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Why Security SaaS Makes Sense Today

Corporate IT teams are waging a significant security battle on two fronts these days: stopping attacks via the Web and through email. They are tirelessly trying to protect their networks against known and unknown viruses, spyware and phishing attacks. However, the more complex these threats become, the more infrastructure companies have to bring in-house, sending capital expenditures through the roof.

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Web Security SaaS: The Next Generation of Web Security

This paper describes the next generation of Web security. It outlines solutions that focus on increasing overall security effectiveness and reducing the burden on IT departments. It describes the challenges facing many SMB environments today and identifies critical elements that make for lower-cost and easier-to-manage Web security solutions.

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How to Protect Business from Malware at the Endpoint and the Perimeter

Financial motives are triggering a massive explosion of malware variants and spam designed to evade traditional signature-based detection mechanisms. In the early days, it was all about the destructive nature of viruses. Today, however, IT management must contend with highly sophisticated spyware. Keyloggers, rootkits and Trojans are the fundamental building blocks of third generation malware that is delivered via spam and infected Web sites. The number of possible variants created for this malware is unlimited and is contributing to exponential growth that is clogging both computers and networks.

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Archiving Technical Overview

Webroot’s Email Archiving Service is designed as a mission critical service, offering organizations the option to quickly and easily deploy an archiving solution requiring no additional hardware or software. Driven through compliance requirements, business continuity and the need to continually manage storage costs, the Archiving Service offers a fully featured offering that is able to meet the requirements of all organizations, both large and small.

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Spyware: A Clear and Present Danger

Used to be, a virus would tear through computer systems worldwide and within days, trash hundreds of thousands of systems, garnering global headlines before an antidote was created and distributed with similar alacrity. Now, silent and potentially far more deadly code is in play, which if it’s working right, will never be noticed, even as it siphons off critical information or quietly turns a computer into a bot or spamming node.

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Why AntiVirus Solutions Do Not Protect From Spyware

Today’s information environment is unlike any in the past. Businesses of all sizes rely heavily on both the Internet and technology systems as primary communication tools. While businesses have a growing dependence on the Internet for awareness, competitive advantage and ecommerce, this dependence comes with both rewards and risks. The advantages are the ability to communicate with and reach customers, suppliers and other stakeholders, while the risks include the vulnerabilities of exposing IT infrastructure to a surge of evolving threats. Successfully balancing the technology and the threats can make or break your business.

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Threat Chaos: Making Sense of the Online Threat Landscape

To help understand the different types of Internet-borne threats that exist and how they can negatively impact your company's bottom line, download this white paper for an analysis of the vulnerabilities, vectors, and nefarious actions associated with existing and emerging threats.

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Building a Business Case for Enterprise Spyware Protection

Need help building a business case for an anti-spyware investment? Read this white paper as a guide to quantify the scope of the spyware problem within corporate environments.

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Spyware Versus Viruses

As enterprise anti-spyware products rapidly emerge and the spyware threat continues to grow, enterprises need to quickly establish a strategy for handling the threat. This paper reviews the threat, available solutions and recommendations.

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From Viruses to Spyware: In the Malware Trenches with Small and Medium-size Businesses

Malware, which encompasses viruses, worms, spyware, and other malicious software, continues to be a significant problem for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). According to an exclusive survey of IT decision-makers, the vast majority of businesses have experienced malware incidents in the past year that resulted in hours of downtime.

Defending against malware attacks is particularly difficult for SMBs. “In the Malware Trenches with Small and Medium-size Businesses” is a white paper detailing the results of an exclusive survey sponsored by Webroot. You will learn hard data on:

  • The real costs of malware measured in downtime
  • The most common types of malware incidents
  • The latest trends in malware defense software

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Rootkits: What They are and How to Fight Them

Rootkits are the latest IT security threat to make the headlines. Anyone who has heard of rootkits knows their nasty reputation: they cannot be removed, they can live on a computer for years without being discovered, and they can wreak havoc with the operating system.

This IT Briefing gives computer users a clear explanation of what a rootkit is, separates the facts from the myths about rootkits, and provides recommendations on how users can defend against rootkit infections, and detect and remove them from their systems. It concludes with a question-and-answer section with a security expert who has many years of experience fighting rootkits.

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Best of Breed vs. Suite Anti-spyware

Anti-spyware products that are generally sold in a security suite are considered to be about 50 percent effective in identifying spyware, while standalone anti-spyware is approximately 90 percent effective. Security is about the management of risk. It is not about making things perfectly secure, but balancing potential losses and their likelihood against the cost to mitigate the potential loss.

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Data Breach Notification Laws: The Need for Spyware Detection Capability

Emerging notification standards require businesses to notify customers whenever a company has experienced a data security breach that put customers' personal information at risk. The financial consequences of notification can be disastrous: In one recent survey of consumers who had received breach notifications, 20 percent reported terminating their relationship with the reporting company and 40 percent stated that they intended to take that action.

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IDC and Webroot present: Securing Enterprise Environments against Spyware: Benefits of Best-of-Breed Security

Spyware is a growing security threat facing corporations today — in fact, research from IDC now ranks spyware as the fastest growing security threat to network security, well ahead of spam and even cyber-terrorism.

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The Emerging Threat of Legal Liability for Failure to Prevent Spyware Attacks

Corporations striving to comply with data security laws and regulatory initiatives, such as Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act, must implement anti-spyware measures.

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Spyware Meets HIPAA

With the advent of HIPAA, security is no longer an option for healthcare organizations. Instead, the questions today are related to how much security is enough and where to focus security efforts.

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