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As the technology landscape grows and evolves with new devices, new software, and new platforms, keeping tabs on an organization's IT assets is a moving target. How can you gain accurate visibility of software assets to drive strategic and financial decisions that impact finance and reduce security risk? A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Flexera shows the potential return on investment for a Data Platform customer. Through their research, Forrester found that customers achieved a 302% ROI with their investment, with payback within months by benefiting from multiple use cases throughout the organization in the following areas: -Cost savings from reduction in licenses -Avoided increases in licenses from audit activities -Hardware maintenance savings -Improved productivity -Reduced effort for divestiture activities Get the full study to learn how your business can benefit from Flexera solutions.

There are obviously a variety of choices open to you: a spreadsheet plug-in may be appropriate if you are only focused on general ledger reporting and do not have concerns over security or compliance. You might also suppose that this is a low-cost option, though we would argue that the remediation required, the additional audit fees and the lack of repeatability means that this is a false economy and that this approach will end up costing you more in the long term. A second use case would be where you already have a financial reporting solution installed, when the add-on facilities for purposes such as business intelligence are likely to be your major focus. In this case an Oracle based solution is likely to be as good as anything else.

Businesses are battling immense competitive pressures. In order to succeed—or even survive—they must rapidly adapt to constantly changing environments, in every industry and sector. What does this mean for IT leaders? Transformation, on all fronts. Download this whitepaper to find out the benefits of Cisco ASAP Data Center Architecture.

Privileged credentials have served as a major attack vector in the successful execution of many breaches. Protecting privileged access is an imperative to successfully defend an organization from a breach and is a core requirement of multiple compliance regimes. CA Privileged Access Management helps drive IT security and compliance risk reduction and improves operational efficiency by enabling privileged access defense in depth—providing broad and consistent protection of sensitive administrative credentials, management of privileged identity access and control of administrator activity.

Security is a primary concern of ThingWorx customers — especially device manufacturers and end-customers that deliver and use connected products. These customers demand a proven solution that protects them and their customers against hackers, malware and unsafe operations.

Privileged user accounts—whether usurped, abused or simply misused—are at the heart of most data breaches. Security teams are increasingly evaluating comprehensive privileged access management (PAM) solutions to avoid the damage that could be caused by a rogue user with elevated privileges, or a privileged user who is tired, stressed or simply makes a mistake. Pressure from executives and audit teams to reduce business exposure reinforces their effort, but comprehensive PAM solutions can incur hidden costs, depending on the implementation strategy adopted. With multiple capabilities including password vaults, session management and monitoring, and often user behavior analytics and threat intelligence, the way a PAM solution is implemented can have a major impact on the cost and the benefits. This report provides a blueprint for determining the direct, indirect and hidden costs of a PAM deployment over time.

Lieberman Software offers a solution today that helps secure unmanaged privileged accounts in your datacenter and prevent data breaches. Watch how we do it in this brief two minute video.

When Carnegie Mellon University required a way to automatically update and securely store privileged account passwords, the IT group turned to Lieberman Software. Lieberman's Enterprise Random Password Manager was operational in less than one day.

Without a reliable method to locate and change its privileged account passwords, Wings Financial was burdened with a variety of security and regulatory problems. Lieberman Software's Enterprise Password Manager solved all of this - find out how!

Download "Privileged Identity Management: An Executive Overview" to learn where privileged identities can be found on your network; the challenges to discover, secure and manage them; and why unsecured privileged account credentials are dangerous.

Privileged user accounts—whether usurped, abused or simply misused—are at the heart of most data breaches. Security teams are increasingly evaluating comprehensive privileged access management (PAM) solutions to avoid the damage that could be caused by a rogue user with elevated privileges, or a privileged user who is tired, stressed or simply makes a mistake. Pressure from executives and audit teams to reduce business exposure reinforces their effort, but comprehensive PAM solutions can incur hidden costs, depending on the implementation strategy adopted. With multiple capabilities including password vaults, session management and monitoring, and often user behavior analytics and threat intelligence, the way a PAM solution is implemented can have a major impact on the cost and the benefits. This report provides a blueprint for determining the direct, indirect and hidden costs of a PAM deployment over time.

Privileged user accounts—whether usurped, abused or simply misused—are at the heart of most data breaches. Security teams are increasingly evaluating comprehensive privileged access management (PAM) solutions to avoid the damage that could be caused by a rogue user with elevated privileges, or a privileged user who is tired, stressed or simply makes a mistake. Pressure from executives and audit teams to reduce business exposure reinforces their effort, but comprehensive PAM solutions can incur hidden costs, depending on the implementation strategy adopted. With multiple capabilities including password vaults, session management and monitoring, and often user behavior analytics and threat intelligence, the way a PAM solution is implemented can have a major impact on the cost and the benefits. This report provides a blueprint for determining the direct, indirect and hidden costs of a PAM deployment over time.

