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Advanced Targeted Attacks
By FireEye | 15/4/2013
The new threat landscape has changed. Cybercriminals are aggressively pursuing valuable data assets, such as financial transaction information, product design blueprints, user credentials to sensitive systems, and other intellectual property. Simply put, the cyber offense has outpaced the defensive technologies used by most companies today. Find out more on how to protect against the next generation of cyber-attacks.
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The TCO and Security of Enterprise Grade Mobility
By BlackBerry | 8/4/2013
In this whitepaper, Strategy Analytics present the findings of extensive research into the total cost of ownership (TCO) and security across major mobile platforms. Find out about the challenges companies are encountering in the face of the four Cs: Compliance, Control, Cost and Consumerisation. Click to download.
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Setting New Standards in Mobile Security
By BlackBerry | 8/4/2013
As users bring their own device, the obvious question how to effectively manage the security of consumer devices within the enterprise, when many of the applications on those devices are third-party, or contain personal data. Filter through the complexity of mobile platforms out there and deliver a comprehensive mobile security solution. Download for more!
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Discover the Smart Choice for Managing BYOD
By BlackBerry | 4/4/2013
With 100+ mobile device vendors claiming to address the challenges that arise with BYOD devices users bring to the enterprise and their expectation to access security sensitive material. Click to view!
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Striking The Balance in Mobility: User Needs vs Security Concerns
By BlackBerry | 4/4/2013
Today’s IT managers need to weigh up the threats and vulnerabilities Mobile Device Management is susceptible to, while at the same time being able to deliver their users convenience and usability. Such solutions need to be fast, reliable and, more importantly, secure. Download how to find this middle ground in this FAQ!
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Building Maturity and Experience in Successful Virtualisation Strategies
By Symantec | 14/3/2013
Current trends in the adaption and deployment of virtualisation suggest that as an organisation gains experience, each implementation requires a different technique. A stratified approach to a company’s long-term virtualisation and cloud computing strategy allows the right skills set to be built alongside the resolution of each scale and complexity issue presented. Read more to understanding where you are and how you can compare for the future.
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Appropriate Backup Applications for Accelerated Virtualisation Projects
By Symantec | 14/3/2013
As virtualisation increasingly becomes an investment priority, a recent EDG survey has found that the associated operating expense can easily become too high a hurdle. In this paper, leading IT organisations quantify the role of inappropriate data-protection as a large obstacle to a stable virtualisation implementation. Read more to find how to optimise your backup applications to meet the present protection requirements.
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Six Strategies That Lead to Business-Critical Virtualisation
By Symantec | 14/3/2013
While most organisations are able to virtualise the basic functions of its workplace, they can often hit a wall when moving beyond legacy systems to business-critical servers and applications. This report lists six proactive strategies that business specialists have cited as assisting in building a virtualised state. Find out how these strategies lead to organisations becoming the beneficiary to virtualisation.
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Securing the Road to Virtualization and Beyond
By Symantec | 14/3/2013
Traditional security controls for enterprise don’t necessarily translate into the new world of virtualisation and cloud environments. When mapping out a secure virtualisation roadmap, click to find out about pave a more secure, risk free path.
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Securing the Virtual Data Centre
By Symantec | 14/3/2013
Virtual environments need protection from top to bottom – spanning hypervisors, management consoles, and physical hosts, not just endpoints – and end to end, across these sprawling, dynamic new infrastructures. This report includes field-proven examples of how best to safeguard critical applications in growing virtual and cloud environments.
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Security Awareness Tip

Incident handling is a vast topic, but here are a few tips for you to consider in your incident response. I hope you never have to use them, but the odds are at some point you will and I hope being ready saves you pain (or your job!).


  1. Have an incident response plan.

  2. Pre-define your incident response team 

  3. Define your approach: watch and learn or contain and recover.

  4. Pre-distribute call cards.

  5. Forensic and incident response data capture.

  6. Get your users on-side.

  7. Know how to report crimes and engage law enforcement. 

  8. Practice makes perfect.

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Warning: Tips for secure mobile holiday shopping

I’m dating myself, but I remember when holiday shopping involved pouring through ads in the Sunday paper, placing actual phone calls from tethered land lines to research product stock and availability, and actually driving places to pick things up. Now, holiday shoppers can do all of that from a smartphone or tablet in a few seconds, but there are some security pitfalls to be aware of.

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