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  • Removing Barriers To Better Server Virtualization Efficiency
    Source: Tripwire
    White Paper:Based on research conducted by Tripwire, this whitepaper explores the common barriers to virtualization, and best practices around furthering virtualization in a secure and compliant environment.
  • Upgrading to VMware vSphere with vWire
    Source: Tripwire
    White Paper:Blogger Dominic Rivera describes how vWire can help ensure the success of your upgrade from ESX 3.x to vSphere, automating many manual steps and giving you visibility during the entire process.
  • The Top 10 Reports for Managing Vulnerabilities
    Source: Qualys
    White Paper:This paper cuts through the data overload generated by some vulnerability detection solutions and introduces The Top 10 Reports for Managing Vulnerabilities. This free guide covers the key aspects of the vulnerability management lifecycle and shows you what reports today's best-in-class organizations are using to reduce risks on their network infrastructure.
  • The Forrester Wave: Email Filtering, Q2 2009
    Source: McAfee
    White Paper:One of your biggest challenges is evaluating and selecting vendor products and services. That's why Forrester created the Forrester Wave, making it easy for you to make well-informed decisions. This complimentary Forrester Wave report on Email Filtering ($1749 retail value) offers: An in-depth evaluation of email security filtering vendors, based on 57 criteria, a powerful Excel spreadsheet that allows you to easily compare products and get in-depth data and analysis about each one, and tools to develop a custom shortlist based on your company's unique requirements.
  • The Forrester Wave: Web Filtering, Q2 2009
    Source: McAfee
    White Paper:One of your biggest challenges is evaluating and selecting vendor products and services. That's why Forrester created the Forrester Wave, making it easy for you to make well-informed decisions. This complimentary Forrester Wave report on Web Filtering ($795 retail value) offers: An in-depth evaluation of Web filtering vendors, based on 53 criteria and a powerful Excel spreadsheet that allows you to easily compare products and get in-depth data and analysis about each one.
  • Virtual PC Center Product and Technology Overview
    Source: NEC
    White Paper:IT organizations are constantly on their guard to tackle the next wave of data security threats. Unfortunately, all too many occurrences take place where corporate data is stolen either from the loss of a laptop, or an intruder accessing data on business PCs outside of the IT data center. Learn about NEC's Virtual PC Center and how it could deal with your challenges.
  • Privileged Access Lifecycle Management: How PALM Enables Security, Compliance, and Efficiency for Enterprise IT
    Source: BeyondTrust
    White Paper:Strengthening security, maintaining compliance, and achieving efficiencies and economies of scale are top-of-mind issues for enterprise IT executives. In this paper, IDC analysts examine the role of identity and access management (IAM) solutions in addressing these needs and specifically looks at the role privileged access lifecycle management (PALM) can play in helping heterogeneous organizations proactively refine their strategies regarding privileged access management controls, cross-platform monitoring, and automated workflow capabilities.
  • Employee Web Use and Misuse: Companies, Their Employees and the Internet
    Source: MessageLabs - Symantec Hosted Services
    White Paper:The Internet has created new opportunities for mischief and new challenges for managers. In the end, it comes down to choice. Where do you draw the line? How do you balance individual access with the overall protection and good of the business? What is the correct balance between monitoring and blocking? This white paper examines a Web security solution that gives companies the ability to monitor and enforce their Internet usage policies, bringing site monitoring and URL filtering together while insuring security with anti-virus and anti-spyware protection.
  • From Trust to Process: Closing the Risk Gap in Privileged Access Control
    Source: BeyondTrust
    White Paper:In this whitepaper, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) examines this critical issue in IT security administration in light of the BeyondTrust approach to helping businesses move from a trust-based system to a secure, auditable process in order to provide a higher standard of control and better support for regulatory compliance.
  • Eradicate SPAM & Gain 100% Assurance of Clean Mailboxes
    Source: MessageLabs - Symantec Hosted Services
    White Paper:Online spam campaigns have become more sophisticated and precisely targeted. Spammers routinely disseminate millions of fraudulent emails to control legions of employee PCs and connect them into botnets which sap bandwidth and productivity. Learn how a hosted anti-spam service provides multi-layered protection against spam, improves employee productivity and lowers costs.
  • A Process-based Approach to Protecting Privileged Accounts & Meeting Regulatory Compliance
    Source: BeyondTrust
    White Paper:This white paper outlines a sound process-based approach in protecting critical privileged accounts that are found in virtually every application, database and infrastructure device throughout enterprises. This paper will present BeyondTrust PowerKeeper as a solution to secure passwords for privileged accounts in heterogeneous IT environments. Through features such as automated password resets and management workflows, secure storage of credentials, and a sealed operating system, PowerKeeper is the only solution in the market that is fully heterogeneous out-of-the-box.
  • PCI DSS Compliance in the UNIX/Linux Datacenter Environment
    Source: BeyondTrust
    White Paper:This document explains how BeyondTrust PowerBroker supports the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) by limiting and tracking authorization to execute commands and programs that access servers and applications storing and using proprietary cardholder. BeyondTrust PowerBroker provides an auditable process that controls, monitors and records that access.
  • Preventing Data Breaches in Privileged Accounts Using Access Control
    Source: BeyondTrust
    White Paper:It is critical that organizations are proactive in their approach to mitigating insider threats. Week-after-week there are disturbing, déjà vu-like stories of significant data breaches, arrests connected to insider attacks, or investigation reports emphasizing the necessity to control privileged accounts that hold highly sensitive data. This white paper explores insider attacks, threats and risks involved across every enterprise. Lastly, we will recommend a sound, cost-saving solution to prevent a disaster from happening to a company's financial assets and reputation using access control.
  • Mastering eDiscovery: The IT Manager's Guide to Preservation, Protection & Production
    Source: MessageLabs - Symantec Hosted Services
    White Paper:The ability to formally define, effectively retain, and successfully archive email and other electronic business records is one of the most important jobs facing US and Canadian organizations. Learn how to quickly and cost-effectively preserve, protect, and produce legally compliant email and other electronically stored information (ESI) in anticipation of litigation and regulatory audits in this MessageLabs white paper.
  • Forrester Study: The Total Economic Impact of Oracle Identity Manager
    Source: Oracle
    White Paper:A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Oracle. Leveraging existing investment and cutting costs have become key IT imperatives today. This paper walks through detailed return-on-investment (ROI) calculations based on real customers' data, and guides you in computing cost savings with user provisioning. Readers can use the model suggested in this report to design their implementation and measure results.

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