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The Essentials Series: Messaging and Web Security Volume Three Author: Dan Sullivan The Essentials Series: Messaging and Web Security - Volume III continues the series' focus on managing IT infrastructure and applications in an increasingly complex security environment. The articles are especially geared towards application developers, database administrators, Web architects, and systems managers, and focus on emerging threats to enterprise as well as SMB environments. As in the previous volumes, each article will not only seek to explain threats and security issues but provide best practices and management guidance to address those threats. Click here to learn more. |
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The Essentials Series: Messaging and Web Security Volume Two Author: Dan Sullivan Now available as a single PDF download! Volume Two of The Essentials Series: Messaging and Web Security examines new challenges to combating the growing proliferation of online threats that includes spam, phishing, malware and spyware. This expert series includes twenty-seven articles in total, each authored by security veteran Dan Sullivan. The Essentials Series: Messaging and Web Security - Volume II will be especially useful to small and mid-sized organizations that face the same challenges as larger enterprises, but are limited by their level of resources. Click here to learn more. |
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The Essentials Series: Messaging and Web Security Author: Dan Sullivan Now available as a single PDF download! The Essentials Series: Messaging and Web Security is an online article series focused on helping security professionals address the ongoing task of keeping an organization secure from the multitude of online and messaging threats. Topics in this series include content filtering technologies, compliance issues, FISMA, ITIL processes, phishing, it audits, and many more. This series is authored by security expert Dan Sullivan. Click here to learn more. |
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The Definitive Guide to Controlling Malware, Spyware, Phishing and Spam Author: Dan Sullivan The Internet is home to malicious programs that can steal, destroy, and make data inaccessible; spyware that ignores social conventions of privacy to track Internet users' activities online; phishing scams that bring the art of the con artist to new threatening levels; and spam, the inevitable electronic counterpart to direct mail that requires so little investment even miniscule response rates justify its use. This guide explores some of the most pressing threats to businesses and organizations from the Internet along with best practices for addressing them.Click here to learn more. |
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| Sage - Security Vision from McAfee Avert Labs - Volume 1, Issue 2 Sage reports on leading research from McAfee Avert Labs. This issue begins with an overview of cybercrime, and continues with an examination of trends in application security, the difficulties you'll meet running Windows Vista, spyware's move onto mobile devices, new forms of image spam plaguing email, and the danger facing cell phones. Also included are strategy pieces on combating data leakage and the need for a security risk management plan that aligns IT with business goals. |
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| Reigning in Malware 2007: The year of the secure gateway Malware is good business. For malware developers. The year 2006 saw rapid evolution of malware technologies. Malware entrepreneurs figured out how to refine and speed attacks for maximum profitability, toxicity, and stealth. Their business models now precisely target theft of specific corporate and personal data and the distribution and installation of adware. To combat malware’s escalation to big business, enterprises must update and expand gateway defenses to include multiple coordinated network and host-based protections, including anti-spyware, content filtering, anti-spam, and anti-virus. Learn more about implementing successful gateway security that can protect against these new threats. |
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| Understanding Phishing and Pharming Phishing is a form of internet scam in which the attackers try to trick consumers into divulging sensitive personal information. The techniques usually involve fraudulent E-mail and web sites that impersonate both legitimate E-mail and web sites. The fraudulent E-mails can be considered a malicious form of unsolicited bulk E-mail generally known as “spam.” Consumers are vulnerable to identity theft and some financial losses through fraudulent transactions. Financial institutions are at risk for large numbers of fraudulent transactions using the stolen information. Phishing attacks are often very large-scale events that target thousands of consumers, or more, in the hope that a percentage will be tricked into responding. |
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Dan Sullivan is a systems architect with 20 years of IT experience that includes engagements in enterprise security, application design, and systems architecture. His experience includes a broad range of industries, including financial services, manufacturing, government, retail, gas and oil production, power generation, and education. Dan’s security-related project work has ranged from requirements analysis for enterprise information security to designing and implementing security for database applications and enterprise portals. Dan has written about information security and other enterprise information management topics for Business Security Advisor, DM Review, Intelligent Enterprise, and E-Business Advisor. You can contact Dan at: dan_sullivan@realtimepublishers.net