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Forrester: Customer Data Maturity Powers the Modern Enterprise

With the growing importance of customer insights in organizations, the role of analytics to extract insight from customer data and embed it back into organizational processes is at the forefront of business transformation. This increased profile has elevated the customer insights role from data geeks feeding the marketing funnel to critical change agents and strategic business partners. It has also made it crucial for companies to have a coherent and consistently executed customer data strategy. In order to seize the opportunity presented by this shift in data’s role, companies must plot a deliberate strategic course — beginning with a clear-eyed assessment of their current capabilities and needs.

Automate Password Policy Enforcement & NIST Password Guidelines

Organizations are now adopting tools to enable real-time password policy enforcement with daily password auditing and automated remediation to improve security without increasing IT workload.

With these tools, they can implement compromised password detection, a custom password dictionary, fuzzy matching with common character substitutions, and continuous daily checks of passwords. They can also easily and quickly adopt NIST password requirements and eliminate vulnerable passwords in Active Directory.

Learn more about how automation for password policy enforcement and NIST password guidelines can help your organization.

Eliminating The Burden Of Periodic Password Reset

The most debated topic in the NIST password standards is the guideline to end the policy of password expiration. These forced monthly, quarterly, or periodic password resets are a frustration for many employees, and they are proven to increase IT help desk costs.

Organizations need to secure applications and systems, but employee password reuse across different applications remains a problem. So what can organizations do to protect Active Directory?

They can adopt password filtering for weak, similar, and compromised passwords. Read this article to understand how.

Addressing Challenges in Hybrid Cloud Security

How can you secure your apps and services without compromising your schedule? (Hint: It’s all in the automation.) Enterprises are using hybrid cloud technologies to enrich the user experience and power their digital transformation. But running applications in public clouds while managing the application data in private clouds makes for a unique set of security requirements. We discuss the challenges that DevOps teams face in hybrid environments and how those challenges can be overcome.

Six Steps to Container Security

An application or service that you develop once to run in multiple clouds has a clear advantage over one that is bound to a single OS or runtime environment. Container technology makes it possible, but container security vulnerabilities are beginning to surface. We describe 6 steps you can take to ensure that container security doesn’t become a DevOps roadblock.

ESG Secure DevOps Full Stack Approach.

Enterprises are shifting to a cloud first application development strategy. As organizations transition to workloads,containers, Kubernetes, and serverless environments, a unified development and deployment approach requires increased involvement of the cybersecurity team. In this paper you will learn more about best practices for:

Influencing security across technology stacks and cloud native applications
Gaining organizational alignment for cloud native security
Implementing secure DevOps along the lifecycle continuum
Securing cloud native applications and a new converged approach

IDC: Economic Impact of Red Hat Enterprise Linux

This White Paper sizes the economic impact of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) in three dimensions: the revenue and expenses that are "touched" in the enterprises that use RHEL and the economic advantage accrued, the impact of IT expenses on technology and staff labor by enterprises using RHEL, and the size and reach of the ecosystem whose products and services sit on RHEL.

This document is based on IDC research and forecasts on IT markets, internal IT models on the economic impact of IT, third-party economic data, and a global survey of 600+ line-of-business and IT executives.

The Secure DevOps Imperative: Three Best Practices for Securing Cloud-Native Applications

Enterprises are shifting to a cloud first application development strategy. As organizations transition to workloads,containers, Kubernetes, and serverless environments, a unified development and deployment approach requiresincreased involvement of the cybersecurity team. In this paper you will learn more about best practices for:

Influencing security across technology stacks and cloud native applications
Gaining organizational alignment for cloud native security
Implementing secure DevOps along the lifecycle continuum
Securing cloud native applications and a new converged approach

Metrics That Matter for Quality Manufacturing

Metrics reign supreme in manufacturing, which means any new technology must be evaluated on its ability to drive measurable, scalable impact to your production operations, product quality and site performance.

MasterControl has been helping companies ensure product quality and compliance for over 20 years — but often those metrics are about mitigating long-term risk versus driving real-time operational gains. That is until now. The new MasterControl Manufacturing Excellence solution delivers the next generation of digital production records to drive immediate improvement to plant operations and product quality.

In this white paper, you will learn how improve operations by achieving right the first time and accelerating reviews, optimize resource utilization, and measure the impact of digitization.

Metrics That Matter for Quality Manufacturing

Metrics reign supreme in manufacturing, which means any new technology must be evaluated on its ability to drive measurable, scalable impact to your production operations, product quality and site performance.

MasterControl has been helping companies ensure product quality and compliance for over 20 years — but often those metrics are about mitigating long-term risk versus driving real-time operational gains. That is until now. The new MasterControl Manufacturing Excellence solution delivers the next generation of digital production records to drive immediate improvement to plant operations and product quality.

In this white paper, you will learn how improve operations by achieving right the first time and accelerating reviews, optimize resource utilization, and measure the impact of digitization.

Architecting for Change: Embracing a Platform Approach

Chances are you wouldn’t buy a fax machine, install landlines and order checks.

Embracing digital is now so instinctive, you would digitize and automate everything. You would invest in cloud-based technology that was easy to use, connect and scale.

In this paper, you will learn the importance of an agile and modern technology foundation, how to take the right risks versus follow the right rules, and the cost of inaction and non-modernized technology ecosystems.

Architecting for Change: Embracing a Platform Approach

Chances are you wouldn’t buy a fax machine, install landlines and order checks.

Embracing digital is now so instinctive, you would digitize and automate everything. You would invest in cloud-based technology that was easy to use, connect and scale.

In this paper, you will learn the importance of an agile and modern technology foundation, how to take the right risks versus follow the right rules, and the cost of inaction and non-modernized technology ecosystems.

Security at the Speed of Your Network

Need to choose between security and performance? Read “Security at the Speed of Your Network” to learn how to use an architectural approach that improves security posture and reduces costs without painful compromises on performance. Enable security tools to work more efficiently across physical, virtual and cloud environments. Deploy a diverse set of solutions as a centralized security tool farm. You can secure more data on faster networks without compromise between security, performance and cost.

The Importance of a Common Distributed Data Services Layer

ESG outlines how improving visibility across distributed computing environments doesn’t equate with an increase in staff or tools. Read the ESG research brief and learn how visibility in a distributed network acts as the flash point that generates a host of benefits to operations teams. A common distributed data services layer lets teams collect, process and share data in order to provide better digital experiences, mitigate risk and respond to changing environments. Download now!

A Look Inside Financially Motivated Attacks and the Active FIN8 Threat Group.

As the security industry continues to see a rise in breaches associated with for-profit groups, it is more important than ever to understand the motives, objectives and operations behind these threat actors. Take a look inside these financially motivated attacks in the newest cyber threat report from Gigamon Applied Threat Research. Read the threat report to gain strategic and proactive knowledge to accelerate threat detection and response to survive the onslaught of financially motivated threats.