management
Balancing security products with management time: are you stretching yourself too thin?
With new threats emerging by the second, enterprise security has become paramount. IT managers, however, are faced with the daunting task of coordinating numerous elements from VPNs and e-mail scanning systems to content filters and anti-virus software.
Oct 6 2004 3:36PM
Security
What can software asset management do for me?
‘It is an irony of modern business that directors pay more attention to the control of assets such as company cars than they do to the management of business critical investments such as IT.’ So says George Cox, director of the IOD. An irony that deepens further still when you realize that many organizations spend more each year on software than they do on their vehicle fleets.
Sep 29 2004 11:18AM
Security
Balancing security products with management time. Are you stretching yourself too thin?
With new threats emerging by the second, enterprise security has become paramount. IT managers, however, are faced with the daunting task of coordinating numerous elements from VPNs and e-mail scanning systems to content filters and anti-virus software.
Aug 31 2004 5:21PM
Security
Defending your IT infrastructure through effective patch management
Imagine that you are the IT Director of a large retail bank with an active and highly visible Internet banking service. Driving into the office, half-listening to the radio news, you hear your bank’s name being announced. Immediately followed by the words "hacker," "massive system failure" and "identity theft."
Aug 25 2004 10:27AM
Security
Identity Management – an industry need
There is a lot of talk recently about Identity Management (IM) solutions not only within enterprises that have teams to assess the variety of technology solutions available, but also by industry analysts whose job it is to size up the IM market space, including vendors. Increasingly, IM is also becoming a key focus of discussion at industry and analyst conferences on IT security.
Aug 10 2004 4:58PM
Security
Review: Altiris Asset Management Suite
Altiris speaks in terms of "lifecycle management," by which it means managing your IT-related assets throughout their useful term of operation. This is enabled by the provision of a core Notification Server, to which might be added a Server Provisioning Suite, a Client Management Suite , (CMS), and an Asset Management Suite, (AMS). The Altiris brochure also describes a utility named the Wise Package Studio which, as you might expect, provides for software distribution.
Aug 3 2004 12:00AM
Security
