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BPO Company Uses CaaS Solution To Host Secure Portal, Saves 35 Percent On Cost

Intelenet, a global contact-center providing services to global Fortune 500 companies, needed a secure, high-capacity, flexible and scalable computing environment for a high-priority project.  It u

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New Normal of Datacenter

Read up on how the IT world is seeing 'The New Normal' where trends are moving towards Virtualization and Cloud Computing.

Source: HCL Published Date:29/07/2010 Posted Date:04/08/2010 Pages:5

Web Threats 2010: The Risks Ramp Up

Web threats don't just hide in the darkest corners of the internet. The vast majority are legitimate, compromised websites; the kind of sites your employees visit all the time. Read our whitepaper to understand the web threat in 2010 & equip your business to defend against it.

Source: MessageLabs Published Date:29/07/2010 Posted Date:04/08/2010 Pages:11

Calculating the Cost: Email Threats & Financial Risks

Hackers steal thousands from insurance firm! Cyber-crooks steal millions from companies! Health records compromised virus! News headlines convey the impression that businesses are constantly falling foul of email-borne security threats; Is the threat exaggerated? Understand the risk & potential cost of falling victim.

Source: MessageLabs Published Date:29/07/2010 Posted Date:04/08/2010 Pages:8

Build vs. Buy: The Hidden Costs of License Management

SafeNet examines the real costs involved in the decision to develop a homegrown licensing and protection solution, providing a detailed review of the actual costs involved, the business considerations that apply and the ongoing total cost of ownership during the solution lifetime.

Source: SafeNet Published Date:13/07/2010 Posted Date:23/07/2010 Pages:9

What Would Make Cloud Computing Safe For Your Organization?

In a bid to get under the skin of cloud security Fujitsu has conducted in-depth research amongst a selection of senior executives. This could prove very useful indeed. Gartner is already predicting that by 2012, industrialised utility and cloud-based services will account for at least 50% of the new demand for managed IT infrastructure services. Make sure you're ahead of the trend - read the full report.

Source: Fujitsu Published Date:28/06/2010 Posted Date:07/07/2010 Pages:16

Protecting personally identifiable information: What data is at risk and what you can do about it

Virtually every organization acquires, uses and stores personally identifiable information about its customers, employees, patients, students and other individuals. These organizations are expected to manage this private data appropriately and take every precaution to protect it from loss, unauthorized access or theft. Misusing, losing or otherwise compromising this data can carry a steep financial cost, damage a business's reputation, and even lead to criminal prosecution, because of complex and frequently changing regulations. This white paper examines the challenges organizations face and the steps they can take to protect themselves and their customers against data breaches and ensure the safety of this sensitive information.

Source: Sophos Published Date:29/07/2010 Posted Date:07/07/2010 Pages:10

Top Ten Web Threats and how to eliminate them

This paper raises real challenges for IT managers who have to protect the business against malware, keep internet bandwidth available for legitimate business needs and enforce acceptable use policies for the human resource department. Managers everywhere must also find a balance between allowing reasonable personal internet use at work and maintaining productivity and concentration in the office.

Source: MessageLabs Published Date:30/06/2010 Posted Date:07/07/2010 Pages:7

Executive Briefing: Cloud and Security

Cloud services are gaining popularity amongst IT users, allowing them to access businesses applications and platforms, storage and even whole chunks of IT infrastructure over a public or private network. As a result, users benefit from lower-cost network infrastructure and data centre resources, and can turn fixed. IT costs into variable operational expenses. However, there is a significant problem with cloud offerings, namely that they present new challenges to IT managers, both in general security within their own enterprises and in assessing the risk profiles inherent in each cloud offering they might source.

Source: Brocade Published Date:05/07/2010 Posted Date:07/07/2010 Pages:5

Bandwidth Bandits

This paper will discuss how the Internet bandwidth is a finite and expensive resource that needs protection from spammers, criminals, hackers, time-wasters and employee misuse. Not only is it expensive and limited but it is a vital business tool. This white paper explains the true cost of bandwidth bandits on businesses.

Source: MessageLabs Published Date:06/07/2010 Posted Date:07/07/2010 Pages:9

RSA & Archer - Accelerating Response to Security and Compliance Issues

Most organizations have trouble keeping consistent configurations across their IT environment. Misconfigurations and deviations from configuration standards are inevitable, but it's vitally important to keep track of how many deviations there are, their relative impacts on the business and prioritize remediative actions. By importing SCM for Ionix configuration data into Archer, organizations can: Quickly report on the misconfigurations affecting business critical assets. Assess the impact of misconfiguration on regulatory and corporate policy requirements. Map security issues to business applications and prioritize risks across the enterprise. Provide a centralized reporting interface for compliance status.

Source: EMC Published Date:19/05/2010 Posted Date:28/05/2010 Pages:4