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RSS guidancePower Solutions Article: Getting Started with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V on Dell Servers
White Paper This article provides an introduction to Hyper-V virtualization, discusses the overall architecture and underlying technologies, and offers guidance on best practices for deployment on Dell PowerEdge servers. [14 Nov 2009]
Refreshing Management of Risk: Guidance for Practitioners
White Paper M-o-R was first published by the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) in 2002, "To help organisations put in place effective frameworks for taking informed decisions about risk". This was largely in response to the publication of the... [13 Nov 2009]
IFRS News: Emerging Issues and Practical Guidance
White Paper This paper follows on from the article in last month's IFRS news on the lease accounting discussion paper. Marian Lovelace looks in more detail at the proposals announced in March and their implications for businesses. [13 Nov 2009]
Creating and Implementing an Audit Strategy for Exchange
White Paper This paper provides practical guidance to IT administrators on creating and implementing an audit strategy for Exchange to protect business from unauthorized access to information, compromise of user identity, and... [13 Nov 2009]
Strategic Business Risk: Media and Entertainment
White Paper In both cases, there are externally determined rides and frameworks with which companies in media and entertainment need to comply and emerging best practice guidance on processes and controls that can help. [13 Nov 2009]
The Transitioning of Cryptographic Algorithms and Key Sizes
White Paper At the beginning of the century, NIST began the task of providing cryptographic key management guidance. This included lessons learned over many years of dealing with key management issues, and attempts to encourage the... [12 Nov 2009]
The Changing Face of Compliance Validation
White Paper Future audits will consist of external auditors arriving at the site and being handed the site's policy guidance in the form of an XCCDF document. This paper will highlight the transformational changes that are now... [12 Nov 2009]
Four Easy Steps To...: Email Compliance
White Paper This paper looks at compliance in relation to email, giving clear and simple guidance for managing email infrastructure. The concern is largely unjustified. According to the definition of compliance opposite, for most... [12 Nov 2009]
Enhancing Compliance With UK and EU Data Protection Laws When Collecting Employees E-Mail and Electronic Documents
White Paper UK companies conduct internal investigations on a daily basis, and also increasingly are asked to collect employees' email and electronic documents to satisfy litigation and regulatory requests. Although these digital investigations are... [12 Nov 2009]
Ensuring FISMA Compliance: Integrating Forensics and Incident Response as Mandated by NIST SP 800-86
White Paper The Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) of 2002 mandates that federal agencies must establish incident response capabilities (44 U.S.C. §3544 (b)(7)). FISMA requires that federal agencies implement an incident response... [12 Nov 2009]
Understanding Data Location Is Imperative for Data Loss Prevention
White Paper Data Protection and Data Loss Prevention for PII are nothing new in the US. The federal government and over 35 states have enacted legislation to address these critical issues. Both have been discussed by information security managers... [12 Nov 2009]
The Presumption of Good Faith: Defending Your eRecords Retention Policies With Active Enforcement
White Paper The purging and preservation of ESI is a technical process that requires a technical solution, especially if a company hopes to establish such capabilities on a global, integrated and routine basis. Enterprise computer collection and... [12 Nov 2009]
Cyber Solutions Center PII Bulletin
White Paper Personally-Identifiable Information (PII) is information that can be used to trace an individual's identity, such as a name, social security number, or biometric record. According to a May 22.memo from the Office of Management and Budget... [12 Nov 2009]
7 Security Standards: Implementation for the Small Provider
White Paper The security series of papers provides guidance from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on the rule titled "Security Standards for the Protection of Electronic Protected Health Information," found at 45... [11 Nov 2009]
Challenges in Supporting End-User Privacy and Security Management With Social Navigation
White Paper By aggregating and presenting the choices made by others, social navigation systems can provide users with easily understandable guidance on security and privacy decisions, rather than requiring that they understand... [11 Nov 2009]
