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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...

(14-Feb-10) Like it or not, email outages are a business reality. A recent ApplicationContinuity.org survey revealed that, despite advances in data-backup, archiving and protection technology, companies of all sizes remain vulnerable to costly...

Template/Policy

Develop and implement your own anti-virus strategy using Info-Tech's editable anti-virus policy template to guide you.

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...

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...

Job Description

The IT Security Analyst performs two core functions for the enterprise. The first is the day-to-day operations of the in-place security solutions while the second is the identification, investigation and resolution of security breaches detected...

Job Description

The IT Security Manager performs two core functions for the enterprise. The first is overseeing the operations of the enterprise's security solutions through management of the organization's security analysts. The second is establishing an...

Job Description

The Security Administrator's role is to ensure the secure operation of the in-house computer systems, servers, and network connections. This includes checking server and firewall logs, scrutinizing network traffic, establishing and updating...

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Include this Info-Tech incident log form in your incident response arsenal.