White papers

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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Endpoint Security: The Increasing Need for Proactive Security

This white paper, published by IDC, presents Panda Security’s approach to incorporating proactive protection technologies in its security solutions. According to this prestigious consultancy company, "Panda Security offers a solid example of how corporations may begin regaining control if their networks through becoming more proactive", instead of trusting protection against Internet threats exclusively to reactive systems.

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Strategies for preventive management with security policies

Today, time is a key factor for organizations large and small, and when we combine this with the intensive use of IT technologies, it is absolutely essential that security policies are built around these concepts.

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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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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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The use of VPN as a secure means of enlarging networks

The evolution of the labor market in recent years has now made previously unimaginable concepts, such as tele-working or remote access, a daily necessity in all types of companies. However, the public nature of the Internet means that it is not the most suitable medium for reliable, secure and private communications. The solution to this problem lies in VPN (Virtual Private Networks).

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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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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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How to combat spyware in corporate environments.

Spyware and adware are no longer just a threat to home user and as well as increasing their capacity to get into computers, they have also increased their area of action to the corporate environment. In fact, some spyware can even obtain information about email messages, password and even credit card details.

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GateDefender Performa network configuration

This document aims to offer a quick and simple explanation of the configuration of Panda Security's GateDefender Performa 8000 series in different types of Local Area Networks.

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