<p>This Information Security Essential Guide on Threat Management explores the new strategies organizations are developing to tackle the threat of today’s growing malware threats and targeted attacks.</p> 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we look at the IT challenges facing retailers, as consumers turn increasingly to web and mobile shopping channels. Oracle president Mark Hurd talks about how the supplier intends to simplify IT infrastructures. And new government CIO Andy Nelson discusses how he plans to transform Whitehall IT. Read the issue now. 

Setting clear expectations of your company and how you plan to achieve them is vital to your overall success. Read this white paper to learn how to effectively implement a goal management system by taking advantage of the best practices and methodologies inside. 

This study from analyst Freeform Dynamics gives guidance on security for organisations considering Software as a service. 

Over time, the information security/risk management profession has developed a variety of methods for assessing risk within an organization. 

This white paper discusses at length how Utopia’s formal data migration methodology reduces the risks of large systems deployments by using a tried-and-tested framework for the entire migration process, from source data analysis through post-go-live support. 

This white paper explains the differences between the de-duplication approaches, discusses the strengths and limitations of each, shows how different backup tasks are likely to benefit from them, and talks about the business benefits. 

The efficiency ratings of a data centre can vary substantially depending on what methodologies are used. This paper  discusses the importance of measuring data centre efficiency and explores the issues companies face when establishing the PUE of an infrastructure. 

In this webcast, IT consultant Andrew Kutz traces the role of backup in virtual environments, starting with the early adopters and moving to today's top backup methodologies. 

This expert e-guide offers insight into agile ALM best practices that you should adhere to throughout the development lifecycle. Read this and learn a three-step process for managing the risks associated with agile ALM. Further, discover why it is integral to the entire process to develop working software early to gauge customer acceptance. 

Read this white paper to learn how, as a result of successfully applying multiple code development and testing techniques, your code will be more constrained, more maintainable, and better tested.