This standard is aimed at enhancing the integrity of commercial off the shelf ICT products and helping customers to manage sourcing risk. 

Read this paper to learn about a new approach to compliance that seeks to move beyond the short-term goal of passing an audit and to incorporate compliance into an organization's operations in a more proactive sense utilizing the Capability Maturity Model. 

The "Critical Security Controls" (CSC) guidelines are designed to help organizations move beyond a "checklist" mentality by making security an integral part of, instead of an adjunct to, the operations and management of systems and networks. Learn more about the CSC guidelines and how they can help your organization. 

This paper provides best practice guidelines for deploying SAP software solutions on VMware Infrastructure 3. 

View this white paper to learn more about a series of best practices that can be easily applied when selecting a business intelligence (BI) solution for your organization. It discusses key topics such as why so many BI projects fail and how to avoid the common pitfalls. 

Now that you have successfully completed the deployment of the UC audio devices in your organization, it is time to focus on the moment of truth — the first positive user interaction with the new technology. 

Without the right management tools, virtualization's flexibility benefits are often offset by increased data center complexity. This expert chapter explores the challenges of maintaining a virtual environment and describes tactics and technologies that can help you overcome them. 

Building and adhering to security standards are essential for mitigating risk and ensuring adequate IT security. NIST is one of the first risk assessment standards, offering guidelines for securing the IT infrastructure. In this e-guide, gain an in-depth look into NIST and uncover how to decrease the risks that your industry faces. 

Jon Toigo of Toigo Partners International covers data protection guidelines, including mirroring, tape backup and WAN-based replication technologies in this video. 

Many seemingly innocent coding practices can cause code to execute slowly. It’s far better for software quality, and less costly for the business, to find slow code before it becomes a business problem. This white paper examines the main causes and provides a practical guide to identifying them. 

This e-book exclusive discusses some of the key challenges associated with virtualization management, and introduces strategies and guidelines you can leverage to help you ensure optimal control and administration of your virtual environment. 

This white paper provides an overview of the evolving combat tactics used in the antivirus battle, giving both simplified explanations of technological approaches as well as a broad chronological perspective. 

This white paper recommends best practices for efficient, lightweight peer code review that have been proven to be effective via scientific study and extensive field experience. Use the techniques discussed in this paper to ensure your code reviews improve your code and make the most of your developers' time.