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The transition period from PCI DSS 3.2.1 to 4.0 ended on March 31, 2024, a date toward which many organizations have dedicated countless hours of preparation. Looking back on that time, do you know where your compliance efforts stand now? Join PCI experts Steven Sletten and Jeff Hall for the live webinar PCI 4.0 Is Here: Your Guide to Navigating Compliance Success to learn how to effectively...
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10 Common Security Misconfigurations and How to Fix Them

Is your organization using default security settings, or do you have a security configuration management (SCM) program in place to ensure your configurations are as secure as possible? Misconfigurations are a leading cause of unauthorized access and security breaches, creating entry points for hackers in servers, websites, software, and cloud infrastructure. The Open Worldwide Application Security...
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PCI DSS 4.0 Compliance: Tips to Avoid Last-Minute Panic

The impending Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) 4.0 requirements were created to curtail rampant fraud and the billions in losses victims incur. That said, retooling your operations to meet ever-evolving compliance standards isn’t easy. This guide gives you a detailed look at PCI DSS 4.0 changes and how you can achieve compliance with the updated requirements. Having a...
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Fortra's Complete Guide to Layered Offensive Security

Most organizations have a decent understanding of the types of defensive security tactics they need to employ to thwart cyberattacks. But offensive security techniques are just as important for detecting existing vulnerabilities that a threat actor has yet to discover and exploit. Learn how to approach offensive security from the ground up, including the value of using a layered security approach...
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Optimizing Containers, Kubernetes and OpenShift

The container deployment model offers component autonomy, elasticity, and scalability in a way that no other framework has done before. But to reap the benefits, you need to adopt new ways of managing and optimizing your environments and their underlying resources. Learn how to manage the performance and resource planning of container workloads.
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5th Annual IBM AIX Community Survey Findings

The AIX Community Survey, now in its fifth consecutive year, goes in-depth with IT teams to gain a unique perspective into how this platform is being used today and how teams envision using it in the future. Over the years, the respondents of the survey have expanded to include a variety of industries, geographies, and titles within IT. More than 100 IT professionals in North America, EMEA, and APAC participated in this year’s survey, and this input enables all of us to understand the role of AIX with new clarity.
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How to Do IT Cost Optimization

Our years of experience shows that organizations waste 30% of their hybrid IT spend, on average. This article identifies the five key components of a cost optimization strategy and how to be successful with each of them.
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Comparing Different Methods for Calculating Health and Risk

How do you calculate IT health and risk ? There are different methods you can use, depending on your needs. The most common methods for determining IT infrastructure health are: Threshold comparison Enhanced threshold comparison Event detection Variation from normal Allocation comparison Queuing theory for health On the other hand, the most common methods for calculating IT infrastructure risk are...
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How to Do Capacity Planning Guide

Your business can’t afford downtime. But with ever-growing IT infrastructure, keeping applications up and running isn’t easy. Every CIO or IT manager has limited time, money, or personnel budget to keep IT running. Without a solution, your IT environment risks performance bottlenecks, outages, and an overall inability to predict future needs. That’s where capacity planning comes in. Capacity...
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Continuously Optimizing IT in Financial Terms

CHALLENGES : Virtualization and increasingly complex agile computing environments are creating difficulties for IT financial controllers and for IT Financial Management (ITFM). Virtualization breaks the long-standing direct, one-to-one correlation between cost-allocated physical hardware and the IT services it supports. Increasingly dynamic, multi-layered applications have made it more difficult...
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DevOps Development: Keeping the Lights On

Overview : The DevOps methodology embodies two core philosophies: decreasing the lead time of software deployment and the automation of delivery and testing. DevOps emerged as a practical response to the agile development movement, in contrast with traditional, phase-based or “waterfall” development, which is inefficient and labor-intensive. Traditional methods should be phased out, and companies...
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Dashboards Don't Work (Unless You Have a Metrics Management Strategy)

Tech has had a tremendous impact on the way today’s businesses seek continued growth and improvement. No matter what business they are in, executives everywhere are investing in technology that improves their business processes, gets them ahead of the competition and widens their margins. Ultimately, the return on that investment is determined by how well technology supports a business’ ability to...