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Create More Secure Software Code: 5 Key Steps

Software security, or rather the lack thereof, has become commonplace and an all too frequently recurring story in print and electronic media around the world. Just a single incident, such as the Target breach, which affected over 100 million people and cost Target an estimated $300 million, has the power to propel the subject of security from the world of IT professionals into the conversations of everyday people. Of course, there have been many incidents, pre- and post-Target. TJ Maxx, P.F. Chang’s, JPMorgan Chase, Snapchat, eBay, Home Depot, Staples... the list goes on and on and includes public, private, and government organizations.

Reduce Your Open Source Security Risk: Strategies, Tactics and Tools

While there’s no doubt that open source software (OSS) is here to stay, that doesn’t mean that developers can feel free to use all and any open source software components with no thought to the vulnerabilities and security issues they may introduce into their development projects. The fact is, there’s no such thing as bulletproof, bug-free, automatically license compliant, and easily auditable software. Not in the open source world and not in the commercial off the shelf (COTS) world.

Application Self-Protection: It’s Time For a New Kind of Defense

With security breaches targeting the application layer more and more, security teams have begun to shift their focus (and budgets) to address this new challenge. However, limited resources and the dynamic nature of these attacks means that the application security strategy is constantly evolving. IT organizations are tasked with choosing the right tools for every aspect of a layered defense. This paper, including research data from Gartner, will provide insight into the threat landscape as well as the solutions that best address this ever changing landscape.

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.

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.

Visibility, Automation and Analysis: A Winning Combo for Reliable Networks

In this report, we'll look at the challenges that businesses are facing when it comes to understanding network and application performance, and how the lack of network information can lead to bad performance, low user satisfaction, compliance issues and costly downtime.

Pinpoint Security Risks 100% Better With HP Haven

How do some companies leverage big data to minimize security risks? Take a look at this infographic and get the big picture in big data.

Stepping into the Spotlight Infographic

For internal support centers, the message coming from the overall business is clear: You need to demonstrate your business value. Outsourcing, managed services and cloud-based solutions that didn’t exist just a few years ago are piling on the pressure.

Cyber Risk Report 2015

Today's cyber world is an evolving landscape of known vulnerabilities and exploits coupled with new threats brought by new technologies. Security professionals must learn to protect their businesses from both.

The HP Cyber Risk Report 2015 brings the information you need to do that. This comprehensive study provides a broad view of the 2014 threat landscape. Then it drills down into specific technologies including open source, mobile, and the Internet of Things. Read the report to learn:

• The well-known vulnerabilities that continue to open the door to hackers
• The new technologies that introduce new avenues of attack
• Why secure coding still fails to protect data
• Why multi-layered defenses are critical to protection

The 2016 Cyber Risk Report

Hackers are finding new vulnerabilities in your IT environment and developing new ways to exploit them. To fight back, you've got to know what they know and understand how they attack. Cyber Risk Report 2016 culminates a year-long research by HPE Security Research, our industry-leading research arm. It brings you the information you need to understand the threat and plan your defenses. Read the full report to learn:

• Why 2015 was the year of collateral damage
• How hackers' targets are shifting from servers and OSs to applications
• The vulnerabilities most exploited by hackers in 2015
• The most common malware discovered in the wild

Providing security for software systems in the cloud

The software industry has learned that putting fancy boxes on the network doesn’t fix bad software. Especially if you’re using cloud-services, you need to focus on the risks they bring to the software you deploy. This paper details risks to software deployed in the cloud and tells you what steps you can take to mitigate those risks.

The State Of Endpoint Security Adoption 2014 To 2015

Forrester presents the relevant endpoint security data from their most recent surveys, with special attention given to those trends affecting SMBs (firms with 20 to 999 employees) and enterprises (firms with 1,000+ employees), along with analysis that explains the data in the context of the overall security landscape. As organizations prepare for the 2015 budget cycle, security and risk (S&R) professionals should use this annual report to help benchmark their organization’s spending patterns against those of their peers — while keeping an eye on current trends affecting endpoint security — in order to strategize their endpoint security adoption decisions. Read this Forrester Research report, compliments of Dell for more information.

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3 Essential Components for a Strong End User Security Experience

Security breaches are expensive, costing U.S. businesses an average of $3.5 million per incident, which doesn’t include brand damage or other intangibles. Unfortunately, breaches are highly likely to happen, with 87% of organizations experiencing a breach in the past 12 months. Data, whether it’s intellectual property or personal data, needs to be protected. Upgrading systems is a great first step, but read this summary to learn more about how to leverage Dell Data Protection solutions as well to provide encryption, malware protection, and authentication for Dell and non-Dell products, to equip businesses with a complete, easy-to-manage, end-user security solution.

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Mobility in Financial Services: A Checklist Towards Regulatory Compliance

Like business leaders in every industry, decision makers in Financial Services (FS) organizations are increasingly turning to mobility to deliver on strategic objectives. They understand that mobilizing business processes can help improve customer satisfaction and response times; boost employee productivity; increase competitive advantage, and much more.

Most CIOs in these industries want nothing more than to help their line-of-business colleagues uncover new opportunities for growth.

The Future of Mobile Apps: Is Your Enterprise Ready?

In this whitepaper, find out why mobile apps have been slow to take hold in the enterprise world until recently – and why that’s changing now. We’ll look at what mobile apps are enabling in terms of productivity and collaboration today, and what they’ll enable in the near future. We’ll address app development tools and platforms and consider whether the future is in native, web-based or hybrid options. And we’ll describe three key factors enterprises need to weigh if they’re to capitalize on what mobile apps can do for their bottom line in the months and years ahead:

1. How you build enterprise mobile apps

2. How you manage them (through their lifecycle)

3. How you protect the data they transmit and store