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Endpoint Security, Management and Control - Part 1: The Spyware Problem and Other Great Security Myths

Overview Organizations no longer only face attacks from amateurs. Instead, modern attacks are often perpetrated by skilled malware authors working in close cooperation with organized criminals in order to steal saleable business assets. This series of whitepapers will address how business security for PCs has changed over the last half-decade and why current approaches to securing these systems have become untenable. This paper discusses the driving pressures on business PC security have changed over the last five years and why that change now requires fundamental reappraisals of how businesses regard IT and informational assets, and how they approach security as a whole.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	FutureSoft	File Format	PDF
Date Published	December 2005
Format	White Papers
Topics	Anti-Virus, Spam - E-mail Fraud - Phishing, Spyware

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