Top 10 Website Security Myths Revealed

When it comes to protecting your website and customers from attack, knowledge is your best weapon. But with ever-changing threats and ever-evolving defenses comes ever-growing potential for common misconception. To help you cut through the confusion, view our essential guide now and separate website security myth from reality.
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History of Cryptography

This white paper presents a brief history of cryptography and how encryption-related technologies have evolved and will continue to evolve as well as the measures Internet users should consider when implementing modern encryptions.
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10 Best Practices for Microsoft SharePoint Security

SharePoint is a valuable collaboration tool. But your organization could be vulnerable if you don't take the right steps. There’s no silver bullet for securing SharePoint because each deployment is unique. However, there are 10 best practices that everyone should follow when using this collaboration tool.
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Securing Microsoft Exchange 2010

There are many reasons why now is the right time to make the move to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, including a host of administration and security improvements. However, as with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Exchange 2010 requires SSL certificates to ensure the security of all connections to the email server.

This guide from Thawte is designed to take the guesswork out of implementing SSL for Exchange 2010, making it easier than ever to get the SSL certificate you need for a successful and secure Exchange implementation, and to take advantage of powerful capabilities such as Subject Alternative Names (SANs).
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Thirsting for Insight? Quench It With 5 Data Management for Analytics Best Practices

We all know that good, clean water is core to life. Without it, we can only survive for around three days. So what happens if your water source is polluted? Well, unless you filter the water sufficiently, there will definitely be some negative consequences. To get better results, you could enrich the water with fluoride, filter out the arsenic, and deliver it at the right pressure and temperature.

In a similar way, “unpolluted” data is core to a successful business – particularly one that relies on analytics to survive. But preparing data for analytics brings with it different requirements than storing data in a warehouse. How difficult is it to manage unfiltered data and get it ready for analytics?

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Eight Considerations for Utilising Big Data Analytics with Hadoop

The power of Hadoop is that it utilises schema on read. With a data warehouse, you often have to know what the tables look like before loading data. With Hadoop, you can pull data from any source or type and then figure out how to organize it. Organisations are beginning to use Hadoop as a dumping ground for all kinds of data because it is inexpensive and doesn’t require a schema on write. Such storage is often referred to as a Hadoop “data lake.” On the flip side, the Hadoop/MapReduce engine is not optimised for the iterative processing that analytics often requires. It is best suited to batch processing.
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Top 5 Reasons to Choose User-Friendly Strong Authentication

This executive brief asserts that easy and secure authentication is possible, and offers five reasons an organization should adopt such a solution. Insights are provided into how to choose the right two-factor authentication (2FA) solution, including integration with complimentary solutions like single sign-on, to ensure you are prepared for the challenges of today and tomorrow.
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Big Data Security for Dummies

The sheer number of advanced security threats is growing every day. So is the sophistication of cyberattacks. Custom malware. Drive-by downloads. Watering-hole attacks. The list goes on and on. Read Big Data Security for Dummies, and learn how to harness the power of Big Data to detect, analyze, and respond to today’s sophisticated attacks.
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SANs Incident Response Paper Executive Summary

Building a proactive incident response practice requires the right mix of tools, processes and training. This executive summary for the SANS white paper, “A Proactive Approach to Incident Response,” details the ingredients you need to improve the maturity of your response capabilities.
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The Accidental Intrapreneur: Becoming the Knowledge Center CEO

In a world where you can ask your smartphone for directions to your destination or for a diagnosis of a troubling medical symptom, conversations about the value of curated information and professional information services take on a new urgency. No longer is it enough for knowledge centers to have highly-skilled information professionals providing the best, most authoritative information to clients. Now, you have to take a more strategic approach to the role of the knowledge center within your larger organization. Download this paper for key insights into how to effectively respond to new competitive pressures, find out clients’ new needs, and create new services that best meet those needs.
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Datensicherung virtueller Maschinen mit HP StoreEverBandbibliotheken

Viele Unternehmen suchen nach Lösungen zur Reduzierung des Energieverbrauchs, der Kühlanforderungen und des Serverstellplatzes. Auch die Speicherkapazität ist heutzutage ein wichtiger Aspekt. Der Wechsel zu einer virtualisierten Umgebung entschärft dieses Thema, da er eine Möglichkeit zur Konsolidierung des Rechenzentrums eröffnet. Eine weitere Strategie, die zu diesem Ziel beiträgt, ist die Speicherung der Daten auf preiswerteren bandbasierten Lösungen anstatt auf teuren Festplatten-basierten Speichermedien.
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