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Free E-Book – Achieving Continuous Delivery for Databases

Continuous delivery helps teams reduce risk and increase efficiency and reliability of their software release process. But because of the specific challenges presented by the database, it isn’t always included in that process.

This book aims to show how it is possible to adapt many of the techniques used successfully in application development and make them applicable to the specific requirements of databases. By making the way we develop, test, deploy, and maintain databases more visible, predictable, and measurable, and working together more effectively as a team, organizations can start to reap the benefits of faster delivery, reduced costs, and increased quality.

Find out more about including the database in your continuous delivery process with this 110 page e-book.

Persistent Storage for Containerized Applications

Linux containers are on course to change DevOps forever. Container technology will also impact how we think about persistent storage for applications and microservices.

In turn, software-defined storage will impact how storage is dynamically provisioned and managed for containerized applications. Using close integration with orchestration frameworks, such as Kubernetes and private Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) such as OpenShift, Red Hat® Storage extends the current limit of performance by providing seamless, enterprise-grade storage for critical applications in containers.

Watch this video to learn about the future of storage in a container-driven datacenter.

Using Internet Data Sets to Understand Digital Threats

As businesses adapt to the rapidly changing digital landscape, more customer and business operations are shifting from behind the protection of firewalls to the open internet. This new level of exposure makes your company, customers, and prospects vulnerable to the extremely skilled persistent threats across the web, mobile, social, and email.

Fortunately, Internet data can be sorted, classified, and monitored over time to create highly connected data sets that provide a complete picture of your attackers and their evolving techniques. Security professionals must leverage the relationships between these data sets to surface new connections, group similar attack activity, and substantiate assumptions during incident response.

In this white paper, we’ll explore the technique of infrastructure chaining, and explore the data sets available to security professionals such as:

Passive DNS
WHOIS
SSL Certificates
Analytical Trackers
Host Sequence Pairs
Web Components
Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)

Appsession: Is our Appetite for Mobile Apps Putting us at Risk?

A RiskIQ Mobile Consumer Report

With so much of our personal information now flowing through mobile applications, has our security awareness kept pace? Have consumers adopted best practice behaviors or are they leaving themselves vulnerable to cyber attack?

To better understand consumer behavior, RiskIQ commissioned Ginger Comms to survey 1,000 US and 1,000 UK consumers aged 16 to 60+, specifically focusing on smartphone apps. The survey was conducted during February and March 2017.

The top line results show that over half of all respondents regularly display behaviors that put themselves at risk. Download the report to find out:

The percentage of users that click on ads promoting apps
The percentage of users that click on links in emails, mobile web, and social media promoting apps
The percentage of users that rarely or never inspect the T&C’s or permissions being requested during app installation
The percentage of users that reuse passwords across mobile apps

The Rise of Machine Learning in Cybersecurity

All ML technology isn’t created equal. Learn how the CrowdStrike® ML-based Engine Defends Against Unknown Malware. While many organizations are guarding the front door with yesterday’s signature-based antivirus (AV) solutions, today’s unknown malware walks out the back door with all their data. What’s the answer?

A new white paper, “The Rise of Machine Learning in Cybersecurity,” explains machine learning (ML) technology — what it is, how it works and why it offers better protection against the sophisticated attacks that bypass standard security measures. You’ll also learn about CrowdStrike’s exclusive ML technology and how, as part of the Falcon platform’s next-gen AV solution, it dramatically increases your ability to detect attacks that use unknown malwar

Download this white paper to learn:

How different types of ML are applied in various industries and why it’s such an effective tool against unknown malware
Why ML technologies differ and what factors can increase the accuracy and effectiveness of ML
How CrowdStrike’s ML-based technology works as part of the Falcon platform’s next-generation AV, and why it offers superior protection over other AV solution

IT Resilience – The Evolved Approach to a $700B Downtime Problem

First there was Data Backup and Recovery. Then there was Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS). This White Paper defines the evolving next innovation in business protection – IT Resilience (ITR) – and why it’s growing more important to organizations struggling to protect their data and operations from downtime.