Challenge Businesses today must reduce the risk of security breaches to protect the valuable data within their organizations. At the same time, IT auditors are increasingly enforcing ever more stringent requirements on the business. The bottom line is that privileged accounts and privileged access are being targeted by hackers as a new attack surface and focused on by auditors who are insisting on greater controls around privileged accounts. Opportunity The right privileged access management solution provides comprehensive protection for your missioncritical servers with powerful, fine-grained controls over operating system-level access and privileged user actions. Capable of enforcing access controls on powerful native Superuser accounts—like the UNIX® and Linux® root and Microsoft® Windows® administrator—this system-level, host-based privileged access management solution controls, monitors and audits privileged user activity, improving security and simplifying audit and compliance. B

A millisecond of downtime can mean millions of dollars. Maintaining compliance while ensuring your firm has the required speed and uptime can be daunting. Learn what you can do with your email and instant messages to prepare for your next regulatory audit.

They say content is king. But if your content isn’t protected, it’s a king with no clothes. The proliferation of mobile devices in the workplace, and the availability of cloud services designed for consumers, can lead to improper sharing of corporate data. Information that leaves your firewalls can live forever, and without adequate protection, can end up in the wrong hands. This report by Ovum takes a look at the challenges of information security and explores how a new generation of Information Rights Management (IRM) technology directly addresses the most critical concerns. Key topics include: • The threat posed by Dropbox and other consumer-grade FSS providers • The need for lifetime control of information and content • The ability to perform audits, and locate files, anywhere, and who accessed them • How next-generation IRM technology is available to add a new layer of security to every file

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, financial institutions are faced with increasing scrutiny from government regulators. The Dodd-Frank act was passed in response to the disaster, creating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and mandating 398 new rulemakings, many of which remain to be finalized. In light of these events financial services organizations are increasingly relying on Intralinks® as the most secure way to control sensitive information when collaborating within and outside their organizations. Intralinks meets the strictest security, auditability, and compliance requirements of regulated entities around the world – regardless of business complexities. Download this white paper to learn how Intralinks VIA for Financial Services can help you control your communications with regulators and other third parties.

This framework will help you decide which MSSP best meets the needs of your financial institution

"True data protection and compliance starts at the data layer. When enterprises think of how best to protect their data and meet ever stricter and more complex compliance requirements, they should first and foremost be considering their data management solution. Read this white paper to learn how DataStax Enterprise Advanced Security allows enterprises to protect their data via features such as authentication, authorization, and data auditing, and also meet regulatory compliance requirements by leveraging advanced security features in accordance with best practices."

"True data protection and compliance starts at the data layer. When enterprises think of how best to protect their data and meet ever stricter and more complex compliance requirements, they should first and foremost be considering their data management solution. Read this white paper to learn how DataStax Enterprise Advanced Security allows enterprises to protect their data via features such as authentication, authorization, and data auditing, and also meet regulatory compliance requirements by leveraging advanced security features in accordance with best practices."

How a security rationalization process helps CISOs optimize your security infrastructure while improving the bottom line. Whether you’ve over-invested in security tools, under-invested, don’t know the extent of your security capabilities or you’re facing new regulations that require you to demonstrate and continually maintain compliance — there is a path forward. To understand and optimize what you have in place, as well as gaps you may have, develop a security rationalization process to calculate the return on your security investments. Read this paper to learn the five steps needed to get started.

GFI LanGuard provides a complete network security overview with minimal administrative effort. Why use GFI LanGuard? Download this free trial to experience the benefits!

There are obviously a variety of choices open to you: a spreadsheet plug-in may be appropriate if you are only focused on general ledger reporting and do not have concerns over security or compliance. You might also suppose that this is a low-cost option, though we would argue that the remediation required, the additional audit fees and the lack of repeat-ability means that this is a false economy and that this approach will end up costing you more in the long term. A second use case would be where you already have a financial reporting solution installed, when the add-on facilities for purposes such as business intelligence are likely to be your major focus. In this case an Oracle-based solution is likely to be as good as anything else.

Once you've designed and secured your Global Transit Network, are you done? Are you ready to hand day-to-day responsibility over to an operations team? Or, are there other elements you need to ensure that the day-to-day operation of your transit hub is efficient and effective? As part of our fact-filled AWS Bootcamp series, Aviatrix CTO Sherry Wei and Neel Kamal, head of field operations at Aviatrix, demonstrate the best practices they've gleaned from working with operations teams, all who require: • Visibility: Do you have a way to centrally view your network, see performance bottlenecks, control security policies, and set other configuration details? • Deep Analytics: Can you easily gather performance and audit data and export it to Splunk, DataDog, or other advanced reporting tools? • Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Do you have a real-time view of network health, and how easily can you access the data needed to locate and fix issues? • Alert Management: When issues do occur, what r

This IT audit checklist guide includes advice on assessing the effectiveness of change management in a variety of areas.   As companies grow more dependent on interdependent IT systems, the risks associated with untested changes in development and production environments have increased proportionately.

Identifying critical change control failure points in your infrastructure can help reduce the threat of costly downtime, potential security breaches, and compliance weaknesses. Read this paper for guidelines on how to identify and categorize systems that have characteristics which heighten risk.