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Is losing a mobile device really such a big deal?
Comment We at Freeform Dynamics have been asking questions about mobile usage patterns and productivity for a number of years now (most recently, for example, we looked into 'moments of mobile need'). Losing a mobile device is a... [24 Nov 2009]
Corporate Networks: Business 2.0 and Beyond
White Paper The performance and security needs of corporate networks have evolved greatly in the last five years, driven by changing business and economic demands, different patterns of working and a continuous stream of new... [13 Nov 2009]
Red Flags Rule: The FTC Regulation and Solutions to Prevent Identity Theft
White Paper Under the Rule, financial institutions and creditors with covered accounts must have identity theft prevention programs to identify, detect, and respond to patterns, practices, or specific activities that could indicate... [13 Nov 2009]
Security Threat and Vulnerability Mitigation Patterns: A Case of Credit Card Theft Mitigation
White Paper Most attacks on computer and software systems are caused by threats to known vulnerabilities. Part of the reason is that one needs a lot of knowledge in developing secure systems, but it is difficult to obtain sufficient knowledge and... [11 Nov 2009]
Service Governance and Virtualization for SOA
White Paper Best practices expressed as patterns emerged and have become widely adopted as developers moved from structured programming to object oriented programming to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). The tools and techniques... [09 Nov 2009]
Hard Hat Myth: Myths and Pitfalls of Data Mining
White Paper It's critical to understand that data mining is a business processa way of finding patterns in your data that provide insight you can use to conduct your business more effectively. This article outlines some risks,... [03 Nov 2009]
Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population
White Paper Despite their importance, there is relatively little published work on the failure patterns of disk drives, and the key factors that affect their lifetime. It is estimated that over 90% of all new information produced in... [30 Oct 2009]
BPM Process Patterns: Repeatable Designs for BPM Process Models
White Paper BPM Process patterns provide a time proven and simple technique to shorten the learning curve and improve productivity and quality of the processes designed. Rigorous and skillful business process modeling is a commonly... [30 Oct 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Uneconomics
Comment Until we get more brainpower into modelling the overall economic system, and out of maximising the short-term trading patterns of individual groups, we should expect another big crisis relatively soon. [29 Oct 2009]
SOA Best Practices and Design Patterns: Key to Successful Service Oriented Architecture Implementation
White Paper White paper exploring best practices for SOA. There is no question that the successful implementation of Service]Oriented Architecture (SOA) relies on a careful and holistic approach to business planning. [15 Oct 2009]
Your Browser Wears No Clothes: Why Fully Patched Browsers Remain Vulnerable
White Paper While patch management and system hardening have long been the basics for enterprise security, shifts in technology and attack patterns are changing the rules. As users of technology, it has been taught that the Internet... [06 Oct 2009]
Distributed Agile Development at Microsoft Patterns & Practices
White Paper Microsoft's patterns & practices group has been following an agile, distributed development approach for the past five years. Distributed development is a fact of life for many teams. Unfortunately most agile... [02 Oct 2009]
Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 Performance Testing White Paper
White Paper However, Performance Testing can also be aimed to verify other attributes of the system, like scalability, reliability under stress, and resource usage patterns. The direct goal for Performance Testing is generally to... [02 Oct 2009]
Using NetFlow Auditor to Assist in Identifying Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Attacks and Other Network Behavior Anomalies
White Paper The paper will reflect a method to alert when changes occur outside of learnt baselines and how new patterns can be recognized when security analysts have access to technology that provides high visibility of traffic... [02 Oct 2009]
Rule-Based Defense Mechanism Against Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks
White Paper The latest DDoS attack has the property of swift propagation speed and various attack patterns. Since the number of damage cases resulting from Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks has recently been increasing,... [02 Oct 2009]
