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Case Study: Gadens Law Firm Reclaims 22 Hours of Lost Productivity Each Month

By Webroot | 24/8/2012

For the past eight years, Gadens Brisbane has used a “big three” security vendor to protect its network against malware and other threats. Despite deploying a complete antivirus package, the firm still experienced up to three infections across the network every week. This gap in security meant the firm’s IT team was spending up to six hours a week on security management, resulting in lawyers being unable to work on their computers for hours a time – an inconvenience for the individual, and costly for a business reliant on hourly charging. Read how Gadens Law Firm have reduced their security management time from about 6 hours a week to 30 minutes a week.

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Bloor Research - Why web security is best served in the cloud

By Webroot | 17/10/2012

This paper discusses the new generation of web security offerings provided by service providers in the cloud, where protection is applied at the point where the threats are being seen—that is, directed at web-based applications. In taking the protection nearer to the threats, organisations can benefit from vastly improved internet security as the threats are stopped before they ever reach the network.

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Rob Clyde Consulting Report: Beyond the Wall: Security in a Post-Perimeter World

By Webroot | 6/3/2012

Walls have served multiple purposes throughout history. The Great Wall of China defended against invaders, while the Berlin Wall kept citizens from freely traveling beyond the control of their rulers. Network security relies on similar premises. For years network security professionals touted “perimeter security” as the primary solution to keep the bad guys out and the good guys in. However, just as guns and air attacks overcame protective walls, changes in malware attacks have rendered network firewalls and perimeter-centric security an ineffective defense.

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Realtime Publishers: Using Web Security Services to Protect Portable Devices

By Webroot | 6/3/2012

Today’s workforce is a security challenge. Employees no longer follow strict guidelines from the IT department regarding computer use at work, computer security measures, personal computing devices used for work, and so on. In fact, many CxO’s find that the stricter the rules, the less employees pay attention, leading to even less IT control of the computer infrastructure. One particularly difficult area to secure is the multiple‐ location workforce. Read this whitepaper on mobile security.

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Financial Security with Webroot and Virginia Community Bank

By Webroot | 17/10/2012

Virginia Community Bank’s computer system, which networks these branches together, relies on connectivity to serve its customers and loan recipients, but was under a barrage of spam and spoof emails threatening bank security. Additionally, unrestricted Web use was impacting access, and bandwidth limits were disabling the phone system, while malware and other malicious code infected end-user machines. Read more.

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How to Protect Your Business from the Coming Malware Storm

By Webroot | 17/10/2012

For the past few years, it seemed that mature on-premise antivirus, antispam, and Web defenses were making progress against the rising volume of malicious code aimed at businesses from the furthest corners of the Web. But a new generation of organized, well-funded, and financially-motivated online criminals are now launching attacks using social networks, exploiting consumer and mobile devices and vulnerabilities in Web applications, and deploying blended threats to attack financial targets and individual businesses. Read more.

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Web Security Services: Delegating Security Responsibility to the Cloud

By Webroot | 6/3/2012

Few readers need to be told that the Internet is a dangerous place. Anyone in the IT field is aware that viruses, spam, and malicious Web sites exist. Knowledge of these attacks and vulnerabilities was the domain of specialized security gurus just a few years ago. But the need to understand computer security has spread beyond the domain of specialists. Today, even IT end users need to be aware of threats and countermeasures to some degree.

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How to Protect Your Business from the Coming Malware Storm

By Webroot | 6/3/2012

The malware storm will force the cost and complexity of premise-based protection to levels sustainable only by national governments and multinational corporations. To keep from being overwhelmed, small and midsize businesses must move defenses outside their own walls, to stop malicious code before it reaches their gateways, servers, and data stores.

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Flushing Bank Invests in Internet Security

By Webroot | 17/10/2012

Flushing Bank is comprised of 16 different branches across New York State, 350 employees, and an increasingly mobile workforce. Recently, as the individual demands of those separate entities became more apparent, the Internet security appliance the bank had in place could no longer effectively keep up with compliance and data loss prevention demands. Read more.

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Realtime Publishers: Can You Trust a Cloud-based Security Solution?

By Webroot | 6/3/2012

Cloud computing and security services seem like they would never go together. The former is a function that exists somewhere outside the host, outside the network, and is tapped when needed to perform a certain function such as data archival. The latter is a mindset, an approach that pervades throughout every facet of an IT infrastructure.

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