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| Recent Best Practices White Papers, Webcasts and Case Studies - ZDNet |
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| Secure SAN Zoning Best Practices |
(Wed, 10 Sep 2008)
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| This paper describes and clarifies Zoning, a security feature in Storage Area Network (SAN) fabrics. By understanding the terminology and implementing Zoning best practices, a Brocade SAN fabric can be easily secured and scaled while maintaining maximum uptime. Zoning not only prevents a host from unauthorized access of storage assets, but it also stops undesired host-to-host communication and fabric-wide Registered State Change Notification (RSCN) disruptions. RSCNs are managed by the fabric Name Server and notify end devices of events in the fabric, such as a storage node or a switch going offline. |
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| Sophos Security Threat Report: Mid-Year Update |
(Mon, 08 Sep 2008)
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| Hackers attack businesses, blogs and Web 2.0 sites... The latest Security Threat Report from Sophos gives you a comprehensive insight into the very latest methods being used by cybercriminals to try to out-fox traditional security systems. Download a copy and benefit from the expert analysis and opinion that will help you stay ahead of today's increasingly covert threats. |
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| Live Webcast: Risk Mitigation Strategies for CIOs Implementing Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 |
(Wed, 03 Sep 2008)
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| Where would your business be if your staff loses the ability to send and receive emails, or check calendars and contacts? The criticality of email is irrefutable and if you don't have a strategy to ensure continuity of your email system you could be putting your business at risk.
Knowing how Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 addresses high availability, archiving, recovery, compliance, e-Discovery and the growing costs of storage management is essential to managing risk on behalf of your organization. With most companies considering the transition to Exchange 2007, failure to adequately plan your Exchange environment can result in exposure to email downtime, loss of messages and the potential for legal and market risks.
Join TechRepublic and Dell MessageOneTM for this live one-hour webcast, moderated by James Hilliard and featuring guest speaker, Samy Aboel-Nil
Director, Product Management Dell MessageOne as they review potential email challenges with Exchange 2007.
Dell MessageOne offers low maintenance SaaS-enabled solutions that can mitigate these risks. These services can augment Exchange 2007 with the availability, e-Discovery functionality and storage management that could be critical to lowering your overall cost of ownership and increasing end-user satisfaction.
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| Best Practices for Selecting WAN Optimization Solutions: Benchmarking Performance ROI |
(Mon, 01 Sep 2008)
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| As businesses become increasingly dependent on the effective delivery of IT services over far-flung enterprise networks, technologies that optimize the performance of applications over the WAN have become increasingly attractive. This white paper explains how to best make this critical technology decision. It provides an overview of best practices for defining requirements and comparing alternative solutions. Most important, it offers a metric - performance ROI - that IT organizations can use to select the WAN optimization solution that delivers the greatest business value. WAN optimization can ensure that remote users around the world have ready access to critical applications and services. |
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| Top Ten Things to Know about Data Protection |
(Fri, 29 Aug 2008)
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| Data protection is fast becoming part of the IT arsenal to combat data loss/theft. It can significantly reduce the amount of damage done by the above and their associated costs. Read this brief to find the top 10 things you should know about data protection. |
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| Airport Insecurity: The Case of Lost Laptops |
(Thu, 28 Aug 2008)
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| Do you ever worry about losing your laptop computer while rushing to catch a flight at a busy airport?
Everyday business travelers are putting the sensitive and confidential data of their organizations at risk when they travel through airports. Ponemon Institute conducted a study, sponsored by Dell, to understand the current risks posed to sensitive and confidential data contained in the laptops of business travelers.
Companies are dependent upon on a mobile workforce with access to information no matter where they travel. However, this mobility is putting companies at risk of having a data breach if a laptop containing sensitive information is lost or stolen. Read the findings of this study to help understand what you should be doing to protect the information on your employees' laptops and to reduce the likelihood that your employees will lose laptops while traveling. |
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| Not Just Words: Enforce Your Email and Web Acceptable Usage Policies |
(Thu, 28 Aug 2008)
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| Unmanaged employee use of email and the Web can subject any organization to costly risks including litigation, regulatory investigations and public embarrassment. Responsible organizations should deploy clearly written Acceptable Usage Policies (AUPs) for email and Web usage, supported by employee training and enforced by proven technology solutions.
