Nearly all Web 2.0 applications started life as consumer-focused services, only later finding their way into the enterprise. But unlike many consumer ‘toys’, Web 2.0 actually delivers impressive benefits to the enterprise, including:
Streamlining collaboration within and beyond the enterprise
Accelerating search and information retrieval
Capturing knowledge assets and facilitating knowledge transfer
Speeding application development and deployment
Communicating with stakeholders in new ways
Some of these benefits are ‘soft’. Others are quantifiable. But all have combined to earn the attention of line-of-business managers and IT strategists alike. Web 2.0 is here to stay.
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To combat these new threats one needs to look at different strategies as well. In this paper we shall look at different approaches and tools to improve security posture at both, the server as well as browser ends. Listed below are the key learning objectives:
• The need for Ajax fingerprinting and content filtering.
• The concept of Ajax fingerprinting and its implementation in the browser using XHR.
• Processing Ajax fingerprints on the Web server.
• Implementation using ModSecurity for Apache
• Strengthening browser security using HTTP response content filtering of untrusted information directed at the browser in the form of RSS feeds or blogs.
• Web application firewall (WAF) for content filtering and defense against Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
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Whether we like it or not, Web 2.0 technologies are profoundly changing the way we work and interact. User-generated Web content—hosted applications, blogs, wikis, social networking sites, RSS feeds—is rapidly creeping into organizations, offering users new ways to collaborate and communicate.
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Two leading network access control standards — TCG’s Trusted Network Connect (TNC) and Microsoft’s Network Access Protection (NAP) — will now interoperate, providing enterprises with simpler, more cost-effective, scalable, and interoperable endpoint integrity and network access control.
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Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange provides high-performance, integrated mail protection against virus threats, spam, and security risks, while also enforcing company policies on Microsoft Exchange Server 2000, 2003, and 2007. A Symantec Premium AntiSpam™ sub- scription can be activated by purchasing a license key to provide best-of-breed spam prevention with a spam catch rate of more than 97 percent, with 1 in 1 million critical false positives—without additional ongoing administration after initial setup.
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The winter of 2004 brought with it a new opportunity for me. I began learning and programming in PHP and MySQL as an independent study and also for my job with both the admissions department and financial aid department of Eastern Washington University. My first bit of programming got off to a great start and it was when I was put in charge of developing a secure website that I began researching the topic of website security. I knew very little about how people hacked into websites to do various illegal activities, so I decided that some of the basic entry points into a website and its server needed to be addressed.
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The new Software Protection Platform, built into Windows Vista, makes the user experience noticeably different between a genuine version and non-genuine version of Windows Vista. Top 5 reasons why your customers should get genuine Windows Vista preinstalled: Only genuine Windows Vista provides an enhanced user experience with an improved user interface and innovative visuals with Windows® Aero™*. Only genuine Windows Vista provides access to Windows ReadyBoost™, a way to speed up PC performance with readily available USB devices.
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Tekserve Macintosh Troubleshooting Pocket Guide Introduction We bought Macs because they work . While our Windows-bound friends are continually barraged by viruses,spyware,missing drivers, and bizarre incompatibilities,we are cruising along making movies, sharing photos,publishing websites,and playing MP3s.Some of us are even creating eye-popping high definition video effects,and in real time. In a certain context,this productivity is remarkable. As the Macintosh operating system has matured over the years,so has its complexity. Today, a Mac mini is pre-installed with 190,101 files, each one intended to perform some task.
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