In this expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchEnterpriseDesktop.com and BeyondTrust, you will discover the security tools essential for effectively managing your Windows systems. Explore the critical role Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer plays in security scanning measures. 

The ever present demand to maximise the value delivered by business-critical applications requires that we optimise the use of all the resources that execute and manage them. BMC Software is one of the major vendors offering such support and has a highly regarded set of solutions collectively called BMC SQL Performance for DB2. 

This book contains general information about improving performance for DB2 on z/OS and specific information about how BMC products help improve performance. 

Read this E-Guide to learn about an alternative to traditional antimalware testing, using your perimeter network security tools. Snyder lays out a step-by-step guide to validate your own malware including where to find sample test viruses, equipment needed, and the channels to test. 

In an attempt to tailor and more effectively promote its programs, the Metro Atlanta YMCA turned to Birst for a new set of Business intelligence (BI) tools. Birst delivered with features that included automated dashboards and adhoc reporting at a fair price. Read on to learn the benefits YMCA experienced when they switched to Birst. 

This paper explains how whitelisting (accepting only applications and behaviors that are on the approved list and denying everything else) provides a lighter, more agile alternative to blacklisting as a means to protect networks and end points. 

The term "financial close" describes a corporation's ability to complete its accounting cycles and produce financial statements for internal management and external legal reporting. This paper identifies solutions to help organizations improve and sustain their close times and address the challenges associated with automating internal controls 

Performance optimization is a key ingredient in the struggle to stretch an invested IT dollar to its absolute limit. Read this whitepaper to learn about the 3-step 'prevent, find, fix' approach to handling performance optimization problems at any stage of the development lifecycle. 

With the Sophos Application Discovery Tool, you can quickly perform a scan and find the applications installed on your network, both legitimate and unwanted. The tool can be run without uninstalling or deactivating your current anti-virus software. 

Sawmill is a powerful hierarchical log analysis tool that runs on every major platform and operating system. 

This white paper is the first in a three-part series, each of which examines the challenge of implementing network security on equipment from Cisco Systems while maintaining the connectivity requirements of the business or enterprise. 

Companies and their stakeholders have always had high expectations for their finance teams. But this research program reveals that, most recently, these pressures- from regulators, from investors, and from competitors&#$5; are pushing companies to look for more from their finance teams in two main, but often conflicting, areas.