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The Hidden Costs of Cloud Storage

Moving to the cloud is becoming a necessity. Organizations need to increase support for remote workers and move business- critical applications to the cloud, all while cutting costs. In many cases, cloud storage is a major roadblock for moving applications to the cloud. Applications need more storage every year and they require terabytes of data. You are at the mercy of your cloud provider. Also, applications often need performance from storage, in which cloud storage vendors will again require you to purchase more storage to gain performance.

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.

The Compassionate Guide to Employee Offboarding

Layoffs and firings are a natural output to the business lifecycle. While a shame culture exists around it today, we at Zenefits believe the topic could be opened up, softly, for better understanding, more camaraderie, and less guilt.

This eBook is designed to gently open the closed conversation of employee terminations.

A government leadership guide to culture change

Conversations about digital transformation and related culture change are not new. Whether described as disruption, or simply IT initiatives, we operate in a continuous cycle of change. In the private sector, this change is often clear and illustrated in the form of financial or market impacts. In the public sector, these disruptions can often be masked, but their impacts in the form of security, speed to capability, or service interruption can be found across every government organization and major agency.

Open Innovation Labs Ebook

Today’s citizens can make a reservation at a nearby restaurant, order a driver, or join an online class with a few clicks in a mobile app or browser. They expect interactions with government to be just as convenient. Picture self-service web portals for checking tax refund status. Mobile apps for reporting emergencies or infrastructure in need of repair. New ways of crowdsourcing data to increase situational awareness during disasters.

Security Automation 101: Change Management and the Complexity Gap

64% of businesses still use manual change management processes despite high volumes of change requests

Manual change processes create far too many opportunities for mistakes and misconfigurations. They also burden overworked staff who should be doing higher-value projects.

This eBook shows you how security automation takes the drudge work off your staff, enables faster responses to change requests, and improves visibility throughout your hybrid cloud, by:

Enabling orchestration across hybrid network environments.

Eliminating vulnerabilities and reducing the complexity gap.

Empowering DevOps and DevSecOps with security capabilities.

Don’t wait—download our eBook Security Automation 101: Change Management and the Complexity Gap today.

*Source: FireMon 2018 State of the Firewall Report.

3 Proven Ways to Boost Your Hybrid Cloud Security

Tackle Cloud Visibility and Agility Hurdles

No matter the initiative, it is your responsibility to protect your network. Compromise is never the answer when it comes to enabling your business with agility and ensuring robust security. You can have both, and this eBook shows you how.

Get your free copy today to learn the three keys to turbocharge your hybrid cloud security!

Guide to Remote Workforce Management: Trends, Tips and Tactics

Once regarded as a luxury perk, remote work is quickly becoming the status quo. More and more organizations have embraced remote workers, but have lacked the tools and visibility needed to maintain the same levels of productivity, security and compliance as non-remote workers. Are you armed with the tips and tricks you need to successfully manage remote workers?

Download our Guide to Remote Workforce Management: Trends, Tips and Tactics and learn:

What’s driving the remote workforce movement and what the implications are to your organization

What unique management challenges are posed by remote workers and tips for overcoming them

Best practices to maximize remote worker productivity while ensuring cybersecurity and data privacy compliance

How to adapt your tech stack to support the work-from-home movement

And more!

Great performing data in the cloud doesn’t need to cost a fortune

SoftNAS has made moving to the cloud possible, seamless, and the most cost-effective solution to prepare your business for success. Learn how you can unlock the benefits today.

Organize your strategy for software-driven business success

Creating customer value depends on your ability to develop, deploy, and run high quality applications faster across any cloud. Learn how to position your business for hybrid cloud success.

Best practices for migrating to containerized applications

This document will outline specific, technical recommendations and guidelines for migrating software into containers, ranging from image build procedures to how they should run in production. The application requirements will dictate how the application should be migrated.

Technology is complex. Desktops-as-a-Service is not.

Technology is Complex. Desktops-as-a-Service is not.

Your Windows desktop and Microsoft productivity applications are the technology lifeblood of your business.

It’s where you run your business and how your employees get work done. From communicating with customers and processing orders to managing finances and working on your most sensitive documents—Microsoft is front and center.

Technology is complex. Desktops-as-a-Service is not.

Technology is Complex. Desktops-as-a-Service is not.

Your Windows desktop and Microsoft productivity applications are the technology lifeblood of your business.

It’s where you run your business and how your employees get work done. From communicating with customers and processing orders to managing finances and working on your most sensitive documents—Microsoft is front and center.

Insider Risk Management: Adapting to the Evolving Security Landscape

Insider threats remain one of the top causes of security breaches, with both negligent and malicious insiders putting organizations at risk of making news headlines. Still, few organizations are equipped to defend against insider threats.

Download this eBook to find out how to start tackling an insider risk management problem. In this eBook, insider threat expert and CEO Shawn M. Thompson, Esq. draws on the Insider Threat Management Group’s experience training and building insider threat programs for over 500 companies, to:

- Explore insider threat and the risks that organizations face

- Define the “new breed” of insiders and the dangers they pose

- Provide best practices for developing an insider risk management program

This book is for business leaders and stakeholders, security leaders and practitioners involved in managing their organization’s security.

The Essential Guide to SIEM

This ebook covers everything you need to know about security information and event management so you can work smarter. Learn why a modern SIEM can significantly improve security and productivity through two foundational components: user and entity behavior analytics and security orchestration, automation and response.