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Most organizations would agree that their most valuable IT assets reside within applications and databases. Most would probably also agree that these are areas that have the weakest levels of security, making them the prime target for malicious insiders. This is a difficult problem to address, but it's not impossible.
I first heard of the concept of smart cities following a briefing by IBM around the topic of the smarter planet. But where do you start? Is it with hard assets or is it with the people? IBM's Mark Cleverley answers some of my questions with responses that beg morequestions.
As a business grows in complexity, so too is the need for more custom-applications. The Independent Software Vendor industry has grown to meet the need for specific business processes. An upscale private hospital, the HKSH is recognized for offering high quality hospital services and comfortable accommodation for patients. To maintain these standards, the hospital uses information technology extensively throughout its operations.
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Online data protection services in the cloud are less expensive than owning your own data protection infrastructure, provide an immediate off-site location for DR, and are inherently scalable. But how does one evaluate the relative strengths of a wide array of service offerings? What are the key criteria to look for in an online data protection solution that will provide safe, reliable, and secure backup and DR in the cloud?
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Resistance to change is a natural occurring issue among employees in private and public sector organizations. One of the challenges of the Efficiency Unit of the Hong Kong Government is to help civil servants understand how their positions in the department influences the operation of the unit, and how changes can positively affect the overall performance of the department.
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Almost 20 years since the commercialization of the Internet, no business or individual could possibly function without it. But the World Wide Web is not without its flaws. The online threat environment has intensified in the last few years due an increasing pool of sophisticated fraudsters and the availability of new technologies that has facilitated such criminal activities. In this article, Geoff Haydon, Vice President, Asia Pacific, RSA, identifies the Top 8 forms of online attacks to watch out for in 2010.
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Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is a culturally diverse Australian education provider with campuses in Brisbane and southeast Queensland. In 1989, QUT decided to partner with Oracle to deliver key elements of its information technology architecture. Download this free case study to know more.
St. Helens and Knowsley Health Informatics Service (HIS) serves about 12,000 users. In the wake of widely publicized breaches, government organizations throughout the U.K. face new mandates to protect private data. This case study describes how the HIS met requirements for securing data‐in‐motion by chooshing an Extensible Content Security (XCS) appliance from WatchGuard.
Enterprises that seek a successful move to virtualization have a number of hurdles to overcome. Not all are obvious. This paper identifies seven key things that you must know if your business is to be successful in virtualizing your mission-critical applications.
Healthcare organizations today must manage two diametrically opposed sets of requirements: the practitioner’s need for ease of access to information versus the business’s need to apply increased privacy and security controls against that data.
