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  • Information security book excerpts and reviews

    Visit the Information Security Bookshelf for book reviews and free chapter downloads.  Information Security Book

  • Quiz: Database defenses for a new era of threats

    Take this five-question quiz to evaluate your knowledge of the material presented by expert Rich Mogull in this Data Protection Security School lesson.  Quiz

  • Information theft and cryptographic attacks

    The third tip in our series, "How to assess and mitigate information security threats," excerpted from Chapter 3: The Life Cycle of Internet Access Protection Systems of the book The Shortcut Guide to Protecting Business Internet Usage published by R...  Book Chapter

  • Attacks targeted to specific applications

    This is the fourth tip in our series, "How to assess and mitigate information security threats," excerpted from Chapter 3: The Life Cycle of Internet Access Protection Systems of the book "The Shortcut Guide to Protecting Business Internet Usage," pu...  Book Chapter

  • PING with Suzanne Hall

    In this exclusive interview with Information Security magazine, Suzanne Hall, AARP director of IT operations and security, examines how security professionals can enable telecommuters and mobile workers while keeping their data secure.  Information Security maga

  • Implementing Database Security and Auditing: Trojans

    An excerpt from Chapter 9 of "Implementing Database Security and Auditing," by Ron Ben Natan.  Book Chapter

  • More from SearchSecurity -- October 2005

    Highlights from the October 2005 issue of Information Security magazine.  Monthly Magazine Highligh

  • SAP Security Learning Guide

    This guide pulls SAP security information from both SearchSecurity.com and its sister site, SearchSAP.com, to provide the most comprehensive resource around for all aspects of making your SAP system bulletproof.  Learning Guide

  • Lesson/Domain 6 -- Security School: Training for CISSP Certification

    Security School webcasts are focused on CISSP training. Each lesson corresponds to a specific domain in the CISSP exam's "Common Body of Knowledge."  School

  • Infosec Know IT All Trivia: Database security

    How much do you know about securing a database? Find out with these trivia questions.  Quiz

  • Security event log management, analysis needs effective ways to search log files

    Search is a key discipline for security log management. John Burke explains how to better search log files to improve security event log management.  Tip

  • Best practices for enterprise database compliance

    Successful enterprise database compliance means, for starters, access must be tightly controlled and monitored. Charles Denyer covers key database compliance essentials.  Tip

  • Database security best practices: Tuning database audit tools

    Database auditing requires more than just the right tools: Those tools also have to be properly configured to offer the information that's needed and database performance that's required. Learn more about tuning database audit tools in this tip.  Tip

  • Database application security: Balancing encryption, access control

    Database applications are often the epicenter of a company's sensitive data, so security is paramount, but maintaining a balance between security and business use can be tricky. In this tip, Andreas Antonopoulos discusses encryption strategies for da...  Tip

  • Content-aware IAM: Uniting user access and data rights

    In the world of IT security, IAM and data protection have generally kept to their separate corners. That trend, however, may be shifting with the onset of content-aware IAM that merges granular user access with advanced data protection.  Tip

  • Understanding transparent data encryption in SQL Server 2008

    Transparent data encryption can go a long way toward meeting compliance and security standards. Learn what TDE can do for you, with details on the considerations that should be made before it's implemented.  Tip

  • The ins and outs of database encryption

    While pundits and gurus may say the "easy" data protection option is for an enterprise to encrypt its entire database, the truth is it's much harder than many realize. In this tip, database security expert Rich Mogull examines the two primary use cas...  Tip

  • Look before leaping into database encryption

    Encryption is the ultimate mechanism for data protection, but the process of developing an encryption strategy can be daunting. In this tip, contributor James C. Foster explains the database encryption options available and offers guidance for ensuri...  Tip

  • Data leakage detection and prevention

    While corporate data loss is not a new concern, newer technologies are emerging to help combat the threat. In this tip, Joel Dubin advises how to reduce data leaks, reviews products that can identify network vulnerabilities and keep mobile device dat...  Tip

  • Database compliance demystified

    As security professionals grapple with both federal mandates and industry-specific guidance, many wonder how best to approach these issues in terms of data protection and security. In this tip, James C. Foster looks at specific regulations such as SO...  Tip

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  • data encryption/decryption IC

    A data encryption/decryption IC is a specialized integrated circuit (IC) that can encrypt outgoing data and decrypt incoming data...  Definition

  • link encryption (link level or link layer encryption)

    Link encryption (sometimes called link level or link layer encryption) is the data security process of encrypting information at the data link level as it is transmitted between two points within a network.  Definition

  • MD4

    MD4 is an earlier version of MD5, an algorithm used to verify data integrity through the creation of a 128-bit message digest from data input (which may be a message of any length) that is claimed to be as unique to that specific data as a fingerprin...  Definition

  • MD2

    MD2 is an earlier, 8-bit version of MD5, an algorithm used to verify data integrity through the creation of a 128-bit message digest from data input (which may be a message of any length) that is claimed to be as unique to that specific data as a fin...  Definition

  • MD5

    MD5 is an algorithm that is used to verify data integrity through the creation of a 128-bit message digest from data input (which may be a message of any length) that is claimed to be as unique to that specific data as a fingerprint is to the specifi...  Definition

  • International Data Encryption Algorithm (IDEA)

    IDEA (International Data Encryption Algorithm) is an encryption algorithm developed at ETH in Zurich, Switzerland.  Definition

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