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• Firewalls play by new rules

  Modern firewalls offer greater application awareness and user controls. Protect your migration strategy with these tips from the pros. Continue Reading

• Security incident response procedures: When to do a system shutdown

  At times, security incident response procedures require drastic measures. Expert Nick Lewis explains when and how to perform a system shutdown. Continue Reading

• Open source code management: How to safely use open source libraries

  Expert Michael Cobb explains why enterprises need better open source code management to negate the security risks posed by open source libraries. Continue Reading

• Enterprise mobile security by the numbers

  Almost 60% of respondents in our 2013 Enterprise Mobile Security Survey believe mobile devices present more risk now than in Q2 2012. What’s changed? Continue Reading

• Third-party risk management: Horror stories? You are not alone

  The majority of breaches occur as the result of third parties. MacDonnell Ulsch advises companies to safeguard third-party management agreements. Continue Reading

• Unlock new pathways to network security architecture

  Cover story: Want to shed appliances? Consolidation and new platforms hold promise for security teams.Continue Reading

• Ten years later: The legacy of SB 1386 compliance on data privacy laws

  A decade after becoming law, the ripple effects of California's SB 1386 have surfaced in a new breed of proactive, granular state data privacy laws.Continue Reading

• How to define SIEM strategy, management and success in the enterprise

  Enterprise SIEM technology is as functional, manageable and affordable as it's ever been. Learn how to achieve success with SIEM in your organization.Continue Reading

• Web application session management issues, and how to avoid a hijacking

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• Two-factor authentication options, use cases and best practices

  It may seem daunting, but two-factor authentication options are manageable for nearly all enterprises. Learn how to get started in this 2FA primer.Continue Reading

• How to enact Apache security best practices for Web server security

  With Apache Web servers becoming ever more popular with attackers, organizations should follow Apache security best practices to avoid compromise.Continue Reading

• How to use ThreadFix to simplify the vulnerability management process

  Video: Keith Barker of CBT Nuggets demonstrates how Denim Group's ThreadFix helps simplify the enterprise vulnerability management process.Continue Reading

• How key MDM features affect mobile security policy management

  As MDM features become more robust, enterprises must not only look for mature products, but also evolve mobile security policies accordingly.Continue Reading

• Big data analytics: New patterns emerge for security

  Will big data analytics make security better? With data scientists in short supply, solution providers rush to provide big data analytics tools.Continue Reading

• Identity and access management solutions: The basics and issues

  With the surge of disruptive technologies like cloud-based systems, mobile apps and BYOD, identity and access management (IAM) has become unruly and complex for organizations. This TechGuide covers the fundamentals of and issues associated with the ...Continue Reading

• How to reduce IT security risk with IT asset management

  IT asset management expert Barb Rembiesa explains how ITAM best practices like IT asset standardization and rationalization reduce IT security risk.Continue Reading

• Improving security management processes with SIEM

  In our newest Security School lesson, Mike Rothman covers how to get the best data to improve incident response.Continue Reading

• BSIMM4 measures and advances secure application development

  The fourth iteration of the Building Security In Maturity Model project is a tool you can use as a measuring stick for software security initiatives.Continue Reading

• SIEM best practices for advanced attack detection

  SIEM struggles are common, but Mike Rothman explains why SIEM products are critical for advanced attack detection, and offers a SIEM tuning step-by-step.Continue Reading

• Federal Information Security Management Act

  The Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) is United States legislation that defines a comprehensive framework to protect government information, operations and assets against natural or man-made threats.Continue Reading

• The evolution of threat detection and management

  Enterprises must understand the latest threat detection options to keep up with advanced cybercriminals who can bypass enterprise security defenses.Continue Reading

• Data breach protection requires new barriers

  Assumption of breach is the new norm. Can this shift help organizations build better levels of data breach protection?Continue Reading

• Apple security update: Is it ready for the enterprise?

