Security Management Strategies for the CIOAccess "Spy Catchers"
This article is part of the May 2006 issue of Identity crisis solved: Tips from a top identity management expert
We take a close look at seven enterprise antispyware products. Can they keep your corporate desktops free of prying eyes? Spyware has many organizations crying "Uncle!" Help desks are inundated with user complaints about incessant ads, slow system performance and dysfunctional machines. In response, many companies are deploying enterprise-wide antispyware products, finding that the easily quantifiable savings justify the expenditure. Yet, help desk costs are the least sinister aspect of the spyware menace. Worst-case scenarios include the disclosure of sensitive corporate secrets or the theft of employees' personal information. Whatever the business case for deploying antispyware, the market has grown quickly. Antispyware companies have scrambled to extend their consumer offerings into centrally managed enterprise products, and antivirus providers have developed--or acquired--antispyware capabilities. Enterprise-level antispyware is a young technology--the first centrally managed products appeared about two years ago. To see if it's ready for prime time, ... Access >>>
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Hot Pick: Q1 Labs QRadar 5.0
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Network Access Control: Endforce's Enterprise 2.5
Endforce's Enterprise 2.5
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Vulnerability Assessment
Insecure.org's Nmap 4.01
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Spy Catchers
PRODUCT REVIEW We take a close look at seven antispyware products. Can they keep your corporate desktops free of prying eyes?
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Is Microsoft Trustworthy Yet?
PLATFORM SECURITY The fourth anniversary of its Trustworthy Computing Initiative is marked with mixed reviews from users.
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Sendmail Sentrion GP product review
Product review of open source Sendmail Sentrion GP, which can build on software to enhance email security with antivirus, antispam and policy interface.
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Hot Pick: Q1 Labs QRadar 5.0
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Reborn Identity
IDENTITY MANAGEMENT GM's Jarrod Jasper drives a common user profile across all systems.
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Recent Releases: Security product briefs, February 2006
Read about the security products released in February 2006.
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Swiping Back
INDUSTRY COMPLIANCE With the goal of reducing fraud, the credit card associations' PCI standard scores points for clarity.
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TippingPoint/3Com's TippingPoint X505 product review
In this product review, get info on TippingPoint/3Com's TippingPoint X505 intrusion prevention security tool. Learn about product cost, installation, setup and configuration features.
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Safety Net
BITS & BOLTS Microsoft's .NET development framework can help your Web apps perform securely.
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Reborn Identity
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Columns
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Editor's Desk: Show me the money
Dollar Signs
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Layer 8: In security, leadership comes first
Groundhog Day
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Perspectives: Security issues are similar worldwide
Security managers are concerned about the same things worldwide: Managing risk more effectively, making management care about security, and what to do about end users.
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Ping
Tony Spurlin
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Editor's Desk: Show me the money
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