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3-D Security by Information Security Magazine September 2008 - Unwrap Windows Server 2008, the first server revision under Trustworthy Computing. Microsoft promises it is secure by design, default and deployment.

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7 Security Questions to Ask Your SaaS Provider by Information Security Magazine September 2008 - Outsourcing an application means your organization relinquishes some control; don't, however, loosen your grip on security.

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A Perfect Match? by Information Security Magazine September 2008 - Feature-rich suites are putting a face on integration and interoperability.

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Chill, Malware by Information Security Magazine September 2008 - A new breed of integrated technology takes Web-based malware off the menu.

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Companies Finding a Place for Maturing NAC Projects by Information Security Magazine September 2008 - This article shares the challenges and rewards that four organizations have experienced with NAC implementation.

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Core of the Matter by Information Security Magazine September 2008 - The application has become the prime target for hackers, in this document we review six leading Web application firewalls that help deliver your critical apps securely.

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CSI for the CISO by Information Security Magazine September 2008 - Don't trample evidence in a breach. Missteps in an investigation will cost you in court.

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Data Drain by Information Security Magazine September 2008 - Leaking sensitive information can pop the balloon on your company's reputation. DLP tools can mitigate incidents and offer insight into where data lives.

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eBook: Strategies for Securing Virtual Machines by Information Security Magazine December 2008 - Check out this expert eBook to learn about the special security concerns of virtualization and get best practices for securing virtual machines.

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Editor's Desk by Information Security Magazine September 2008 - Research ups awareness on backdoors that present attackers with a cheaper means of malware distribution and system access.

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Editor's Desk. by Information Security Magazine September 2008 - Microsoft and Oracle are generous enough to regularly provide severity ratings on vulnerabilities.

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Editor's Desk: Everything Goes by Information Security Magazine September 2008 - According to the Information Security/ SearchSecurity.com Priorities 2008 survey, you'll be spending more time on...well, you name it.

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Encrypt Them All by Information Security Magazine September 2008 - Name your target: the laptop storing your company's trade secrets or the laptop containing proprietary partner and customer data, and your company's financial information

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Expert eBook: Encryption: Properly Securing Your Valuable Data by Information Security Magazine October 2008 - Check out this expert eBook and learn about best practices and techniques for protecting your company's data with encryption technology.

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Expert Ebook: Mastering PCI by Information Security Magazine August 2008 - This eBook gives expert advice on successfully achieving PCI compliance, by selecting the right auditor and implementing new requirements into your company's IT infrastructure. Read this book and learn how to master PCI compliance.

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Face-Off by Information Security Magazine September 2008 - The standard way to take control of someone else's computer is by exploiting a vulnerability in a software program on it. This was true in the 1960s when buffer overflows were first exploited to attack computers.

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Face-Off Home users: a public health problem? by Information Security Magazine September 2008 - Point To the average home user, security is an intractable problem. Microsoft has made great strides improving the security of its operating system out of the box.

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Face-Off: Chinese Cyberattacks: Myth or Menace? by Information Security Magazine August 2008 - Security Experts Marcus Ranum & Bruce Schneier Offer Their Opposing Points of View on the U.S. Department of Defense and cyberattacks.

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Face-Off: Cyberwar: Myth or Reality? by Information Security Magazine September 2008 - Cyberwar: Myth or Reality?

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Future: The View from Visionaries by Information Security Magazine September 2008 - In 10 years, information security as we know it may not exist. Rather than a separate product, it may simply be embedded into everything. Or Web services may upend traditional enterprise security.

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Interlocking Priorities by Information Security Magazine August 2008 - Information security professionals face challenges galore in 2008.

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Interview: Bill Jiminez, Systems Architect at the University of the Pacific by Information Security Magazine September 2008 - Read this interview to learn more about Bill Jiminez, systems architect at the University of the Pacific, and how he has to balance security with the desire of faculty and students for openness.

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Inviting Risk by Information Security Magazine October 2008 - The contractor you Hire can become the source of a security breach unless you take precautions.

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Key Master by Information Security Magazine October 2008 - Encryption sounds like an ideal way to lock up your data, but managing keys is a daunting human and technological challenge.

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Layer8: Oct 2007 by Information Security Magazine September 2008 - At home and work, security oftentimes has become onerous and counterproductive.

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Lockdown by Information Security Magazine August 2008 - Shutting down unneeded services, ports and accounts makes Windows Server 2003 tough to beat.

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Log Wild by Information Security Magazine September 2008 - Myriad devices produce waves of logs. Here's how to get all that data under control.

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Marriage of Convenience by Information Security Magazine September 2008 - Integrating physical and logical security can bring many benefits to the enterprise, but a successful union isn't easy.