  It’s hard to declare Apple security as superior to its competitors, but it’s also hard to fault it as inferior.Continue Reading

• Microsoft FIM (Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager)

  Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) is a self-service identity management software suite.Continue Reading

• Quiz: Using SIEM technology to improve security management processes

  In this five question quiz, test your knowledge of our Security School lesson on using SIEM technology to improve security management processes.Continue Reading

• How to configure a VLAN to achieve the benefits of VLAN security

  Expert Brad Casey explains how to configure a VLAN in order to achieve the benefits of VLAN security, including protection against insider attacks.Continue Reading

• DLP management tools and reporting: Key considerations

  When it comes to DLP management tools, installation and maintenance of a single centralized management console to house all rules and alerts are key.Continue Reading

• Should syslog format be mandatory in a log management product?

  Matt Pascucci discusses what to look for when evaluating a log management product and whether syslog format should be a requirement.Continue Reading

• Address IPv6 security before your time runs out

  Most networks have partial deployment of IPv6 often without IT realizing it. It’s time to take stock of the security implications before attackers do.Continue Reading

• Botnet takedowns: A dramatic defense

  The infections and cyberattacks that botnets are used to launch remain hard-to-detect malware threats that have moved beyond PCs to mobile devices.Continue Reading

• Managing big data privacy concerns: Tactics for proactive enterprises

  The growing use of big data analytics has created big data privacy concerns, yet viable tactics exist for proactive enterprises to help companies get smarter while keeping consumers happy.Continue Reading

• Antivirus evasion techniques show ease in avoiding antivirus detection

  In the wake of the New York Times attack, a look at antivirus evasion techniques show how easy it is to avoid antivirus detection and why new defenses are needed.Continue Reading

• Outsourcing security services in the enterprise: Where to begin

  Outsourcing security services doesn’t have to mean moving to the cloud. Enterprises have many options for outsourcing security services, including managed and hosted services.Continue Reading

• Well-rounded information security education benefits IT professionals

  A security-savvy IT staff can help reduce risk. Learn about information security training and education options for IT professionals.Continue Reading

• Quiz: Managing BYOD endpoint security

  In this six question quiz, test your knowledge of our Security School lesson on managing BYOD endpoint security.Continue Reading

• How to implement firewall policy management with a 5-tuple firewall

  Matt Pascucci explains how to implement firewall policy management for 5-tuple firewalls when ports must be kept open for business reasons.Continue Reading

• Exploring the security risks of network management outsourcing

  Is network management outsourcing the future of network security or too great a risk? Matthew Pascucci discusses the risks and rewards.Continue Reading

• BYOD security strategies: Balancing BYOD risks and rewards

  Allowing employee-owned mobile devices doesn’t have to mean accepting all BYOD risks. Infosec pros share their BYOD security strategies.Continue Reading

• The Huawei security risk: Factors to consider before buying Chinese IT

  Cover story: The U.S. government says Chinese IT giants Huawei and ZTE pose too much risk. But do they? Joel Snyder offers his take.Continue Reading

• SSL certificate management: Avoiding common mistakes

  Errors are bound to occur when SSL certificate management is handled manually. Learn how to avoid these common mistakes.Continue Reading

• Thirteen principles to ensure enterprise system security

  Designing sound enterprise system security is possible by following Gary McGraw's 13 principles, many of which have held true for decades.Continue Reading

• Private market growing for zero-day exploits and vulnerabilities

  Exploitable vulnerabilities are becoming harder to find in popular software, but information on such flaws is increasingly valuable, and many security researchers are no longer willing to give it up for free.Continue Reading

• Chief information security officer skills go beyond customary technical roles

  A trusted advisor and a strong communicator and promoter, a good CISO should be a jack-of-all-trades to rally the IT security team to support the business needs by minimizing risk.Continue Reading

• Download: Log management best practices: Six tips for success

  In this expert e-guide from SearchSecurity.com you'll discover Six tips for success in Log managementContinue Reading

• Implement software development security best practices to support WAFs

  WAFs aren't a panacea for all Web security woes. Software development security best practices are still vital. Expert Michael Cobb discusses why.Continue Reading

• Secure Web gateway overview: Implementation best practices

  In this secure Web gateway overview, learn how to implement, configure and maintain a Web security gateway to support other security devices.Continue Reading

• Aligning enterprise identity and access management with CIO priorities

  Randall Gamby says aligning enterprise identity and access management with business and CIO priorities demands a more strategic approach to IAM.Continue Reading

• Protecting Intellectual Property: Best Practices

  Organizations need to implement best practices to protect their trade secrets from both internal and external threats.Continue Reading

• Cloud Compliance: Tackling Compliance in the Cloud

  Moving to a cloud environment brings compliance challenges, but they’re not insurmountable.Continue Reading

• Metasploit Review: Ten Years Later, Are We Any More Secure?

