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Independent Insights

Comptia - IT Standards = Secure Computers Systems for SMEs? Not Always…

IT Standards = Secure Computers Systems for SMEs? Not Always… In this day and age, businesses are finding it hard to remain competitive. With the advent of the now ubiquitous superstores seemingly on every street corner, that task seems even ha...
Posted: 05 March, 2008

Strategic Path - How to Select an MSSP

How to Select an MSSP Demand for Managed Security Services (MSS) is growing exponentially and organisations are faced with the difficult decision of selecting the right Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) that will best meet their needs. There...
Posted: 05 March, 2008

Strategic Path - IT Security and SMBs

IT Security and SMBs After years of flying underneath the radar as hackers targeted large organisations, both corporate and government, small to medium businesses (SMBs) are feeling the cold winds of change blowing at their backs. Driving this sea ...
Posted: 05 March, 2008

EMA - Total Risk Management

Total Risk Management – making the most of IT Management Investment IT is a domain where spending is a constant, essential to maintaining a competitive advantage in today’s technology dependent world. Within IT, this pace is arguably the...
Posted: 29 August, 2007

CQR - Compliance Versus Security

Compliance versus security: mutual benefit or conflicting objective? Our modern businesses face growing pressure from both internal and external sources to ensure compliance against a range of measures. Some of these directly relate to new or more str...
Posted: 29 August, 2007

Strategic Path - Mitigating Online Risk

All companies, large or small, hold vast amounts of highly valuable information in the form of customer data, proprietary information, financial data and trade secrets in their computers, networks, servers and associated storage devices. It has often b...
Posted: 28 August, 2007

CQR - The Fantasy of the Corporate Firewall

The Fantasy of the Corporate Firewall By Phil Kernick * Information Technology (IT) is characterised by identifiable trend cycles. The cycle from mainframes to client server took 15 years to run and while the counter trend back to virtualisation...
Posted: 29 April, 2007

Strategic Path - Firming up your network security

Firming up your network security Protecting your privacy has never been more important. Here’s what you can do. By Elaine Murray, Strategic Path writer In a world where data communications are constantly changing, internet connections are be...
Posted: 29 April, 2007

Vendor Insights

Reichle & deMassari - Security - A Meaningless Word?

Examining what business really wants By Yingbo Seiler, Product Manager Connectivity System, R&M Security is as important in the advertising vocabulary of cable and component manufacturers as “network failure” and “data loss&...
Posted: 23 July, 2008

Symantec - Managing risk for the flexible bank in 2008

Managing risk for the flexible bank in 2008 The financial services industry in Asia Pacific is facing new challenges from a consumer revolution. The generation that has grown up in the internet age is as comfortable in a virtual world as many of us ar...
Posted: 05 March, 2008

Strategic Path - How to succeed: With wireless security

How to succeed: With wireless security The challenges of securing a wireless network are now widely recognised, but beefing up your wireless security can offer business benefits as well as the crucial element of protection. Angus Kidman explains...
Posted: 05 November, 2007

Blackberry - Wireless Security

The CIO's Guide to Mobile Security Executive Summary Today’s enterprise and government organizations increasingly support the use of mobile (wireless) devices by their employees. Executives, managers, contractors, suppliers and other corp...
Posted: 05 July, 2007

Quantum - Storage Guardian

Quantum - Storage Guardian security Purpose of this Document Network and information security is a primary concern for today’s IT professionals. This document outlines the security features of StorageCare Guardian, Quantum’s proactive r...
Posted: 29 April, 2007

Quantum - Security Framework

Quantum Security Framework Delivers Defense-In-Depth Abstract: Regulatory compliance mandates and embarrassing publicly-disclosed data breaches are finally prompting storage professionals to address an IT Achilles heel – off-site storage secur...
Posted: 29 April, 2007

Acronis - Protecting Virtual Servers Case Study

Protecting Virtual Servers with Acronis True Image IT organizations have discovered that virtualization technology can simplify server management and reduce total operating costs. Despite the technical and economic benefits of virtualization, though...
Posted: 29 April, 2007