Information technology (IT) security is indispensable to an organization's ability to conduct business and achieve its objectives. Security requirements affect almost every business process and system, and successful security measures help protect a business’ brand value, stakeholder confidence, risk management strategies, and compliance status. Requirements vary among industries, geographies, and regions, but the need to protect privacy, retain important data, and facilitate e-discovery are common to all. This paper provides an overview of the regulatory landscape and identifies steps to take for defining a flexible compliance strategy. Download Now
In this paper, we provide an overview on the importance of achieving operational excellence in the current economy and how to link strategy to operations as described by Drs. Kaplan & Norton in their new book The Execution Premium. Download Now
Does your business need to safeguard information, keep auditors and regulators satisfied, and improve data quality? Data governance is the answer. This informative video outlines the latest challenges and best practices in data governance. IBM data governance solutions help businesses with:• Audit and reporting • Data architecture/infrastructure • Data quality • Information lifecyle management • Metadata/business glossaries • Organizational design/development • Policy/risk management • Security/privacy/compliance • Stewardship/value creation Download Now
See how SAP solutions for governance, risk, and compliance for life sciences companies can help you automate compliance for financial and other critical regulations to let you focus on core business, while introducing controlled, role-based access to enterprise data helps boost efficiency.
Small and Mid-market customers struggle to meet ever mounting e-mail archiving requirements and associated compliance demands - often with a limited I/T staff and within strict budgetary guidelines. Compliance requires eMail to be retained more stringently and for longer periods of time - fueling existing challenges of eMail management. Learn more today!
Whether protecting five servers or 5,000, measuring the security status of your infrastructure and your organization's ability to rapidly mitigate emerging threats needs to be continuously monitored and measured. This paper details the essential aspects of putting into place a measurable and sustainable vulnerability management program. Download Now
Linux reliability has come of age. Several major Linux distributions including Novell SUSE, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu scored high in reliability, improved over 2006 uptime statistics and achieved near parity with Unix distributions. Security incidents plagued Windows Server 2003, which saw uptime decrease by roughly 10% during last year. Corporations must continue to adhere to best practices in configuration, management and security to ensure optimal server operating system and application reliability. Download Now
This white paper reviews the basics of PCI, including who must comply, compliance requirements, validation requirements and penalties. It also examines key things to look for when selecting a PCI network testing service and introduces QualysGuard PCI. Download Now
Email: It’s your most important business communication tool, but also the most risky. Increasing mail volumes and larger attachments drive the need for more mail servers, more storage and more resources to manage them. And concerns about confidentiality, compliance and data privacy are putting increased focus on outbound email. Meanwhile, the time and costs required to manage email are chipping away at your IT budget. But advances in cloud computing and SaaS hold the key to maximizing your ROI, while providing the anti-spam, anti-virus, DLP, archiving and encryption features you need to meet today’s email security challenges. Learn how “in the cloud” email security solutions can greatly reduce up-front investments, minimize ongoing administration costs and minimize time-to-value. Download Now
The essential notion of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for IT security administration is establishing permissions based on the functional roles within the enterprise, and then assigning users to a role or set of roles. Download Now
This whitepaper discusses how creating a secure access control infrastructure in heterogeneous Unix/Linux environments supports the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Symark PowerBroker controls access to systems and cardholder data, and creates comprehensive logs and audit trails. Various tables show PowerBroker’s functionality mapped to the PCI DSS requirements. Download Now
This document explains IT Search's ability to instantly search all the data generated by applications, servers and network devices in your IT infrastructure. Download to learn more today!
According to Forrester, organizations spent $1.5 trillion globally managing IT last year. 75% of this was spent on silos, legacy systems that still don't get answers to the most important questions: troubleshooting outages, investigating security incidents, and demonstrating compliance. Learn about the innovative software product forward-thinking organizations are using to dramatically improve their productivity and change the way they manage and secure IT. Download Now
Compliance is high on the IT agenda today, yet no one seems to have a clear picture of what it really involves. Inconsistent interpretation by different auditors, regulators and vendors means what worked in one year's audit could fail in the next. This whitepaper is designed to help Demystify Compliance as it relates to IT and give you some simple recipes for analyzing your own environment in the light of specific mandates. Download Now
The challenge of complying with a growing number of frequently changing government, industry and internal regulations designed to protect data is becoming harder and more expensive to manage. This paper outlines the rules, looks at the main threats to security compliance and highlights how a well-defined strategy, backed up by powerful technology can provide the solution. Download Now
Today’s fast, targeted, silent threats take advantage of the open network and new technologies that support an increasingly mobile workforce. Organizations need innovative approaches to protect the web, email servers and endpoint. This paper discusses the security implications of modern threats, analyzes where emerging technologies can add real value, and highlights five key strategies for ensuring solid malware protection.
Learn about the financial institution safeguards included in the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) and how your organization can institute an orderly set of compliance steps using an automated configuration audit and control solution. Download Now
Since the adoption of SOX, much has been learned about IT compliance. Discover how to make SOX efforts more effective in "Sustaining Sox Compliance." Download Now
Understand the issues addressed by the new international banking standard known as the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS or Basel II), and find out how Tripwire can help meet all requirements of Basel II compliance even before it becomes a worldwide banking regulation. Download Now
Understand the compliance requirements of the European Union's Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFiD), and how controlling IT change addresses many of those requirements. Download Now
A new generation of email security solutions is needed to meet the challenges of growing message traffic, rapidly-evolving security threats and increasingly complex data protection and privacy regulations worldwide. Securing inbound email - while challenging enough - is less difficult than maintaining compliance with the complex, overlapping and sometimes conflicting global regulations that govern data privacy, transactional ethics and corporate governance. Learn more today!
CIOs today are being called upon to interpret business strategy and priorities, then add value through information technology initiatives. At a time when "critical to the business" translates to "mission-critical IT", how do you ensure end-to-end availability and reliability of the IT resources that enable your company’s essential business processes. Download Now
