Free White Papers

 

SP are dedicated to providing businesses with the latest industry information and advice from our technology partners and other industry bodies. Download multiple industry white papers for free below.
 

White Papers

 

Check Point

 


  A Delicate Balance - Performance & Security
Companies have always faced a tradeoff with network security. Do they lock down the network and face performance issues....

 A New Strategy - Unifying Endpoint Security
Meeting the challenge of securing endpoints by unifying essential components in a single agent..... 

 The New Face of Intrusion Prevention
Given that IPS has become a fundamental component of 'due care' in IT security, the next generation of IPS needs to provide organizations with an integrated solution with performance that exceeds dedicated IPS systems.....
  

 Sourcefire

  

 
The threat landscape is far more dynamic, due primarily to a relatively recent shift in hacker motivation from building a reputation to actually making money. Specific changes and associated implications for an enterprise security solution include...
 
There’s a lot riding on compliance, so it’s understandable everyone involved in corporate governance is focused on assuring new laws and regulations are being observed. But experience demonstrates that’s a challenging task....
 
This paper, while not scientific, attempts to calculate the value of specific automation features in advanced IPSs with which organizations can achieve savings in total cost of ownership (TCO).
 

 IronPort

         

  Origins of IP reputation services; test results on Cisco IronPort’s own reputation service, SenderBase; best practices in using reputation services; and the ROI of reputation services.

A comprehensive overview of emerging anti-virus strategies and their practical implications.  Developing a high performance preventative security system....

 Webroot

 

 

  Strong threats require even stronger, more targeted countermeasures to identify the silent but deadly creepers... 
 
Increasingly organisations are being asked to view accidental data loss as a serious business risk. Senior managers that treat it as purely an IT issue are in danger of breaching their fidciary duty to the compnay, by placing it as risk of financial compromise.
                                                             

 Blue Coat

 

 

  This white paper, sponsored by Blue Coat, discusses the extent of today’s Web threats and gives recommendations on key aspects of a defense against them....

Organizations must implement Data Loss Prevention (DLP) systems to protect themselves against the growing array of threats they face from inadvertent and malicious data leaks from email, instant messaging and other systems...
 

 RSA

RSA

 

Increasing governmental, industry, partner/customer and internal requirements are tasking organisations to address an ever widening range of compliance requirements. This paper discusses how organizations can develop and maintain a true understanding of the cost of compliance.
 
Broad adoption of SIEM technology is driven by compliance and security needs. New use cases are emerging in areas such as application activity monitoring.