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  1. How Social Networking Can Improve Security

    09 Feb 2011By : Aaron Weiss

    2 out of 5

    Social networking has often been banned from the enterprise because of perceived security risks, but it has also helped less experienced end-users become more savvy when it comes to security.

  2. Productivity vs. Security: Building a Win-Win Strategy

    09 Feb 2011By : Aaron Weiss

    5 out of 5

    Balancing security and productivity requires constant negotiation between protecting your business and supporting employees’ need for new productivity tools. Virtual desktops help achieve this balance.

  3. Personal Tech Use at Work: Better Safe Than Sorry?

    09 Feb 2011By : Aaron Weiss

    1.6667 out of 5

    Allowing employees to bring their own technology into the enterprise does present new risks, but barring personal devices only frustrates your best workers. The key is to use best practices to help secure your data without hurting your employees.

  4. What Corporate IT Can Learn From WikiLeaks

    31 Jan 2011By : Ivan Schneider

    There needs to be a balance between the benefits of connectedness and enterprise security risks.

  5. Data Visualization and the New Security Paradigm

    31 Jan 2011By : David Wagner

    4 out of 5

    Data visualization is a relatively new concept for security, but it can help trace security threats that would otherwise go unnoticed in a sea of data.

  6. Desktop Security: OS- or Browser-Focused?

    26 Jan 2011By : Aaron Weiss

    2.5 out of 5

    Depending on the operating system you use, you may need security at both the OS and browser levels, since you're essentially using two platforms at the same time.

  7. Selling Security to the Board Room

    14 Jan 2011By : Mary E. Shacklett

    2 out of 5

    Board members must be shown the business case behind security expenditures — and they need to be convinced that signing off on a security initiative is going to reduce risk and earn a respectable return on investment.

  8. Monitoring Employee Web Activity Why, When and How

    10 Jan 2011By : David Wagner

    1 out of 5

    Monitoring Web activity can put strain on relationships between IT departments and end users. Maintain productivity and security by creating reasonable Web monitoring policies, creating an appeal process and explaining your rationale to your users.

  9. IT Security Design: No More "Soft Chewy Centers"

    10 Nov 2010By : Keith Ferrell

    1.6667 out of 5

    The old-school IT security model – a “hard” outer layer and a “soft” internal layer – won’t hold up against today’s threats.

  10. The Evolving IT Security Threat Landscape

    01 Nov 2010By : Keith Ferrell

    Threats are multiplying more rapidly, and it's more important than ever that you and your employees not add to the problems.