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Home > Data Management > Configuration Management Configuration Management: The management of security features and assurances through control of changes made to hardware, software, firmware, documentation, test, test fixtures and test documentation of an automated information system, throughout the development and operational life of a system. The control of changes, including the recording thereof, that are made to the hardware, software, firmware, and documentation throughout the system lifecycle. Results 1 - 25 of 40 matches Sort Results By : Published Date | Title | Company name Is Virtualization Under Control? By : Tripwire Published Date: Jul 24, 2008 Tripwire surveyed IT professionals to learn how virtualization is expanding and if security, change controls and compliance requirements are keeping pace. Read this white paper to learn more about the state of virtualization today and why most of the respondents agree that a dedicated configuration tool is needed and are in the process of evaluating or planning to acquire such a tool. Download Now Effective Security with a Continuous Approach to ISO 27001 Compliance By : Tripwire Published Date: Jun 27, 2008 The Tripwire Enterprise solution provides organizations with powerful configuration control through its configuration assessment and change auditing capabilities. In this white paper, learn how with Tripwire Enterprise, organizations can quickly achieve IT configuration integrity by proactively assessing how their current configurations measure up to specifications as given in ISO 27001. This provides immediate visibility into the state of their systems, and through automating the process, saves time and effort over a manual efforts. Download Now Configuration Assessment: Choosing the Right Solution By : Tripwire Published Date: Jun 25, 2008 Configuration assessment lets businesses proactively secure their IT infrastructure and achieve compliance with important industry standards and regulations. Learn why configuration assessment is so important, why organizations find it difficult to control system configurations, and what types of configuration assessment solutions are available. Download Now Configuration Management Simplified By : Tail-f Systems Published Date: Jun 23, 2008 This whitepaper describes how NETCONF and YANG can help drastically simplify network configuration management. The IETF has recently standardized the NETCONF configuration management protocol and is currently in the process of standardizing a NETCONF-oriented data modeling language called YANG. These two new technologies promise to drastically simplify network configuration management. Download Now Security vs. Flexibility: Must IT Management Choose? By : Faronics Published Date: Jun 06, 2008 IT Managers are tasked with making the desktop environment more secure and locked down to a uniform corporate standard, yet flexible enough to handle the myriad of exceptions that arise across the enterprise. Centralized Configuration Management (CCM) tools are great, especially in environments with branch offices. But CCM tools can’t do the big job of making your environment inherently more secure or more flexible. Download Now Virtualization and Automation Drive Dynamic Data Centers By : CA WA 2 Published Date: Apr 23, 2008 Data Center Automation enables you to manage change processes, ensure configuration compliance and dynamically provision servers and applications based on business need. By controlling complexity and automating processes in the data center, your data center becomes more adaptive and agile. Effective Data Center Automation lets you leverage virtualization, manage capacity, and reduce costs and also helps reduce energy usage and waste. Download Now Secure Virtualization: Achieve and Maintain IT Security in Virtual Environments By : Tripwire Published Date: Apr 16, 2008 Find out how to maintain the same level of stability and security across both virtual and physical environments, using the same software and approach. Download Now Gene Kim's Practical Steps to Mitigate Virtualization Security Risks By : Tripwire Published Date: Mar 28, 2008 Tripwire founder/CTO Gene Kim provides seven practical steps that IT organizations can take to mitigate the unique security challenges of virtualization. While some are directed specifically at virtualized environments, many of these steps are solid best practices that apply to both physical and virtualized environments. Download Now Proactively Reduce Risk and Improve IT Security in Physical and Virtual Environments By : Tripwire Published Date: Mar 21, 2008 Learn more about the security risks and vulnerabilities faced by organizations, and the elements of a proactive security approach. Then find out how Tripwire helps organizations attain and maintain a good security posture using industry-leading configuration assessment and change auditing to harden systems against security breaches, automate compliance with security standards and policies, identify configuration changes, and resolve vulnerabilities. Download Now Network Change and Configuration Management: Optimize Reliability, Minimize Risk and Reduce Costs By : CA WA Published Date: Feb 27, 2008 One of the most dramatic innovations in the infrastructure management marketplace in the last five years is the rise of Network Change and Configuration Management (NCCM) as a strategic requirement. This white paper will focus on the strong values that NCCM can bring to reliability, risk and cost management, as well as some of its powerful operational and lifecycle asset values. This report will also introduce the CA SPECTRUM Network Configuration Manager as a distinctive leadership offering. Download Now Straddling the Divide between IPT and IT: Implementing ITIL to Optimize Your IP Telephony Investment By : Clarus Systems Published Date: Feb 26, 2008 The recent momentum of Unified Communications (UC) and the disruptive enabling technology of IP Telephony have created a convergence between Voice Engineering and IT departments that is unprecedented - even since the advent of computer telephony integration. However, despite rapid and significant advances within these technologies, many enterprises, even the early adopters, have not fully embraced the alignment of these two worlds. Download Now 2008 IP Telephony Deployment Best Practices By : Clarus Systems Published Date: Jan 04, 2008 In this document, you'll learn to enable the successful execution and completion of IPT Deployment projects through a standardized set of processes and methodologies based upon Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) standards. Download Now Prepare for Successful Audits: A Change Management Manager Checklist By : Solidcore Published Date: Dec 13, 2007 This IT audit checklist guide includes advice on assessing the effectiveness of change management in a variety of areas.   