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Insurance Opportunities in China

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Insurers will find many opportunities for growth in China, but theyll first need to tweak their business models and distribution channels to meet the needs of Chinas increasingly sophisticated and self-directed consumer.

Insurers Look to Emerging Markets for Growth

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

There is an enoromous demand for insurance products and services in emerging markets but insurers must be prepared to focus on the right consumers and provide them with the right products and excellent service.

Client Acquisition and Retention in Banking

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Not only have financial firms been hammered by losses due to risky investments, but they are losing clients to competitors as well.

Online Secure Web Application Development Awareness (SWADA) Course

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:48:00 EST

This ANSI accredited, 4 hour, live on-line course reviews all of the OWASP Top-10 vulnerabilities and covers best business practices associated with secure web-application development. Upon successful completion of a 25 question post assessment, attendees will receive a Certificate of Training that will be used as evidence of training which is required by the PCI and PA DSS.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND? Anyone who is involved with the Application Development Lifecycle: Application / Applet Developers Designers Architects and Maintainers PCI / PA DSS Auditors Security Architects Application Development Executives Security Professionals PCI Compliance Consultants and Researchers Project Managers IT Security Consultants Application Security Professionals

SWADA & COMPLIANCE: SCIPP Internationals SWADA Course satisfies OWASP training requirements found in PCI-DSS 6.5, PA-DSS 5.2 and the Office of the Comptroller (OCC) 2008-16 Bulletin.

PLEASE NOTE: This recorded version has been made available for evaluation and promotional purposes only. Neither a post assessment or a Certificate of Training will be offered after the recording has ended. Live on-line classes intended for purchase are $250 per person. To speak with a SCIPP sales representative, please contact Don Cochran 703.637.4422 or email dcochran@SCIPPinternational.org

Best Practices for Migrating from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:06:00 EST

Is your business planning a migration from IBM Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint? Many companies are for a number of reasons: Microsofts rich and varied features, the business value of becoming a Microsoft partner and the high availability of IT staff trained on Microsoft technology. However, its one of the most complex, labor-intensive projects your enterprise can undertake. If not properly planned and executed, it can lead to disaster.

In the Quest Software white paper, Best Practices for Migrating from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint, learn how to achieve a cost-effective, on-schedule and error-free migration. Discover the challenges that come with a Notes transition, and find valuable insight into the importance of proper planning and execution.

Read about the best practices to successfully migrate to Exchange and SharePoint while providing top performance and reliability from your Microsoft environment. Read the white paper today.

CERN's Large Hadron Collider

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

The Large Hadron Collider will produce roughly 15 million gigabytes of data annually, to be accessed by a distributed computing and data storage infrastructure called the LHC Computing Grid.

Performance Management Can Drive Daily Decisions

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Performance management integrates business intelligence and operational performance with financial planning, forecasting and budgeting. Coupled with analytics, performance management enables insurers to make better daily business decisions.

A CISO's Guide to Application Security

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:26:00 EST

Security breaches are expensive. They cost time, effort, remediation, and reputation restoration. Many IT decision-makers tend to focus their security efforts almost exclusively at the network perimeter. They overlook the software applications that run their day-to-day agencies. These applications are often packed with Social Security numbers, addresses, personal health information, or other sensitive data.

Focusing on security features at both the infrastructure and application level isnt enough. Organizations must also consider flaws in their design and implementation. Hackers looking for security flaws within applications often find them, thereby accessing hardware, operating systems and data. In fact, according to Gartner, 75% of security breaches are now facilitated by applications. The National Institute of Standards and Technology raises that estimate to 92%. And from 2005 to 2007 alone, the U.S. Air Force says application hacks increased from 2% to 33% of the total number of attempts to break into its systems.

To secure your agencys data, your approach must include an examination of the applications inner workings, and the ability to find the exact lines of code that create security vulnerabilities. It then needs to correct those vulnerabilities at the code level. Finally, a comprehensive prevention strategy is needed to fend off future attacks and mitigate current ones.

As a CISO, you understand that application security is important. What steps can you take to avoid a security breach? Read the CISOs Guide to Application

Is an Energy-wasting Data Center Draining Your Bottom Line?

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:59:00 EST

An unforgiving economic climate has left many organizations struggling to sustain (or restore) profitability. Many of them reacted to the downturn by restructuring, trimming back R&D and marketing, and laying off employees. All of these moves leave a company in a vulnerable position when the market rebounds, which it inevitably will.

Meanwhile, huge potential savings are sitting, untapped, right in the companys data center.

Data center energy costs as a percent of total revenue are at an alltime high. In fact, energy costs are emerging as the second highest operating cost in the IT organization, behind labor. A typical onemegawatt data center consumes 16 million kilowatthours of electricity a yearroughly equivalent to the energy consumed by 1400 average U.S. households.

The IT and electrical industries have responded with new energysaving technologies and approaches that could have a notable, positive impact on a companys profitability.

This white paper looks at two key ways that data center managers can improve endtoend energy efficiency: by changing the voltage of power distribution and by taking advantage of new, highefficiency, multimode uninterruptible power systems (UPSs).

