In this month’s issue we provide our 5th annual Readers’ Choice Awards for the best security products in the market. We’ve talked with over 1,500 Information Security readers to find what their favorite products are and why. Read through to see which ones take the gold. 

The "Critical Security Controls" (CSC) guidelines are designed to help organizations move beyond a "checklist" mentality by making security an integral part of, instead of an adjunct to, the operations and management of systems and networks. Learn more about the CSC guidelines and how they can help your organization. 

Building and adhering to security standards are essential for mitigating risk and ensuring adequate IT security. NIST is one of the first risk assessment standards, offering guidelines for securing the IT infrastructure. In this e-guide, gain an in-depth look into NIST and uncover how to decrease the risks that your industry faces. 

This standard is aimed at enhancing the integrity of commercial off the shelf ICT products and helping customers to manage sourcing risk. 

Dell strives to simplify IT in order to reduce complexity in data centers and has a broad storage product portfolio to meet database customers' needs. These storage selection guidelines will help administrators choose an appropriate storage technology based on their requirements. 

Follow this case study to learn about the advanced systems management solution Redner's Warehouse Markets deployed to effectively and securely support their end points and critical POS systems while achieving a 512 percent ROI and reducing software distribution time and costs by 75 percent. 

If you're a security professional, the focus on application security in IT these days may leave you feeling out of the loop. Yet, in many cases, application security pros rely on the infrastructure team to provide a secure foundation.  Find out how securing a naming and directory service will help build a solid platform that application can trust. 

This technical white paper provides best practices and configuration guidelines on how to best integrate VMware vSphere® 5.0 with HP P4000 LeftHand SAN Solutions. 

This document describes the basic concepts and integration guidelines for FalconStor® File-interface Deduplication System (FDS) in a Veritas NetBackup™ environment. It is intended to provide best practices for configuring all components. 

This SearchStorage.com E-Guide can get your company up to speed by outlining six requirements for deploying primary storage optimization solutions. 

Governments today are focusing on the practice of continuous monitoring as a means to providing the much needed balance between data access and protection. In this paper, learn more about continuous monitoring, including what is it and why it’s needed, guidelines for implementing it, key capabilities of an effective solution, and more. 

The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council has demanded the development of mobile applications that include comprehensive security controls. This expert resource will help you understand what the new guidelines call for in terms of security controls, the history behind these standards, and further developments. 

This IT handbook is designed to help organizations make practical and strategic decisions about their own cloud security. Follow these guidelines to make sure that you've established policies that define data classification categories, data labeling mechanisms and data handling requirements.