Review: Firewall operations management

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	Review: Firewall operations management Anyone running multiple firewalls in a complex, enterprise environment knows how difficult it can be to catch misconfigurations, avoid conflicting rules, identify vulnerabilities and meet auditing and compliance mandates. Read More WHITE PAPER: Qualys 12-point checklist outlines key considerations Discover a 12-point checklist for choosing the best vulnerability management solution for your organization. Read now! In this Issue Researchers unsheathe new tool to battle botnets Happy Hackers' Heaven On The Horizon The White House plan to safeguard cyberspace The virtual blind spot Network security essentials Case study: Hungry for virtual server security The challenges of cloud security Covert investigations 3: covert surveillance setup Oracle to issue 59 critical patches Newest Attack on your Credit Card: ATM Shims How savvy firms monitor customers' online chatter WHITE PAPER: Radware New Threats Require Real-Time Protection First generation IPS devices match patterns (or "signatures") of known attack vulnerabilities to safeguard networks. However, a significant amount of threats are dynamic and not addressable by static signature-based IPS devices. Read More Now Researchers unsheathe new tool to battle botnets While many botnets such as Storm, Kraken and Conficker can carry out their destructive campaigns without detection or any particular means to stop them, a group of researchers says it has come up with a way to use a botnet's own techn Read More Happy Hackers' Heaven On The Horizon After Tuesday, July 13th, happy attackers will take advantage of your procrastination and target millions of businesses and individuals still running Windows XP SP2 and Windows 2000. All that low hanging fruit will cause a feeding frenzy and heaven for malicious hackers is on the horizon. Read More The White House plan to safeguard cyberspace The plan to "reduce cybersecurity vulnerabilities and improve online privacy protections" floated in June by Howard Schmidt, the Cybersecurity Coordinator and Special Assistant to the President, is comprehensive and an important step in the right direction. Read More WHITE PAPER: MessageLabs Employee Web Use and Misuse: This white paper examines a Web security solution that gives companies the ability to monitor and enforce their Internet usage policies, bringing site monitoring and URL filtering together while insuring security with anti-virus and anti-spyware protection. Read Now The virtual blind spot Malicious hypervisors. Subversive virtual machines. Live migration impersonators. Welcome to the world of server virtualization, where the threats are new and the traditional security tools like firewalls and intrusion-prevention systems don't cut it anymore. Unfortunately, at many enterprises, security strategies haven't kept pace with the shift to x.86 server virtualization http://www.networkworld.com/supp/2010/ndc2/032210-ndc-tools-trends.html?source=nww_rss . "Many companies that have virtualized environments haven't contemplated the security ramifications of what they're doing yet," says Forrester analyst John Kindervag. Read More Network security essentials Network security problems are part of daily IT life these days. There are myriad issues, from patching Windows machines to stopping worms and protecting your assets from nasty insider threats. Here's a round up of the hottest recent network security news. Read More Case study: Hungry for virtual server security When it comes to sampling innovative technology, Schwan Foods, a multibillion-dollar frozen food producer, digs right in. Read More WHITE PAPER: MessageLabs Ensure 360-Degree Border Security Managing the security and availability of Web, email, and IM is complex. This paper will discuss the modern threat of blended attacks from web, email and IM. and highlight how a comprehensive hosted solution by Symantec Hosted Services can secure your networks from these threat vectors. Read Now The challenges of cloud security Some IT execs dismiss public cloud services as being too insecure to trust with critical or sensitive application workloads and data. But not Doug Menefee, CIO of Schumacher Group, an emergency management firm in Lafayette, La. Read More Covert investigations 3: covert surveillance setup With our new low lux camera and high resolution, 30 fps DVR delivered to the office after reading Covert investigations: cameras and recording devices, it's time to catch our finger-painting bad guy who is still targeting the late night halls of the corporate office. Read More Oracle to issue 59 critical patches Oracle on Tuesday will release 59 patches to fix security weaknesses affecting hundreds of products, according to a notice on its Web site. Read More Newest Attack on your Credit Card: ATM Shims Shimming is the newest con designed to skim your credit card number, PIN and other info when you swipe your card through a reader like an ATM machine. The shim is the latest attack being used by criminals to steal your credit card info at the ATM or other Pin Entry Device. According to Diebold, " The criminal act of card skimming results in the loss of billions of dollars annually for financial institutions... Read More How savvy firms monitor customers' online chatter People react to the Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes in one of three ways: Some hope that the next knock on the door will be a member of the company's Prize Patrol carrying a giant check; some think the whole thing is a joke; and others exploit its brand for scams. Read More
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