This technical guide for database administrators and IT security experts demonstrates how you can protect your sensitive data with the native database encryption functions of Microsoft SQL Server 2008, such as cell-level encryption and Transparent Data Encryption, and manage and protect encryption keys with hardware security modules (HSMs). 

This paper offers thought leadership to help you address challenges surrounding information security and compliance issues. It will also introduce you to the value and importance of a hardware security module as a key part of any successful information security program. 

We need to establish cost-effective security as a standard practice. This should be a long-term goal, not just one inspired by a tough economy. This paper explores several innovative ideas to help your organization save money on company security. 

Mobile communication technologies are evolving quickly and new customer demands arise almost every day. At the same time, the economic downturn has impacted budgets, so that cost efficiency now tops the corporate agenda. Service providers must now must not only test and develop new services to meet customer demand, but do it within tight budgets. 

This paper sets out a framework for evaluating a data center. It considers the special factors that apply to an on-demand infrastructure, many of which go well beyond the standards applicable to the average enterprise data center. 

Reading this paper will help you understand the fundamentals of building a security architecture that helps you respond to business demands while safeguarding your organization. 

This guide describes seven typical mistakes of IT security compliance and how you can use these lessons to help your organization achieve its compliance goals. 

Secure Web gateway solutions protect Web-surfing PCs from infection and enforce company policies. Incumbant providers have been slow to respond to changing demands, while new vendors are struggling to get the right product mix and prove their mettle in the demanding enterprise market. 

Put your PC in your pocket with Pocket ACE. Watch this informative session to learn how you can deploy your PC to a variety of devices like USB memory sticks, laptops or even iPods. 

Join Tim Scannell, editor of SearchEnterpriseWAN.com, and Bojan Simic, expert in application performance management, WAN optimization, network management, and application delivery, as they discuss how to effectively manage and balance WAN performance with security safeguards on local and wide area networks. 

This paper offers a practical guide to implementing fine-grained access controls with ten aspects that are important to consider when planning an implementation of fine-grained access controls in a corporate server environment. 

Read this case study to learn how one of India's leading financial services firms paved the way for continued growth and improved customer service by deploying Dell servers and a Dell SAN.