Featured Tech / InfoTech

Frost & Sullivan Analyst Paper, ‘Six Golden Rules for Selecting an SSL Certificate’

The foundation of trusted Internet communications are Secure Socket Link (SSL) certificates, an encryption technology installed on Web servers that permits transmission of sensitive data through an encrypted connection. Using a Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI), SSL certificates authenticate the end-use Website and the endpoint server, making it difficult for those sites to be imitated or forged.

The acquisition of SSL certificates should always be a relatively easy experience; however, the purchasing decision should never be regarded lightly. When businesses consider SSL certificates; there six Golden Rules a purchaser should keep in mind.

At the end of the day, people want to make sure their Web sites are secured with as little friction as possible—Symantec gives businesses every opportunity to achieve that goal.

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Healthcare

A New Prescription for Privacy: Understanding and Meeting Security Requirements for Electronic Health Records

Technology continues to make information more readily available to a larger group of people than ever before. Yet even as the latest technological advances bring a greater wealth of opportunities for sharing and distributing knowledge, each advance also increases the risk that sensitive data will land in the wrong hands. The more sensitive the data, the greater the risk—and few industries handle a larger volume of sensitive data than the healthcare industry.

No matter how your organization decides to secure its EHR system, working with a trusted third party like Symantec will help ensure that patient records are always protected with the most advanced security solutions currently available. With Symantec, providers can be sure that their EHR systems—and the vital data they contain—are safe, so doctors and hospitals can focus on delivering the best possible care to their patients.

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Featured Tech / Sales & Marketing

Hidden Dangers Lurking in E-Commerce – Reducing Fraud with the Right SSL Certificate

On the Internet, it is easy to pretend to be someone you are not. Looking at the way we all interact online, it’s important to understand the threat landscape and help the industry take the required action. The fact is that e-commerce can prove to be extremely compulsive – buy something now! With cost, time until delivery, and returns policy often highest up the agenda, security is typically an afterthought at most. It’s no wonder that the cyber criminals have moved in en masse, lured by the easy pickings and riches to be had. And it’s this movement that makes security and particularly the use of security online more important today than ever before.

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Enterprise IT / Software Design

Protecting Against Web Application Threats Using SSL

Although there is no single security measure than can prevent all threats, there are some that provide broad—based mitigation to a number of threats. The use of SSL encryption and digital certificate‐based authentication is one of them.

In this paper learn how SSL encryption can protect server-to-server communications, client devices, cloud resources, and other endpoints in order to help prevent the risk of data loss. Also included is a step-by-step guide to assessing your needs, determining where SSL encryption and digital certificate-based authentication may be helpful, planning for the rollout of SSL to Web applications, and establishing policies and procedures to manage the full life cycle of SSL certificates.

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