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Rapid ROI with Remote DBA: The Operational and Cost Benefits of Remote Database Administration

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:20:01 -0800

IT execs: Get the facts on delivering rapid ROI with remote DBA and gain a competitive advantage by streamlining your IT processes. Remote Managed Services are expected to remain the #1 IT investment strategy through 2010 for SMBs. Learn how mid-market companies in this economic climate are taking advantage of this strategy to cut costs and increase operational efficiency. This white paper instructs businesses how to:

Leverage remote DBA
Streamline IT budgets
Optimize IT operations
Deliver rapid ROI

Also learn how Heineken USA utilizes remote DBA to realize ROI and true 24x7 database monitoring. Download Bluewolf's newest insight now.

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HR Information Systems Buyer's Guide

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:20:01 -0800

Receive this FREE “HR Information Systems” Buyer's Guide along with complimentary, no obligation price quotes from multiple quality & independent HR Information Systems providers.

This HR Information Systems Buyer's Guide will explain:

Assess your HRIS needs
Understand which features to look for
Determine how to choose among multiple providers
Know how much you can expect to pay

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HR Outsourcing Buyer's Guide

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:20:01 -0800

Receive their FREE “HR Outsourcing” Buyer's Guide along with complimentary, no obligation price quotes from multiple quality & independent HR Outsourcing providers.

Whether you have five employees or 500, an HRO (Human Resources Outsourcing) provider can supply experienced professionals to handle your company's staff management needs from payroll and employee recruitment to benefits and policy manuals. This HR Outsourcing Buyer's Guide will explain the full range of solutions HRO providers offer, how to find the right vendor, and the various costs involved.

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Understanding Application Whitelisting

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:20:01 -0800

Blacklisting undesirable applications still has its uses. However, with today's more dynamic computing environments, rapidly evolving threat landscape, and rigorous compliance mandates, blacklisting has reached its limits. Its heavy signature requirements make it unwieldy, the need for systems to regularly call home for signature updates make it inconvenient. Not to mention, it's also reactive: Blacklisting requires having advanced knowledge of the application (signature) and an unbeatable sensory method for reading signs of malicious activity.

Because of these inconveniences, application whitelisting (allowing only approved applications to run and blocking all others) is making its way into IT organizations to achieve compliance and protect systems from malicious applications executing on them.

This white paper defines why application whitelisting is important, differentiates the two approaches to application control (whitelist vs. blacklist), and discusses where the adoption of application whitelisting is most applicable. It discusses the applicability of application whitelisting on dedicated systems and in enterprise cases, while examining compliance implications and offering best practices.

Written by: SANS Institute

Sponsored by: McAfee

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Key to Reducing Risk from Unauthorized Applications

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:20:01 -0800

Companies often have a difficult time preventing endpoints and servers from deviating from corporate standards. Users may install unauthorized applications while on or off the corporate network that may introduce malware, present support issues, or create software licensing risks. With its industry-leading whitelisting technology, McAfee® Application Control ensures that only trusted applications run on servers and endpoints while permitting software updates from authorized sources. This provides IT with the greatest degree of visibility and control over endpoints and also helps enforce software license compliance. Additionally, as companies strive to extend the viability of fixed function systems (Microsoft Windows NT legacy or low footprint), Application Control also extends an extra layer of protection without impacting system performance.

Learn how to achieve:

Greater visibility and control of applications on endpoints and servers
Extends the business viability of fixed function systems
Low cost of ownership because dynamic whitelisting eliminates manual effort of maintaining databases, rules, and updates
Low overhead software solution that runs transparently on endpoints
Increased business availability and continuity
Well suited for point-of-sale terminals in retail environments, imaging devices in healthcare, and legacy, fixed-function Microsoft Windows NT and Windows 2000 systems

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Key to Preventing Unauthorized IT Change

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:20:01 -0800

Most IT organizations today recognize the centrality of change to their operational effectiveness. Many have invested in process automation tools such as a Change Management system or a Service Desk. Yet, a gap persists between actual change activity and the documented Change Management process. This change control gap results in manual activity by IT departments to control and minimize the costs of change. Change Control bridges this gap by adding control to change management. This is accomplished by providing customers with real-time detection of changes being made, accountability to validate change activity and real-time change prevention to block unwanted changes. Change Control easily automates PCI and SOX controls for compliance reporting, locks down critical systems to ensure only trusted applications run, and prevents change-related outages for improved service availability and accelerated ITIL adoption.

Change Control is an operational-friendly, low-touch and low overhead software that can be deployed on a wide range of hardware platforms. Change Control provides change control on servers, network devices (including switches, routers and firewalls), and databases.

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Open Source Security Myths Dispelled (Note: Spanish Title: Descubriendo la Verdad Detrás de los Mitos de la Seguridad del Código Abierto)

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:50:00 -0800

When choosing between proprietary and open source security solutions, many organizations are misled by open source myths. As a result, they ask the wrong questions when evaluating their options and unnecessarily limit their IT solutions. Is it risky to trust mission-critical infrastructure to open source software? Why should we pay an open source vendor when open source is supposed to be free? Will a shift to open source add complexity to our IT infrastructure? These questions all arise from open source myths that this Spanish language white paper will explain and dispel, allowing IT decision makers to focus on more important organizational issues: return-on-investment, ease-of-use, agility, reliability, and control.

Special Note: This paper is presented in Spanish

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Oracle Magazine

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:50:01 -0800

Oracle Magazine contains technology strategy articles, sample code, tips, Oracle and partner news, how to articles for developers and DBAs, and more. Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest enterprise software company.

For more information about Oracle, please visit their Web site at http://www.oracle.com. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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Key Strategies for IT Success in Today's Distribution Environment

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:20:01 -0800

The technology world around us is changing rapidly. Keeping up has become tougher for managers and supervisors. Today's economy has focused limited information technology resources on immediate results, not research or long term strategy. In this environment, an understanding of how to apply new technology for up-and-coming management is very worthwhile. This white paper provides high level definitions, opportunity identification, and future potentials for: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Anytime, Anywhere Availability, Mobile Devices, Web 2.0, and Report Cards or Balanced Scorecards as a Business Intelligence (BI) capability. It is a foundation for becoming more valuable to an organization by being able to generate a Return on Investment when applying the latest capabilities to the real world.

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Achieving Efficient Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) for Financial Services through Process and Automation

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:20:01 -0800

Now more than ever, financial institutions are struggling to comply with regulations and manage the risks and penalties of failing to operate within the rules. Establishing, maintaining and proving compliance requires both money and time that executives would rather invest in top-line growth. The myriad of procedures, tasks, and behaviors that bear upon compliance can be overwhelming. Yet financial institutions that can master the management all of these activities—and demonstrate that they have done it—operate more efficiently, compete more effectively, and build their brands and good names in the marketplace. Fortunately, newly available software platforms that have become known as Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) technologies can help. This white paper discusses the drivers behind the growing awareness of GRC information technology and introduces the elements of an effective automated GRC system.

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