enlightening report.
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Secure Passage through a World of Technological Threats
Secure Passage through a World of Technological Threats A Guide to Meeting Emerging Security Requirements by Employing Endpoint Security Solutions.
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What's all the fuss about network resiliency?
Network uptime is critical for an enterprise striving to run in the black. Unplanned network outages can contribute to lost sales, increased overtime, loss of employee productivity and declines in customer loyalty. The average cost of enterprise application downtime is $10,000 per minute according to an Infonet report titled The Consequences of Network Downtime.
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Reinventing the Enterprise with communications-enabled applications
More and more enterprises are seeking to transform themselves by embracing a business convergence model that aligns their investments in information technology (IT), telecommunications, and business applications in a way that enables them to drive the next generation of revenue growth and productivity. Nortel is helping to accelerate this transformation by empowering business applications with a wide range of network communications capabilities such as contact center, interactive voice response, unified messaging, and unified communications that will speed up collaboration and business processes, improve agility, and increase productivity.
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How "evil twins" and multipots seek to bypass enterprise Wi-Fi defenses7 min. 5 sec.
Enterprise Wi-Fi threats are an ever-present struggle for security managers, and the most simplistic attack methods are often the most effective. In this tip, contributor Noah Schiffman explains how "evil twin" attacks work and why its sister attack method, the multipot, can bypass wireless IPS with remarkable success.
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IM Security: A Threat or Just Marketing Hype?
The AOL Adware and AOL Rootkit worms that hit networks last January and October, respectively, are only two recent examples of the havoc that can be wrought on such a popular mode of communication. And the IM security threat is not expected to lose steam any time soon! IM security incidents appear to be keeping pace with the surging adoption of IM. Research conducted by FaceTime Security Labs found a 2,200% increase in IM security incidents between 2004 and 2005.
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Security for Critical Infrastructure SCADA Systems
This paper provides a non-technical overview of critical infrastructure SCADA security. It gives a background on SCADA systems and the history of critical infrastructure concern. The SCADA security threats, incidents and vulnerabilities are examined along with issues that impede security advances. Finally the broad range of security initiatives is discussed and observations and recommendations are made.
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Common sense security
A few years back, I was working on getting investment into our business. We had big problems with the lawyer from the other side, who kept raising objections. The issue wasn't that her points were invalid; they just weren't material. In other words, they were unlikely to cause problems for their investor. This might seem a million miles away from security issues, but I think it can illuminate similar dilemmas in computer securit IT security professionals aim to protect their companies and clients from harm, but the tightest security is not necessarily the best.
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Essential Information Security For Corporate Employees
This paper was written to raise security awareness and provide corporate employees with essential security information that emphasizes critical issues surrounding an implementation of security "best practices" throughout an organization. Do not assume that this paper is an all inclusive guide to corporate information security. Information security consists of four major components: technology, process, policy and culture. This paper focuses on culture and specific human factors that weaken security in an organization.
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