Business Continuity

PC life-cycle management (PCLM) solutions primarily focus on deploying or moving an application or an operating environment to a new user location. Functions include packaging, distributing, installing , and updating an application or an operating environment. These solutions provide a certain level of automation and are certainly more advanced than dealing strictly with scripts. However, they have complex workflows and do not provide the highest level of automation. In today's multidevice world, where the average user carries three or more devices, this paradigm alone is not agile enough for modern end users.

Learn a four-pronged approach to create a disaster recovery plan for your hybrid IT environments to help ensure successful recoveries of your data and applications.

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS), with its over 200 requirements, can seem like a daunting set of regulations. Nonetheless, if your organization handles any kind of credit card information, you must be PCI DSS compliant. As difficult as this can seem, you can get expert help with our new eBook: Demystifying PCI DSS: Expert Tips and Explanations to Help You Gain PCI DSS Compliance.

Learn how to select the most optimal business Ethernet service in this 9 step guide that will show you how to meet your many application needs while reducing costs.

This white paper published by independent security research firm, Securosis takes a brutally candid look at triggers for considering a new security management platform, walking through each aspect of the decision, and presenting a process to migrate.

This paper explores the subject of continuous compliance versus audit-driven compliance, as well as how an ongoing approach to compliance makes compliance a positive force for securing data and systems.

Enterprise IT faces a new kind of tension: the API economy on the one hand, where enterprises drive new revenue streams by (gulp) publishing corporate data APIs for third-party developers to use, and SOA on the other, where tight governance is the name of the game. But the loose coupling in RESTful web services forces a discipline all its own.

This white paper discusses the important issues related to email and Office 365 continuity and offers recommendations for decision makers to consider as they develop their continuity plans. The paper also provides a brief overview of Mimecast, the sponsor of this paper, as well as their relevant solutions.

Will your disaster recovery plan work when the time comes? It's a hard determination for any organization to make. But in IBM's experience, the answer is often "no." Disaster recovery plans often fail because organization have based their recovery strategies on outdated assumptions. Read this white paper to learn seven common misconceptions about disaster recovery. You'll also discover how new technologies can help modernize disaster recovery efforts.

The IBM Business Continuity Index rates the performance and maturity of business continuity programs. Organizations all over the world completed the survey. In this white paper, learn statistics about the global state of business continuity and where your business may sit on a scale from exposed to mature.

There is no question that security attacks targeting your organization will continue to grow and evolve. The question is, how can you respond to malware and other risks without unnecessarily constraining your workforce? How can you get beyond the fear and anxiety that leads to excessive prohibition, prevention, blocking, and excluding – so that you can use security technology to both protect and empower people? The answer is with a multi-layered defense – one that uses advanced security technologies and sophisticated operational practices in combination to cover the full spectrum of threat vectors. This solution brief explores the growing importance of multi-layered defense in today’s fast-changing web environment, and key considerations in implementing an effective multi-layered defense strategy.

In this Forrester's Wave File Sync and Share Platforms Q3 2013 report, the global research and advisory firm evaluates 16 file sync and share vendors: Accellion, Acronis, AirWatch, Alfresco, Box, Citrix, Dropbox, Egnyte, EMC, Google, Hightail (formerly YouSendIt,) IBM, Microsoft, Novell, Salesforce.com and WatchDox.

Cloud computing continues to dominate conversations in the banking industry worldwide, and the cloud concept is gaining increased visibility among banking IT executives.

The RSA business continuity white paper, BCM Regulatory Soup, will help you address: Which sources to comply with and why, how to handle conflicts between the sources, how to prioritize your efforts.

Read the Forrester Report: The Total Economic Impact of RSA Archer IT GRC and you'll be eligible to receive a free consultation from an RSA GRC expert who will calculate the projected ROI for your organization.

See how RSA Archer Risk Management enables you to proactively address risks to your organization with a central GRC management system for identifying risks, evaluating their impact, relating them to mitigating controls, and tracking their resolution.

See for yourself how easy it is to implement RSA Archer Business Continuity Management & Operations right out of the box. Try it free for 30 days, then take advantage of the special purchase offer through 7/31/13.

Find out what IDC and Boston College have to say about enhancing user productivity, reducing application downtime by 67%, and a 6 months ROI. Using Riverbed Cascade to manage exponentially growing application complexity while increasing network uptime.

A holistic, forward-looking and flexible IT security strategy can help organizations avoid common pitfalls and meet security threats head on in a cost and time efficient manner.

How Code Signing Can Bolster Security for Mobile Applications

Stuxnet, a high-profile cyber-attack, used malware signed with legitimate code signing certificates. What went wrong and how can you protect your own assets?

In this business guide, we discuss how the latest code signing technology works to secure software code and content for applications that are directly downloaded to mobile devices from the Internet.

Radicati Group's 2012 Market Quadrant for Microsoft Hosted Exchange is now available for your use. SilverSky (formerly USA.NET, a Perimeter E-Security brand), was named as a Top Player again – for the sixth consecutive year. The Radicati Group evaluated 13 cloud-based Hosted Exchange services in a wide range of configurations from multi-tenant to single tenant environments. SilverSky was one of only four vendors placed in the "Top Players" quadrant, earning the highest score awarded for functionality.

In this whitepaper, we highlight the important issues surrounding cloud email, such as cost, security, monitoring, uptime, and compliance.

McAfee® Vulnerability Manager for Databases automatically discovers networked databases; determines if the latest patches have been applied; and tests for common weaknesses, making it easier to demonstrate compliance and better protect critical data.