This whitepaper can serve as business guide on how to develop and enforce Email and Web AUPs. All employers need to understand that unmanaged personal email and Web usage has a negative effect on productivity and heightens the organization's risk. Download this guide and learn how to quickly implement an effective AUP in your workplace.
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| Email Encryption: Eliminating the Security Risk of Sending Confidential Information by Email |
(Thu, 28 Aug 2008)
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| Most companies conduct a significant portion of their business via email. Some of the information transmitted by email includes confidential data that, if not properly secured, could damage vital business relationships. MessageLabs Policy Based Encryption (PBE) solution delivers distinct advantages in addressing the important issue of email security.
In this MessageLabs Whitepaper you will learn about:
The significant risks that all companies face by sending confidential information via unprotected emails
Encryption technologies that can protect email communications with trusted business partners and keep business transactions secure
The variety of advantages that MessageLabs Policy Based Encryption provides for protecting email communications with customers, partners and other stakeholders
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| HP PolyServe Software and AppSense Performance Manager: Implementation Best Practices |
(Thu, 28 Aug 2008)
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| AppSense and HP produce complimentary technologies targeted at the consolidation of MS SQL Server environments. This paper provides best practice scenarios for inclusion of AppSense Performance Manager in a HP PolyServe Software implementation and demonstrates a number of test scenarios, together with the appropriate results and system configurations. This paper is intended to outline ideal configurations when using both the PolyServe and AppSense products in combination, but does not constitute training documentation regarding how to use each product. Appropriate educational material can be obtained by contacting the respective vendors. |
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| TechNet Webcast: Exchange Best Practice Analyzer (ExBPA) (Level 300) |
(Mon, 25 Aug 2008)
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| The Microsoft Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer Tool (ExBPA) is an automated health check and troubleshooting tool. ExBPA collects configuration settings and performs network and protocol tests in an Exchange topology. The attendee of this webcast will learn about the new version of the tool that was released in March, 2005. The presenter will discuss enhancements such as scheduling and baseline support and show how to use ExBPA with Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005. |
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| MSDN Webcast: Implementation and Tuning Best Practices for BizTalk Server Solutions (Level 300) |
(Mon, 25 Aug 2008)
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| The attendee of this webcast will learn about the development techniques used in building Microsoft BizTalk Server solutions, including common development patterns and best practices for implementing business processes in BizTalk applications. In this webcast, the presenter will explain how to design for operations by properly factoring the application to support versioning, best practices for versioning the artifacts, and how to optimize the orchestrations design for performance. |
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| Microsoft Webcast: Adding Efficiencies to Compliance Efforts Through Microsoft Office Visio |
(Mon, 25 Aug 2008)
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| Complying with the increasing number of regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the Health Insurance Portablity and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is becoming more and more burdensome for organizations. Microsoft Office Visio and Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 can help the organization to document and monitor processes for compliance. These tools provide reusable Process and Control blocks as Visual Stencils. Various metadata required for monitoring and compliance can be associated at the stencil level. The attendee of this webcast will learn more about the solution for adding efficiencies to compliance efforts through Visio. |
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| Cisco - Performance Management: Best Practices |
(Fri, 22 Aug 2008)
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| Performance management is the practice of optimizing network service response time. It also entails managing the consistency and quality of individual and overall network services. The most important service is the need to measure the user/application response time. For most users, response time is the critical performance success factor. This variable will shape the perception of network success by both the users and application administrators. |
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| Lieberman Software and Privileged Password Management |
(Thu, 21 Aug 2008)
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| The ability to automatically change, store, and recover all privileged passwords in the enterprise is a security best practice and regulatory compliance requirement. Listen to this podcast to learn how Lieberman Software can uniquely manage the privileged account passwords in your environment and prevent unauthorized access to the critical systems in your network. |
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| WatchGuard Extensible Threat Management: An overview of XTM |
(Thu, 21 Aug 2008)
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| Unified threat management (UTM) spawned a new era of IT security. The promise of these integrated security appliances proved to be an exceptional and efficient way of securing commercial networks. However, businesses today face an inflection point, dictated by changing market trends and new technologies that demand more of today's UTM. Hence the need is for eXtensible threat management (XTM) solutions, the next generation of UTM appliances. XTM is predicated upon the substantive expansion of three elements: more security, greater networking capabilities, and more management flexibility. This paper provides an overview of these issues and the a perspective on "extensibility" and XTM.
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