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Could Your Business Survive a Cryptor?

In the first six months of 2015, the number of crypto-attacks equaled the volume experienced in all of 2014.

This increase illustrates how widespread this problem is becoming for businesses of all sizes. It is entirely possible that you or someone in your company will be held ransom by a cryptor at some point—a scenario that could have a devastating effect on your business.

Code Signing, an Essential Security Feature to Add to Your Software – Infographic

Code signing certificates are digital certificates that will help protect users from downloading compromised files or applications. When a file or application signed by a developer is modified or compromised after publication, a popup browser warning will appear to let users know that the origin of the file or application cannot be verified.

Symantec Code Signing helps securely deliver apps and code to more customers, on more platforms than any other provider.

Symantec root certificate ubiquity is second to none. The root certificates come preinstalled on most devices and are embedded in most applications, helping minimize security warnings while maximizing distribution and revenue. Symantec is the only authorized code signing provider for Windows Phone, AT&T Developer Program, Java Verified, and Symbian Signed applications.

Code Signing, an Essential Security Feature to Add to Your Software

Code signing certificates are digital certificates that will help protect users from downloading compromised files or applications. When a file or application signed by a developer is modified or compromised after publication, a popup browser warning will appear to let users know that the origin of the file or application cannot be verified.

Symantec Code Signing helps securely deliver apps and code to more customers, on more platforms than any other provider.

Symantec root certificate ubiquity is second to none. The root certificates come preinstalled on most devices and are embedded in most applications, helping minimize security warnings while maximizing distribution and revenue. Symantec is the only authorized code signing provider for Windows Phone, AT&T Developer Program, Java Verified, and Symbian Signed applications.

Quick Reference Guide to Always-On SSL

Always-On SSL is a cost-effective security measure for websites that helps protect the entire user experience from online threats. It delivers authentication of the identity of the website and encrypts all information shared between the website and a user (including any cookies exchanged), protecting the data from unauthorized viewing, tampering, or use.

The Total Economic Impact of IBM UrbanCode

IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct their Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study that examines and quantifies potential return on investment (ROI) for IBM UrbanCode Deploy within an enterprise DevOps environment. The study determined that a composite organization, based on the customers interviewed, experienced an ROI of 482%!

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UrbanCode ROI Calculator

This ROI calculator is intended to help you calculate the benefits and return of deployment automation across three main categories:

• Automating manual work: The simple reduction of deployment effort from automating a previously manual process.
• Reducing script writing and maintenance: Benefits from using pre-built integrations over writing your own scripts and tools to help with a deployment.
• Error prevention: Manual processes are error-prone. Benefits in both production and pre-production are examined

Best practices for a DevOps Approach with IBM system z

Tools from IBM® Rational® - specifically, IBM UrbanCode™ Deploy, IBM Rational Development and Test Environments for System z®, and IBM Rational Test Virtualization Server—support development on the IBM System z platform, giving you true capabilities to scale DevOps at the enterprise level. Learn more when you read the IBM white paper “Best practices for a DevOps approach with IBM System z.”

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Disparate Communications: Limit the Ability to Grow Business

It isn’t often we meet a business owner that doesn’t want to grow their business. Business growth has always meant more work for the long-suffering guys in IT.

For them, growth means a myriad of problems to struggle with and solve, such as -

• Sourcing and supplying staff equipment

• Increasing the bandwidth of current systems

• Negotiating new service contracts

• Maintaining existing levels of service

Download this whitepaper to explore the different channels of communication for a growing business environment.

Out-dated Technology, Can’t Adapt to Changes in Environment

Call us cynical but if you ask us, whomever it was that said, “a change is as good as a rest”, they clearly never worked in IT.

Don’t get us wrong. We know better than anyone that truly successful businesses embrace the future. That they move forward and adapt in order to thrive. We know that change is indeed a good thing - but is it easy?

Change within a business can come in a variety of forms and this whitepaper can show you the way.

Separate Communication Systems are Inefficient & Complex to Manage

When it comes to channels of communication within a business, the word ‘separation’ has long been obsolete. It isn’t often a CEO talks proudly about the many separate means of communication his or her employees use. These days everyone knows that when it comes to sharing information in the workplace the buzzwords are ‘integrated’ and ‘cloud’.

This whitepaper can help break this down for you and show you some great options for a more efficient work environment.

Live Event: Cloud & SDN – What It Means For Your Wi-Fi

The rapid evolution of networking solutions and the impact of macro technology trends makes future-proofing your infrastructure more complex than ever. With hype around Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Cloud reaching tipping point, what impact do these technologies have on the future design, deployment, and support of your wireless LAN infrastructure?

Join us on Thursday, 21 January 2016 to explore the possibilities and chart Wi-Fi’s evolutionary path to determine where best to place your bets in 2016 and beyond.

Innovate Like a Start-up, Scale Like an Enterprise

The rewards of digital transformation are vast, but effectively implementing a startup approach to business and development at enterprise scale is a big challenge. Register now for this IBM Point of View white paper describing the IBM Bluemix Garage Method and how you can utilize it to innovate at scale

Continuous Delivery in the Enterprise

This paper characterizes the three key components of release management modernization and provides case studies illustrating how companies use continuous delivery and DevOps to transform the discipline, suggesting steps to adapt practices so companies can compete better with less risk.

Whitepaper: DevOps and the cost of downtime

DevOps is bringing technical and business benefits to LOB leaders, the C-suite and IT delivery organizations. This IDC Report states that communicating DevOps business value is critical to securing additional funding and accelerating the rate and course of change in an enterprise.

Integrated Threat Protection System for Dummies, 1st Edition

Integrated Threat Management for Dummies lays the foundation for effective tools and techniques that work together to counter today's advanced threats.
Read the ebook to learn:

The principles of attack prevention
How security tools work together to protect an organization
IBM's tools for prevention, detection, and response