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QBrief Newsletter - August 2007  
July Reader Poll Results


It's estimated that IT managers spend more than 50% of their time on security and compliance issues.

What keeps YOU up at night?

 

Our readers have spoken – here’s what they said:

Employees, Careless or Malicious

53.2%

Regulatory Compliance Requirements

14.2%

Auditors

10.5%

Log Overload

10.2%

IT Funding & Staffing

6.3%

Visibility

3.3%

Hacking & Phishing

2.3%


  

    

     
   How much of your time is spent
   chasing down FALSE ALARMS?


August Reader Poll
Have you ever missed a real attack because you were manually sifting through an avalanche of false alarms? Most IT managers agree – not only are false positives a resource drain – they can divert your attention from real threats. How much of your time is spent chasing down FALSE ALARMS?

0-10%

11-20%

21-30%

31-40%

41-50%

>50%

How do you compare with your peers?
Check our September issue for poll results.

See Q1 Labs at Upcoming Regional Events


Orange County Tech-Security Conference
September 6
Anaheim, CA
Info & Registration 



FishNet Information Security
& Wireless Technology Conference & Expo

September 13
Indianapolis, IN
Info & Registration

 
Juniper Networks Demo Truck Tour
Info & Registration

September 14
Juniper Networks Demo Truck Tour
Edmonton, AB
 
September 17
Juniper Networks Demo Truck Tour
Calgary, AB
 
September 28
Juniper Networks Demo Truck Tour
Boise, ID
 

 
IANS New England Information Security Forum
September 17-18
Boston, MA
Get More Info


SANS Network Security Conference & Vendor Expo
September 24-25 – Vendor Expo – Booth #201
September 27 – Lunch & Learn – “Enterprise Log Management for Incident Handlers”
Las Vegas, NV

Get More Info


Secure Seven Security Day
October 4
Milwaukee, WI
Info & Registration 


 
Q1 Labs Finds Internal Malicious Behavior and Employee Carelessness
Survey Validates the Need for Identity and Access Management Integration with Monitoring Technologies

A survey of over 9,000 network and security managers from various industries and organizations found that more than 53 percent of respondents cited security mishaps originating from employees’ careless or malicious behavior as their #1 issue. The upsurge in internal threats or misuse is causing network and security managers to become as vigilant over their internal network and infrastructure as they once were over their network perimeter.

Read More


  
VoIP Best Practices



To maintain high availability and voice quality across the VoIP network, keeping data applications off the VoIP-designated network architecture is critical. To do this, an application view that provides Layer 7 analysis is needed. This displays what applications are traversing all network segments–including VoIP segments–and how much bandwidth is being consumed.

Read More


 
Providing Clarity



SIMs are also being offered as an automated data feed to other network security devices. For example, Q1 Labs QRadar (a combination SIM and network anomaly detection tool) has been integrated into the Trusted Computing Groups Trusted Network Connect (TCG/TNC) Network Access Control (NAC) framework.

Read More


 
Webcast Archive


View an on-demand webcast any time
from the convenience of your desktop:


“Meeting PCI Data Security Standards: It’s more than log collection.”

“Network and Security Integration: The Key to Successfully Deploying Security Appliances, Services and Monitoring Capabilities within an Enterprise Environment”

“Don’t Tell Me What, Tell Me Who: Correlating User Identify with Threat Information”

“Accountability, Measurement, and Transparency: The Benefits of Monitoring a PCI Regulated Network”

“Drowning in a Sea of Logs: Network-wide log collection and network-wide information reduction”


  
Resources




Visit Q1 Labs’ online Resource Library to learn more about network security management by downloading brochures, data sheets, webcasts, podcasts, and product demonstrations.


  
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