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Total cost of ownership in UTM appliances

The Total Cost of Ownership or TCO is a calculation technique that helps IT directors to take more appropriate decisions which take into account all the characteristics of the solutions compared.

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Quarterly Report PandaLabs (April-June 2006)

This second quarterly report starts where the first one left off, providing more in-depth information about the techniques used, which are affecting more and more areas of our lives, and about how these methods are evolving, sometimes subtly, sometimes obviously, but always with the same primary aim: to make money through dishonest means.

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Clean email guaranteed

Managed security systems for mail filtering are nowadays the most effective, and cost-effective, methods for companies whose IT resources could be compromised by threats transmitted via e-mail.

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Protection of corporate networks against targeted attacks

In contrast to typical malicious code attacks, carried out indiscriminately in order to affect as many systems as possible, targeted attacks can be defined as those which look to affect a specific user.

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Security in wireless networks

The purpose of this document is to present the technical characteristics, on a security level, the most-widely used standards, the attacks they must head off and the measures available to administrators to secure this type of network.

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Antivirus security for companies with Linux distributions.

Linux has become a widely supported and intensively used platform in many companies’ critical business proceses such as email and data storage.

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Quarterly Report PandaLabs (January - March 2006)

Over the last few months, there have been numerous references, both in specialized IT security publications and in news releases from antivirus companies, of a worrying new reality.

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It Security in SMBs

Antivirus solution aimed at satisfying the protection needs of SMBs bearing in mind their particular characteristics.

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Firewall systems in network perimeter protections

The natural growth of companies and the need to exchange information with other companies, remote offices or databases outside the head office, have led to the proliferation of network topologies that can satisfy different feature and environmental needs. Different types of networks have to be able to interconnect in order to make information available whereveer it is.

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HIPS and Panda Security solutions

The motivation for malware authors has undergone a sea change: if the creators of malicious code previously had the primary goal of achieving personal fame, today the goal is purely financial. In fact, many malware authors are really paid employees of true criminals, who could be anything from unethical companies to organized gangs of crooks. Types of malware such as spyware, adware, bots or spam are designed to earn money. Accordingly, the current trend is to infect a large number of machines in a way that does not attract the attention of users or security companies.

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