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eBook – Building the Connected Retail Experience

“Today’s shoppers expect more than a transactional relationship with retailers; they want a seamless and personalized journey that reflects the context of how they shop across devices and channels. The key to success lies in connecting in-store software with online systems so retailers can provide an uninterrupted experience wherever customers shop.” - Ross Mason, Founder of MuleSoft

Driving digital transformation in retail requires connectivity across an ever-increasing number of applications, data and devices. Because of this, connectivity has emerged as a bottleneck that slows the development of new applications and the adoption of new technologies to meet customer demands.

In response, leading retail and CPG companies have adopted API-led connectivity, which eliminates this connectivity bottleneck and enables a 2-5x faster IT project delivery across the value chain.

Download this eBook to learn:

How leading retailers like Buffalo Wild Wings, TAL Apparel and PetSmart are leveraging API-led connectivity to accelerate IT project delivery speed

How APIs can be used to address the unique business and IT challenges faced by retailers

How MuleSoft’s out-of-the-box API designs, implementations and connectors can accelerate the adoption of API-led connectivity

Shifting to 1st Party Data for a Better Customer Experience

With customer data increasingly driving the personalization strategies fueling the customer experience across marketing, sales, and customer support, your data strategy has never been more important. Customers expect consistent experiences across the myriad channels they interact with— whether in-store, on the website, or in an app.

Customer data is what fuels the teams and technologies responsible for your customer experience, but for years there was little incentive for companies to prioritize customer data as an asset itself to be taken care of and safeguarded. To take on personalization and privacy, you need a unified view of customer data at an individual level to deliver relevant experiences with consent.

In this eBook, you will learn how to scale engagement across all your tools and channels — accurately and with consent— in order to deliver experiences that matter to your customers.

Security Starts Here – Privileged Access Management

Unfortunately we can’t control the activities of our administrators with an invisible Vader-like grip. And if these permissions fall into the wrong hands, even the ‘ultimate power in the universe’ of can’t save us. The threat of a security incident or critical error is very real, and it’s something that auditors are focused on. After all, some damage can be done through a standard user account, but the potential damage is much greater if the compromised account has ‘superuser’ access rights, as demonstrated in this news report excerpt.

The One Identity family of solutions includes each of the capabilities discussed in this report. It includes the breadth to cover not only your AD-centered needs but also identity governance and administration and privileged access management regardless of the location of resources – on-prem, in the cloud, or hybrid. One Identity is different from most IAM vendors, because it offers the business-centric, modular and integrated approach that has been so elusive in legacy solutions and offers the breadth missing in AD, IGA and PAM point solutions.

The Breach Prevention Playbook

Identity and access management (IAM) – which exists to ensure that the right people can get to the right resources and that you can prove they are doing it right – is the most effective, and proactive, tool in the fight against breaches. Once the basics discussed earlier are satisfied, IAM will provide the biggest security bang for the buck. After all, a breach is nothing more than the wrong person getting their hands on something they shouldn’t, and you don’t find out about it until it’s too late.

This ebook will address various facets of IAM, how they play in breach prevention, and some detail on technology solutions from One Identity.

Strategies for successfully managing privileged accounts

One of the most important aspects of an identity and access management (IAM) program is the securing, management and governance of the accounts belonging to superusers — privileged accounts.

Privileged account management (PAM) ensures that administrators and superusers with privileged accounts have the access they need to do their jobs. Organizations that rely excessively on sudo, credential vaults and the best intentions of administrators have difficulty complying with governance requirements, but they can get PAM right by following a few simple guidelines and rules.

One Identity for privileged account management offers a credential vault, audit capabilities and a suite of solutions for control of administrator access across the enterprise, helping organizations manage their privileged accounts successfully.

Modern NAS backup and recovery

Identifying the key drivers for secure enterprise cloud backup

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Files, emails and unstructured data are an integral part of core business processes and workflows for virtually every organization. This was confirmed by the recent research conducted by Aberdeen, which shows that digital documents continue to dominate the way how work gets done in enterprises. Given this business context, it’s not surprising that fast and reliable backup, as well as rapid recovery, are top priorities for Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices, and today’s IT leaders.

Read this eBook and learn about:

• The leading drivers for NAS backup and recovery investments
• Important concerns for NAS-related technology capabilities
• Top priorities with sudden shift to work from home - and how to keep users up,
running and productive

Reduce costs with cloud-based VMware data protection

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IDC estimates data is growing at a 61% compound annual growth rate — and with this influx of data, your organization might struggle to maintain data security and facilitate growth. That’s why you should consider a third-party data protection solution that is certified for VMware on-premises and cloud environments.

Read how VMware data protection in the cloud provides:

• Radically lower TCO, with up to 50% costs savings
• An infrastructure that is hosted completely offsite (no hardware, software,
maintenance, or real estate)
• Fast response times in the case of failover for disaster recovery
• Centralized global management, visibility, and monitoring

Storage Patterns for Kubernetes for Dummies

Have you run containers and discovered that storage isn’t as simple as mounting a directory? Perhaps you have exposure to Kubernetes and have discovered volumes but need more? The vast and flexible world of hyper converged infrastructure and how that can be implemented with Kubernetes can help. Beyond understanding the pieces and parts, Kubernetes brings it all together with concrete examples of how your applications can benefit from enhanced storage capabilities.