As companies grow more dependent on interdependent IT systems, the risks associated with untested changes in development and production environments have increased proportionately. Download Now Configuration and Change Management for IT Compliance and Risk Management By : Tripwire Published Date: Nov 27, 2007 Learn from industry analysts how IT organizations are using configuration management to meet compliance requirements and instill best practices. Find out how these organizations are applying the resulting processes to enhance security and improve operational efficiency in order to increase their level of service delivery. Download Now How Do You Know Your Change Program Benefits Have Been Achieved? By : Epsilica Consulting Published Date: Nov 16, 2007 Every change program has to have deliver something – a new service, a new process, increased market share, and so on. But how do you know what the benefits are? How do you identify them, develop them and measure them to ensure your program has achieved its 'end-state'? Download Now How to Learn to Love a Security Audit By : Intellitactics Published Date: Sep 27, 2007 Save time and money by sustaining compliance between audits. Aberdeen Group's Derek Brink describes the benefits that best in class companies achieve by taking steps to sustain compliance. Download Now Automated Server Provisioning: What Every CIO Needs to Know By : Stratavia Published Date: Sep 11, 2007 IT organizations are looking to leverage automation to improve the delivery of business services across the enterprise, while reducing costs. Automation can be implemented in many ways; however, today’s enterprise demands a higher level of sophistication than simple scripts. This whitepaper from Stratavia discusses the key aspects of automated server provisioning that every CIO should know. Download Now Identifying Critical Change Control Failure Points By : Solidcore Published Date: Aug 27, 2007 Identifying critical change control failure points in your infrastructure can help reduce the threat of costly downtime, potential security breaches, and compliance weaknesses. Read this paper for guidelines on how to identify and categorize systems that have characteristics which heighten risk. Download Now Putting the ROI into ITIL By : Solidcore Published Date: Aug 24, 2007 Demonstrating ROI for service management investments can be difficult, especially with multi-phase deployments like ITIL that can require significant up-front investment in exchange for returns produced in the future.  Learn how setting milestones and measuring the value of each phase of an ITIL implementation can help prove the project’s value and shape its focus. Download Now NETCONF: Not Your Father's Network Management By : Tail-f Systems Published Date: Aug 15, 2007 The complexity and size of networks are increasing dramatically. This is placing new demands on network operators to deploy networks in an affordable and effective manner. NETCONF is a new IETF standard that is redefining the way in which network devices are configured using a highly-scalable, XML-based, machine-to-machine protocol. This webinar will provide a technological update on NETCONF. Download Now How to Manage Your Servers with Group Policy By : NetIQ Corporation Published Date: Jul 30, 2007 Learn how to successfully extend your deployment of Group Policy to your servers by implementing end-to-end management of this pervasive technology, including advanced offline management and real-time monitoring of authorized and unauthorized changes. Download Now ITIL Best Practices: The Business Case for Change and Configuration Management and the CMDB By : Evergreen Systems, Inc. Published Date: Jul 22, 2007 This ITIL best practice white paper on how to build a business case for change and configuration management and the CMDB makes a strong case for Configuration Management as the only real solution for controlling Change in high volume Change-transaction enterprises. Download Now PCI Compliance: Learn Solutions To Help Your Organization Comply By : NetIQ Corporation Published Date: Jul 19, 2007 Learn about the key challenges of PCI DSS v1.1 and how NetIQ Security Management, Configuration Control and Enterprise Administration solutions can help you demonstrate PCI compliance. Download Now Configuration Audit and Control: 10 Critical Factors for CCM Success By : Tripwire Published Date: Jul 11, 2007 In this whitepaper, you will learn how configuration audit and control can be used effectively to ensure system management productivity, and help reduce costs and sustain configuration viability within the bounds of operational, security and regulatory standards. Download Now CMDB Adoption in the Real World: Just How Real Is It? By : Tideway Systems Published Date: Jun 15, 2007 This report provided by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) is developed around research that's focused on showing the many faces of the CMDB – as a central point for governance, asset, inventory, change and configuration control, and as a core system, in many cases for more effective service assurance. Designated for IT adopters and planners – read by executives, as well as, architects, and technical influencers. 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