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WHITE PAPER: When an IT skill falls out of favor, it rarely ever comes back. Here's our list of 10 dying IT skills. If any of these skills are your main expertise, perhaps it's time to think about updating your skill set.

Posted: 13 May 2009 | Published: 13 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: In this paper you'll read that cybercrime is on the rise, not only in terms of the number of perpetrators and the volume of crimes committed, but also in terms of the range of techniques employed to carry them out.

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 | Published: 02 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization introduces fundamental changes to IT, and adds significant management challenges. Read this informative white paper written by Enterprise Management Associates to learn what these challenges are as well as some of the solutions and strategies used to deal with them.

Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Published: 26 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: A company’s overall success largely relies on the software team’s success. Organizations that embrace this concept experience less frustration, fewer errors, and faster planning and development cycles. Read this guide to learn about seven essential tips to help you be more successful with requirements management and software development.

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 | Published: 08 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: Authored by Ron Ben Natan, Ph.D., author of "HOWTO Secure and Audit Oracle 10g and 11g" (CRC Press, March 2009), this white paper describes 8 essential best practices that provide a holistic approach to safeguarding databases and achieving compliance.

Posted: 03 Apr 2009 | Published: 03 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn the four key initiatives for attacking network management inefficiency and how automation solutions from HP can help.

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 | Published: 13 Nov 2009

PODCAST: Listen to this podcast Q&A session to learn how batch tuning can enable your organization to reduce their required computing resources and run-time, ultimately saving money. Learn how to significantly gain insight into how you can improve the results of your batch tuning initiative by changing the traditional approach to batch tuning projects.

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 | Premiered: 02 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: The onslaught of Web 2.0 and social networking is essentially unstoppable. This paper will help organizations understand the nature and impact of the Web 2.0 phenomenon. Applicable security challenges will be explored and a concise yet comprehensive strategy will be provided for mitigating them.

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 | Published: 14 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: Managing the virtual infrastructure end-to-end is becoming more challenging as virtual environments continue to grow and more data center elements meld into the "cloud". This whitepaper will discuss the push for continued virtualization and the "cloud", and present you with questions that will help you create the best organizational strategy.

Posted: 23 Nov 2009 | Published: 23 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: Ensuring Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance requires expert understanding of data storage and encryption requirements, device integration considerations, and logging and reporting parameters for distributed networks. This white paper covers PCI compliance, what it means, and how to go about achieving it.

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 | Published: 14 Jan 2010

WEBCAST: This webinar will go through the most critical challenges faced by mid-market companies, and illustrate how collecting and analyzing event data across the enterprise can address those challenges in the context of budget and staff constraints.

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 | Premiered: 20 Apr 2009

WEBCAST: Many organizations are turning to cloud computing to realize its promise of cost-efficiency, agility, value and simplicity. But security, compliance and vendor lock-in are rated among the top barriers to its adoption. View this webcast to learn how recent innovations in identity management enable a secure cloud computing environment.

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 | Premieres: 01 Feb 2010

TRIAL SOFTWARE: AdminStudio® allows IT to quickly prepare reliable virtual and MSI packages for error-free rollout with leading software deployment solutions. A complete application readiness toolset, AdminStudio also provides automated tools to help ensure application portfolios migrate smoothly to Windows 7. Download this free 21 day trial now!

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 | Published: 12 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: The information presented in this white paper discusses various approaches to cryptography and key management, and can be used as a starting point for developing an effective policy-based key management solution. Taking a proactive approach to data protection results in a smoother implementation and a positive return on investment.

Posted: 08 Feb 2010 | Published: 08 Feb 2010

ANALYST REPORT: If you're evaluating strong authentication solutions and vendors, read this Frost & Sullivan Executive Summary. The report offers a comprehensive snapshot of the One-Time Passwords (OTP) marketplace. Get the facts on current and emerging products.

Posted: 16 Dec 2009 | Published: 16 Dec 2009

PODCAST: Application security is the aspect of understanding how applications are built and how someone could gain an advantage by looking at the application’s flaws. In this podcast, dive into the nature of applications for details on their security and how we interact with them.

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 | Premiered: 03 Feb 2010

PODCAST: Companies are quickly recognizing the need for several layers of security to protect against dangerous IT security threats. No single technology guarantees security, but application whitelisting covers situations not addressed by firewalls or antivirus utilities.

Posted: 19 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 19 Nov 2009

ASSESSMENT TOOL: The RSA Authentication Decision Tree Tool is an interactive tool to help organizations understand, evaluate and select the most appropriate authentication solution to meet the needs of their users and their business. It provides a framework to help narrow the selection of authentication solutions based on five critical factors.

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 | Published: 18 Dec 2009

ANALYST BRIEF: Tight budgets and complex IT environments mean that IT operations teams must operate as efficiently as possible. Read this Q&A session with Mary Johnston Turner, research director for IDC's System Management Software service, to better understand how integrated, automated management tools can improve IT productivity.

Posted: 20 Jan 2010 | Published: 20 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper discusses how to define, track and enforce IT policies; automate IT compliance processes; and reduce the effort and cost of managing business applications.

Posted: 10 Sep 2009 | Published: 10 Sep 2009

CASE STUDY: TRW, a German automotive company, was facing power and software limitations in the prototyping stages of design development that proved to be costly and slowed performance. This case study shows how they turned to Dell to upgrade their server and storage systems in line with its cutting-edge development processes.

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 | Published: 24 Sep 2009

SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD: AVG Internet Security Business Edition is faster, smarter security that won’t slow businesses down. AVG Internet Security merges ground-breaking online threat prevention techniques with enhanced anti-virus and firewall technologies to deliver proactive protection that’s second to none. Download a trial version and use it free for the next 30 days.

Posted: 17 Nov 2009 | Published: 17 Nov 2009

JOURNAL ARTICLE: Participants at industry conferences and events often ask where the right place to start implementing security is. This is similar to starting off a talk with a doctor by asking “What medicine should I take?” The answer is going to be more questions. This article presents three questions to ask yourself before starting a security implementation.

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Published: 18 Sep 2009

WEBCAST: The SANS/CWE list of the Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors is already becoming the "standard" for developing secure applications in many large enterprises. In this webcast, review the prevalence of attacks that use vulnerabilities listed in the Top 25 and learn how to safeguard your code to avoid the most dangerous programming errors.

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 | Premiered: 01 Feb 2010

PODCAST: In this episode of The Malware Report, Randy Abrams talks about a recent online banking attack from which cybercriminals were able to steal over forty million dollars from small and midsized businesses. Find out what went wrong and listen in for some hints and tips that can help keep your banking information safe.

Posted: 10 Dec 2009 | Premiered: 10 Dec 2009