Protecting databases and the data they contain is a challenging task for every IT security professional. This expert e-guide provides best practices for database activity monitoring and explains a step by step process for prioritizing data and protecting transactions. 

This nine-page Buyer's Guide to Customer Relationsip Management (CRM) analyses the factors CIOs and senior IT professionals will need to consider as they plan their CRM strategies. 

This expert e-guide teaches QA managers ten things to know for successful configuration testing and provides guidance for overcoming five common hurdles of dealing with QA-reluctant CIOs. 

Read this e-guide to discover why a testing taxonomy such as the Agile testing quadrants is an effective tool for software teams undertaking this task. 

In this tip guide, learn best practices from industry expert David Loshin on how to proactively plan and update your organization's data quality strategy. 

Virtual machine disaster recovery is a multifaceted activity that fails over a VM from a primary site to a remote location. Check out this e-guide to learn about the various approaches to virtual machine disaster recovery. 

This week's Computer Weekly examines how the Football Association's IT director is using technology to help improve the prospects for the England national team. Our Buyer's Guide to government IT looks at the future of open source in the public sector and we report from Infosec 2012 on the rising number of cyber attacks. Read the issue now. 

Streamline your compliance efforts by implementing these five tips that will help you better tie together security deployments and processes, business goals and compliance activities. 

UPMC sought to improve the workflow efficiency in its nursing units to enhance the quality of care, reduce costs/errors and leverage its nursing resources more effectively. Supported by its partnership with IBM, UPMC developed SmartRoom, a workflow optimization system that leverages clinical intelligence to guide nursing decisions and activities. 

This white paper reviews the effect of various regulatory compliance requirements on database security, and provides you with 5 practical steps for achieving database security and compliance. 

Insider threats, both careless and malicious, abound. This fact is amplified during difficult economic times. With a plethora of digitized information, and vehicles for turning credit card data, personally identifiable information and intellectual property into cash, goods, and other services, risks have increased. 

Designing a case management architecture is more of an art—really, a balancing act—than a science. In this expert e-guide, readers will learn to build "bridges" to extend case management activity across the enterprise, and enable more effective collaboration and decision-making.