Monday, July 22, 2013

Put an Umbrella over your endpoint devices to stop malware, botnets and phishing

4 Things CIOs Need to Know About Microsoft's Reorg | BYOD Creates Trust Gap Between Workers and Employers

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Put an Umbrella over your endpoint devices to stop malware, botnets and phishing
Did you know that malware and botnet detection spikes 200% every Monday? The OpenDNS Umbrella Security Service is designed to to put an end to Malware Mondays. Read More


WEBCAST: HP Autonomy

Dispelling Myths about Cloud–based Archiving
Visit this Interactive Resource Center, designed to dispel any concerns you may have. It's packed with informative videos, whitepapers and case studies as well as Twitter feeds and a live Forum—everything you need to move confidently to the cloud. View Now!

WHITE PAPER: Tripwire

So Much Data, So Little Control
It used to be that all you had to do to protect your company's intellectual property and customer information was lock the file drawers and, later, put layers of defenses around the data center. Learn More

4 Things CIOs Need to Know About Microsoft's Reorg
The entirely expected Microsoft reorganization, and the accompanying memo from CEO Steve Ballmer, suggests that the company plans to focuses on devices, the cloud and a much shorter development life cycle. This will have a major impact on how your IT department operates. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Technology

Data Center Transformation and Its Impact on the Branch
Despite tighter budgets driven by the fragile economy, IT departments remain under intense pressure to deliver additional and higher-performance computing, network and application services worldwide. Learn More in this KVE

BYOD Creates Trust Gap Between Workers and Employers
Infographic: If you're a CIO (or other IT leader) and you have a BYOD policy in place, you also have some trust issues to overcome: Your users aren't confident their personal data is remaining private. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Code 42 Software, Inc.

Apple-ization of the Enterprise
The growing wave of BYOD and increasing numbers of Apple hardware in the workplace holds major implications and opportunity for today's software companies. It's what has come to define the post-PC era – the period when user-defined productivity devices began reconfiguring the structure of corporate IT. Learn More.

The Grill: Kathy Moore, CIO, West Virginia Health Information Exchange
The West Virginia Health Information Network was created by the state of West Virginia and charged with building a secure electronic health information system so providers could access and exchange patient data. The goal is to improve the quality of patient information and thereby enable providers to more quickly offer better care at lower costs. Among those leading the effort is Kathy Moore, CIO of the network. Moore is now working with hospitals and other healthcare providers in the state to get them connected to the exchange. "The exchange is now up and live, and we're focused on rollout and bringing on as many as possible," says Moore, a former deputy CTO for the state of West Virginia. Here she shares her thoughts on leading this huge IT project. Read More

With universities under attack, security experts talk best defenses
Faced with millions of hacking attempts a week, U.S. research universities' best option is to segment information, so a balance can be struck between security and the need for an open network, experts say. Read More

INSIDER
5 security best practices for SMBs
If your small-to-midsized business is like most, you're playing a game of chicken with cyber-criminals. You probably know that your defenses probably aren't able to repel today's sophisticated, persistent attacks, yet you hope that you'll be overlooked. Read More


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