The CIO's role becomes more strategic as organizations use information to create a competitive advantage. This paper – using evidence from benchmarks created with IBM to test WebFOCUS' performance on System z running z/OS and Linux – helps CIOs to balance demands for information accessibility and processing power. 

BI empowers companies with the ability to offer products and services at the lowest cost and with the greatest amount of efficiency and productivity possible- while returning the highest revenues and profits. Learn how BI can help you to establish a culture of measurement and begin a powerful cycle of continued improvement within your organization. 

Creating audit trails for security and compliance auditing is a daunting and time consuming task for database administrators. This expert e-guide provides database security best practices for tuning auditing tools and sheds some light on how to find an auditing process that best suits your organization. 

Auditing is a key component to security and compliance, and a widely accepted practice by IT operations. In this expert tip, you’ll find an in-depth overview of the tools required to create and collect successful database audits, as well as a set of best practices for tuning audit tools. 

Data Encryption Expert fills the gaps in your data protection efforts as an affordable and easy to implement solution to difficult compliance requirements like encryption, access control, host protection and auditing. 

Read this chapter from "HOWTO Secure and Audit Oracle 10g and 11g" (CRC Press, 2009) and learn how to secure Oracle by checking for weak passwords, configuring failed login policies, preventing DoS attacks with resource limits, and auditing user profiles. 

Today’s stringent legislative and industry requirements Windows server auditing simpler, more reliable, and better able to meet their business requirements. organizations – faced with stricter internal security policies as well as– continue to struggle to make. 

This expert tip highlights the various ways compliance has advanced information security, the new challenges it has introduced and how security pros can further their efforts to adequately secure the organization. 

This whitepaper will examine PCI DSS and explain how Lumension® Compliance and IT Risk Management can help organizations reduce the cost of addressing compliance. 

IT audit is about the formal verification and validation of the quality and effectiveness of ITcontrols to support the overall business control objectives. From a security controlperspective the residual IT security risks are relatively well understood in a networkperimeter protected environment.