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- Forward-Thinking County Government Enhances IT Security and Manageability
- The Fulton County IT department is responsible for thousands of computers across dozens of government departments. Having faced network disruptions in the past due to noncompliant computers, the county needed a new security solution. In response, it is deploying Windows Server 2008 to take advantage of Network Access Protection (NAP)....
- Tags: IT Security, Network, Information Technology, County Government, Fulton County IT Department, Help Desk, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Productivity, Government, Networking, Security, It Operations, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software
- Case studies 2008-01-30
- New Solution Helps City Strengthen IT Security, Automate Software Distribution
- As part of an ongoing effort to operate more efficiently, the City of Tampere wants to make more information and services available online while strengthening IT security. Additionally, the city wants to better manage its systems using limited IT resources. In 2007, Tampere made plans to upgrade 6,500 client computers...
- Tags: City, IT Security, Information Technology, Microsoft Windows, PKI, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Strategy, Operating Systems, Security, Software, Management
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- Government Enhances IT Security, Increases Productivity With Operating System
- The Government of Alberta wanted to determine the health of its thousands of workstations and establish a faster way to deploy server computers. The organization worked with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Compugen to upgrade nine computers to the Windows Server 2008 Standard operating system to effectively meet its multiple needs....
- Tags: IT Security, Information Technology, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Government, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Vertical Industries, Productivity, Servers, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Enterprise Software, Hardware
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- Danish Foreign Ministry Enhances IT Security and Efficiency With New Operating System
- Recent expansion by the Danish Foreign Ministry challenged its need to operate under secure conditions, while using often limited and inconsistent connections. The Ministry urgently needed to adopt new workstation operating systems that offered enhanced security features, communication potential for remote users, and centralized administration. The Ministry upgraded 2,100 workstations...
- Tags: IT Security, Information Technology, Operating System, Remote Access, Workstations, Telecommunications, Security
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- Measuring the Return onMeasuring the Return on IT Security Investments
- Intel IT developed a model for measuring return on security investment (ROSI) in our manufacturing environments that produces a much higher level of accuracy than other methods currently available.
- Tags: IT Security, Information Technology, Investment, Intel Corp., Strategy, Management
- White papers 2007-12-01
- IT Security failure causes UK Revenue & Customs (HMRC) chairman to resign
- IT security failure causes UK Revenue & Customs (HMRC) chairman to resignGOOD, maybe others will get the idea that securityis job 1.Oh my God!Blaming the king for losing a war?How unthinkable.It could NEVER happen in the old old U.S. of A.!Why the heck don't they just use the intertubes?I believe...
- Tags: Operating systems, George III, British Civil Service, operating system, IT security, information technology
- Discussion threads 2007-11-20
- IT Security failure causes UK Revenue & Customs (HMRC) chairman to resign
- Two weeks ago, I raised serious questions about IT governance in the UK at HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). At that time, the agency lost a CD containing private information belonging to 15,000 people in the UK. Today, the agency acknowledged a far worse situation: two computer discs, containing 25...
- Tags: Revenue, IT Security, Agency, Information Technology, Tax, U.K., Committee, HMRC, Taxes, Free Trade, Security, Financial Planning, Finance, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-11-20
- Famous Ship Builder Boosts IT Security, Eases Management With Integrated Solution
- Harland and Wolff, founded in 1861, is a renowned Irish ship builder and engineering firm with approximately 250 employees. The company recently updated its IT infrastructure by deploying Microsoft products and technologies, but it still lacked solid IT security protection for its employees' computers. That presented a major challenge because...
- Tags: IT Security, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Security, Strategy, Management
- Case studies 2007-11-01
- Food Company Improves IT Security System View and Management Using New Solution
- Del Monte Foods, based in San Francisco, California, sells popular, premium-quality branded food and pet products throughout the United States. The organization's employees rely heavily on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for messaging and collaboration. To better protect these environments, Del Monte deployed Microsoft Forefront...
- Tags: Food, IT Security, Information Technology, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Corp., E-mail Servers, Groupware, Food & Beverage, Enterprise Software, Software, Manufacturing
- Case studies 2007-10-01
- The Ever-Evolving Threats in Today's IT Security Environment
- Keep abreast of recent changes in the IT security threat landscape by listening to this TechRepublic Webcast featuring Dave Marcus, Security Research Communications Manager for McAfee® Avert® Labs, and Lynda Harvey, McAfee Sales Engineer, who address these critical topics and more: How and why the latest security...
