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Issue #66
November 2006
:: New Chapter:
Key Considerations in Effective Voice and Data Integration for a Changing IT/IP Landscape
:: New Chapter:
Trends in Internet Access Protection for Business Integrity and Compliance
:: New Article:
When Patching is Not Enough
:: New Chapter:
Implementing Systems Management Services, Part 3: Managing Applications and Assets
:: New Chapter:
Risk Analysis and Incident Response
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The integration or convergence of voice, video, and data can provide a business with a competitive edge when effectively implemented. There are several business models and operating environments that present opportunities for strategic consideration when planning for this change. The key factors for success involve leveraging the integrated features to provide the greatest support for existing processes. Chapter 2 will look first at high-level business models and processes that are often impacted by service convergence. Later, the chapter will delve into the issues of call quality that affect every organization implementing an integrated service solution. Quality is often the single biggest factor in a successful implementation, so this chapter will explore a variety of approaches for delivering total quality network services, with a focus on integrated VoIP. Chapter 2: Key Considerations in Effective Voice and Data Integration for a Changing IT/IP Landscape, written by Ken Camp, is available at: http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/links/newsletter/dgcnm.asp  
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The means and the methods for using the Internet for business are constantly expanding—and so are challenges to protecting information assets. Throughout, this guide has examined fundamental issues—both business and technical—entailed in the use of the Internet. Chapter 4 examines several emerging and dynamic areas of concern for Internet security: challenges of mobile devices, increasingly porous network perimeter, loss of intellectual property through industrial espionage, protecting against zero-day threats, increasingly complex countermeasures, and future of content protection.
Chapter 4: Trends in Internet Access Protection for Business Integrity and Compliance, written by Dan Sullivan, is available at: http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/links/newsletter/sgpbiu.asp
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Zero-day threats were in the press over the past month as previously unknown vulnerabilities were exploited in Microsoft Office products. Zero-day attacks get their name from the fact that there are zero days between the time a vulnerability becomes known to software developers, security researchers, and application users and the time the vulnerability is exploited on fully patched and updated devices. The problem is not limited to Microsoft products, and it would be unwise to assume that using alternative products alleviates the zero-day vulnerability problems.
This article will examine zero-day threats from three perspectives: 1) What kind of zero-day threats have occurred?, 2) What can be done to minimize the problem in the short term?, and 3) What are the longer-term challenges to mitigating the risk of zero-day threats?
Essential Policies for Messaging, written by Dan Sullivan, is available at: http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/links/newsletter/mwses.asp
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Networks, servers, and client devices alone do not address the information needs of an organization—applications, and their associated data, customize the functions of an otherwise generic infrastructure and allow IT to meet the information management requirements of businesses, agencies, and other organizations. The ability to finely customize software to meet particular needs makes it a key to aligning information services to business strategy. At the same time, the flexibility introduces a wide variety of management challenges. These challenges have by no means been completely mastered, and software developers continue to create and refine new development methodologies. There are, however, common elements to application management frameworks. Chapter 7 will examine the challenges of application management from the perspective of application life cycle management and software asset management. Chapter 7: Implementing Systems Management Services, Part 3: Managing Applications and Assets, written by Dan Sullivan, is available at: http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/links/newsletter/dgsosm.asp |
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Risk analysis helps identify priorities and determine the appropriate level of investment for particular assets. The objective of a risk analysis is to determine business risks and countermeasures that should be deployed to mitigate those risks; it cannot, however, guarantee that threats will not be realized. Incident response planning is also vital to reducing the negative impacts of security attacks. This chapter examines both as they pertain to minimizing damage, expediting recovery, and preventing future attacks to enterprise information assets.
Chapter 7: Risk Analysis and Incident Response, written by Dan Sullivan, is available at: http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/links/newsletter/dgitp.asp
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The Reference Guide™ to Data Center Automation
Volume 7
The Essentials Series: Messaging and Web Security
Essential Policies for Messaging Security
The Realtime Unified Communications Community Podcast
Introduction to VoIP Security
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