Resources

On-Demand Webinar

Create Your Cloud Security Strategy

By Bob Erdman
Public, private, and hybrid cloud architectures are rapidly transforming the landscape of traditional data centers and your security strategies must transform with them. Watch this on-demand webianr to learn cloud security best practices.
IT Infrastructure Protection
On-Demand Webinar

How to Solve the Cybersecurity Skills Gap

By Bob Erdman
Cybersecurity is a top concern for most organizations, but many IT teams don't have the expertise to tackle this issue effectively. Watch this webinar to learn how managed security services can help you address this problem.
Data Protection
IT Infrastructure Protection
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Guide

Download "Why Managed Services Is Becoming IT Security’s Top Trend"

It’s time to reconsider traditional approaches to cybersecurity. Handling IT security in-house is the norm at most organizations. But no matter what industry you operate in, there’s one fact you can’t ignore: cybersecurity is more complex than ever. With technology and threats changing rapidly, does it still make sense to rely solely on internal resources? Many organizations are beginning to...
Infrastructure and Data Protection
IT Infrastructure Protection
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
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
On-Demand Webinar

Automate Data Capture with Sequel

By Richard Schoen
Many businesses use Sequel to generate electronic reports, dashboards, and other business output they can use to analyze critical business information in real time. Often these data sources contain metrics that are updated on-the-fly, such as shop floor order status information or customer order and shipment data. How nice would it be if you could not only capture real-time data from your Sequel...
IBM i Business Intelligence
Guide

Download “How IT Professionals Can Navigate PCI DSS Compliance” Guide

    The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) applies to every organization that processes credit or debit card information. This includes merchants and third-party service providers that store, process, or transmit credit card data. The launch of PCI DSS helped expose serious security shortcomings, failures to follow security best practices, and a...
Compliance
IT Infrastructure Protection
Guide

UNIX Load Average Part 1: How It Works

In this online article Dr. Gunther digs down into the UNIX kernel to find out how load averages (the “LA Triplets”) are calculated and how appropriate they are as capacity planning metrics.
Guide

UNIX Load Average: Reweighed

This is an unexpected Part 3 to the discussion about the UNIX load average metric answering the question of where the weight factor comes from.
Guide

The “LA Triplets” Quiz

This is a little quiz to test your understanding of the triplet of numbers that appear in the UNIX® load average (LA) performance metric.