Application security has become a top concern for security professionals striving to control their company’s overall risk profile. Meanwhile, companies are also saving money by outsourcing more and more custom code creation. This white paper outlines five best practices that enterprises can use to secure their outsourced application development. 

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) enables different programs, applications, and tools to interact via self-contained services that do not depend on the context or state of the other service. This white paper provides insight into the top-four worst practices for SOA integration, and how to avoid and/or overcome these worst practices. 

The talk examines how to develop and enterprise solution for leveraging a diverse server-side framework portfolio and deliver a consistent experience to end users. 

In November 2008, Conficker A, the first of five variants of the malware, rapidly began infecting computers which had failed to install a Microsoft patch released just weeks earlier. In late December 2008, Conficker B added new mechanisms for distribution including USB storage devices. 

The product portfolio decisions you make today will determine whether your company is relevant tomorrow. To increase the chances of marketing a successful product, organizations must deliver products and services to the consumers they value the most, and they must provide those deliverables when their consumers want them. Read on to learn more. 

<p>Application portfolio management (APM) can help your organization in its quest to trim unwanted applications and modernize its portfolio. Read this paper now and learn about the need for an APM solution, including examples on how it can help your business optimize its IT investments.</p> 

The IT project and portfolio management market remains active in an adverse global economy. This year's Magic Quadrant acknowledges emerging IT planning and control and application portfolio management integration support, two (but not the only) routes for expanding PPM systems. Read this Gartner report for more. 

This resource offers ten steps to achieving IT portfolio management enlightenment. Learn how, by integrating APM and PPM solutions, CIOs can achieve better visibility into their entire IT portfolio, creating improved efficiency, lower costs and overall business harmony. 

Read this paper to learn 11 best practice peer code review tips to optimize review sessions, improve code, and make the most of valuable time. Some of the key findings include how many lines of code you should review in an hour, annotating code before you begin reviewing, leveraging a check list system, and more. 

This webcast shows insights into enabling businesses to  face business challenges by combining business driven information systems and effective application portfolio management. 

In the pursuit of improving IT project delivery, many companies tend to focus primarily on the process but might overlook a crucial step: benchmarking effectiveness. 

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.