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Decision Services: The Next SOA Challenge by ILOG, an IBM Company April 2008 - (Free Research) This white paper discusses the issues associated with decision services in an SOA strategy, highlighting how business rule management systems can be used to overcome these challenges.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Three simple steps to better patch security by Sophos, Inc. December 2011 - (Free Research) Security experts estimate that 90% of successful attacks against software vulnerabilities could be prevented with an existing patch or configuration setting. Still, many computers in organizations remain unpatched and unprotected. In this whitepaper, uncover three best practices for improving your security and compliance with patch assessment.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

CW+: Compass: How to negotiate effective telecoms contracts by ComputerWeekly.com October 2010 - (Free Research) Effective negotiations and management of telecom contracts can have a measurable impact on a business’ financial performance.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

7 Tips for AD Compliance by Quest Software January 2012 - (Free Research) In this paper, Microsoft MVP Darren Mar-Elia provides best practices for leveraging native AD auditing. Then, he’ll discuss what auditors and compliance officers look for when it comes to examining your AD environment. He’ll also explore third-party alternatives to native auditing that greatly enhance AD auditing. Read this paper today.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Applied Database Auditing and Oracle Audit Vault by Oracle Corporation September 2011 - (Free Research) Applied Oracle Security (Oracle Press, 2010) is the definitive guide to safeguarding Oracle Database 11g written by the security experts in Oracle’s National Security Group. This complementary chapter on auditing covers how to audit database activity efficiently, improve security, address regulatory requirements, and automate compliance reporting.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Privileged User Activity Auditing: The Missing Link for Enterprise Compliance and Security by Centrify Corporation September 2011 - (Free Research) View this paper to describe how Centrify DirectAudit can solve the security, compliance and third-party access challenges organizations face when auditing and monitoring UNIX, Linux and Windows systems and discover why traditional approaches cannot address the requirements of today's changing environment.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

How to tackle IT audit and compliance by ComputerWeekly.com November 2010 - (Free Research) IT audit is about the formal verification and validation of the quality and effectiveness of ITcontrols to support the overall business control objectives. From a security controlperspective the residual IT security risks are relatively well understood in a networkperimeter protected environment.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Using Syslog Effectively for Security Troubleshooting by Global Knowledge January 2010 - (Free Research) This paper examines the numerous ways that syslog messages can be used to enhance the secure deployment of an infrastructure of equipment from Cisco®. Syslog can not only be an essential auditing tool for network and administrative events, but also can be an effective troubleshooting tool.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Your Cloud, Your Business: Perspectives from Verizon and VMware by VMware, Inc. April 2011 - (Free Research) Like the idea of cloud computing but seek a provider that supports the applications you already have? How can you be sure you get the needed security with an external cloud? Learn how IT organizations can extend their virtualized environment to the secure Enterprise Cloud to improve business agility, ensure security and manage costs.  (WEBCAST) READ ABSTRACT |

IT in the Electronic Hospital by SearchHealthIT.com August 2009 - (Free Research) The federal government’s push for electronic healthcare records has made compliance and data security even more pressing. This e-guide offers a look at where healthcare IT leaders should begin, and what they should watch out for as they move to embrace the HITECH Act, HIPAA and other initiatives.  (EGUIDE) READ ABSTRACT |

Station Casinos uses workload automation solution to deliver smoother audits and increase customer loyalty by Cisco Systems, Inc. January 2012 - (Free Research) In this brief white paper, Jeff Martin, Station Casinos’ director of business intelligence (BI), provides specific examples of the types of problems that the company wanted to solve, and offers insight into the specific job scheduling solution it selected to overcome its challenges.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Virtualizing Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity by Dell and VMware February 2012 - (Free Research) Natural disasters, attacks by hackers, a new application gone bad - any or all of these could result in costly disruptions and missed opportunities. Yet many businesses overlook business continuity planning. Learn how savvy enterprises are employing virtualization to strengthen disaster recovery plans.  (WEBCAST) READ ABSTRACT |

Expert E-zine: Who has access to your email? by Microsoft December 2011 - (Free Research) In this edition of The Exchange Insider, explore the next steps for your email messaging platform with the following Exchange topics: Evaluating Office 365, auditing Exchange 2010 and troubleshooting virtualized Exchange Servers.  (EZINE) READ ABSTRACT |

