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Digital Dilemmas: Should your business be on Twitter?
Comment Tis a thankless task to be forever fielding customer complaints, as Aviva's Twitter feed mistress Becca would surely tell you if she wasn't too busy expressing public empathy on behalf of her employer. [16 Nov 2009]
Factors Driving the Need for Network Identity Management Solutions
White Paper Running an IT organization in today's business environment can be a difficult and daunting task. At the forefront of challenges is that of managing the ever growing base of users and user accounts. This integral part of... [13 Nov 2009]
Should You Install Messaging Security Software on Your Exchange Server?
White Paper Security is the most single critical task for any email administrator. Starting with a foundation of anti-spam and anti-virus capabilities, organizations should focus on other capabilities, as well, including policy... [13 Nov 2009]
Recession Proof Your Business Email Through Outsourcing
White Paper Email's importance is overshadowed only by the formidable task of keeping everything up and running as close to 24x7 as possible, adding new capabilities to the email infrastructure over time, protecting against new and... [13 Nov 2009]
Centralizing Identity and Access Management in Unix/Linux Environments: Using BoKS to Overcome the Inherent Security Gaps of NIS
White Paper User administration in a large Unix/Linux domain is a complex task since each host potentially serves as an autonomous authority. It authenticates and authorizes its users based on local settings. Furthermore, services... [13 Nov 2009]
Maximizing Data Center Uptime With Business Continuity Planning
White Paper Next to ensuring the safety of employees, the next most important business continuity task is resuming business critical operations. Keeping servers highly available and easily manageable is likely what keeps most data... [13 Nov 2009]
Integrating Six Sigma and ITIL for Continual Service Improvement
White Paper The introduction of formal ITIL processes into an organization can be, and normally is, a very time-consuming, expensive and sometimes organizationally exhausting task. Many organizations, upon completing their process... [13 Nov 2009]
ITIL: Theory Into Practice
White Paper Implementing the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) set of guidelines to aid the implementation of a lifecycle framework for IT Service Management (ITSM) is now a major priority for a growing number of organizations, but remains a... [13 Nov 2009]
A Novel Validation Method for Firewall Security Policy
White Paper Thus, its development is a sensitive task because it can appears in opposition with some security requirements. Nowadays, there is no automated tool in the network security world allowing such task. A... [12 Nov 2009]
Top 10 Ways Shavlik Simplifies Patch Management
White Paper Security vulnerabilities are uncovered on a daily basis, and managing the security patches that address them can be an endless and often complicated task for every network administrator. Without the right automated... [12 Nov 2009]
Five Things You Must Know When Selecting an Internet Content Filter
White Paper All want employees to be focused on the task at hand rather than become addicted to gambling or pornography at work. In a business setting it becomes a matter of economics and focus. There are a number of statistics... [12 Nov 2009]
Stopping Rootkits at the Network Edge
White Paper Keeping remote users' laptops healthy is not an easy task these days. Infections are everywhere, and once these PCs leave the shelter of an enterprise network, they can easily get filled with rootkits, trojan horses,... [12 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]
7 Steps to Migrate From Windows XP to Windows 7 Using WinINSTALL and Survey
White Paper The task involves using Windows Easy Transfer to migrate files and settings from Windows XP to Windows 7 on the same computer. According to Microsoft's Technet Website, "There is no Upgrade option available when... [12 Nov 2009]
Consistency Verification of Stateful Firewalls Is Not Harder Than the Stateless Case
White Paper Unfortunately, due to the potentially large number of rules and their complex relationships with each other, the task of firewall configuration is notoriously error-prone, and in practice, firewalls are often... [12 Nov 2009]