Hybrid CloudSecurity 101

No matter where you are in your hybrid cloud journey, security is a big concern. Hybrid cloud security vulnerabilities typically take the form of loss of resource oversight and control, including unsanctioned public cloud use, lack of visibility into resources, inadequate change control, poor configuration management, and ineffective access controls. This e-book discusses new approaches and considerations for protecting your business in the hybrid cloud.

What to Consider When Protecting Healthcare Data

Data protection is critical in healthcare. Hospitals, clinics, urgent care centers, medical offices, insurance providers, billing services providers, and other organizations face a dual responsibility: first and foremost, they must safeguard the privacy, identity, security, and finances of their patients. No less important, they must also protect their own organization from costly breaches, regulatory fines, and damage to their business, reputation, and patient relationships.

Seeking to secure the sensitive data they hold and work with, healthcare organizations increasingly use encryption to protect data in transit. While effective as far as it goes, this approach can lead to a false sense of security—as organizations fail to realize that encryption can also be used to hide attacks. Rendered invisible to their own security devices, malware and viruses can then pass easily into the organization’s environment alongside other types of encrypted traffic.

Recognizing this problem, some organizations turn to decryption as a way to effectively inspect all the traffic leaving and entering their environment. In practice, though, decryption is typically implemented in a highly inefficient, ad hoc manner that quickly raises issues with cost, scalability, and performance. The organization faces a hard choice between security and efficiency.

In this ebook, we’ll talk about the security threats facing healthcare organizations, the issues with traditional approaches to encryption and decryption, and a better way to protect data privacy without impairing security.

Cyber Resilience Preparedness: Expert Insight Tips and Guidance

Navigating a turbulent cybersecurity climate can be hard – especially as threats like Petya and WannaCry continue to cripple organizations. Business disruption, downtime, technical failure and data loss are all real risk factors that can’t be ignored.

The power of preparedness is in your hands. It’s time to start thinking holistically about safeguarding against email-borne threats and mitigating risk – it’s time to implement a cyber resilience strategy.

Get expert insight, tips and guidance from industry thought leaders on how to build a cyber resilience plan for email in this eBook.

eBook: Rescue Resolve Evolve

Millions of workers are walking around with their office, computer, filing cabinet, phone, email, working documents, and more right in the palm of their hands.

Many no longer even have a physical office to go to. They’re on the road, work remotely, and connect virtually with employers, clients, and partners who may be in a different city or country altogether.

What enabled this new work reality? Technology. For ever-growing numbers of people, whether they’re IT professionals, marketers, operations folks, salespeople, or others, tech is elemental.

And when a tech problem crops up, work comes to a stop. It’s a point of friction every worker, IT department, and enterprise has experienced—and one that nobody needs. So how does IT resolve issues quickly while evolving the business’s capacity to succeed?

This insightful guide walks you through the five foundational elements of frictionless support.

eBook: Debunking 4 Myths of Policy Compliance

Debunk the Myths. Get Compliant.

These claims have been widely spread so it’s easy to believe they’re true. But the fact is they are wrong—and they can waste your valuable resources, time and budget.

“Debunking 4 Common Myths of Security Policy Compliance” shows you the truth behind these common myths:

Compliance is just rules and access control

Compliance is all about the audit

“Just block access” is the go-to answer

Real-time visibility is impossible

Get the truth – download “Debunking 4 Common Myths of Security Policy Compliance” today!

How DevOps leads the way to digital business transformation

Digital transformation has been occurring in organizations of all sizes for the past few years, yet the process isn’t moving fast enough to move the needle in many companies. How can DevOps help increase the velocity and impact of digital transformation? That's what DevOps.com's experts explore in this eBook.

Regardless of IT spending plans, nearly three-quarters of enterprise IT executives surveyed said they expect to either accelerate or maintain digital transformation initiatives and projects. The only way to accelerate the building and deployment of modern digital business applications is to embrace best DevOps practices. Organizations are quickly discovering that not only have the timetables for these projects been accelerated, but also digital business applications need to be updated continuously.

End users have come to expect applications to expose a regular cadence of new features and updates. They also expect those applications to be secure no matter what vulnerabilities have been discovered and when. The only way to live up to those expectations is to accelerate the rate and reliability of new features and functions added to an application.

Download the free eBook, "How DevOps leads the way to digital business transformation," to take a deep dive into this topic.

Your Guide to Developing a Multi-Cloud Data Strategy

Organizations today are adopting cloud-based applications, platforms, and services to achieve greater elasticity and faster delivery times in today’s app-driven world.

As the name suggests, adopting a multi-cloud strategy means using multiple cloud services from different providers, with workloads spread out across cloud environments. While most businesses require rapid and flexible access to computing, storage, and networking resources, not all enterprises are pursuing multi-cloud for the same reasons.

Of course, not every team, business function, or application workload will have similar requirements in regards to performance, privacy, security, or geographic reach for its cloud environments. Whatever the impetus, companies must build a culture that puts data front and center in a world where every company is becoming a data company. This leads us to our main points: understanding key data challenges and getting your data ready for multi-cloud environments.