FoxT Enterprise Access Management by FoxT January 2012 - (Free Research) Uncover an enterprise access management approach that can help strengthen security, enforce compliance and streamline administration across the entire enterprise. View now to explore its four essential elements including centralized administration, contextual authentication, adaptive authorization, and automated audit and compliance reporting.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

8 Critical Requirements for Secure, Mobile File Sharing and Collaboration by Accellion, Inc. January 2012 - (Free Research) This white paper describes the requirements - such as server-based security, data encryption, and audit trails - that secure file sharing solutions must meet in order to deliver mobile access while protecting data confidentiality and regulatory compliance.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Tough Love: When IT Security Hurts Your Business by Global Knowledge May 2009 - (Free Research) As IT commoditization continues to increase audit and control activities, IT gets better at identifying and documenting the causes of significant outages. In an increasing number of cases, these ITIL efforts show the source of the outage to be action from the security department, and the BSM processes show the impact to be devastating.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Active Administrator™, Version 5.6.1 by ScriptLogic Corporation December 2010 - (Free Research) Active Administrator™ is a comprehensive and proactive Active Directory management solution. Active Administrator provides four powerful integrated AD management features within one console, including centralized event auditing and reporting, back-up and recovery, Group Policy offline editing and rollback, and simplified delegation of AD rights.  (TRIAL SOFTWARE) READ ABSTRACT |

Cost Effective Security and Compliance with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 by Oracle Corporation September 2011 - (Free Research) Consolidation, outsourcing and cloud computing are just a few of the business initiatives driving IT organizations to focus on data security. Companies have moved beyond securing the network perimeter and made strengthening security controls around data a top priority. Read this whitepaper to learn more.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Provergent Suite - Telecom Order & Inventory Software by Digital Fairway, Inc. The Provergent Communication Asset Management Suite helps to manage the planning, procuring, provisioning, auditing & delivering of communications services. Provergent allows you to build accurate & easy to manage centralized inventories, backed up by automated provisioning processes to manage all moves, adds, changes & deletes in the inventory.  (SOFTWARE PRODUCT)

Presentation Transcript: Considerations for Building a Successful Desktop Virtualization Pilot Program by Dell, Inc. and Intel May 2011 - (Free Research) This presentation transcript highlights Brian Madden and other industry experts as they review the differences among a proof of concept, a trial, and a pilot desktop virtualization program. Learn why a pilot desktop virtualization program is successful and more.  (PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT) READ ABSTRACT |

Governance and control: Focus risk management on multiple levers of control by IBM April 2009 - (Free Research) Written by Jeremy Hope from Beyond Budgeting Round Table, this paper describes how CFOs should set the highest standards of ethical reporting and behavior.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

The Challenge of Mobile Business Intelligence: Developing a Successful Strategy for the New Mobility by IBM January 2012 - (Free Research) Read this white paper now and learn more about the opportunities and challenges that a mobile workforce present to IT and understand the next steps you need to take to develop a successful strategy.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

An insider’s look at security strategy centered around desktop virtualization by Citrix January 2012 - (Free Research) Citrix Systems has implemented an information security strategy and business continuity plan - on the foundation of desktop virtualization - that incorporates technology and best practices designed to mitigate risk while supporting business agility and growth. View now to join a Citrix security insider to explore the benefits.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Get Serious About SOA Governance: A Five-Step Action Plan for Executives by Oracle Corporation December 2011 - (Free Research) Download this whitepaper to see why many organizations are reaping the rewards of successful service-oriented architecture (SOA) transformations and what you need to do to make yours one of them.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

Cloud Based Disaster Recovery for SAP® by Symmetry Corporation (E-mail this company) January 2012 - (Free Research) The impacts of a system outage are felt within minutes of the incident and range from production and shipping stoppages to lost business, industry penalties and failed audits. Read this paper to learn how a disaster recovery (DR) plan based in the cloud mitigates these risks and protects the interests of shareholders, investors and customers.  (WHITE PAPER) READ ABSTRACT |

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