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Milestones by Information Security Magazine September 2008 - ChoicePoint put data breaches on the front page of The Wall Street Journal, into corporate boardrooms and the consciousness of Americans.

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Mix of Frameworks and GRC Satisfy Compliance Overlaps by Information Security Magazine September 2008 - Three organizations reveal how they use a combination of frameworks such as COBIT or ISO 27001 along with GRC tools to satisfy overlapping industry and federal regulatory demands.

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Perspectives: Cyberterrorism by Information Security Magazine September 2008 - Were the attacks on Estonia state-sponsored cyberterrorism? Probably not, but the month-long protest signals a troubling trend.

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Perspectives: Gotcha Moments by Information Security Magazine September 2008 - Even security-minded organizations can trip up on common misconceptions that lead to breaches and bad publicity.

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Piece of Mind by Information Security Magazine September 2008 - Poor change control can send your organization's security tumbling. Follow these 5 steps for a strong change management program.

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Ping by Information Security Magazine September 2008 - Securing corporate networks against insider attacks is a difficult challenge to be sure. But how do you prevent such attacks on 1.5 million ATMs worldwide?

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Ping. by Information Security Magazine September 2008 - Security risk models are nowhere near as robust or proven as financial risk models, so at this time the information security practitioners have the best knowledge of the field to be able to assess this risk.

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Ping: David VanderNaalt by Information Security Magazine September 2008 - The legislation that created Arizona's Statewide Information Security and Privacy Office last August (ARS 41-3507) brought David VanderNaalt home to Phoenix as the state's chief information security officer.

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Ping: FYODOR by Information Security Magazine September 2008 - Information Security isn't the only standby celebrating its 10th birthday. Nmap, the popular open source security scanner and network mapping tool, hit double digits in 2007 as well.

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Ping: Mike Roberti by Information Security Magazine September 2008 - Authentication and access control used to be fairly simple propositions: set up user IDs, passwords and role-based permissions and you were done. In today's enterprise environments, you have to get deeper in the weeds.

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Providing Clarity by Information Security Magazine October 2008 - Providing Clarity is just one new feature bringing Network Security into Focus.

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Putting Snort to Work by Information Security Magazine September 2008 - Open source Knoppix-NSM is a complete network security monitoring system on a single CD.

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Readers' Choice Awards by Information Security Magazine September 2008 - Information Security and SearchSecurity.com presented more than 1,600 readers with some 360 security products, divided into 18 categories, three categories which failed to draw sufficient reader response are covered in market articles.

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Revamping Remote Access by Information Security Magazine September 2008 - Organizations are overhauling strategies to meet the challenges of the mobile workforce.

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Role Model by Information Security Magazine October 2008 - Identity management is a critical security challenge, but without viable standards for access control, your best efforts may be just a drop in the bucket.

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Rootkit Detection and Removal Know-How by Information Security Magazine September 2008 - Difficult to detect and nearly impossible to remove, rootkits may already own your systems.

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Securing Extranets by Information Security Magazine October 2008 - Is perimeter security viable with Swiss cheese networks?

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Security Certifications' Ethics Programs Merely Window-Dressing by Information Security Magazine September 2008 - This article discusses the role of ethics in information security certifications offered by ISACA, GIAC, (ISC)2 and ASIS and what efforts have been made in ethics programs.

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Seven Winners, One Mission by Information Security Magazine September 2008 - In recognizing seven individuals working in different markets, you might think their experiences and abilities would be quite diverse.

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Shared Identity Providers Could Soothe Password Chaos by Information Security Magazine September 2008 - Read what writer Jay Heiser has to say about passwords and the security model that requires people to remember multiple passwords and logins, which has to change.

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The Hackers Are Constantly Innovating. Why Aren't You? by Information Security Magazine September 2008 - The hackers are constantly innovating. Why aren't you?

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Today's Financial System Makes Identity Theft Inevitable by Relying on None-too-secret Identifiers by Information Security Magazine September 2008 - Today's financial system makes identity theft inevitable by relying on none-too-secret identifiers.

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Tug-of-Web 2.0 by Information Security Magazine September 2008 - Ajax, Java and other dynamic application coding methods have pulled computing power over to the client, introducing new risks and resurrecting old ones.

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Universal Control by Information Security Magazine October 2008 - Is your business ready To roll network security into a single platform? We evaluate six leading UTM appliances to help you push the right buttons.

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Viewpoint September 2008: Bug Finding is Ethical and Necessary by Information Security Magazine September 2008 - Read a system administrator's reaction to an earlier Face-Off column in Bug Finding: Ethical and Necessary. Plus, a principal security analyst discusses Upfront Data Protection.

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