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Cloud Computing: Would PCI Compliance Help or Hurt Security?

Can cloud computing environments meet PCI compliance standards? Security experts say they can't answer that question yet. But the bigger question is whether meeting PCI standards would actually improve cloud security.

Mobile Phone Security Dos and Don'ts

Is your enterprise security team struggling to keep up with the rapid proliferation of mobile and smart phones? Five experts offer advice to help you protect everything from the BlackBerry to the iPhone and Droid.

Apple, P&G, Cisco and Wal-Mart Tops Among Global Supply Chains

AMR Research's annual list of the top 25 supply chains names Apple as No. 1 (again). P&G, Cisco and other global manufacturers (Dell) and retailers (Wal-Mart) made the list for supply chain and financial excellence.

10 Tips for Safer Browsing: Supercookies and New Dangers

From what your old copier says about you to your not-so-secret web tracks, security traps just keep on coming. CIO.com's Bill Snyder guides you through the newest minefields.

Cloud Computing: 5 Emerging Standards

These major cloud computing standards efforts offer insight into how vendors may handle cloud interoperability

5 Technology Security Myths, Busted

The threat landscape changes all the time for technology users. Check out these five tech security assumptions that you may need to revisit.

Why Your Information Security Stinks & What to Do

Former cybersecurity czar Amit Yoran on why information security is in a "death spiral" -- and what you can do.

Social Media Safety: Acceptable-Use Policies Are Critical

Allowing access to social networking sites can open businesses up to a plethora of security risks. The key to success, Forrester Research says, is a strong acceptable use policy. Here's how to craft one.

Corporate Espionage: Tomorrow Arrived Yesterday

Even today there are some still blank stares when I suggest to an audience of C-level executives or security professionals that they should all read the front pages of the Financial Times, the Yomiuri Shimbun, etc., as well as the technology news, if they want to know what cyber risks and threats to prepare for.

Mac Security: What You Can Ignore

When you say "computer security," most people think "viruses," "worms," and other forms of malware. They also think, "Mac users don't have to worry about it." And they're correct. But that could always change. So it pays to keep your eyes open for credible reports of new Mac security problems and to change your computing habits accordingly.

 
As Active Directory's role in the enterprise has drastically increased, so has the need to secure the data. Gain insight on creating repeatable, enforceable processes that reduces administrative overhead and enables robust, customizable reporting and auditing capabilities. Brought to you by NetIQ.
Custom malware frequently goes undetected. According to Forrester Research, the best way to reduce risk of breach is to deploy file integrity monitoring (FIM) tools that provide immediate alerts. This white paper has been brought to you by NetIQ, the leader in solving complex IT challenges.
Did you know that 80 percent of threats to an organization come from the inside? The threat from insiders is often overlooked in organizations worldwide. This white paper from NetIQ, discusses key technology solutions that help to prevent and detect insider threats.
This white paper from Forrester Research Inc., helps break PCI into understandable components. Security and risk professionals will gain knowledge and insight into creating a compliant and secure IT environment. Follow these four proactive steps now before your next audit. Brought to you by NetIQ.
Streamline, simplify, and automate compliance related activities; especially those that impact multiple business units. This white paper from NetIQ, outlines solutions that will help your business gain the maximum return on investment possible while aligning your compliance programs.
This white paper describes the business challenges and opportunities that are driving interest in Identity Governance while discussing considerations your organization should make to help achieve project success.
Learn how Gartner's criteria for next generation IPS helps organizations achieve effective threat prevention despite changes in network communications, new applications, and changes in the threat landscape.
3 minute Flash video - overview of the need for and value of Configuration Control.
Cloud deployments are playing a critical role in propelling innovation for many companies. At the same time security has become the #1 one of the top concerns for IT and business leaders as they migrate into the cloud. In this webinar, learn from Accenture discusses how to recast the cloud as a "fresh chance to rethink your approach to security."
As greater numbers of datacenter servers transition from the physical to the virtual world, the components of virtualization success come to the fore. What scores of organizations have discovered is that success is derived from an optimal pairing of the right software platform with the right hardware platform.
Have you been looking to hear about customer's experiences with the new VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager product? View this webcast to learn about VMware customer, Navicure, and their experiences testing and evaluating the recovery manager, their progress in implementing it in their environment and their advice other customers considering using vCenter.
Many enterprises have discovered that the use of virtualization to support desktop workloads creates a range of significant benefits. These benefits include price efficiencies, improved IT management and greater agility and choice for end users.

This VMware sponsored webcast with IDC will provide both quantitative measurement of the business value -- defined as the expected ROI -- and qualitative analysis associated with the use of VMware View™. IDC will also provide an analysis of the View Composer and ThinApp™ features of VMware View, including the business value of these solutions and an overview of how they work.

Attend this webcast to learn about:
- Challenges and barriers that might impede the adoption of desktop virtualization
- Navigating roadblocks to facilitate a strategic implementation
- Optimizing qualitative and quantitative benefits to IT and your business
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