White Papers:

White Paper Name:  "Identity and Access Management: A Comprehensive Buyer’s Guide"
Author:  CA Research Team

Synopsis:  This document provides a concise and comprehensive guide to helping you determine what’s most important in selecting an IAM solution. The first section briefly describes the current identity and access management landscape, and offers a high-level overview of the major elements of a comprehensive IAM solution. The second section, the IAM Solution Evaluation Matrix, contains a listing of the elements that CA’s experience has demonstrated as the most essential to a thorough IAM system.

White Paper Name:  "The Role of Security Management in Achieving “Continuous Compliance”"
Author:  CA Research Team

Synopsis:  There’s a tremendous focus today on regulatory compliance involving financial reporting, security and data privacy. But there are also tremendous business performance oppor - tunities that can be fueled by the new requirements. Achieving compliance alone is simply meeting the requirements of the law. But improving business performance, in the context of compliance, involves using the process and technology changes brought on by compliance to help increase the efficiency of the business itself. This is where the real benefits of compliance are achieved.

White Paper Name:  "Security Trends Report: First Half 2005"
Author:  Websense Security Labs Research Team

Synopsis:  This report summarizes significant findings during this period. This report also evaluates these threats in terms of trends and, where possible, also includes projections for the upcoming year.

Article Name:  "The Evolving Threats to the Availability and Security of the Domain Name Service"
Author:  John Holmblad, Televerage

Synopsis:  This paper discusses weakness in and exploits against the DNS system, which underlies the worldwide web addressing infrastructure.  It also addresses ways of hardening DNS servers against known attacks.

Article Name:  "Securing Wireless with WPA"
Author:  John Holmblad, Televerage

Synopsis:  Until the majority of wireless products support the security mechanisms embedded in 802.11i, there is a need to understand and properly deploy Wireless Protected Access, which is a great improvement upon WEP.  This article discusses how to do that.  From the May/June Voice of Technology.