Software License Audits: Costs & Risks to Enterprises

Software vendors are aggressively auditing their customers. The largest organizations are being targeted the hardest.

Software vendors are continuing their aggressive practices of auditing their customers for software license compliance. 63% of respondents report having been audited in the last 18-24 months. This high level of auditing is a continuation of existing practices reported in last year’s Key Trends in Software Pricing and Licensing Report on this topic, at which times 64% of respondents reported having been audited.

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Software Budgets, Waste & Shifts in Software Licensing

The 2013-14 Key trends in Software Pricing and Licensing survey was conducted by Flexera Software with input from IDC’s Software Pricing and Licensing Research division under the direction of Amy Konary, research vice president - software licensing and provisioning at IDC. This annual research project looks at software licensing, pricing and enforcement trends and best practices. The survey reaches out to executives at application producers (Software vendors and intelligent device manufacturers) and enterprises who use and manage software and devices. Now in its ninth year, the survey is made available to the industry at large each year.
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Protecting Digitalized Assets in Healthcare

The digitization of information has had a tremendous influence on organizations in every sector, but most especially on healthcare. Doctors, nurses, clinicians, and other professionals are increasingly relying on digital file sharing solutions and electronic health records (EHRs) to optimize the quality and efficiency of the care they provide.

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Secure the Transfer of Sensitive Emails

Employees must exchange sensitive emails with customers and partners. These emails might contain protected health information, protected financial information, or corporate information that should not be made public. Globalscape® Mail Express® allows you to encrypt the emails that it manages so that no one but the sender and recipient—not even the administrator—can view the contents of the email.

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Combat File Sharing Risk with WAFS™ by Globalscape

To optimize business productivity and reduce costs when collaborating over distances, IT organizations need to give users high-performance, easy-to-use methods for document collaboration, as if they were working with local colleagues. In addition, to protect business interests, they need to ensure that these solutions support centralized management and backup, prevent versioning or integrity errors, and do not impede network traffic.

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Security for Virtualization Getting the Balance Right

Virtualization promises cost savings, improved productivity, and the ability to transform your business. But too often security can either detract from the performance gains that virtualization promises, or just not give you the protection you need. Getting the balance right is critical.

Download Kaspersky Lab’s Security for Virtualization: Getting the Balance Right to answer your most pressing questions:

• What security options are available for a virtual environment?
• How can the wrong security hurt your virtualization project?
• What are the benefits of choosing the right protection?

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Practical Guide to IT Security Breach Prevention Part II: Reducing Mobile, Web, and Social Media Risks

A staggering 1/3 of businesses have experienced lost or stolen staff mobile devices and, of those, ¼ have lost data as a result. With users connecting to unsecured public networks and social media platforms on both company-owned and personal devices, sensitive data can now be accessed--and lost--from more endpoints than ever before.

Kaspersky Lab has created a set of IT & Data Security Breach Prevention Practical Guides to simplify this seemingly daunting task. Download Part II: Reducing Mobile, Web, and Social Media Risks to learn:

• How to protect employees wherever they’re working
• How to close the door to mobile malware
• How to balance freedom and control with employee internet

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Practical Guide to IT Security Breach Prevention Part I: Reducing Employee and Application Risks

Did you know 59% of people fail to store their passwords securely? With users connecting to unsecured public networks and running multiple applications from both company and personal devices, sensitive corporate data is more vulnerable than ever before. For your security policies to be effective, they need to bring all devices and applications under IT control and regulate user behavior.

Kaspersky Lab has created a set of IT & Data Security Breach Prevention Practical Guides to simplify this seemingly daunting task. Download Part I: Reducing Employee and Application Risks to read:

• Practical tips for setting password policies
• Advice to help employees avoid falling for phishing schemes
• Best practices for setting up automatic application patches and updates

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Virtualization Security Options: Choose Wisely

For virtualization security, there’s no one size fits all solution…and trying to fit your organization’s specific needs into the wrong security product can be a costly mistake. Do you know how to pick the right option for your organization?

A new whitepaper from Kaspersky Lab, Virtualization Security Options: Choose Wisely, outlines:

• Different virtualization security solution options--conventional agent-based; agentless; and Light Agent

• Possible scenarios for aligning the right security approach to your organization’s virtual environment

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Building a Cognitive Q&A Application

In 2011 IBM's Watson computer beat two Jeopardy grand masters to demonstrate the power of Cognitive Computing. In this video, Chris Madison, will do a deep dive into Watson's Question and Answer service available on IBM Bluemix. The step by step demonstration will give developers a foundational application that will take question inputs and receive back a JSON response from Watson that includes answers, confidence, and source. Using this service will allow developers to build applications that users can interact with Watson through explicit Q&A. It also opens the door to intelligent applications that can ask questions on their users' behalf setting up interesting opportunities when combined with other services available on Bluemix. Join Chris to get started with your own Watson powered application.
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Building a Personality Detection Application

In 2011 IBM's Watson computer beat two Jeopardy grand masters to demonstrate the power of Cognitive Computing. In this video, Chris Madison, will do a deep dive into Watson's User Modeling service available on IBM Bluemix. The step by step demonstration will give developers a foundational application that can interact with a body of text and produce a personality portrait of the author. Using this service to score an author on the Big 5 personality traits has applications across industries for more deeply understanding a persons motivations, interests, and needs. Join Chris to get started with your own Watson powered application.
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Watson Services on Bluemix Details

In 2011 IBM's Watson computer beat two Jeopardy grand masters to demonstrate the power of Cognitive Computing. In this video, Chris Madison, will do a deep dive into the Watson cognitive services available on IBM Bluemix. This will help developers to understand what's available from the seven cognitive services. Chris covers the inputs and outputs for each service and discusses examples of how to use them. Join Chris for deep dive into the Watson services and his follow up videos demonstrating the step by step process for building your own Watson powered application. Listeners will walk away with the practical knowledge of how to put these services into their applications and to see just how easy it is to get started with Watson services on Bluemix.
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