Data centers can benefit greatly from the two-factor authentication that smart cards provide to the logical realm. It's important, however, to choose a solution that fulfills the requirement of supporting PKI authentication to multiple servers from a single location and one that makes the necessary KVM feature adjustments to enable seamless use of the reader. This White Paper examines these considerations and defines best practices when evaluating a Smart Card Authentication solution.

Download this white paper, to learn how you can reduce the risk of hackers finding your site and attacking it by using automated vulnerability assessments to identify exploitable weaknesses and take corrective action.

This white paper explains the licensing and proper use of Symantec SSL Certificates for securing multiple Web servers and/or multiple domains and subdomains in the network configurations.

Symantec Extended Validation (EV) SSL Certificates can be a key factor in helping increase customer confidence during online business transactions. More confidence can mean more conversions for customers with EV SSL certificates.

Whether it's a smartcard for physical and logical access, soft tokens on a mobile device, or a unique grid card for strong authentication to a VPN, organizations can consolidate all authentication processes with a single, proven solution.

This whitepaper examines the common misconceptions about full disk encryption.

Security and Trust: The Backbone of Doing Business Over the Internet

Choosing the Right Security Solution: Moving Beyond SSL to Establish Trust

Malware Security Report: Protecting Your Business, Customers, and the Bottom Line

Proof Positive - Extended Validation SSL Increases Online Sales and Transactions

Best Practices and Applications of TLS/SSL

Protecting Users From Firesheep and other Sidejacking Attacks with SSL

In this business environment, strong authentication-using multiple factors to ensure users are indeed who they claim to be-is vital. As they evaluate the alternatives, many organizations are opting to use SMS authentication, which offers a mix of convenience and security that make it ideally suited to many usage scenarios. Read this white paper to find out more!

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) is a federally designated nonprofit corporation chartered to ensure the bulk electric system in North America is reliable, adequate and secure. To meet that goal, NERC enforces comprehensive reliability standards for planning and operating the collective bulk power system, including the Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Cyber Security Standards. These NERC-CIP standards protect Critical Cyber Assets (CCA)-the computers, servers, networks and devices and other elements of the IT infrastructure that affect the reliability of or control North America's bulk electricity systems. IT organizations in every sector of the North American energy industry face routine pressure to comply with the requirements of these standards, but must do so with limited staff and decreasing budgets.

Make compliance just another part of your processes by taking an operational approach to security. In this white paper, learn: Compliance is a fact of business life challenging organizations of all sizes, Simply ticking off boxes on audits is not enough to keep you secure, integrating standards processes with security guarantees continuous compliance, you must account for compliance in your physical and virtualized environments, Tripwire's approach to operational security delivers compliance as an ongoing feature.

The all-on-one log and event management capabilities of Tripwire Log Center make it a sophisticated security event analysis solution. With it, you can query and search all the data in the event database and then drill down to investigate any suspicious activities. It provides graphical tools for correlating events, and pinpointing parts of the infrastructure that could be affected by any incident. A centralized dashboard gives a quick view of all alerts, events of interest and vulnerabilities. In this white paper, learn: what the current trends are in using logs to track suspicious activity, why traditional security information and event management solutions are inadequate, what's needed to meet current security needs, the features of Tripwire Log Center that help meet those needs, and how Tripwire Long Center and Tripwire Enterprise combine to give end-to-end visibility for events and changes.

Many organizations today focus their energy on simply passing each PCI audit, losing sight of the main objectives of the PCI DSS - to secure the cardholder data environment. As a result, organizations still suffer security breaches and experience the negative fallout associated with a data compromise. Read this technology brief to find out how with Tripwire Enterprise and Tripwire Log Center, you can pass the quarterly audit - and continuously maintain a high level of security.

This white paper examines the elements that comprise a high quality PKI and the advantages of outsourcing to Entrust Managed Services PKI.

When it comes to words, less can be more. A little can say a lot. "Man overboard!" "You're hired." "I love you." Or in business, "The prospect is ready to sign, call him before he leaves for vacation!" With the explosion of Twitter over the past year - for personal as well as business, brand-building use - it seems that now, more than ever, is an appropriate time to investigate the benefits of internal microblogging for the enterprise. When correctly carried out, the benefits of launching an internal microblogging platform for your company can be substantial and wide-ranging. This NewsGator paper will provide you with initial information regarding microblogging in the enterprise.

New network vulnerabilities appear constantly and the ability for IT security professionals to handle new flaws, fix misconfigurations and protect against threats requires constant attention. However, with shrinking budgets and growing responsibilities, time and resources are at constrained. Therefore, sifting through pages of raw vulnerability information yields few results and makes it impossible to accurately measure your security posture. This paper cuts through the data overload generated by some vulnerability detection solutions and introducesThe Top 10 Reports for Managing Vulnerabilities. This free guide covers the key aspects of the vulnerability management lifecycle and shows you what reports today's best-in-class organizations are using to reduce risks on their network infrastructure.

All of the buzz about the technical previews of Office and SharePoint has many IT professionals looking to the first half of 2010 with excitement. Many are asking, ?What can I do to prepare for SharePoint 2010?? Even though many details about the upgrade are yet to be revealed, there is much that can be done today. The SharePoint product team has provided guidance on a number of items that can help organizations prepare, and Service Pack 2 includes a key tool that can provide additional insight and configuration information.

With the success of single sign-on (SSO) inside the enterprise, users are calling for interoperability outside of the enterprise’s security domain to outsourced services, including business process outsourcing (BPO) and software as a service (SaaS) providers, and trading partners, as well as within the enterprise to affiliates and subsidiaries. Learn more today!

Currently, there is no single standard framework that explicitly defines what your organization must do for compliance. A big challenge for IT security professionals is navigating this ambiguity and achieving the organization's compliance goals effectively and on budget. This guide covers seven typical IT security compliance errors and outlines the best practices you can immediately apply to your environment to help your company achieve compliance.

Learn to empower your mobile workforce while simplifying mobility management and controlling costs.

Success stories from companies who didn't wait until it was too late. Learn how leading companies are following these truths to take the ambiguity out of managing their organizations and are now leading their businesses into the next business boom.