practitioners
RSS practitionersRefreshing 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]
An Application Security Strategy Guide
White Paper Indeed, application developers as well as security practitioners are struggling within this arena, while malicious attackers thrive unabated from application security failures. Attacks, incidents and compliance... [13 Nov 2009]
Practical Steps to Mitigate Virtualization Security Risks
White Paper Every day, information security practitioners live with the reality that they are a single change away from a security breach that could result in front page news, brand damage, or regulatory fines. Consequently,... [06 Oct 2009]
Medical Education Provider Simplifies Web-Based Communication Through SBS 2008
White Paper MediMark International is an independent Australian company providing medical education programs to general practitioners and specialist physicians. With the assistance of 20 - 50 temporary managers, it delivers 2,000 -... [02 Oct 2009]
Operational Risk: Where Is the Value?: A First Order Approximation
White Paper This method provides practitioners a first order approximation to quantify the benefits of enhancing the operational risk control framework. This paper focuses on finding the true tangible value of investing in upgrades... [16 Sep 2009]
What Makes a Great Workforce Planner?: Findings From a Global Study of Practitioners
White Paper Many organizations are discovering that a 12-18 month headcount plan is insufficient for solving the talent changes they are experiencing or anticipating in the future. Every organization is heading towards a future influenced by current... [12 Sep 2009]
Borland Agile Testing Survey Results 2009 - Update
White Paper The following sections discuss the findings of the surveys and reflect the needs of genuine QA practitioners from all aspects of the industry, whether current Borland customers or not. The driver for this paper was to... [30 Aug 2009]
Data Mining in the Real World: Experiences, Challenges, and Recommendations
White Paper However, applying data mining methods to complex real-world tasks is far from straightforward and many pitfalls face data mining practitioners. Data mining is used regularly in a variety of industries and is continuing... [29 Aug 2009]
AppLabs and the Test Maturity Model Integration (TMMi)
White Paper The TMMi Foundation has been founded as a non-profit making body, by a number of leading test and quality practitioners from across Europe to promote a standard TMMi model and to promote its uptake as an international... [08 Aug 2009]
Five Steps to Accurate and Compelling Physical Security ROI
White Paper Security practitioners are used to making the case for improved security, but are not so experienced with showing how security improvements can contribute to a company's profitability. Its intended audience includes... [31 Jul 2009]
Relaxed Online SVMs for Spam Filtering
White Paper Content-based filtering is one reliable method of combating this threat in its various forms, but some academic researchers and industrial practitioners disagree on how best to filter spam. Spam is a key problem in... [01 Jul 2009]
Oracle 9i & 10gR1 on IBM AIX5L: Tips & Considerations
White Paper The objective of this paper is to provide considerations and recommendations to practitioners involved with the installation of Oracle's RDBMS product on IBM's AIX 5L operating system. Though not intended to function as... [30 Jun 2009]
Naked CIO: Should you monitor staff?
Comment Privacy should be something that we as IT practitioners safeguard with vigour. Keeping watch over employees' online activities can be a slippery slope, says Naked CIO. Here's the right way to do it. I often get asked... [29 Jun 2009]
The Challenges of Using an Intrusion Detection System: Is It Worth the Effort?
White Paper Traditionally, intrusion detection research has focused on improving the accuracy of IDSs, but recent work has recognized the need to support the security practitioners who receive the IDS alarms and investigate... [20 Jun 2009]
Evaluating Attack Resiliency for Host Intrusion Detection Systems
White Paper Many HIDSs exist and security practitioners need a way to determine the optimal security solution for their environment. Host Intrusion Detection Systems (HIDSs) are important tools used to provide security to computer... [20 Jun 2009]