  Some say the pen testing framework is a critical tool for improving enterprise security, while others say it helps attackers.Continue Reading

• The new era of big data security analytics

  The information security industry needs to shift its focus to data-driven security.Continue Reading

• FISMA Compliance and the Evolution to Continuous Monitoring

  The U.S. Department of State developed a system for improving federal cybersecurity.Continue Reading

• GRC Management and Critical Infrastructure Protection

  GRC needs to adapt to become a truly effective risk management tool for critical infrastructure.Continue Reading

• Developing a BYOD Strategy: Weigh the Risks, Challenges and Benefits

  Organizations need to consider benefits and risks as they embrace BYOD.Continue Reading

• Pros and Cons of Information Security Certifications

  Educating the security professional requires far more than a certification exam.Continue Reading

• Can ISO 27002 be used as a standalone guide for security management?

  Learn the difference between ISO 27001 and ISO 27002, and how the latter can be used to build an infosec program.Continue Reading

• How to comply with updated NIST incident response guidelines

  NIST recently updated its incident response guidelines. Find out how to comply with these changes and incorporate them into an incident response plan.Continue Reading

• PDF download: Information Security magazine October 2012

  In this issue, find out who won this year's Readers' Choice Awards. Also learn about threat management best practices and how hacktivists are impacting the threat landscape.Continue Reading

• Five tips to improve a threat and vulnerability management program

  Utilize these five simple tips from expert Diana Kelley to improve your enterprise's threat and vulnerability management program.Continue Reading

• Threat prevention techniques: Best practices for threat management

  A successful threat management program requires effective processes, layered technology and user education.Continue Reading

• Network log management on a budget: How to streamline log analysis

  Expert Matt Pascucci examines free tools and offers simple tactics that organizations can use to streamline the network log analysis and management process.Continue Reading

• pfSense tutorial: Configure pfSense as an SMB-caliber firewall

  Video: Keith Barker of CBT Nuggets provides a brief pfSense tutorial. Learn how to configure pfSense, a free yet surprisingly capable firewall.Continue Reading

• PDF download: Information Security magazine September 2012

  In this issue, learn about the pros and cons of cloud-based security services and mobile application security considerations.Continue Reading

• A new framework for preventing XSS attacks

  Understand how cross-site scripting attacks work and how to prevent them.Continue Reading

• Security as a Service: Benefits and risks of cloud-based security

  Know the pros and cons to cloud-based security services before making the leap.Continue Reading

• Log management and analysis: How, when and why

  In this presentation, John Burke discusses how to make the most of logs to augment an organization’s overall security posture.Continue Reading

• How to manage feedback in the compliance review process

  The compliance review process can be complicated, especially when getting input from others. Mike Chapple offers advice to streamline the process.Continue Reading

• Firewall security best practices: Get firewall network security advice

  Get to know your firewall inside and out with this compilation of resources on firewall vulnerabilities, configuration and more.Continue Reading

• Survey: Firewall rules sprawl makes firewall policy management a mess

  Bloated firewall rules are making security unmanageable and audits a nightmare, according to a survey by firewall management vendor Athena.Continue Reading

• PDF download: Information Security magazine July/August 2012

  In this issue, learn pen testing best practices and how to build an internal pen testing team.Continue Reading

• How to pen test: Why you need an internal security pen testing program

  Learn pen testing best practices and how to build an internal pen testing team.Continue Reading

• Securing SharePoint: SharePoint security best practices

  SharePoint has become ubiquitous in the enterprise, but organizations can overlook security. Learn SharePoint security best practices in this article.Continue Reading

• LinkedIn password leak: Lessons to be learned from LinkedIn breach

  Breach at the professional networking site highlights password practices, storage procedures.Continue Reading