Beat Ransomware in 5 Easy Steps

The threat from ransomware continues to grow and has become so prolific that it is no longer a question of “if” you are going to get hit, but when. A solid backup vendor and process is the only protection from an attack, but not all backup vendors completely solve the issue. Get a playbook of five steps organizations should use to protect themselves from the excessive downtime, data loss and business disruption of a ransomware attack.

Privileged Password Security Policy Template

With privileged account credentials a favorite target of hackers, it’s critical that you have password protection policies in place to prevent unauthorized access and demonstrate security compliance. Thycotic and Information Shield make it easy for you.

This free Privileged Password Security Policy Template gives you best-practice policies to help your organization improve IT security and demonstrate regulatory compliance. You’ll save hours of effort leveraging these policies that are easily customizable in a matter of minutes.

Downloaded as an editable, easily customized Microsoft Word document
Developed according to best practice standards from SANS, NIST, GLBA, ISO17799, ISO9000 and more
Details how policies can be enforced with Thycotic Secret Server

Privileged Account Management For Dummies, Thycotic Special Edition

Fast, easy read to get up to speed on Privileged Account Management (PAM) security basics

With so many recent high-profile breaches accomplished through the compromise of passwords on privileged accounts, it’s time all cyber security stakeholders got educated.

This Free Privileged Account Management for Dummies 24-page book gives you, your IT staff, and business stakeholders a practical understanding of privileged account management and its security implications.

What is a privileged account
Where do privileged accounts reside throughout the IT environment
How privileged accounts function
Risks associated with privileged accounts
How to best protect privileged accounts from hackers and malicious insider threats

End-To-End Visibility: The Foundation of Business-Driven Security

Although the challenge of securing modern computing environments may be daunting, it is solvable with an approach we call Business-Driven Security: the ability of an organization to comprehensively and rapidly link security with business context to detect and respond effectively and protect what matters most.

Don’t Overlook Your Email Archiving Systems

Today, business users need on-the-go access to all their critical data, which includes emails, documents and attachments. For IT administrators, striking the balance between productivity for users and compliance needs for the organization is necessary.

A September 2017 commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting shows 92% of business users believe easily finding emails and related documents using search functions is important or critical to the ability to do their job.

Download the study to discover more of Forrester Consulting’s important findings on the email archiving needs of modern business users—and how you can meet them.

Email Security in a Zero Trust World

To tackle today’s cyber threats, IT security leaders must rethink traditional security strategies. Email security in particular has become a victim of its own success and requires a radical rethink, having played a key role in several high-profile security breaches.

Today’s threats, like spear-phishing, are designed to bypass traditional Secure Email Gateway defenses, often taking advantage of end users who are considered the weakest link in business email security armor. A zero-trust approach to email security is needed.

This white paper discusses how:

CISO’s should carefully assess email security as part of a strategic security review
IT Managers can evaluate the state of current email defenses and take tactical action to strengthen them
Security Administrators can deliver best-practice defense in depth for email
Organizations can remove a reliance on trust to more effectively protect information, their network and employees

Ransomware is Increasing the Risks and Impact to Organizations

Cybercriminals constantly engage organizations in a game of leapfrog: system defenses improve, so malware searches for new holes. Recently, ransomware, which has been around since 1989, has been gaining momentum.

Download this Mimecast sponsored report to learn about this growing threat, its impact to organizations and the ways to help thwart an attack.

7 Best Practices for SMB Virtualization

Virtualization offers a wealth of benefits for Small to Medium Businesses (SMBs) — from enhanced agility and security to greater operational efficiency, stronger disaster recovery and more. Discover how to virtualize your data center.

Big Data Analytics Market Study

Based on survey methodology, this second Big Data Analytics Market Study from Dresner Advisory focuses upon the combination of analytical solutions within the Hadoop ecosystem, adding some new criteria and exploring changing market dynamics and user perceptions and plans.

You’ll also learn why Pentaho ranked among the top three Big Data Analytic vendors in the areas of infrastructure, data access, search, machine learning, and supported distributions.

Read the market study to learn:

Top infrastructure choices, machine learning technologies and vendors for big data
Ratings of technologies and platforms used in big data analytics
Big data trends by industries, functions, and geographical regions
The most popular big data use cases

*Pentaho, a Hitachi Group company, helps organizations harness value from all their data. Our open enterprise-class platform provides end-to-end data preparation, integration, and analytics.