Navigating the Evolving Network Perimeter
While legacy security applications did their part in the past, they no longer serve an increasingly cloud-powered digital world. Even encryption alone isn’t enough and has been used by cyberattackers to conceal and deliver threats.
- Find out how and why encryption is a security measure that could easily backfire
- Learn about the new alternative to on-premise hardware and firewalls
The IT Security Guide to Digital Transformation
Digital transformation will always be a delicate balance of improved processes and increased risk. Businesses are at risk of experiencing a data breaches or security incident during a full digital transformation if they fail to increase their security in tandem.
This whitepaper will discuss the current risks in a digital transformation that make businesses particularly vulnerable to attack, as well as the three essential steps IT teams can take to mitigate them. The appropriate level of proactive security and monitoring will keep businesses from overspending on security, or the steep cost of a data breach. In particular, this paper will cover:
- Why a digital transformation makes businesses an attractive target to bad players
- Critical vulnerabilities of the various aspects of expanded technology
- How to protect business data, as well as devices and people
Compliance Audit Preparation Guide
Review Security Controls to Stay in Compliance
With compliance and regulatory standards such as SOX, PCI-DSS and HIPAA, your partners and customers expect a secure network when they work with your business. Firewall audits help to find weaknesses and vulnerabilities in your security controls.
In this guide, we cover the five steps to a firewall audit:
- Knowing your Network
- Auditing the Change Process
- Reviewing the Firewall Rule Base
- Checking for Vulnerabilities and Remediate Issues
- Continuous Compliance and Reporting
Download this guide to reduce risk, secure your network and stay in compliance.
Cloud Innovation Summit
May 11-12, 2021
Accelerating Cloud Innovation: Building Modern Apps with OutSystems & AWS
The rapid advancements in cloud technologies have changed the landscape and economics for digital transformation
Done right, the cloud opens amazing new opportunities for any organization to reach customers,enhance productivity, and drive efficiencies.
Done wrong, the complexity and technical debt that plague traditional platforms leads to the same paralysis with which IT has struggled for decades.
Imagine being able to build modern digital customer journeys and pivoting quickly as your customers’ expectations change! How about adapting your legacy systems to new business opportunities quickly?
With AWS and OutSystems you can launch into your most ambitious cloud digital transformation imperatives without being held back by the specter of technical debt.
Join our upcoming Virtual Summit where you’ll learn how to:
- Say goodbye to the application backlog
- Build the cool apps you want, no matter how complex
- Bring in the latest tech like reactive web, AI/ML, IoT, RPA, and microservices
Interactive Demo of IBM Security Guardium Insights
Are you planning to implement a data security solution that monitors activity in on-premises and DBaaS sources? See how Guardium Insights for Cloud Pak for Security can enhance visibility, cut response time, surface key risk insights to uncover hidden threats—and deploy it anywhere.
Interactive Demo of IBM Security Guardium Data Protection
Is your company planning a Data Security solution purchase to meet the needs of protecting growing number of data sources and cloud-based technologies? See how IBM Security Guardium Data Protection can help protect your data at the source to and address data risk and compliance requirements across the hybrid cloud.
From MFA to Zero Trust: A Five-Phase Journey to Securing the Workforce
Zero trust has become a dominant security model for the changes brought by mobility, consumerization of IT and cloud applications. And while the term zero trust continues to infiltrate IT security conversations, it raises an important question: how do we get there?
In this guide, we examine the three pillars of zero trust: Zero Trust for the Workforce, Zero Trust for the Workloads and Zero Trust for the Workplace. We pay particular attention to the journey to achieving Zero Trust for the Workforce, which focuses on making sure users and devices can be trusted as they access applications and systems, regardless of location.
Penetration Testing: Protecting Your Company the Right Way
Just as doctors must probe their patients to uncover hidden maladies or diseases, so too must companies probe their networks, systems, applications, and web assets to uncover weaknesses subject to possible hacking. The practice is called Penetration Testing, or pen testing for short. As with all issues relating to security, there are optimal ways of conduct pen tests and less than ideal ways.
