You are here: silicon.com > Resources > White Papers > Data Management > Data Infrastructure > Knowledge and Data Management

Knowledge and Data Management White Papers

Enabling a safer internet: The positive approach to web security

Overview With one new infected webpage discovered every 4.5 seconds, there is no longer any such thing as a "trusted website". As the internet becomes an increasingly missioncritical tool, new media such as blogs and social networking sites are a necessary part of business. This paper describes today's new web threats, highlights the need for a positive security model to replace yesterday's access-blocking approach, and describes the three pillars of protection organizations need to safeguard their systems and resources.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Sophos	File Format	HTML & PDF
Date Published	June 2009
Format	White Papers
Topics	Knowledge and Data Management, Web Development and Design, Network Security, Security Standards, Best Practices

Did you find this white paper useful? 1 out of 3 users found this white paper useful

Accelerating Enterprise Data Governance Part 1

In the first of this series of three white papers, Mike Ferguson of Intelligent Business Strategies defines what data governance is and then looks at the requirements that need to...

Publisher:
DataFlux

Data Governance for Master Data Management and Beyond

There is growing interest on behalf of both data management professionals and senior business managers to understand the motivations, mechanics, and benefits of instituting data governance within an organization. This...

Publisher:
DataFlux

Getting Started with Master Data Management

Master data management forms part of an overall enterprise governance program that aims to establish trusted data throughout the enterprise. This white paper from Mike Ferguson of Intelligent Business Strategies...

Publisher:
DataFlux

Five Steps to More Valuable Enterprise Data

Companies worldwide struggle with inconsistent, inaccurate or unreliable data - and often don't know how to build more useful corporate information. This white paper examines a five-step method for...

Publisher:
DataFlux

3 Strategies for Reducing IT Support Costs

As companies brace for more bumps in the economic downturn, many organisations are indiscriminately cutting costs. To ensure a seamless transition into the post-recession market, however, slashing and burning is...

Publisher:

Tags:
knowledge and data management

Through the Fog: Who should protect you from viruses?

While taking steps to safeguard against email borne viruses is important, it is also critical to appreciate that many attacks nowadays are 'blended', meaning that the virus will persist in trying alternative entry points - such as direct open TCP...

Fear of viruses and poor AV protection growing

Nick Sears, vice president EMEA at Finjan Software, said: "Many of the current AV solutions are excellent at recognising and blocking viruses that currently exist, but cannot cope with new internet attacks.

Channel:
Malware

'Blogs not trusted for serious news'

A survey of media consumption in the US has found 50 per cent of people opt for traditional media such as television, radio and newspapers as their primary source for information during major events like hurricanes, rather than turning to...

Channel:
WebWatch
Tags:
blogs

Web 2.0 threat looms

For example, information may be inadvertently posted on blogs to a wider audience, or simply emailed to the wrong person. Trusted sources The core of many of these problems is that the user is downloading and executing third-party code from what...

Phishers attack social networking generation

The Symantec report notes social-networking sites are attractive to cybercriminals because such pages "are generally trusted by users". People are employing programmers dedicated to the production of those threats," Scroggie said.

The 'multi-component' malware threat

On the other hand, there are more avenues to counter the threat; attacks can be thwarted by blocking any one of the components involved, noted Ducklin. Multi-component threats are…becoming more sophisticated and adding more and more components for...

Channel:
Security Strategy
Tags:
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