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Article
Article

With Public Cloud OS Instances Growing, Security Challenges Grow, Too

Tue, 03/13/2018
Image “Some cloud vendors tout that systems deployed within their framework require little or no administration: You create an image with the software and applications that you want it to provide services for, spin it up in a management console, and Voila! you have an entirely new system online; with minimal cost, no hassle, little...
Data Protection
IT Infrastructure Protection
Article
Article

Perspectives on the Changing Linux Ecosystem

Tue, 03/13/2018
Media Image Text In the early 1990s the Open Software Foundation formed a committee to select and standardize a new Management Platform Toolset for and from the UNIX ecosystem....
Vulnerability Management
Datasheet
Datasheet

Webdocs

Webdocs helps you streamline your business processes by managing the entire document lifecycle digitally. That makes it easier for everyone at your organization to get the information they need anytime, anywhere (as long as they’re authorized). Capture Every Document Automate the document capture process—no matter how you receive documents. With Webdocs, you can go beyond...
Guide
Guide

Controlling SSH for Security and Compliance

SSH is nearly ubiquitous in today’s enterprises, and is the predominant tool for managing unix and linux servers, and the applications and data that they host. Poor practices around the deployment and management of the SSH infrastructure could easily leave your enterprise vulnerable to a breach. Are you in control? SSH, Secure Shell protocol, is now nineteen years old and...
Data Protection
Compliance
IT Infrastructure Protection
Article
Article

Sudo or SuDon't: Manage Your Privileged Command Execution and Sudo Policies

Mon, 03/13/2017
System admins need root level authority at all times, system operations staff needs periodic database and application account authority, and security admins needing to protect the environment are some of the few of the challenges of managing privilege in the enterprise server infrastructure. Read this article to learn more about Sudo alternatives.
Vulnerability Management
Offensive Security
Article
Article

Managing IT Access Privileges

Mon, 03/13/2017
Image THE UNSOLVED PROBLEM Secure, private, effective use of computers by a company (including hosted, cloud and other services as well as the company’s own systems) relies on managing access privileges. The problem isn’t unique to computers. Office buildings, hotels, apartments and college dorms, for example, typically have “master...
Vulnerability Management
Article
Article

Solving Healthcare Security Concerns

Mon, 03/13/2017
According to a recent KPMG report, four-fifths of executives at healthcare providers and payers say their information technology has been compromised by cyberattacks. That same report presents how the increased risk to healthcare organizations relates to the richness and uniqueness of the information that health plans, doctors and hospitals handle. Apart from typical financial...
Vulnerability Management
Article
Article

New Approaches to the SWIFT and PCI-DSS Framework

Mon, 03/13/2017
Image THE WORLD OF COMPLIANCE At the official start of summertime 2016 in Britain we are starting to consume the labour of last autumn, five gallons of alcoholic homemade cider (yum!) made from eight apple varieties grown in mine and my neighbors’ gardens. I’m very VERY careful sterilizing glassware, containers, and buckets: there...
Infrastructure and Data Protection
Article
Article

Pros and Cons for Puppet's Configuration Management & Security

Mon, 03/13/2017
Image THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY I was at the Red Hat Summit in Boston at the end of June. We had a lot of activity at our exhibitor stand, and a lot of discussions being passed on to me by our sales team I continued to have the same conversation again and again over the three days. This seems to be the year people have finished...
Vulnerability Management
Case Study
Case Study

Appvion Improves Customer Satisfaction with a Digital Document Repository

Appvion, Inc. manufactures paper—thermal, carbonless, security, inkjet, digital specialty and colored papers. But this Appleton, Wisconsin-based company had a problem when it came to digital documents in their customer web portal. Their existing system just wasn’t up to snuff. It was time to make a change.  ...
Automation