Case Study: Norton Healthcare

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:11:00 EST

Norton Healthcare, the largest healthcare system in Louisville, was supporting 13,000 users and 400 servers on a 35-year-old data center. When the data center reached its capacity, the manager reached out to Emerson Network Power to completely remodel the 3,400-square-foot facility.

This paper covers the strategies Emerson Network Power implemented to create a scalable, redundant infrastructure, increasing workload by 100% and reducing help desk calls by 20%. This included installing two Liebert 610 UPS Systems at 400 kVA to double capacity and provide the data center with redundant power, increasing cooling efficiency through a hot-aisle/cold-aisle configuration and implementing the Liebert SiteScan monitoring software to gain visibility of all environmental conditions and enable proactive, preventative maintenance strategy.

The Four Trends Driving the Future of Data Center Infrastructure Design and Management

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:09:00 EST

Does efficiency have to come at the expense of availability? Not according to this paper, which outlines the four data center infrastructure trends that are reducing design, operating and management costs while improving data center performance. Those trends are Infrastructure Management, Eco Availability, Flex Capacity and High Density. Taking advantage of the opportunities listed in this paper will enable you to more efficiently deploy and use all of your resources throughout the life of the data center.

Nucleus Research ROI case study with Google Message Discovery

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:09:00 EST

A leading medical products provider adopted Google Message Discovery, an on-demand message discovery service, to improve productivity of its IT staff, avoid hardware costs, and improve its ability to rapidly and thoroughly perform email searches. Nucleus calculated the costs of software and personnel over a 3-year period to quantify the companys total investment in Google Message Discovery.

Oracle�s Pre-Built Analytic Applications

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:33:00 EST

This video whitepaper explores the relative pros and cons of deploying pre-built analytic applications from Oracle versus building a custom data warehouse against Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel or Similar Systems.

7 Essential Steps to Achieve, Measure and Prove Optimal Security Risk Reduction

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:58:00 EST

Whether you're protecting 5 servers or 5,000, this paper details the essential aspects of putting into place a measurable and sustainable vulnerability management program.

Case Study: eBay, Inc. - Securing the World's Online Marketplace

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:53:00 EST

Learn how eBay was able to automate their network security auditing and get meaningful, actionable reports

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Vulnerability Management Buyer's Checklist

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:51:00 EST

Get this 12-point Checklist of key considerations every IT security professional needs to be aware of before choosing a vulnerability management solution.

Open Government: A San Francisco Treat

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

San Francisco took Obama's pledge of open and transparent government seriously, and launched datasf.org -- its attempt to give the city's data back to its citizens. Developers and users have embraced it, and the city's mayor is already looking ahead.

Remote Support Center

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:25:00 EST

Remote Support Center increases the productivity of local and remote workers with web-based remote support functionality, extending the reach of the IT help desk to provide anytime management of machines on the LAN or across the internet. Remote Support Center's extensive feature set reduces the cost of providing support, centralizes your remote assistance toolset, and features Desktop Authority's award-winning ExpertAssist remote management technology, used on over 6 million desktops worldwide.

Download size:

45MB

Terms of Trial License:

30 Day Free Trial

Special Requirements:

Core Server
Windows Server 2003 (SP1), 2008
Client OS Requirements

Patch Authority Ultimate

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:09:00 EST

Patch Authority Ultimate Version 6, ScriptLogic's comprehensive, enterprise-class patch management solution, prevents attacks and exploits through centralized control of updates on all Windows desktops and servers. Patch Authority Ultimate's rich interface and extensive feature set deploys the latest patches in a few simple steps to all desktop and servers, local and remote.

Download size:
41 MB

Terms of Trial License:

30 day free trial download

Special Requirements:

Windows 2000 SP3/2003/XP/Vista/2008 with IE 5.5 or later. 2GB+ disk space required for patch repository.

Help Desk Authority

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:31:00 EST

Help Desk Authority is an industry leading help desk software solution for tracking tickets and shortening the lifecycle of help desk issues. This easy-to-install solution enables your help desk staff to manage end-user issues and keep them from falling through the cracks.

With proven scalability, user self-service, extensive customization and Web and Windows interfaces, this solution delivers the tools that help desk professionals need the most.

Whether your help desk needs are simply improving your ticket tracking system and gaining control of your assets or more complex such as giving end-users self-service capabilities or remotely managing PCs; Help Desk Authority is the answer.

Download size:

186MB

Terms of Trial License:

30-Day free trial

Special Requirements:

Server Requirements for HDA & HDA add-ons Windows and Web applications:

Windows Server 2008
Windows Server 2003 (SP1 or higher)
Windows 2000 (SP3 or higher)
Windows Vista
Windows XP (SP1 or higher)
1 GHz or faster is recommended
512 MB RAM or more is recommended
100 MB Disk Space (per application)
SQL 2000 or greater, SQL Express 2005 or greater (MS Access available in evaluation copy only)
Screen Resolution1024x768 or greater
Web ServerIIS 7, IIS 6 (Windows 2003), IIS 5.1 (Windows XP), IIS 5.0 (Windows 2000)