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2011-2012 Firewall Buyers Guide

The firewall is the most strategic component of an organization's network security infrastructure. This has raised the need for organizations to analyze their currrent state of firewall technology along with researching the need of next- generation firewall capabilities. The rapidly changing needs of organizations and...

Reaping the "Trust Dividend" - Federal Agencies Can Move Services Online Now with an Identity Button (Like Facebook) - and Save Billions

The move of paper-based transactional services online doesn't create just cost savings and efficiencies. E-Gov creates a "Trust Dividend," thanks to the use of trustable online identities - issued by private enterprise, and relied upon by government. Making this switch now will help your agency achieve the benefits of...

Implementing SOX Controls in a Quick and Efficient Manner

SOX includes provisions to protect shareholders against fraudulent accounting practices. The focus of the act is to certify the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures to ensure the appropriateness and legitimacy of financial accounts. This white paper details: How PacketSentry can help with SOX IT...

Maximize Your Virtual and Cloud Environments

How can organizations best mitigate risk and meet increasingly stringent compliance requirements in the face of infrastructure transition and pressure to control costs? The answer: Virtual and cloud-based solutions. Unfortunately, these solutions introduce significant challenges with respect to security, audit and...

Medical Alert for Hospitals: Celebrity Snooping Places PHI at Risk and Kills Your Reputation

Celebrity snooping at healthcare facilities highlights an alarming - and often unchecked - trend: PHI privacy violations committed by current or former employees, contractors, and other insiders. Protecting patient privacy comes down to more than policies and regulations. What's needed is a way to enforce PHI...

Realizing the Promise of Health Information Exchange

Health information exchange (HIE) - the electronic movement of health-related information among organizations according to nationally recognized standards - has the potential to transform nearly every aspect of healthcare delivery in this country. Recent policies have helped fund major growth in the world of...

The Three Pillars of Trust: Adopting a New Service Architecture for Trusted Transactions with Government on the Internet

All organizations - including federal agencies - must leverage technologies that exist today to secure online transaction systems for E-Gov. Until now, fragmented silos of security technologies have been used to protect individual applications, data, or users. In a world of Webconnected smart phones and interactive...

Sponsored by Symantec

Mitigating Security Risk in the Cloud

Interest in cloud computing is on the rise, but security concerns linger. This white paper addresses how to mitigate those risks, including: Developing a secure, holistic infrastructure that encompasses both physical and virtual computing systems; Establishing high-level information security policies for...

Sponsored by Symantec

Embracing Clouds, Avoiding Storms

Organizations investigating cloud computing must consider many different options, including public, private and hybrid clouds. And each approach poses different risks. This white paper addresses: Choosing a cloud computing solution; Addressing the risks associated with moving to the cloud; Planning IT services...

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Don't Fear the Cloud

Security professionals at organizations adopting cloud computing solutions must put in place policies, processes and relationships that will result in keeping enterprise data safe. This industry perspective recommends: Adopting high-level information security policies as well as granular procedures and standards...

Protect Personally Identifiable Information (PII) as if Your Business Depends on It

Virtually every business acquires, uses and stores personally identifiable information (PII) about its customers, employees and partners. These organizations are expected to manage this private data appropriately and take every precaution to protect it from loss, unauthorized access or theft. Misusing, losing or...

Risk Management and Compliance: Healthcare Best Practices Guide

Healthcare is currently being shaped by several major trends, from migration to EHR's, to HIE, caregiver mobility, social media, cloud computing, cost reduction pressure and others. These trends promise compelling benefits, but also drive significant privacy and security risks. Breaches and other security incidents...

Mitigating Insider Threats With Internal Monitoring

Given the threat and compliance environments, Internal Segmentation (also known as internal firewalling) is a growing trend that requires organizations to improve their internal monitoring of data. These solutions control data within the corporate network and actively enforce data access policies for internal staff...

Segmenting Cardholder Data to Meet PCI Requirements

Segmenting in-scope PCI resources from an organization's IT infrastructure using traditional methods is quite challenging. Many have struggled with firewalls as a means of internal segmentation by inserting them in front of in-scope systems. While firewalls are a widely accepted technology for the Internet perimeter,...

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Medical Image Archiving - Reducing the Cost and Complexity

In the healthcare industry, medical image archives are growing exponentially. More studies, larger studies, longer retention, and new modalities are all driving the dramatic increase in storage needs. Facing this growth, healthcare information technology (IT) departments are seeking a way to reduce image archiving...