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Managed Services Marketing Report

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.

ESG-Webroot Research

The Endpoint Security Paradox

With the endpoint security ecosystem in a profound state of change, ESG surveyed 340 IT and information security professionals representing large midmarket (500 to 999 employees) and enterprise-class (1,000 employees or more) organizations in North America. T he objective of this research was to assess how these organizations are changing their endpoint security strategies in response to new types of threats and cyber-attack techniques.

This report goes into detail the findings of this survey.

IDC MaturityScape: Software License Optimization

Managing the software licensing landscape within most companies is a complex task, which is made more complicated by the sheer number of contracts to be managed (hundreds, if not thousands) as well as the different types of licenses that must be administered.

Infographic: WAFS vs. Traditional File Replication Tools

As large engineering, construction, or design projects span across the globe, a smarter set of secure data exchange tools are required to bridge the gap between multiple teams scattered worldwide.

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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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Four Steps to Protect Businesses from the Effects of Downtime

Downtime happens and often at the worst time possible. Organizations experiencing downtime face direct and indirect costs from the loss of critical systems. This whitepaper discusses a Globalscape survey of 283 IT professionals and end users revealing the frequency of unplanned downtime, the effects on organizations, including average costs, and what IT administrators can do to minimize core system failure.

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Seven principles for achieving high performance and scalability for information integration

To meet the business imperative for enterprise integration and stay competitive, companies must manage the increasing variety, volume and velocity of new data pouring into their systems from an ever-expanding number of sources. Read this new whitepaper to learn about the seven essential elements needed to achieve the highest performance.

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?

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

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

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

Top 10 Tips for Educating Employees about Cybersecurity

Do you know the most common risk factor for corporate cybercrime? Employees. Download Kaspersky Lab’s Top 10 Tips for Educating Employees about Cybersecurity to learn:

• Why and how to develop an effective security policy
• Examples of common threats to employees and your business
• Tools to reduce risk and cybercrime

VMware vSphere Backups: What are you Missing?

Backups used to be easy. Just check the time stamp or the archive bit. If it changed, then back up the file.

Suddenly virtualization became popular, as did server applications. The unstructured data inside files and folders found itself sharing the datacenter with all manner of applications and databases. Virtual machines (VMs) joined physical machines as the method of delivering IT services.

Video Content Roundup

Internet users are spending more time than ever with digital video, and marketers have noticed. To help you stay on top of the latest trends in video content, eMarketer has curated a roundup of some of our latest coverage on the subject, including statistics, insights and interviews.