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10 Essential Steps to Web Security

This short guide summarizes ten steps to web security. Do them all, and you’ll be better protected than 98% of enterprises out there. But the target never stands still. More than the steps listed here, it’s important to focus on the principles behind the steps, including: policy, vigilance, simplification, automation and transparency.

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10 Essential Steps to Email Security

When you think about the risks, it’s amazing we let email into our enterprises at all. Then again, just try switching it off… Every enterprise has to find a balance between security and the ability to carry on conducting business freely. This short guide is about finding that balance.

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15 Common Mistakes in Email Security

This short guide highlights fifteen of the more common mistakes in email security. It’s not intended to be a comprehensive list of errors, but it should help you identify a few things that you may not be doing today to protect your organization against attack and abuse.

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15 Common Mistakes in Web Security

The goal of the booklet is simple: to help network administrators and other IT professionals avoid the most common security mistakes so we can all use the web with confidence – while making life a lot more difficult for the bad guys.

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IDC White Paper - Corporate Self Protection

Corporations are being assaulted by threats from all directions. Electronic communication opened many doors for misuse and abuse — and the rather unpleasant consequences of both. What can a company do to protect itself? Securing content is the answer.

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The Need for Advanced Certified Email Protection

As soon as there is a need to demonstrate compliance, every element of a system (physical environmental, human interaction, IT systems, support, etc.) needs to be able to prove its capability towards meeting the overall system needs. Security is a chain – security is only as strong as its weakest link.

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Email security: beyond the hype and hyperbole

Today, no organization could consider switching off its email or web access. The Internet is digital DNA, enabling instant communication, collaboration and access to information. But one unforeseen result of email and web use is a radical a change in the ratio of structured to unstructured content within your business

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Information Security Breaches Survey 2006
Price Waterhouse Cooper

This survey shows even higher levels of adoption; 97% now have an Internet connection and 88% of these are broadband. With broadband, the Internet is only a click away. Increasingly, UK businesses recognise the temptation this poses to their staff. More companies have an acceptable usage policy for the Internet than have an overall information security policy. The dip in controls seen two years ago has reversed.

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Spyware - A multi-faceted threat

We survey the current state of the world of spyware. Spyware is big business, now, for both attackers and defenders. Definitions are very important, as even experts in the field find it difficult to agree on what exactly constitutes spyware. We examine the types of spyware and illustrate these with recent case histories. Finally, we identify the multi-layered defenses needed to contain the threat.

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The Threat Within: The dangers of unrestricted employee use of corporate IT systems

Conventional wisdom has led us to believe that external security threats - such as spam, viruses, phishing, trojan horses - cause the majority of security incidents.

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ThreatLab Retrospective 2005 - Under the radar

The defining feature of the malware landscape of 2005 (reflected in the title of this year’s paper) is the marked tendency for the release of self-limiting malware and rootkits, so as to stay under the radar of anti-virus companies. Some malware releases were purposely designed to attempt to stretch anti-virus analysis teams beyond their limits, by releasing variants on an hourly basis.

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Heightened regulatory oversight and a litigious business environment create potentially costly headaches for corporate e-mail users. E-mail gaffes have triggered everything from tumbling stock prices to seven-figure legal settlements to billion-dollar regulatory fines. In spite of the risks, some employers have yet to adopt policy or install technology to govern e-mail usage and content. For employers who are challenged by effective e-mail management, The ePolicy Institute™ and Clearswift have created E-Mail Policy Best Practices: Implementing & Enforcing E-Mail Policies to Maximize Regulatory Compliance.

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More Employers Monitoring Computer Activity - and Firing Violators

From tracking content keystrokes, to monitoring and blocking Internet connections, to reading and reviewing e-mail, employers increasingly are combining written policy software technology to prevent workplace lawsuits, manage employee productivity and protect company resources.

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Closing the Zero-Day Window: Defending against virus attacks before the updates arrive

Viruses, worms and trojans are the bane of modern business. Every day, new breeds of malicious code are introduced onto the Internet where they propagate with alarming speed. Eventually, each new virus is identified and anti-virus software all over the world is updated to defend against it. But what happens in the hours before anti-virus profiles can be created and distributed?

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IDC Analyzes Clearswift's Strength in the Content Security Market

Clearswift protects organizations with a variety of software, services, and appliances. IDC believes that the company will continue to answer market demands for easy-to- use, plug-and-play full content security with incorporated antivirus support and spam protection.

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Butler Group Technology Audit: Security and Policy Management (MIMEsweeper for SMTP)

MIMEsweeper is an ideal solution for medium to large enterprises in market sectors that process large volumes of e-mails, particularly if they are in regulated industries. In Butler Group’s opinion, this will include companies in most vertical markets...

