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Laying the IT Security Foundation - Corralling Conficker and Other Threats in an Evolved Environment

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Overview The traditional security approach addresses each individual attack as it crops up through a detect and blocking schema. However in today's ever-changing IT environment, sophisticated threats such as Conficker worm continue to evolve and keep security professionals in an unending game of cat and mouse. Read this paper to learn how to:

Regain control of your environment and address the root cause of attacks
Automate the detection and remediation of OS and application vulnerabilities and mis-configurations
Prevent threats such as Conficker from wreaking havoc on your business
Enforce a trusted application environment

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Lumension	File Format	PDF
Date Published	June 2009
Format	White Papers
Topics	Anti-Virus, Network Security, Security Applications, Security Management, Denial of Service

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