This Technical Standard provides a taxonomy describing the factors that drive risk – their definitions and relationships. This Technical Standard is not a reference or tutorial on how to assess or analyze risk, as there are many such references already available. 

Data loss prevention (DLP) in healthcare entails preventing confidential patient records from falling into the wrong hands and requires thought out, well-enforced policies and the technology to back them up. Inside this resourceful e-book, learn how to achieve DLP through data encryption, monitoring tools, risk assessments and more. 

Effectively addressing the new HIPAA privacy and security rules introduced in the HITECH Act requires an assessment of your organization’s biggest vulnerabilities as well as the deployment of the right technology to reduce the risk of data loss. Inside this expert resource, gain insight on current healthcare security topics. 

This month’s Information Security Magazine cover story focuses on active strategies for malware resistance and compliance, data protection and incident responses found in VDI approaches. Learn how you can implement three top strategies to ensure your active desktop security isn’t compromised. 

When trying to achieve continuous compliance with internal policies and external regulations, organizations need to replace traditional processes with a new best practice approach and new innovative technology, such as that provided by IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager. 

This webcast is designed to help companies design and execute a successful cloud deployment plan. Obtain cloud survey results from your peers and discover key questions to consider as you get started. 

The increased use of outsourcing and cloud computing coupled with the rising complexity of internal services have all made the ability to manage IT services—both those provided in-house and outsourced—central to business success. Inside this white paper, learn how to effectively manage IT services for optimal business support. 

Businesses, charities and local authorities are looking to cut their overheads by sharing their IT infrastructure, CIOs at Computer Weekly’s 500 Club heard last week. 

Before you move services to the cloud, you must understand how the change in risk will affect your existing security strategy. View this expert resource now to gain best practices for cloud risk management and explore the importance of revisiting risk assumptions, pros and cons of aggregation, tips for pen testing cloud environments, and more. 

Discover how you can improve your desktop virtualization implementation with a deep understanding of your current desktop, application and device usage. Assessing the economic impact of desktop virtualization can help your organization maximize benefits and minimize risks. 

Database security is the last line of defense, so it deserves greater focus on the protection of private data from both internal and external attacks than IT pros have traditionally given it. Read this paper to learn what steps you can take to improve database security in your organization. 

Readers of this e-guide document will learn about the different ways to approach data center outsourcing, including assessing services-oriented architectures for infrastructure and software. IT professionals will benefit from this document in learning how to evaluate, select and manage relationships with potential data center outsourcing partners.