Risk Management White Papers

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes how security that is built into a dynamic infrastructure can mitigate risks, enabling agility, secure collaboration, and business transformation. The IBM Security Framework and lifecycle approach can help address changing business requirements.

Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 12 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: With shrinking budgets, organizations are trying to do more with less. But doing so may leave gaps in security, reliability and availability. Read this white paper to see how IBM security solutions can help you address challenges with virtualization, while safeguarding your agency.

Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 25 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Rapid changes within technology, new server and software deployments, and the evolving sophistication of attack methods used to infiltrate systems and steal data create the greatest set of challenges faced by security and IT administrators trying to keep their systems secure and within regulatory compliance. Interested in reducing security risk?

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 | Published: 20 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: One in a series of white papers about management excellence, this white paper describes the techniques and technologies that organizations should master on their way to management excellence.

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Nov 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper recognizes three principal solution areas in the capital project delivery lifecycle: project design, project execution, and organizational governance. In particular, it addresses the area of project execution and the means available today to drive successful project delivery on a consistent basis.

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Jan 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper demonstrates how running a responsible business and high levels of performance do not have to work against each other. And it makes a case for why sustainability issues should simply be part of a company’s overall performance management practices.

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 Dec 2008

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: 16 Oct 2008

WHITE PAPER: This paper provides practical industry insights on IFRS for life science executives and includes useful sections on: IFRS challenges and opportunities in life sciences; Implications of IFRS for financial reporting, tax, human resources, mergers and acquisitions, IT, and treasury and much more.

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 | Published: 03 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: As acceptance of IFRS in the United States becomes imminent, more banks and capital markets institutions are asking key questions: How does IFRS affect my institution? What events would influence my institution's pace of IFRS adoption? What obstacles might we need to consider? Read this paper to learn the answers to these questions and more.

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 | Published: 03 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Cyber-criminals are targeting web surfers on popular social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace. This security brief discusses how to protect against "trusted" friends turned hostile hackers, pinpoint vulnerabilities in files, widgets and social sites, employ web application firewalls and use content filtering to mitigate risk.

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 | Published: 19 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: With the ever increasing compliance regulations in terms of E-mail archiving, It becomes clear that E-mail archiving is an information governance imperative. This paper presents the 3 technical challenges which should be understood when evaluating email archiving solutions

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 | Published: 17 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: How do best-in-class midsize manufacturers continue to grow in a tough economy? This research report, conducted by EIU, outlines measures manufacturers implement to continue expanding even while coping with the strains of softening demand in key markets, rising input costs, and downward pressure on prices.

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 | Published: 07 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper describes seven practical steps information security professionals can take to integrate controls into IT production operations, to simultaneously achieve NERC compliance goals, and also IT operational and security goals.

Posted: 31 Jul 2009 | Published: 08 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: The white paper discusses what US organizations can do to prepare for International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), and focuses on what Oracle's Enterprise Performance Management solutions can do to help with top-end reporting.

Posted: 29 Jul 2009 | Published: 29 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: The 11th book in our Straight Talk series helps executives understand the implications of IFRS and their role in addressing the associated changes. The publication also offers practical suggestions to help companies navigate through pressing issues and developing your own conversion road map.

Posted: 29 Jul 2009 | Published: 29 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: In this publication, we explore the technology implications associated with IFRS conversion and discuss: Evaluating the potential technology impact; how companies can prepare technology and systems changes related to IFRS adoption; Major differences between U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and IFRS and much more.

Posted: 28 Jul 2009 | Published: 28 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read how SAP software can help your company manage risks and exploit operational and business opportunities regarding social, environmental, and economic sustainability.

Posted: 22 Jul 2009 | Published: 03 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: The term "financial close" describes a corporation's ability to complete its accounting cycles and produce financial statements for internal management and external legal reporting. This paper identifies solutions to help organizations improve and sustain their close times and address the challenges associated with automating internal controls

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 02 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: BMC provides a set of tools and utilities that are designed to automate the complex processes involved in updating and managing DB2 environments with the aim of being easy to use, and fast and effective in their execution.

Posted: 18 Apr 2009 | Published: 17 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: The intrepid data miner runs many risks, including being buried under mountains of data or disappearing along with the "mysterious disappearing terabyte." Myths and misconceptions create their own risks and need to be debunked. This article outlines some risks, debunks some myths, and provides some protective "hard hats" for data miners.

Posted: 20 Feb 2009 | Published: 20 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: Due to the financial meltdown in the mortgage-backed securities industry, new compliance requirements will be implemented. Read this paper to find out how organizations can ensure compliance with stricter regulations and manage risk appropriately so the business does not slip into non-compliance resulting in negative publicity or punitive fines.

Posted: 20 Feb 2009 | Published: 20 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: Check out this white paper to learn more about the new approach to information security, protection on demand, which simplifies security and produces cost savings.

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 | Published: 18 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: The purpose of this paper is to highlight the key insights from the IBM Global CEO Study and relate them to the new CIO challenge: driving transformation as "change leaders" and implementing transformation as "change agents".

Posted: 11 Feb 2009 | Published: 10 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: CIOs are emerging as leaders of innovation and bringing those ideas to the table, putting their end-to-end knowledge of the business to use in thinking through new technology-based opportunities.

Posted: 11 Feb 2009 | Published: 10 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: Learn how employees and partners are engaging with IT assets and intellectual property.

Posted: 02 Feb 2009 | Published: 02 Feb 2009