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On-Demand Webinar

Expert Tips for Avoiding AIX Security Mistakes

By Bob Erdman
Servers running AIX and other operating systems are frequent targets of cyberattacks, according to the Data Breach Investigations Report. From DDoS to malware, attackers have many strategies at their disposal—and common cybersecurity mistakes make their attacks much easier. One of the most serious mistakes is failing to create a well-defined security policy. A written statement of how your...
Infrastructure and Data Protection
Compliance
On-Demand Webinar

How to Drive Business Value with Capacity Management

By Per Bauer
Today’s businesses—and IT environments—are complex. Technology is changing rapidly, which makes it all the more difficult to manage. You may have considered capacity management to right-size your IT environment. But you might be wondering, “What do I get out of this?” Find out how capacity management will have an impact on your bottom line (and beyond).
Infrastructure Management
On-Demand Webinar

How to Control Your Cloud Deployment

By Per Bauer
Watch this on-demand webinar to learn why cloud deployments are more expensive than expected, what is contributing tot he high cost of cloud and how to gain control and optimize your cloud deployment.
Infrastructure Management
Guide

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...
Infrastructure Management
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 broadly deployed across...
Data Protection
Compliance
IT Infrastructure Protection
Blog

PCI Compliance is Only the Beginning of Security

By Robin Tatam on Wed, 03/08/2017
The recent string of breaches at prominent retailers such as Target and Neiman Marcus demonstrated that too many organizations still falsely equate PCI compliance with comprehensive security. Fully compliant organizations are being hit with attacks that compromise payment card data on a regular basis.
Compliance
IBM i Cybersecurity
Blog

PCI Compliance Takeaways from the Target Data Breach

By Robin Tatam on Wed, 03/08/2017
Smack in the middle of the holiday shopping season, Target was hit with a malware attack that infiltrated its point-of-sale systems and enabled the theft of credit card numbers and personally identifiable information from more than 70 million shoppers.
Compliance
Blog

What to Know about the New NIST Cybersecurity Framework

By Robin Tatam on Wed, 03/08/2017
Compiled with significant input from the private sector, the Cybersecurity Framework isn’t a prescriptive compliance document and instead gives companies significant leeway in how they use it to inform their security strategies. As a relatively new source of guidance, its implications for regulated industries aren’t clear yet.
Compliance