• Network Forensics: Tracking Hackers through Cyberspace

  Authors Sherri Davidoff and Jonathan Ham discuss the benefits of Web proxies and caching for forensic analysts in this chapter excerpt from their co-authored book, Network Forensics: Tracking Hackers through Cyberspace.Continue Reading

• Privilege access management: User account provisioning best practices

  Broad user account provisioning can give users too much access. Randall Gamby offers privilege access management advice to prevent 'privilege creep.'Continue Reading

• PDF download: Information Security magazine June 2012

  In this issue, learn how organizations are overcoming challenges in sharing cyberthreat information.Continue Reading

• Secure remote access best practices: Guidelines for the enterprise

  Remote access threats are on the rise. Use expert Randall Gamby's secure remote access best practices to help users make good security decisions.Continue Reading

• MDM architecture considerations for enterprise identity management

  Randall Gamby details which enterprise identity management features to look for when evaluating products as the basis for an MDM architecture.Continue Reading

• Password compliance and password management for PCI DSS

  Can poor password management lead to PCI DSS non-compliance? Mike Chapple outlines key password compliance best practices.Continue Reading

• Cybersecurity information sharing initiatives on the rise

  Businesses and government agencies work to improve sharing of cyberthreat information.Continue Reading

• Challenges with data protection in the cloud

  Capabilities such as encryption and DLP can be complicated in the cloud.Continue Reading

• Information security threats: Building risk resilience

  Enterprises need an agile risk management strategy to deal with today’s evolving threats.Continue Reading

• Division of CISO responsibilities may prevent burnout

  CISO responsibilities can be overwhelming, according to a new IBM survey. One solution may be to divide the role into two jobs.Continue Reading

• PDF download: Information Security magazine May 2012

  In this issue, security expert Lisa Phifer examines mobile device management technology.Continue Reading

• Mobile device management systems help mitigate BYOD risks

  Understand the benefits and limitations of multi-platform MDM technology.Continue Reading

• Cybersecurity education vs. cybersecurity training

  Security professionals need to understand the difference and plan accordingly.Continue Reading

• Security staffing: Why information security positions go unfilled

  Be aware of potential roadblocks and adjust your recruiting accordingly.Continue Reading

• SIEM vs. DAM technology: Enterprise DAM implementation best practices

  Mike Cobb analyzes the differences between a SIEM and DAM implementation and how to successfully configure an enterprise DAM.Continue Reading

• DoS attack responses demand better business continuity plans

  Expert Nick Lewis says an effective DoS attack responses demand better business continuity plans, including pre-negotiating with providers.Continue Reading

• Security School: Cloud app security best practices

  In this Security School lesson, expert Diana Kelley examines what enterprises need to know about application security in the cloud.Continue Reading

• PDF download: Information Security magazine April 2012

  In this issue, read about enterprise requirements for unified threat management systems. Also read about tokenization and AMI security issues.Continue Reading

• UTM for the enterprise

  Unified threat management isn’t just for the SMB market anymore.Continue Reading

• Secure remote access? Security-related remote access problems abound

  Is there really such a thing as secure remote access? Editor Eric B. Parizo says there are too many security-related remote access problems to ignore.Continue Reading

• Understanding tokenization: What is tokenization and when to use it

  Tokenization protects sensitive data to reduce the compliance burden.Continue Reading

• 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.Continue Reading

• Dynamic authorization vs. other access management technologies

  Randall Gamby discusses the advantages of dynamic authorization vs. other access management strategies and implementation best practices.Continue Reading

• SaaS access management: Finding the best single sign-on technology

  Expert Randall Gamby details key strategies for SaaS access management and contemporary single sign-on technology that's truly interoperable.Continue Reading

• Managing remote employees: How to secure remote network access

  This SearchSecurity.com mini learning guide is a compilation of tips from our experts on how to secure remote network access. The guide offers best practices for managing remote employees and helping them set up a secure home network, as well as ...Continue Reading

• Secure network architecture best practices: DMZ and VLAN security

  This mini learning guide will cover best practices for achieving and maintaining a secure network architecture, discussing several aspects of DMZ security and VLAN security.Continue Reading

• PDF download: Information Security magazine March 2012

  This month's features include a discussion of how SIEM technology can help an organization if implemented properly, and an in-depth analysis of how the RSA breach impacted the industry.Continue Reading