Note

The Anti-Malware market has experienced significant expansion in capabilities over the last several years. As a result, today's endpoint protection solutions offer tremendous functionality, and can replace many point solutions, saving...

Solution Set

The threat that is malware continues to evolve at a breakneck pace, as does the sheer volume of different malware threats that exist. To keep up with the onslaught, Anti-Malware vendors must continue to innovate and bring new products with...

Tool

Info-Tech conducted its own market evaluation of seven leading Anti-Malware solutions. Use this tool to narrow the vendors to a shortlist of solutions that best satisfy your organization's requirements, before sending out RFPs and scheduling...

About five years ago, Ray Ozzie, then newly anointed chief software architect at Microsoft, described the world he saw, from a security perspective, and the vision was daunting. He maintained then, and it surely is true today, that the primary...

Template/Policy

Organizations embarking on a selection process for an enterprise anti-malware vendor may elect to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) after determining their final selection criteria. Use this RFP template when soliciting vendor responses.

Template/Policy

Many enterprises will elect to have enterprise anti-malware vendors perform an on-site demonstration to help them better understand solution capabilities and constraints. This demonstration script template is designed to provide vendors with a...

Tool

For organizations that have issued a formal Request for Proposal (RFP) to evaluate enterprise anti-malware vendors, gathering and scoring the various responses can be difficult and time consuming. Use this tool to score and compare anti-malware...

(16-Dec-09) Social networks are going to become a prime target for cybercriminals in 2010, according to security predictions from annual security reports released this month by CA Inc., Cisco Systems Inc. and Symantec Corp. A prediction list...

Video

Organizations focused on cutting costs have few options in the field of IT security. This videocast explores three areas where organizations, which need to squeeze the last few dollars from their operations, can discover cost savings in their IT...

Before we start, to be fair, the title of this piece could have just as easily been "Is Piracy Responsible For The Spread Of Malware?" because, to be honest, the problem is pirated Windows licenses. Of course, Microsoft isn't directly...

Skype's combination of strengths and shortcomings make it a complicated issue when it comes to use in business environments. However, while the desktop application poses similar security risks to other consumer messaging tools, small business IT...

Though enterprises spend significant resources protecting themselves from external threats, insiders cause significantly more security breaches than hackers. Catching malicious action is important, but employee error is the cause of far more of...

Physical security threats to enterprises are generally simple to protect against ? good strong locks are often enough. IT security threats, however, are varied and protecting against them is a complex process. Understanding how common these...

Understanding the nature of the IT security threats to which smaller enterprises are exposed is critical in formulating an appropriate protection plan. Committing available resources to the threats that occur most often and can cause the...

Though spam may not be as severe a problem as other threats, it carries with it a number of issues. Of these, phishing is perhaps the most problematic. Enterprises must be diligent in keeping spam, and everything that goes along with it, at bay.

The prevailing opinion in regards to security threats is that the most significant ones originate from within the enterprise, and yet external threats are simply not going away. Malware continues to exist, vulnerabilities continue to be found,...

The ubiquity of malware means enterprises must continue to be vigilant about protecting against it. By understanding the latest trends in these types of threats, businesses will be better prepared to respond to the problem in the most effective...

Studies of IT security threats as a whole routinely show that internal threats are the most damaging. These same studies also illustrate that external threats are significantly more numerous. As such, enterprises must continue to protect...

While Instant Messaging (IM) is widely used as a collaborative tool, if its entry into the environment was entirely employee-driven, important business considerations might have been overlooked in the process. Even if informal IM usage is...

A new software development kit that will help banks to reach out and secure their clients' machines during online transactions could significantly reduce the potential for fraud. The new resource is called VirtualATM. Banks must investigate...