This article addresses:
- The scope of cybercrime and other issues requiring rigorous pen testing
- Types of pen tests
- Expectations and responsibilities of pen testers
- Generally accepted best practices for pen testing
- Top tools to assist with pen testing
- Considerations for performing pen testing by internal staff or an outsourced firm
The IT Leadership Playbook
Regardless of what’s on your business card, you’re the coach of your IT team. Your team is looking to you for a game plan and your organization’s leadership is looking for results.
Just like a sports team, your IT team has generalists and specialists, rookies and veterans. How do you meet the needs of all of these players? How do you help them achieve their goals?
It’s up to you to field an effective team every day and anticipate the future needs of your organization… all while IT unemployment is at an all-time low.
Welcome to the IT leadership playbook. Finally, you’ve got a resource to help you achieve a winning record.
The IT Training Buyer’s Guide & Checklist
The shift to digital learning for IT professionals has been underway for years, and it has only accelerated as IT teams have adapted to working from home during the forced Coronavirus lockdown. As the demand for online and distance learning options has grown, the IT training landscape has expanded. Luckily for business owners and tech leaders, there was already a robust marketplace for IT training options to fit the needs of remote teams.
Digital learning platforms provide a number of advantages for businesses looking to keep their staff trained and certified, but it’s important to choose a program that is right for your team’s needs. With a range of price, quality, and curricula, leaders should carefully consider a number of factors when selecting an IT training partner.
As your teams continue to adapt to new challenges for work and learning, use this guide to determine how to best support your teams with online IT training and certification.In this Guide, you will learn
- Why Online Training is a Fit for IT Teams
- The Features Your Teams Want
- Tools for Leaders and Managers
- How to Choose the Vendor for You
- Get Your Selection Checklist
Power management 101: A quick guide to getting the most out of your hardware
There is a shift in the IT industry; technology professionals are focusing on more secure and reliable remote site management, making it necessary to monitor network devices remotely—anytime from anywhere. From a basic network card to various software platforms, it can be overwhelming knowing which power management option is best for you, but we all know the devastation unexpected power outages can to a business’s critical applications. Included in this guide are different communication options for your hardware, cybersecurity considerations, case studies, FAQs and more.
Power management 101: A quick guide to getting the most out of your hardware
There is a shift in the IT industry; technology professionals are focusing on more secure and reliable remote site management, making it necessary to monitor network devices remotely—anytime from anywhere. From a basic network card to various software platforms, it can be overwhelming knowing which power management option is best for you, but we all know the devastation unexpected power outages can to a business’s critical applications. Included in this guide are different communication options for your hardware, cybersecurity considerations, case studies, FAQs and more.
The Tidelift guide to managed open source
How to develop an effective strategy for maintaining the health of your organization’s open source supply chain
Managed open source is a strategic way for organizations to consistently manage, secure, and maintain the health of their open source supply chain. This guide explains how a managed open source strategy can help your development team save time and reduce risk when using open source to develop applications.
Learn more about:
- What a managed open source strategy is and how it works
- The areas in which unmanaged open source drains productivity and increases risk
- How to create, track, and manage customizable catalogs of known-good, proactively maintained open source components
Quick guide to power distribution
Power distribution is facilitated through different pieces of equipment that take the power conditioned by your uninterruptible power supply (UPS) and send it to your IT equipment. Power distribution units like rack PDUs can manage and even control energy consumption in smaller environments as well as large data center applications. Distributing power efficiently results in reduced operating costs and increased reliability. This guide should help you get familiar with power distribution, gain interesting insights and learn key considerations for future IT investments.
Disaster preparedness and avoidance handbook
Today’s information-driven organizations depend on the 24/7 availability of their IT infrastructures. Not only are downtime costs enormous, but data integrity is threatened by an ever-growing array of hazards, including power outages, natural disasters, equipment failure, and user error. Additionally, as data centers become more software-defined, they are increasingly vulnerable to software problems and cybersecurity-related catastrophes.
While virtualization of the data center has proven to be revolutionary for IT professionals—providing increased reliability, flexibility, and control, among other benefits—in order to fully realize these advantages, DR processes must also be optimized. This can create some unique challenges as IT professionals must focus their virtualization disaster recovery strategy around backing up and recovering virtual machines (VMs) as opposed to physical servers.