- Tags: McAfee Inc., IT Security, Information Technology, Compliance, Malware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms
- Webcasts 2007-09-25
- Time for defensive technology to become top priority
- Today marks the fifth time in a row that I have been in London and it has been sunny out. A remarkable difference from just a few years ago when you could depend on rain and cold any time of the year in London. If this is global warming...
- Tags: IT Security, Compliance, London, Attack, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2007-09-18
- Complacency?
- I am at the IDG Security Standard event here at the Fairmont Hotel in downtown Chicago. Bob Bragdon, editor of CSO and CIO magazines made some introductory comments. One of his concerns is complacency. He is worried that the changing threat scape is going to catch many IT security...
- Tags: IT Security, Complacency, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2007-09-10
- IT Security for Process Control Using Siemens SIMATIC PCS 7
- Ensuring the security of industrial control systems is hardly a new topic. The earliest users of modern control systems in power stations and chemical plants saw the need to protect access to vital control functions from unauthorized use. Similarly, in industries such as fine chemical or pharmaceutical where "The process...
- Tags: IT Security, Siemens AG, Information Technology, ARC Advisory Group, Ethernet, Microsoft Windows, Security, Networking, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2007-09-01
- A Higher Level of IT-Security: Protecting Digital Assets
- Full Disk Encryption (FDE) is the safest way to protect digital assets, including both those of the company as well as the customers. If mobile devices such as laptops are stolen, FDE protects the information stored on them while also protecting a corporation's most valued asset: its intellectual property. By...
- Tags: Asset, IT Security, Encryption, Full Disk Encryption, Asset Management, Security, Operational Planning, Business Operations
- White papers 2007-08-07
- Discover valuable IT Security lessons by tracing the history of cybercrime
- The phenomenon of cybercrime is as old computers themselves. As soon as the first computer networks were built, some people were looking for ways to exploit them for their own illegal purposes. In this sample chapter from Scene of the Cybercrime: Computer Forensics Handbook, trace the history of cybercrime from...
- Tags: Cybercrime, IT Security, Information Technology, Computer, Chapter Coverage, Productivity
- Book chapters 2007-05-17
- Media Group Enhances IT Security With Operating System Upgrade
- With a constant drive to further safeguard its IT environment, Canadian media company Torstar chose to become an early adopter of the Windows Vista operating system. The company is eager to take advantage of the built-in security features that are available with the new system, anticipating reduced IT support costs...
- Tags: IT Security, Information Technology, Operating System, Media, Strategy, Operating Systems, Management, Software
- Case studies 2007-03-05
- What your CEO needs to know: The 10 darkest truths about information security
- Even the best IT security professionals have a hard time getting and maintaining visibility with senior management, who tend to lose interest when everything's going smoothly. But, with the growing level of attacks, complacency can get a company killed. IT security pros need to make the case for continued investment...
- Tags: Information Security, McAfee Inc., IT Security, Information Technology, Security
- White papers 2007-03-01
- Automating Global IT Security Compliance With the Help of Symantec
- After years of fast growth, Aon Corporation needed to ensure IT compliance for both the heterogeneous global infrastructure it had inherited through acquisitions and the external IT infrastructure it outsources to IT service providers. Aon chose Symantec Enterprise Security Manager to automate compliance monitoring in both instances. The solution enables...
- Tags: Aon Corp., Symantec Corp., Solution, IT Security, Information Technology, Compliance, Strategy, Security, Management
- Case studies 2007-01-11
- It's a wide line between IT Security and physical security
- It's a wide line between IT security and physical securityPhysical security must be part of IT security.How secure is a system that's been taken out of the building by hackers posing as IT people or FBI agents? How secure is a server when a hacker is sitting at the...
- Tags: Hacking, IT security, information technology, physical security, laptop computer, security, hacker
- Discussion threads 2006-12-04
- It's a wide line between IT Security and physical security
- There is a line between IT security and physical security. Many of the big consulting firms and integrators would like you to think it is a fine line. But I think it is a nice wide line, one that gets crossed occasionally when people consider integrating a building access system...
- Tags: IT security, information technology, wide line, Spyware
- Blog posts 2006-12-04
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