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Editor's Note You've Been Hacked, But For How Long?
By Larry Seltzer

One of the big themes at the recent RSA Conference was awareness of threats already inside the network. The way you learn about these threats and lower your 'Mean Time To Know' (MTTW) about an intrusion is with profile-based network monitoring.
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10 Things Every Firewall Should Provide
Web application firewalls have become the central platform for protecting applications against all online threats including technical Web attacks, business logic attacks, and online fraud. This paper explains in detail the 10 features that every Web application firewall should provide.

Inside a Fortune 100's Insider Threat Prevention Efforts
In 2007, $400 million worth of trade secrets were stolen from a multi-billion dollar global manufacturer. Find out how the company's CISO enlisted Verdasys Digital Guardian in conjunction with the FBI to monitor and curtail insider threats by establishing a secure, flexible threat prevention program.

Unified Communications: Determining the Right Solution
Download, "Choosing Between Premises-Based and hosted Communications Solutions" to understand the key areas to consider when choosing the right unified communications solution for your Organization.



SECURITY

Five Security Tools Every Small Business Must Have Sponsored by Symantec
SMBs may not have the IT resources of bigger firms, but they do have the same responsibilities when it comes to security. Fortunately, SMBs can build a strong security posture using a few key products, many of which are free. In this report, Dark Reading examines the challenges that SMBs face when it comes to security and recommends the five security tools every SMB must have.

Security Implications of Big Data Strategies Sponsored by IBM
To understand how to secure Big Data, you have to understand what it is — and what it isn't. As organizations set about building Big Data clusters, they're finding that many of the best practices for securing such clusters are the same used to secure any ­corporate data. However, there are some big differences as well.

Network Monitoring As a Security Tool Sponsored by IBM
The use of network monitoring tools in a security context can help companies fill gaps in protection as well as identify potential problems. Used strategically, network monitoring tools may help enterprises to detect potential security problems that they might otherwise have missed.

Monitoring Security Risk in Your Organization Sponsored by Tripwire
Organizations that want to approach risk in a systematic way face significant obstacles, but it is possible to adopt a structured risk management strategy while keeping data current.

Achieving Compliance in the Smart Grid Sponsored by TraceSecurity
Standards regulating the smart grid are rightly stringent and often difficult to meet, but they can be modified and leveraged by organizations in all industries to lock down corporate and customer assets.

STORAGE & SERVERS

IT Pro Impact: Future of the Mainframe
IBM has long touted Big Iron as the platform of choice for massive transactions, batch processing and critical financial services, and with good reason. But can the mainframe hold its ground in the face of cloud, distributed computing and relentless budget pressure? Yes, if IT can leverage killer apps and hold the line on costs.

CLOUD COMPUTING

Buyer's Guide: PaaS Providers
The platform-as-a-service value proposition is so strong, and so aligned with business and developer interests, that it's a matter of when, not if, PaaS becomes the standard for Web applications. It's time to evaluate your options and plan a migration strategy. This report, the companion to our online comparison, explains the 7 key factors to consider.

PaaS Buyer's Guide Vendor Matrix:

Cloud Comparison: PaaS Providers

UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS

Research: Unified Communications Sponsored by Mitel
In our InformationWeek 2012 Unified Communications Survey, we elicited responses from more than 300 business technology professionals on plans for advancing their companies' UC initiatives. We asked about factors respondents consider critical for a successful implementation, major technical and business drivers, obstacles to deployment, and how well they think UC technology is delivering on its promise.

InformationWeek Reports is brought to you by IBM, Imperva, Mitel, Symantec, TraceSecurity, Tripwire, Verdasys and UBM TechWeb.


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