Which Chart or Graph is Right For You?

You’ve got data and you’ve got questions. Creating a chart or graph links the two, but sometimes you’re not sure which type of chart will get the answer you seek. This paper answers questions about how to select the best charts for the type of data you’re analyzing and the questions you want to answer.
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Top 8 Trends for 2016: Big Data

The year 2015 was an important one in the world of big data. What used to be hype became the norm as more businesses realized that data, in all forms and sizes, is critical to making the best possible decisions. In 2016, we’ll see continued growth of systems that support non-relational or unstructured forms of data as well as massive volumes of data. These systems will evolve and mature to operate well inside of enterprise IT systems and standards. This will enable both business users and data scientists to fully realize the value of big data.
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Top 10 Trends For 2016: Clouds

In 2015, the cloud technology landscape changed in ways that only a highly disruptive market can. From watershed innovation announcements to unexpected business moves, 2015 drove any last shred of doubt from the minds of skeptics that the cloud revolution is permanent. At the eye of this storm is the growing realization that data as a critical business asset can be very efficiently (and cost-effectively) stored in the cloud. The database, integration, and analytics markets are now in a race to understand how each can ultimately capitalize on this shift.
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Top 10 Trends for 2016: Business Intelligence

2015 was a year of significant change in the world of Business Intelligence. More organizations opened up data to their employees. And more people came to see data as an important tool to get their work done. Norms about Business Intelligence are evolving, and as they do, leading to wholesale cultural change at some workplaces. This change is driven not only by fast-moving technology, but also by new techniques to get value from data.
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Visual Analysis Best Practices

You made a visualization! Congratulations: you are part of a small but growing group that’s taking advantage of the power of visualization. However, bringing your visualizations from “good” to “great” takes time, patience and attention to detail. Luckily, we have compiled a short but important list of techniques to get you started. Happy visualizing!
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Protection from Advanced Threats with Symantec Insight/SONAR

With targeted attacks and unknown threats continuing to grow, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and unsure about whether you’ve taken the right steps to protect your business. Connecting to the Internet and sharing information both inside and outside of your company network is imperative to nearly every business today, but how can you be confident that you’re protecting vital business assets and customer information from advanced threats?

Learn more from this Symantec Solution Brief.
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Enterprise Organizations Need to Prepare for Cyber-attack ‘Hunting’

Ask any cybersecurity professional and she’ll tell you that her job is getting increasingly difficult. Why? Most will point to a combination of the dangerous threat landscape, IT complexity, and their overwhelming workload. These issues are driving a major transition in enterprise security.

Large organizations must move beyond a threat prevention mentality to become proactive cyber-attack “hunters” that constantly monitor their networks for signs of trouble. This shift to proactive hunting will require new technologies that collect, process, and analyze massive amounts of security data, offer intelligent security analytics for real-time incident detection, integrate threat intelligence to align suspicious internal activities with external threats, and provide analysts with the right data analytics features to query and manipulate data for historical investigations.
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Few Fully Prepared for Software Security Risks

Hackers penetrate organizations and steal information through vulnerabilities in software applications. Yet less than half of IT organizations have confidence in the security of the software that runs their businesses. And just 11 percent say they know with confidence which applications are at risk. Those are among the findings of a Gatepoint survey on software security assurance (SSA) highlighted by this white paper.

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• How many respondents have full-scale SSA programs in place
• How SSA works
• How much SSA has reduced remediation time

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Companies cautiously optimistic about cybersecurity

Optimism is good. But being overconfident about your ability to counter cyber attacks is dangerous. And that's what many security professionals are doing according to new research by SC Magazine. Eighty percent of survey respondents believe the chances of being breached are 50-50 or less. But the Ponemon Institute 2015 Cost of Cyber Crime Study finds the average company actually experiences 1.9 successful cyber attacks per week.

The disconnect seems to spring from respondents' confidence that they can block known attacks coupled with concern about new and unknown hacker threats. Read this report to learn:

• Respondents' highest cyber defense priorities
• How they view their ability to respond to breaches
• The five top action items for security professionals

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UBM Security Trends

In this UBM report, we will examine the overall security trends that are driving the need for change, as well as plans and strategies around application security, network security, and data security.

Last year, organizations worldwide spent more per security breach than they did the previous year. The cost to detect, respond to, and mitigate a breach was around $7.7 million—1.9% higher than in 2014. For US companies, those costs were much higher, at around $15 million on an annualized basis.

Read this report today. You’ll be surprised to learn:

• Who causes the costliest crimes
• How “threat actors” gather information prior to their attacks
• What the biggest security concerns are world-wide
• Why web applications are so vulnerable to attack, and the most common problems

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2016 State of Security Operations

Hacker attacks are increasing, and the cost to businesses is growing. Experts tell us it's not if you'll be breached, it's when. So the effectiveness of your security operations determines how much damage you'll suffer. Since 2008, Hewett Packard Enterprise Security has performed 154 assessments of the maturity of security operations in 114 security operations centers (SOCs).

The 2016 report is both disturbing and encouraging. There has been a year-to-year decline in overall security operation maturity. But there is also encouraging news—many SOCs are adopting innovative techniques that leverage the power of data and analytics to stay ahead of the threat. Read the report to learn the findings and understand the trends in security operations.

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NEW: ESG Economic value calculator for Flash

This calculator is built on extensive primary research conducted by the analyst ESG to demonstrate the cost competitiveness and economic value of IBM FlashSystem compared to traditional storage systems, including performance disk-based systems underpinned by 15K RPM drives.
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TCO Now Flash Tool

It's about time you got the most value from your data storage solution. Discover how easy it is to begin your own paradigm shift. Take advantage of scalable performance to match your unique application workloads, benefit from the enduring economics of flash storage to drive down total cost of ownership, and accelerate your time to value with the easy and agile integration of industry-leading IBM FlashSystem.
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Cost of Data Breach – Impact of Business Continuity Management

What truly affects the cost of a data breach? Ponemon Institute’s latest study of 350 organizations around the globe details both the cost and impact of data breaches, with breakdowns by industry and country. Read the 2015 report to learn:

- The 2 major factors that affect the financial consequences of a data breach
- How companies changed their operations and compliance following a data breach
- The most common cyber security governance challenges.

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