Security Takes a First-Class Seat at London City Airport: IBM and Daon Solution Enhances Employee Access, Passenger Safety
London City Airport offers the welcome prospect of less congestion and shorter lines for both business and leisure travelers. The initial approach for London City Airport to dealing with security and safety concerns was to identify and address key security issues, including staffing, cost control efficiency and the application of technology. The result of those considerations led them to seek an identity management system for enabling employee access to restricted areas and systems. Daon installed a security system at the airport based on biometrics - measurable physical characteristics such as fingerprints or eyeprints. The system runs on IBM WebSphere Application Server, DB2 Universal Database and IBM eServer xSeries.

Secure Online Data Transfer with SSL: Free Guide
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Flexible Authentication Solution With IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator and IBM WebSphere Portal
This paper describes a real-life customer scenario using different LDAP Directories within a WebSphere Portal implementation. In this case the customer wants to authenticate WebSphere Portal users against a Lotus Domino LDAP directory while using a dedicated SunONE Directory Server to be used by WebSphere Portal for authorization and personalization. Since the current versions of WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Portal do not support a configuration with multiple LDAP Servers, the introduction of IBM Directory Integrator as the integration tool.

Web Services and PKI: The How and Why
Discusses the role that PKI plays in securing Web services and outlines how PKI can be effectively managed in a purely machine-to-machine environment.

Commercial Advantages of Using Flash Memory in Smart Cards
There are several types of Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) technologies being used in smart cards. Non-volatile means that the memory is able to retain the information after power is removed form the device. The use of different memory types is driven by several reasons, including security, power consumption, processor speed, chip cost, die size, cycling endurance, development flexibility, and historical reasons. Each type of memory technology has distinct characteristics that can be favourable or disadvantageous for the smart card environment.

Web Services and PKI: The How and Why
Discusses the role that PKI plays in securing Web services and outlines how PKI can be effectively managed in a purely machine-to-machine environment.

The spam economy: the convergent spam and virus threats
Spammers, virus writers and hackers were once distinct communities with distinct motivations. However, the success of spam has brought the three together in an underground economy with a single purpose:to make money from unsolicited email. This paper examines how the convergence of the spam and virus threats is developing a new spam economy.It details the level of protection that businesses need to combat the threats, and demonstrates how Sophos can help keep organizations spam- and virus-free. A glossary of spammers, tricks and related terms is included at the end of the paper.

A Practical Guide to Virus Defense
Hundreds of new viruses are discovered each month, making virus defense an ongoing challenge. To combat this ever-changing and fast-moving threat, companies need to a solid anti-virus strategy. In this Audiocast, we discuss common virus entry points, types of anti-virus software and what concrete steps your organization can take to prevent infection.<br><br>This premium editorial content is underwritten by PCMall. The registration information you provide will be shared with our sponsor.

A Practical Guide to Virus Defense
Hundreds of new viruses are discovered each month, making virus defense an ongoing challenge. To combat this ever-changing and fast-moving threat, companies need to a solid anti-virus strategy. In this Audiocast, we discuss common virus entry points, types of anti-virus software and what concrete steps your organization can take to prevent infection.<br><br>This premium editorial content is underwritten by PCMall. The registration information you provide will be shared with our sponsor.

Securing XML Web Services: SSL, XML Firewalling, and Beyond
Discusses XML and Web services-specific security challenges and presents the limitations of an SSL or sole XML Firewall solution. Outlines the attributes of an ideal Web services security solution.

A Practical Guide to Virus Defense
Hundreds of new viruses are discovered each month, making virus defense an ongoing challenge. To combat this ever-changing and fast-moving threat, companies need to a solid anti-virus strategy. In this Audiocast, we discuss common virus entry points, types of anti-virus software and what concrete steps your organization can take to prevent infection.<br><br>This premium editorial content is underwritten by PCMall. The registration information you provide will be shared with our sponsor.

Federated Identity Management and Secure Web Services
This paper discusses the IBM Tivoli software strategy and roadmap for a consistent, unified, and evolutionary approach to securing cross-enterprise e-business solutions. Built on open security standards, with tight integration to Web middleware (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and Microsoft .NET), Tivoli security solutions allow you to increase the reach of your business through applications. They build on existing Web security investments that can quickly evolve to take advantage of Web services and federation standards. This paper describes the business problems that are solved by Web services and Federated Identity Management. It also describes how Tivoli software from IBM help solve these problems.

The rise of CSS spam: insight into the latest spamming technique
This white paper takes a brief look at how spammers are taking advantage of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to develop new methods of concealing text in spam. This new web language is also being used to recycle old HTML-based tricks to fool spam filters that do not understand CSS.

Lucent Technologies Accelerate Virtual Trunking Solutions
Today more than ever, industry standards play a key role in the creation of next-generation networks and services. To optimally manage their telecommunications networks, service providers have chosen to create complex combinations of best-in breed systems when implementing their next-generation networks. For this strategy to work efficiently, both systems and solutions must adhere to commonly accepted industry standards. Download this white paper to learn more about Lucent Accelerate Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) solutions which offer a focused approach to value by designing standards-based networks from the top-down while building them from the bottom-up.

Tuning Tivoli Privacy Manager 1.2 for Maximum Performance
This paper highlights several "best practices" that can be used to scale the performance of Tivoli Privacy Manger to meet the needs of most organizations. This paper also allows an individual to gauge where and what type of hardware should be used for each part of the Privacy Manager deployment.

Fortune 100 Pharmaceutical Company Enhances Worldwide Network Security With IBM and Linux Solution
One of the leaders in pharmaceutical and manufacturing organizations- with offices worldwide and revenues in excess of $20 billion-is always looking for ways to enhance the security of the information that flows throughout its global operations. For these reasons, the company selected the Sourcefire Intrusion Sensors (IS) Intrusion Detection System (IDS) to secure its network. The Sourcefire IS appliances are servers preloaded with Sourcefire's proprietary software and ready to install. The pharmaceutical company specified not only the Sourcefire IS solution; it also chose IBM eServer xSeries 305 and 345 systems as the hardware for its security appliances.

Fortune 100 Pharmaceutical Company Enhances Worldwide Network Security With IBM and Linux Solution
One of the leaders in pharmaceutical and manufacturing organizations- with offices worldwide and revenues in excess of $20 billion-is always looking for ways to enhance the security of the information that flows throughout its global operations. For these reasons, the company selected the Sourcefire Intrusion Sensors (IS) Intrusion Detection System (IDS) to secure its network. The Sourcefire IS appliances are servers preloaded with Sourcefire's proprietary software and ready to install. The pharmaceutical company specified not only the Sourcefire IS solution; it also chose IBM eServer xSeries 305 and 345 systems as the hardware for its security appliances.

Addressing a Critical Aspect of Homeland Security: Managing Security and Privacy in Information Sharing Systems
It is no secret that all are operating by new rules as a result of the national and international events of the last few years. One of the new responsibilities for system administrators is to ensure that all are protecting themselves, their companies and their government institutions from cyber terrorism and attacks on critical infrastructures. This paper presents some of the issues to which need to be sensitive as a balance personal, corporate and national security needs with the individual freedoms and free enterprise protections granted by our constitution and laws.

A Practical Guide to Virus Defense
Hundreds of new viruses are discovered each month, making virus defense an ongoing challenge. To combat this ever-changing and fast-moving threat, companies need to a solid anti-virus strategy. In this Audiocast, we discuss common virus entry points, types of anti-virus software and what concrete steps your organization can take to prevent infection.<br><br>This premium editorial content is underwritten by PCMall. The registration information you provide will be shared with our sponsor.