Infographic: Trojan Horse
Infographic provides statistics on how consumer file sharing tools can lead to security breaches!
Veeam Data Center Availability Report 2014
The Veeam Data Center Availability Report 2014 investigates the increasing demands organizations face to provide an ‘Always-On Business’, what actions they are taking to meet those demands, and how successful their actions are. Following on from previous Veeam Data Protection Reports, this report investigates whether existing solutions can provide the always-on availability that businesses demand in the 21st Century.
Choosing the Right API Management Solution for the Enterprise User
The application programming interface (API) may be an old concept but it is one that is undergoing a transformation as, driven by mobile and cloud requirements, more and more organizations are opening their information assets to external developers.
Today, 75% of Twitter traffic and 65% of Salesforce.com traffic comes through APIs. But APIs are not just for the social Web. According to ProgrammableWeb.com, the number of open APIs being offered publicly over the Internet now exceeds 2000—up from just 32 in 2005. Opening APIs up to outside developers enables many technology start-ups to become platforms, by fostering developer communities tied to their core data or application resources. This translates into new reach (think Twitter’s rapid growth), revenue (think Salesforce.com’s AppExchange) or end user retention (think Facebook).
5 OAuth Essentials for API Access Control
OAuth puts the user in control of delegating access to an API. This allows one service to integrate with another service on behalf of that user. The same social Web providers who popularized the pattern of exposing an API to enable third-party developers to enrich their platforms were the first ones to apply such delegated authorization mechanisms. OAuth was defined in 2006, to standardize mechanisms of this kind.
Five Simple Strategies for Securing APIs
Since the early days of computing, developers have struggled to make applications communicate. Specialized protocols, such as COM+, CORBA, and even SOAP, emerged over the years, but none were sufficient to meet the need for scale, simplicity, and cross-language functionality.
APIs are the technology behind this approach. APIs allow developers to create an open architecture for sharing functionality and data between applications. APIs are like windows into an application—a direct conduit that leads straight into the core functionality and data residing in the heart of the app.
It’s All About the App: Mobile Security That Helps Enable the Business
Mobility is taking today’s world by storm. By 2017, mobile apps will be downloaded more than 268 billion times, generating revenue of more than $77 billion — making apps one of the most popular computing tools for users across the globe. Understandably, the pressure to deliver diverse apps to external and internal audiences is felt universally across every enterprise.
Protecting Your APIs Against Attack and Hijack
The best practice for API security architecture is to separate out API implementation and API security into distinct tiers. Under this model, an API developer can focus completely on the application domain, ensuring that each API is well designed and promotes integration between different apps. CA API Gateway provides the API security administrator with complete control over access control, threat detection, confidentiality, integrity and audit across every API the organization publishes.
Secure Mobile Access for Enterprise Employees
Mobile technology is revolutionizing the corporate IT landscape. Enterprises want to leverage mobile to maximize employee productivity, efficiency and availability. Meanwhile, employees are already taking the initiative by using their own personal mobile devices for business purposes. For enterprises, the benefits of enterprise mobility and the reality of the “bring-your-own-device” (BYOD) movement are becoming impossible to ignore.
A Guide to REST and API Design
In his 1966 book “The Psychology of Science,” American psychologist Abraham Maslow tackled the idea that those in the field of psychology needed to approach treatment from multiple perspectives, to take on new ideas, and not just continue using the same theories and techniques created by Freud and his followers so many years ago. Acknowledging that changing your point of view can be difficult, Maslow wrote “[I]t is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything like a nail.” We have all had this experience. We get so used to the way things have been done in the past, we sometimes don’t question the reasons for doing them.
Common Pitfalls in Process Optimization
Process optimization is “the discipline of adjusting a process so as to optimize some specified set of parameters without violating some constraint” and should always links back to the heart of the business strategy. The optimization efforts should strengthen the reason of existence of a company, and lead to cost minimization, output maximization, or both.
There are 5 common pitfalls to avoid when engaging in process optimization:
1. Unclear start and finish of the process optimization project
2. Using the wrong key performance indicators
3. Lack of ownership and support throughout the organization
4. Not embedding process changes
5. Lack of execution Edition.
A Smart Strategy for Windows Server 2003 Migration
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 will reach its end-of-life by July 2015, servers will no longer be receiving security updates, leaving critical business systems vulnerable to attacks. The server operating system has run for many years and there are many customers, who have Windows Server 2003 in production today and some will continue to do so until end-of life of Windows Server 2003 for different reasons. If you are still using Windows Server 2003, now is the time to consider your options. The place to start is to develop a business case around operating system migration. A migration project requires many resources and will take some time and planning.
Mitigating Mobile App Risk to Ensure Safe, Reliable Deployments
Driven by the trends of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), Bring Your Own App (BYOA), and the consumerization of IT, the mobile device tsunami is inundating enterprises around the world. In many organizations IT is responding by giving employees unfettered access to these apps. But that can expose the organization to considerable risk.
Achieving Application Readiness Maturity
Imagine that you’re a production line manager in a manufacturing company and you’re under pressure to deliver an increasing number of products that are rapidly growing in complexity. You also have to deliver an increasing number of versions of each product. And you have to speed up the production line substantially. If you can’t meet these requirements, your company’s customers will find what they need elsewhere.
SOLVING FOR “TOTAL COST” IN THE CLOUD
It’s a simple question:
How much is it going to cost to move an application to the cloud? But the answer is not simple, and many businesses suffer costly surprises when they make the move.
This paper shows you how to calculate the total cost of migrating applications to the cloud, including obvious hardware costs as well as the human costs of managing apps in the cloud.
Have you factored in these costs?
• Training related to new skills, tools, and processes
• Server CPU, memory, storage, and monitoring
• VPN and direct connect fees
• Need for additional cloud administrators
• Cost of moving data to the cloud
Five Simple Strategies for Securing APIs
Since the early days of computing, developers have struggled to make applications communicate. Specialized protocols, such as COM+, CORBA, and even SOAP, emerged over the years, but none were sufficient to meet the need for scale, simplicity, and cross-language functionality.
APIs are the technology behind this approach. APIs allow developers to create an open architecture for sharing functionality and data between applications. APIs are like windows into an application—a direct conduit that leads straight into the core functionality and data residing in the heart of the app.