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Ensuring Compliance With PCI Data Security Standards: Employing CoreGuard to Meet Encryption and Access Control Requirements for Payment Card Industry (PCI) Standards

whitepaper Visa's CISP and MasterCard's Site Data Protection standards merged into the PCI standard in December 2004. Compliance with PCI (Payment Card Industry) data security requirements is a key initiative for any company that processes credit cards.

Tags: security standards

[13 May 2008]

Reap the Benefits of PCI Compliance: Why Payment Card Security Should Be a Retailer's Top Priority

whitepaper Despite five years and two deadlines, just 20 percent of level one merchants (6 million+ annual transactions) and an estimated 2 percent of lower-volume merchants have fully complied with cardholder data security standards issued by the card...

Tags: security standards

[13 May 2008]

Security Solutions Provider Projects a 20 Percent Revenue Increase From New Offerings

whitepaper Iniflux added Microsoft security products to its offerings because the products met its high standards and because of the strong support Microsoft provides its partners. As a Microsoft Certified Partner, Iniflux has access to technical training...

Tags: network security

[13 May 2008]

PCI Compliance: A Technology Overview

whitepaper Where other information security standards, such as HIPAA and GLBA, shy away from spelling out required measures and procedures, the PCI standard is straightforward. The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard has received widespread...

Tags: security standards

[12 May 2008]

Partnership Working Pays Off in Getting U.K. Hospitality Trading Online

whitepaper Its close business partnership with Microsoft, including the renewal of its Microsoft Services Premier Support agreement for the fourth year running, helps ensure the highest standards of performance.

Tags: customer support services

[12 May 2008]

Use Rational Data Architect to Define and Enforce Data Object Naming Standards

whitepaper Data object naming standards promote a common understanding of data, sharing of data across organizational boundaries, and reduction of data redundancy through the consolidation of synonymous and overlapping data elements.

Tags: voice - data integration

[11 May 2008]

The Data Center Tier Performance Standards and Their Importance to the Owner's Project Requirements

whitepaper One of the principal changes has been the development of the Tier Performance Standards. This paper present a brief history of data center infrastructure topologies and their evolution, as well as a summary of the Tier Performance Standards and...

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

Leader in Automotive Auctions Shifts Into Higher Gear With New Desktop Standards

whitepaper Carmel, Indiana-based ADESA Car Auctions is a leading automobile auction provider, employing nearly 11,000 people in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. With a variety of computing environments in its geographically dispersed offices, the...

Tags: erp

[11 May 2008]

Using the PCI Data Security Standard

whitepaper Visa and MasterCard issued revised security standards applying to all "Components" of a network for companies engaging in financial transactions. These security standards are necessary for all companies needing practical solution to assess and...

Tags: security standards

[11 May 2008]

Explore Model-Driven Development (MDD) and Related Approaches: A Closer Look at Model-Driven Development and Other Industry Initiatives

whitepaper In this paper, one discovers how the OMG's MDA initiative is working to formalize the ideas of MDD and to provide standards in support of the approach. Although there are important differences between these approaches, such as the significance of...

Tags: programming languages

[11 May 2008]

A Guided Tour of WebSphere Integration Developer - Part 1: Get a Driver's View of the WebSphere Integration Developer Landscape

whitepaper WebSphere Integration Developer is based on industry standards (notably WSDL, XSD, BPEL, Java, and UML) and is on the leading edge of evolving standards (the Tuscany Service Component Architecture is a good example).

Tags: software engineering

[11 May 2008]

Why Do Developers Need an Enterprise Service Bus?

whitepaper Standards and patterns exist today for implementing a synchronous ESB and a message bus that is a simplified asynchronous ESB. Additional standards are needed for asynchronous ESBs to reach their full potential.

Tags: web services

[11 May 2008]

SGI Altix: Enhanced Return on Investment for the Datacenter

whitepaper SGI offers customers a new choice for maximizing Return On Investment (ROI) with a highly scalable platform based on industry standards. SGI Altix servers and clusters eliminate bottlenecks, enable real-time access to complex data sets, and scale...

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

Smith & Nephew Streamlines Engineering Change Control Process to Shorten Review Cycle

whitepaper In the medical devices world, Smith & Nephew is synonymous with high standards of performance, innovation and trust. The company's orthopedic reconstruction unit began searching for an enterprise visualization solution to replace a previously...

Tags: erp

[11 May 2008]

Selecting an Industry-Standard Metric for Data Center Efficiency

whitepaper The development of standards for the measurement and specification of data center efficiency is an essential step in the global effort to reduce the environmental impact of data centers. This paper explains some of the metrics that have been used...

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

Asset Lifecycle Management for Service-Oriented Architectures

whitepaper This paper examines the use of asset lifecycle management practices, tools, and standards in the development of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions. Effective lifecycle management of services enables organizations to apply tools and...

Tags: asset management

[11 May 2008]

An Automated Framework for Validating Firewall Policy Enforcement

whitepaper The implementation of network security devices such as firewalls and IDSs are constantly being improved to accommodate higher security and performance standards. Using reliable and yet practical techniques for testing the functionality of firewall...

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

Policy Segmentation for Intelligent Firewall Testing

whitepaper Firewall development and implementation are constantly being improved to accommodate higher security and performance standards. Using reliable yet practical techniques for testing new packet filtering algorithms and firewall design implementations...

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

Nortel Secure Network Access and Microsoft Network Access Protection Integration

whitepaper However, confusion around industry standards, the multitude of NAC vendors and the complexity of the solutions has led to a relatively slow industry-wide NAC adoption rate. With the ever-increasing need for enterprises to provide endpoint security...

Tags: security management

[11 May 2008]

Merging Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL): Explore the Fusion of Two Emerging Concepts

whitepaper SOA is an architectural framework consisting of a set of tools and technologies that enable the rapid implementation of services; a set of design patterns and standards for the development of services; and a methodology for finding, reusing...

Tags: web services

[11 May 2008]

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