Complete eBook: Prioritizing Security Spending

The Shortcut Guide to Prioritizing Security Spending provides a framework for IT professionals and business managers grappling with challenges from an economic downturn to rapidly changing technology options. Any IT professional expected to maintain effective security practices in this increasingly complex environment will find this guide to be an invaluable resource. Topics include leveraging opportunities created by the changing economy, protecting business operations while maintaining staff efficiencies, and making judicious use of virtualization, cloud computing...read more

Volume 1: Server Core Domain Controllers, Read-Only Domain Controllers, CHKDSK, IIS7

Are you using - or preparing to use - Windows Server 2008? Make sure you're not just upgrading the OS, but also upgrading what you do with it by taking advantage of new features, new techniques, and subtle new capabilities. IT guru Don Jones guides you through WIndows Server 2008's most important new capabilities in a short, tip-focused format that helps you immediately take advantage of the greatest new features. Walk through installing a Server...read more

Complete Series: New Techniques for Creating Better Backups

The world of backups is an essential piece of an IT infrastructure. With new technologies coming online and new issues around data security, the question becomes whether your backups are keeping up. Virtualization presents new challenges to the old agent based network backup, data breaches force you to take a second look at security, and the sheer volume of data puts backup solutions at their breaking points. The Essentials Series: New Techniques for Creating Better...read more

Chapter 1: What is Application Performance Management?

The Definitive Guide to Application Performance Management offers a comprehensive look at Application Performance Management (APM), an industry-leading mechanism for monitoring business services and applications. APM looks at every facet of the IT infrastructure, from the services to the users themselves, to gain a holistic understanding of what’s going on in your business applications. Using APM, you can quickly dive into the root causes of problems within your infrastructure. You will understand the level of...read more

Chapter 4: Best Practices for Implementing a Business Centric Security Management Strategy

As Chapter 4 explores, a business-centric security strategy starts with the requirements of business, assesses the threats and vulnerabilities to the business, and formulates a combination of organizational and technical controls to mitigate risks. Several technologies, such as SSL-based encryption, digital certificates, anti-malware, and network security controls, as well as organizational controls, including polices and end user training, can be used collectively in a defense-in-depth manner to improve the security of the enterprise....read more