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Executive Conversation: The Future of Instant Messaging is Simple, Secure, and Self-Managed
For a moment let’s suppose I am the CEO of a multi-million dollar corporation and I send an Instant Message to my General Counsel. He sends me information that should …
A Holistic Approach to Securing the Enterprise
The continuance of malicious computer attacks has made security a front page topic in almost every board room and IT oversight committee. Most IT departments accept that …
SQL Injection Attacks
SQL injection is a technique for exploiting web applications that use client-supplied data in SQL queries without stripping potentially harmful characters first. Despite being …
Cookie Path Best Practice
Cookies provide a method for creating a stateful HTTP session and their recommended use is formally defined within RFC2965 and BCP44. Although they are used for many purposes, …
The Benefits of SSL VPNs
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Virtual Private Networks are quickly gaining popularity as serious contenders in the remote-access marketplace. Analysts predict that products based …
Secure Development Framework
This whitepaper deals with developing a secure framework, both for internal and outsourced development. Within this context, secure development is considered to be the process …
Application Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks
Denial of Services attacks aimed at disrupting network services range from simple bandwidth exhaustion attacks and those targeted at flaws in commercial software to complex …
Alternatives to Passwords
The third annual survey into office scruples conducted by Infosecurity Europe 2004 found that office workers are still not information security savvy. A survey of office …
Executive Conversation: Why Cloudmark Took the Path Less Traveled
Spam, spim, spoofs-¦will it ever end? Cloudmark believes that spam and all of its incarnations will indeed disappear through a combination of carefully harvested human …
Best Practices for Storage Security
IT professionals and their businesses have learned the hard way in recent years that disaster can strike at anytime and that they must be prepared. Companies unable to resume …
Secure Development: A Polarised Response
Thankfully these days’ assessing the security of an application prior to implementation is a normal process for most organisations. Organisations accept the view that …
Report from the Juniper Networks/NetScreen EMEA Press Summit
At the second Juniper Networks/NetScreen EMEA Press Summit that was held between May 26th and 28th in Marbella, Spain, the company managed to take us on an interesting …