Taking the plunge into the managed service market. Irrespective of all the issues around cloud, security and state actor data access in the past year, the managed services and hosted cloud services market is mushrooming, regardless of the geography you’re in.
This report looks at MSPs that have already made the transition to a managed services model, what lessons they have learned, and what they would do differently if they had the chance again. It has also asked them what advice they would give those starting out on the MSP journey.
Traditional endpoint security has failed to keep up with today’s threats and is exposing organizations to unacceptable levels of risk. It’s time for smarter, next-generation malware prevention to replace or supplement traditional defenses. New approaches to malware can wrest back control and give security administrators greater visibility and control over their endpoints at a lower cost than traditional solutions.
This paper looks at the endpoint threats organizations are facing, the means to combat those threats, and why next-generation, cloud-driven protection offers the smartest way to prevent endpoint malware infections.
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.
Security breaches can happen anywhere in an organization, and having the ability to analyze any form of data can give you the edge against fraud, theft, and infiltration by pinpointing abnormal behavior patterns. Read this white paper to learn how HAVEn can help you:
• Perform lightning-fast analysis on lots of structured data
• Derive meaning from unstructured information, including images and voice data
IBM solutions for data security and privacy are designed to support this holistic approach and incorporate intelligence to proactively address IT threats and enterprise risks. Read three guiding principles that will help organizations achieve better security and compliance without impacting production systems or straining already-tight budgets:
• Understand and Define
• Secure and Protect
• Monitor and Audit
Organizations that want to focus on analyzing data are instead spending their time and resources finding data and defending their analysis, according to a 2014 study conducted by Unisphere Research and sponsored by IBM. The study found that while the percentage of organizations with big data projects in production was expected to triple within 18 months, business managers have less confidence in data from new sources than in traditional, structured data from within the enterprise.
Despite interest in cloud, mobile and other technologies, organizations face obstacles to innovation. Review the survey results to learn what is keeping companies from launching initiatives based on new technologies and how information governance initiatives are faring when they compete with other priorities for scarce resources.