This report from the Corporate Executive Board, based on extensive research with Chief Information Security Officers, identifies the top 10 security imperatives for 2012. 

Hosted unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) helps organizations deploy collaboration tools to their workers more quickly and efficiently than premise-based solutions. This whitepaper explores the benefits of hosted UC&C, how to get started, what to look for in a solutions provider, and more. 

Companies need to make significant investments in digital skills and technologies if they are to meet the needs of their customers, Booz&Co argues in this report. 

This article from Gartner offers advice to public sector organisations thinking of deploying cloud computing and assess the progress made by governments in their use of the cloud. 

Active Administrator™ is a comprehensive and proactive Active Directory management solution. Active Administrator provides four powerful integrated AD management features within one console, including centralized event auditing and reporting, back-up and recovery, Group Policy offline editing and rollback, and simplified delegation of AD rights. 

Read this paper to learn how to clear out the backlog of new and modified applications that development teams are racing to create—and streamline release processes- so you can promptly release application enhancements and immediately leverage them. 

<p>Many firms are now planning to run mission critical workloads on public cloud, according to this research from Forrester and BMC.</p> 

This report highlights some of the current challenges and opportunities for finding the right balance between the need for the corporate control and personal convenience for mobile devices. 

ILOG's Business Rules Management System, or JRules, provides a full function business rule management system that enables all business rules to be externalized. This allows the business to develop the rules directly, ensuring the rules accurately reflect the business policies. 

Rising security breaches cost UK billions over the last 12 months as cyber attacks reached record levels, according to the 2012 Information Security Breaches survey. 

Data loss prevention (DLP) in healthcare entails preventing confidential patient records from falling into the wrong hands and requires thought out, well-enforced policies and the technology to back them up. Inside this resourceful e-book, learn how to achieve DLP through data encryption, monitoring tools, risk assessments and more. 

This week’s Computer Weekly kicks off our Buyer's Guide to private cloud. It also contains our RSA conference coverage of the latest IT security trends and the future for Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing initiative. And we discuss the role of apprenticeships in encouraging more young people to work in IT. 

The recent surge in cyber attacks has forced organisations to align cyber security efforts across all of their operations, rather than focusing on IT, but CEOs now need to take the lead in protecting their organisations, this report from PwC argues.