Every year people come from around the world to hear from leading industry experts, vendors and Brian Madden himself on the state of the industry and where things are going. Now, for the first time ever, select sessions of BriForum Chicago 2011 are going online in our BriForum Online Academy. 

Bit9 conducted a survey on 1,861 IT and security professionals worldwide to examine their current views on today’s evolving threat landscape and their stance against them. View this report for a summary of the overall results as well as key findings, and find out how you compare to your peers. 

<p>Visit SearchSecurity.com's IT Decision Center that focuses on the Antimalware solutions in the marketplace today. Gain expert advice at each stage at the buying cycle as well as have access to answers to the top 5 questions SearchSecurity.com's audience has around antimalware solutions directly from the top vendors in the space in one place.</p> 

In the ongoing effort to reach HIPPA Electronic Medical Record (EMR) compliance standards, one of the biggest concerns is security. Download this whitepaper to see how to develop a blanket of security for patients and your reputation through leveraging best practices for automated threat protection! 

Managing backup and recovery in today's environment is a multi-dimensional challenge with both near and long term business requirements. This paper explains 5 topics to think about as you design your long-term data retention plans. 

This white paper highlights recent virtualisation advances that can minimise PC management expenses while heightening the security of client infrastructures. Explore the requirements for the next generation desktop and discover tools and processes that can help you meet effectively meet them. 

The combined strengths of Dell EqualLogic and VMware can deliver significant benefits for VDI implementations. Integration of DellEqualLogic with VMware vSphere and VMware View can help your organization achieve optimal VDI performance. Read now to learn more. 

This white paper introduces an integrated infrastructure solution designed to meet the growing demands of today's virtualized data center. With the ability to be optimized for a variety of mixed application workloads, this technology allows simplified management of your virtual infrastructure and can lower TCO. Read on for more. 

This Technology Spotlight from IDC discusses the drivers, benefits, and challenges of creating virtual desktop environments, and examines a key technology that can help organizations successfully deploy virtual desktops. 

<p>The success of your virtual desktop environment is largely dependent upon the data center infrastructure you have in place. This white paper describes the key architectural requirements for desktop virtualization and discusses a framework designed to help you meet them.</p> 

With concerns over their VDI-enabled ATMs and an expiring security solution, Stillwater National Bank and Trust company (SNB) needed a new option. In this case study, uncover why SNB decided to go with Bit9 Parity and how it enabled them to lock down their ATMs, PCs and servers and to protect from emerging threats.    

End-user computing is changing dramatically. New challenges in productivity, security and licensing are happening simultaneously. Access this white paper to learn why a centralized, end-user computing model is the most effective way for handling this growing set of changes. 

Find out how you can meet the demands of IT consumerization, VDI and an enterprise-wide Windows 7 migration with the help of a centralized, policy-based platform. Leverage automation to ease your desktop transformations today.