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Network Security Best Practices: Competitive Analysis
White Papers New security services for Internet Protocol (IP) networks are emerging that enable new levels of scalability and manageability - while remaining completely transparent to the network. When it comes to security architecture, choosing a system that's...
[May 31, 2008, 1:01]
Network Security Checklist - Cisco
White Papers Many small and medium-sized businesses do not have adequate network security. However, now more than ever, you depend on your network for your most important business operations, such as communication, inventory, billing, sales, and trading with...
[September 28, 2009, 16:27]
Cisco - Network Security Policy: Best Practices White Paper
White Papers Without a security policy, the availability of your network can be compromised. Continuation of the policy requires implementing a security change management practice and monitoring the network for security violations.
[January 6, 2004, 23:00]
Network Security: Compromises and Countermeasures
White Papers Network security is a long-standing and well-recognized problem in the computing world. Protecting information is a main priority of a network administrator, with security techniques becoming increasingly robust.
[October 6, 2009, 0:00]
Network Security for Small Businesses
White Papers Achieving effective network security for small business requires a solution that's designed to fit your needs today and can adapt to tomorrow's security threats. This paper explores how, aside from protecting you against such threats, the best...
[November 9, 2009, 10:29]
Beyond Interoperability: Network Security as a Voice over IP (VoIP) Enabler
White Papers Companies implementing Voice over IP (VoIP) technologies in an effort to cut communications costs should not overlook the security risks associated with a converged voice and data network. Tempted by the benefits of lower phone bills, centralized...
[September 20, 2008, 0:00]
Trend Micro Smart Protection Network - Security Made Smarter
White Papers Trend Micro leverages patent-pending technology to correlate the threat data gathered through a network of proactive email, Web, and file reputation technologies, Web Crawlers, honeypots and global threat sensors of customers, partners, and threat...
[October 2, 2009, 1:23]
Network-Based Security Requires Firewall, IPS and AV
White Papers The terms being used to describe network defense capabilities are just as blurry and hard to pin down as the latest flavor of blended threat. Indeed, amidst the haze of imprecision there is even a proposition that achieving comprehensive network...
[April 26, 2008, 1:02]
Smart security: network scanners
News But whatever the process is called, network vulnerability scanners combine databases of known security problems with complex logic to find security weaknesses before a human hacker does. Rasmussen said the leading network vulnerability scanning...
[November 6, 2002, 9:00]
How Cisco IT Uses NetFlow to Capture Network Behavior, Security, and Capacity Data
White Papers And it plays a vital role in network security. Cisco relied almost exclusively on Simple Network Protocol (SNMP) to monitor Internet bandwidth. NetFlow answers the who, what, when, where, and how of network traffic, and it has become the primary...
[March 5, 2008, 0:02]
Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) Security
White Papers Authentication, encryption, intrusion detection and network monitoring are obvious considerations, but changing business conditions, standards, and government regulations also need to be evaluated by IT professionals.
[February 21, 2006, 23:00]
Microsoft Webcast: Security Series (Part 4 of 8): Protecting Network Edge With Network Firewalls and Web Proxy (Level 200)
White Papers A network firewall and Web proxy like Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006, protects, logs, and reports on all connections made through the firewall and Web proxy. Network firewalls and Web proxies enable organizations to...
[June 9, 2007, 1:00]
TechNet Webcast: Network Isolation Using Group Policy and IPSec (Part 1 of 3): Overview of Internet Protocol Security (Level 300)
White Papers The webcast provides an overview of the nature of Internet Protocol Security - the challenges to secure network communication, how IPSec can help, and the various ways IPSec can be implemented to achieve different types of secure communication.
[June 30, 2008, 1:01]
Cisco explains threats to enterprise network security
White Papers This sample chapter, taken from Cisco Press' Designing Network Security, 2nd Edition, gives critical information on a variety of network security threats, including: Port scanning, unauthorized wireless access, default route impersonation, denial...
[May 18, 2006, 1:00]
Protecting the Enterprise Network: Layered Network Security Defense
White Papers Evolution of the enterprise and the way it does business, coupled with today's network threats, has reduced the effectiveness of traditional perimeter security. This paper describes Nortel Networks layered defense approach to network security based...
[September 2, 2008, 7:35]
Quantitative Network Security Analysis
White Papers At the same time, there are tremendous challenges in collecting and analyzing network information at sufficient scale that these findings are globally meaningful. The field of system security research has long been dominated by individual...
[September 20, 2008, 0:00]
A Web Interface for Nessus Network Security Scanner
White Papers A fully functional web interface (NessusWeb) for the Nessus network security scanner has been developed. The Nessusd server forms the business tier, which performs the actual network security scans. NessusWeb provides public accessibility for...
[October 5, 2009, 0:00]
Bio-Inspired Mechanisms for Efficient and Adaptive Network Security
White Papers Off late, many efforts have been made in developing algorithms and methodologies for building efficient network security mechanisms. Network security mechanisms are composed of several components. First, high-performance network monitoring entities...
[September 20, 2008, 0:00]
The Essentials of Network Security
White Papers No individual-whether a noncomputer user, a casual Internet surfer, or even a large enterprise-is immune to network-security breaches. With proper planning, however, network security breaches can often be prevented.
[September 20, 2008, 0:00]
Executive Briefing: Wireless Network Security
White Papers This paper discusses the 3 layers of wireless security and the options available for securing the network: Physical layer encryption, including WEP which has proven ineffective against hackers and intentional intruders, 802.1X standards-based...
[March 2, 2004, 11:18]
