Guide
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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How Fortra Supports the Zero Trust Journey
What Zero Trust means, tips for getting started, and how Fortra solutions support your Zero Trust security journey.
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Infrastructure Protection for Proactive Security
By Nick Hogg
Infrastructure Protection for Proactive Security Today’s threat landscape is moving so rapidly that it’s essential to anticipate attacks and adapt your cybersecurity strategy to avoid becoming the next security breach. Such devastating breaches can cripple an organization, slowing or halting day-to-day operations and doing significant harm to a business’ reputation. Join our infrastructure...
News Article
Your Money or Your Business: Beating the Business of Ransomware
Ransomware is big business. Attacks have evolved to become more complex, damaging and far reaching. In Teiss magazine, Mieng Lim, VP of Product Management, provides advice on how to protect against ransomware and prevent cybercriminals from penetrating an organization's defenses.
News Article
Brakeing Down Security Podcast with Mieng Lim: Ransomware Best Practices
Vice President of Product Management, Mieng Lim joins the Brakeing Down Security podcast to discuss how to outsmart ransomware as a service (RaaS), looking in detail at strategies to implement before, during and after a ransomware attack.
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Fortra's Security & Automation Portfolios
Today’s IT environment is filled with the challenges of securing infrastructure despite lean resources and a mounting list of projects. Fortra strives to be your trusted partner as you simplify your strategy, consolidate your technology stack, and harden security across all aspects of your environment. Fortra offers a comprehensive approach to security and automation that reduces the costly...
Press Release
What Firms Should Know About A New Python Ransomware that Targets VMs
Sophos recently observed a new python-based ransomware attack. Mieng Lim joins the commentary in this CXO Today article.
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Fortra Cybersecurity
Chances are, your team is struggling to keep up with the ever-growing workload, increasing security threats, and shifting priorities that have become hallmarks of today’s IT environment. Instead of proactively building your security posture, you’re forced to be reactive, always fighting the biggest fire first. You need a better way. It’s time to protect your organization with proactive, automated...
Blog
Buyer's Guide: Capacity Management Tool Checklist
By Per Bauer on Fri, 02/08/2019
What makes a good capacity management tool? There are six major factors to consider when choosing a capacity management tool, and the right tool should account for all of them.
Article
Comparing Different Methods for Calculating Health and Risk
By Per Bauer on Fri, 02/08/2019
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...
Article
A Roadmap for Consolidation
Mon, 02/04/2019
There are five key steps when planning a consolidation strategy. Considerations for each step are outlined below.
Blog
Performance Management
By Per Bauer on Sat, 07/22/2017
What is Performance Management? IT performance management is responsible for everyday aspects of capacity management , like monitoring performance and resources, planning changes to make efficient use of resources, analyzing performance, and reporting back to the business. Now more than ever, your company’s bottom line rests on your ability to provide 24/7 service online. Even short outages can...
Blog
IT Maturity
By Per Bauer on Fri, 06/16/2017
What are your optimization goals? An optimization initiative is typically triggered by one of the drivers listed below and the focus is dictated by your overall business objectives. But singlehandedly focusing on one objective may negatively impact your capabilities in the other areas. This can reduce the overall service quality and offer limited to no real value. In order to achieve concurrent...
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How to Go from Simple to Strategic Capacity Management
By Per Bauer on Fri, 03/17/2017
Capacity Management Strategies If IT was like a restaurant…then capacity management should be like the restaurant manager (aka Maître D’). Unfortunately, too many organizations are using capacity management as the clean-up department. When something goes wrong, capacity management fixes it. And while that used to work, that’s not the best practice to follow today. A Brief History of Capacity...
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Capacity Planning
By Per Bauer on Tue, 03/14/2017
Have you ever experienced an online service outage? It’s like losing half your physical locations without any warning. Downtime is a huge problem. It stops your revenue stream. It compromises customer loyalty. It damages your brand’s reputation. And it wastes hours and IT resources to fix the problem—when it shouldn’t have been a problem to begin with. Isn’t it about time you prevented downtime...
Blog
How to Choose a Capacity Planning Tool
By Per Bauer on Tue, 02/28/2017
Looking for a capacity planning tool? Find out how to choose a tool that will be the most accurate.
Blog
IT Risk Mitigation
By Per Bauer on Thu, 09/01/2016
It's a brave new world for IT. And it often seems impossible to predict future demand and guard against performance risks. You have mountains of data, scalable cloud infrastructures, and a complex web of IT environments. It's complicated, to say the least. And it's matched by skyrocketing consumer demand for and reliance on online services. Bottom line: outages are more dangerous to a company’s...
Blog
Service Level Management
By Per Bauer on Fri, 02/26/2016
While IT managers agree that service level management (SLM) is critical to their organizations, many also find it intimidating. It need not be. An SLM program is what you make it - it can be formal or informal, all-encompassing or focused on key services. The point is to document required service levels for services provided to the business by the IT organization. Service-level requirements are...
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Top 15 Vendors in Capacity Management Software
By Per Bauer on Fri, 02/19/2016
Where TeamQuest (now part of Fortra) Capacity Management Stands TeamQuest, a global leader in capacity management and predictive analytic modeling , has made the Top 5 Vendors list by Research in Action’s 2016 Capacity Management SaaS and Software Report. Called “the most important focused player in capacity management,” TeamQuest (now part of Fortra) scored higher in customer satisfaction and...