You are here: silicon.com > Resources > White Papers > Security > Intrusion - Tampering > Network Security

Network Security White Papers

ScanSafe Case Study: London Borough of Barnet

Tags:
network security

Overview The London Borough of Barnet is one of 32 local government districts in Greater London. The council has a team of around 45 people responsible for providing desktop support and maintaining and securing its IT infrastructure. They needed to find protection that was scaleable, flexible and upgraded proactively to deal with the latest security threats. London Borough of Barnet has been a ScanSafe customer and has upgraded to the full Web Malware Scanning and Web Filtering service. Web Malware Scanning offers protection from Web-borne viruses and is powered by ScanSafe's Outbreak Intelligence, a proprietary security platform that detects zero-hour and known malware threats.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	ScanSafe	File Format	PDF
Date Published	August 2007
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Network Security, Spyware

Did you find this white paper useful? 2 out of 3 users found this white paper useful

Balancing Security Against Productivity

What makes for great security? Is it about keeping the bad guys out or letting the good guys in? About defending attacks or preventing them? When IDG Research Services queried...

Publisher:
Novell

Security: New strides in preventing intrusions.

Need help eliminating risk in your IT environment? This ForwardView webshow describes how security appliances, which incorporate an array of security functions, can help you ward off security breaches without...

Publisher:
IBM

MessageLabs Intelligence : 2009 security Predictions

Having analyzed the global threat landscape for almost a decade, MessageLabs Team Skeptic™ is comprised of many world-renowned malware and spam experts who have a global view of threats across...

Publisher:
MessageLabs, now part of Symantec

IDC Vendor Spotlight

Organised ubiquity is a must for organisations to sucessfully "project" their users in any given landspace, at any given time, with secuirty policy. This White Paper covers issues surrounding secure...

Publisher:
BeCrypt

Trend Micro Enterprise Security white paper

This white paper reviews the content security threat landscape and how it has evolved into a more dangerous and high risk environment. The paper discussed how conventional content security approaches...

Publisher:
Trend Micro

Small businesses get top security tips

Do not open any unexpected email attachments without first saving to disk and scanning for viruses. Top US accountants have issued advice for SMEs to stay abreast of hackers malware and other security threats to their IT systems.

Channel:
SME Director

Fear of viruses and poor AV protection growing

Security software firm Finjan, which claims to proactively stop viruses by scanning and monitoring all active content on a network, such as executables and other potentially malicious code, refers to this as a 'window of vulnerability'.

Channel:
Malware

McAfee to clean C&W customer data traffic

However, he told silicon.com there is a fine line that service providers must tread when it comes to publicising the fact they monitor in-bound and out-bound traffic, albeit only scanning it for the purposes of filtering out malware and spam.

Channel:
Security Strategy
Tags:
c&w,
mcafee

Quocirca's Straight Talking: The web at work

For instance, UK-based web filtering vendor ScanSafe has seen 100 per cent growth in seats served by its web filtering service. The number of web-based threats continues to grow: spyware, phishing sites, viruses and so on.

Coming soon - malware threats to iPhone 2.0?

The company's report, released on Friday, on the security threat landscape for the first half of 2008, and in its outlook for the second half of the year, warned that "iPhone customers will likely suffer from mobile malware threats until security...

Channel:
Data Lockdown
Tags:
iphone,
3g,
malware

First iPhone 2.0 antivirus software released

He said: "If the file has to be moved to your Mac or your PC first, then you aren't really scanning the device, you're just scanning by proxy and reactively, since the file has to be on the device first.

Channel:
PDAs
Tags:
iphone,
antivirus,
malware

Featured White Papers

Harnessing the Power of Location Intelligence in the Public Sector

Throughout the world, public services today are under pressure. The current economic climate, where taxreceipts are naturally suppressed, provides very seriousfunding challenges. Moreover, in good times and bad, increasing regulation at the regional and national level is imposing additional duties and responsibilities on the public services without additional resources to carry them out. Store closures are changing the urban landscape. Demographic and/or economic change isincreasing demand for health and social services.Demand for decreased crime rates is focusing minds in law enforcement. And the threat of internationalterrorism is forcing greater contingency duties on the emergency services. The net result is a need to do more with lessÂ—quite a challenge.

Publisher:
Pitney Bowes

Buyers' Guide - How to ease the shift to mobile working

With momentum building behind mobile working, are higher costs inevitable when moving staff to laptops? Not necessarily. In fact it's possible to emerge with lower management overheads - and tighter security. Read on to find out more.

Publisher:
Intel

IBM Virtualization Services

Virtualization is a powerful technology and can have profound effects on the datacenter; however, it should be viewed as a component of an overall IT strategy that will be able to support the enterprise's needs. IDC recommends that enterprises look at theentire architecture and determine how to best deploy virtualization