Unchecked corporate espionage could cost you everything
10 things you can do to make sure your data doesn't walk out the door
Hacker attacks that bring down the network get a lot of attention, so companies concern themselves with protecting against those threats. Unfortunately, the security precautions that prevent those high profile attacks may not be addressing a much more insidious problem: theft of company data for corporate espionage or other purposes. Yet disclosure of your trade secrets to a competitor or the release of private company information to the media could, in some cases, result in a much greater loss than network downtime. Here's a look at what you should be doing to keep your data from walking out the door.
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A sample app to monitor performance counters and send alerts
Nearly every system level application or component publishes data via performance counters. In addition to that, the .NET Framework provides functionality to both read and write to performance counters. Many application developers have taken advantage of this functionality in their applications. With these two points in mind, Zach Smith developed a configurable utility that could monitor a performance counter and send alerts when certain critical conditions are met. In this document, Zach shows you the code for this utility and explains how it works.
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