February 18, 2009 - (Free Research) All companies must take risks to survive, and the most successful companies are those that actively integrate risk management into their decision-making processes. This white paper explains how a risk management program can help identify opportunities for value creation while also protecting against potential threats.
February 12, 2010 - (Free Research) For many years network administrators have expected security breaches to come from outside an organization or at the upper layers of the OSI model. This paper will focus on securing layer 2 switching at the access layer through port security and preventing denial of service (DoS) attacks at layer 2.
February 11, 2010 - (Free Research) Using patch and vulnerability management as the principal component of your risk mitigation strategy and taking prudent measures to establish a best practices approach can help reduce costs and risks in the long term.
July 28, 2010 - (Free Research) Organizations stand to save themselves a significant amount of money by managing the power consumption of their IT systems. But if they aren’t careful, they could potentially save their way right into a security and operational nightmare.
May 27, 2010 - (Free Research) Traditional Web security has included two layers: URL filtering and signature-based anti-virus scanning. However, recent data show that the success rate of this approach has significantly dropped. Read this white paper to learn more about Web security vulnerabilities and newer, more effective strategies for securing your system against them.
April 07, 2010 - (Free Research) Learn about the challenges associated with increased worker mobility and how to create an effective enterprise wireless security strategy with some suggestions for an enterprise wireless security policy.
December 01, 2009 - (Free Research) This paper clarifies what cloud computing is, identifies the services offered in the cloud, and also examines potential business benefits, risks, and assurance considerations. Read on to learn more about cloud computing from security, governance, and assuarance perspectives.
December 02, 2008 - (Free Research) This paper presents ArcSight EnterpriseView, a solution designed to help customers understand who is on the network, what data they are seeing, and which actions they are taking with that data. While doing so, EnterpriseView provides the context to understand whether the business faces additional risk of data loss, compliance breach, or fraud.
April 2006 - (Free Research) As more IT professionals are turning to application & server consolidation, costs and the importance of performance is growing. This white paper takes a look at acceleration technologies - the challenges, benefits, and techniques of this alternative.
June 2010 - (Free Research) With their MPLS connectivity, Dubai Investments’ application performance took a major hit. The IT team was faced with 2 options – either increase the WAN link bandwidth or optimize data traffic through WAN Optimization. Read this case study to find out how they managed to optimize data flow, improve Web security, and increase policy control.
May 2010 - (Free Research) The Cisco® Smart Business Architecture for Midsize Networks is a comprehensive network design for medium-sized companies with 250-1000 users. The architecture incorporates campus, WAN, wireless, security, WAN optimization, and unified communication technologies tested together as a solution.
December 2009 - (Free Research) This paper, written by the Cloud Security Alliance, provides a simple framework to help evaluate initial cloud risks and inform security decisions.
October 2008 - (Free Research) This white paper discusses risk management as a key process in designing security architectures, including a better way for security managers to approach the security ROI issue.
September 2008 - (Free Research) Organizations need to be intelligent about the risks they take to gain and sustain competitive advantage as well as protect their existing assets. In this paper learn about the two faces of risk "rewarded risk" and "unrewarded risk."
March 2010 - (Free Research) Hear from Tom Reilly, CEO of ArcSight, on how ArcSight helps corporations and governments to protect their vital information from cybercrime, cyber espionage and cyberwarfare by providing real-time tools for enterprise risk monitoring.
May 2010 - (Free Research) Read this case study to learn about the vulnerability and compliance risk management program WebEx has implemented to ensure security and confidentiality among their customers.
April 2010 - (Free Research) This paper discusses how to help reduce risk and successfully manage your security infrastructure through conducting vulnerability assessments, using discovery tools, adopting centralized policy setting and event correlation, and taking a cohesive approach to updating network equipment.
March 2010 - (Free Research) This whitepaper discusses the requirements for a universal log management solution and specifically describes how ArcSight Logger 4 delivers on those requirements. A recent cyberespionage incident at Boeing Corporation is highlighted as an example. Read more to find out.
January 2010 - (Free Research) Read this white paper to learn how removable device policy enforcement can mitigate data loss, data theft, and malware propagation and hacking risks while enabling managed use of necessary productivity tools.
March 2010 - (Free Research) Qualys provides the most reliable and cost-effective way for you to audit your network security. CORE IMPACT Pro offers comprehensive, automated penetration testing across web applications, network systems, endpoints, end users and wireless networks.
April 2008 - (Free Research) To learn how to develop appropriate policies for your organization and how to enforce them with mobile security and management tools, read this expert series of tips written by Mark Tauschek.