To find out how senior executives view their financial processes, the Economist Intelligence Unit surveyed a global sample of mostly financial executives in September 2008. Some respondents focused on the importance of developing processes that reduced costs and improved efficiency. Others acknowledged the importance of cost and efficiency.. 

Join us for a discussion with Tommy Thompson, IT Security and Compliance Coordinator at Williams Company and Bob Shapiro, Principal Business Analyst at OpenPages, in which we will uncover strategies for implementing a more effective IT risk and compliance management program. 

Read this solution guide for suggestions on how to get the most out of implementing application control in your network. After discussing the expanding applications frontier and its impact on an enterprise, the paper defines application control and reviews the requirements it must meet. 

Lumension's Sanctuary Device Control minimizes the risk of data theft from removable devices through its policy-based enforcement of device use that controls the flow of inbound and outbound data from your endpoints. 

In this webcast, you will see how you can take control of your IT costs by effectively managing your assets with Numara Asset Management Platform (NAMP). You will learn how NAMP automates your resource-intensive IT asset management challenges so you can improve compliance, improve customer satisfaction, reduce risk, and optimize your investments. 

Following a Business Process Outsourcing agreement for the administration of Life and Pension products, HCL Insurance BPO Services, undertook a full analysis of the inherited infrastructure. A risk was identified with the third party mainframe used to host its CAPSIL insurance application. 

This expert E-Guide offers an in-depth look at the security of cloud computing. Discover a risk versus benefits comparison, learn why it may be difficult to satisfy compliance auditors if security controls are obscured, and see why cloud vendors aren’t very concerned with security. 

This paper is aimed at helping senior management address its product ROI in a manner that can be directly applied to their everyday management practices. In this report, EMF presents a methodology for calculating the ROI for a development based on the direct cost of development, associative costs, extrinsic costs and a process for estimating risk. 

This tech brief presents eight recommendations to help you proactively address the difficulties of access control in a Microsoft-centric environment, and avoid the common pitfalls, risks and costs. 

BMC CONTROL-M is a powerful WLA (Workload automation) solution that should be in consideration for any WLA consolidation project. 

Now more than ever, enterprises must achieve strategic objectives while operating within prescribed boundaries. Oracle makes this possible with the most complete platform for governance, risk, and compliance. Read this white paper to learn more. 

This complimentary Aberdeen report details how best-in-class companies are using a 5-Step Mobility Management approach to take control of their burgeoning mobile infrastructures. A must read for IT executives looking to cut mobility TCO and support costs, reduce security risks and increase mobile user productivity. 

This Pocket E-Guide leads you through the compliance workflow process, including specifics on audit preparation. Get tips on when and what type of encryption is the right choice for your organization and find out how to avoid common encryption risks and tradeoffs. Read on to learn more.