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IDC: Messaging Security: A Holistic View of Antispam, Antivirus, Policy Enforcement, and Regulatory Compliance

The challenge of controlling electronic communications as they flow into and out of an organization is becoming increasingly more critical. This paper provides line-of-business managers, financial and security auditors, and IT executives with a deeper, more comprehensive view of messaging security. It offers a realistic view of the critical ingredients for optimizing security, preventing spam, and enforcing privacy and regulation compliance across the enterprise-messaging environment. It also outlines the true cost of spam and the value of antispam solutions as well as the impact of privacy and regulation risks on individual industries.

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Policing Web Usage; Securing the back door

It was all over the papers. Over 200 civil servants in a single department had been caught downloading porn. They had downloaded more than two million pages during an eight month period, including eighteen thousand images of child pornography. Sixteen people were fired, one was prosecuted and the department’s reputation was badly damaged. ... All these cases, and many more like them, share a common theme: organizations suffering serious damage to their reputation or financial well being due to their employee’s misuse of the web.

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IDC: What you can and should do about the rising cost of spam

Spam is the latest scourge of the Internet, second only to viruses and other malicious code in the anger and frustration that it evokes. Filling networks, servers, and inboxes with unwanted and often offensive content, spammers continue to wreak havoc by frequently changing spam's appearance and masking its source to avoid having spam be identified and blocked before reaching its target: email inboxes.

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Spam: corporate concern, personal perspective

Spam is not just a corporate concern: it is a personal problem. Spam is not sent to an organization, it is sent to an individual. From the apparently harmless greetings card to the invidious pornography, spam's effect on an individual can range from annoyance to extreme distress.

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Anti-spam Glossary

Spam is a complex issue, and anti-spam terms and definitions can often be confusing. We have compiled one of the most comprehensive lists of antispam terms and definitions, and we encourage you to use this as a ready reference to help you understand what the various terms mean...

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Beware Spyware

Spyware represents a fast-growing problem. Risks range from a mere nuisance to one of the most destructive and largely undefended espionage threats ever faced by corporate targets. In the following document, we examine the different kinds of spyware; their points of origin and access into a network; attitudes of the anti-virus community; threat scenarios and defences...

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Avoiding Unforeseen Consequences When Drafting Anti-spam Legislation
Some Key Technical Issues to Consider

This white paper discusses key definitions and operative language used in some of the anti-spam bills currently pending before the U.S. Congress and provides a methodology for discussing spam based on five categories of characteristics - spam as "unsolicited", commercial" messages, sent in "bulk" as "electronic messages" across a "public network".

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37 Critical Email Rules - Special Report (Nancy Flynn)

This Special Report is designed to help you manage employee productivity, reduce costly email risks, and keep your company in business…and out of court. Apply the 37 critical email rules outlined in this Special Report to help keep your business email safe and secure, and your employees’ e-communications clean and compliant.

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A Comprehensive Approach to Web Filtering

Just a few years back Internet access was only relevant to a small proportion of employees who generally worked in IS or engineering and it was used to access mainly technical resources.

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ClearSecure™ Technology Overview

ClearSecure is an encryption and secure message delivery product. ClearSecure enables organizations to manage email encryption through the policy enforcement infrastructure of Clearswift ENTERPRISEsuite™ ...

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Use of email has changed massively over the last 10 years. Over this time email has changed from an awkward text based medium used mainly by technical people, to a very rich medium used casually by millions of people worldwide to communicate all kinds of information. In many offices email is now used much more commonly than the telephone.

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Hanselaw: Hammerstein und Partner
FAQ: Einsatz eines Content Security Systems

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Morgan Cole Solicitors: Employee email and web use: a fresh perspective?

This white paper has been released as an update to the white paper 'Employee email and web use: worth the risk?'. It aims to provide a fresh perspective on the issue of email and web misuse with examples of recent cases, and includes an update on the new regulations that came into force in June 2003.

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In this paper our legal partners Morgan Cole explore the risks involved with employee email and web use, and discusses the legal framework that will govern effective employee Acceptable Use Policies (AUPs).

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Policy-Based Content Security

Information, content and knowledge within an organization probably represent its most important assets. However, how assured are you that this information is secure, and is being represented professionally, and you know where and how it is being used?

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Guide to Establishing an Email and Web Content Security Policy

For many Internet users, the utilization of email and the Web represents a conflicting set of forces. On the one hand they represent immense potential benefits in business communications, productivity and market effectiveness. On the other hand, they constitute possible breaches of security with unknown but potentially devastating consequences...

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Content Security - new challenges and opportunities for Service Providers

Today, Service Providers are facing difficult issues. Customers demand ever higher standards of service, yet competition is forcing Providers to survive on narrower and narrower margins - particularly on their traditional products and services. How can they square the circle and improve their standards of customer care whilst keeping costs low and increasing revenue?

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