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Bank says application whitelisting is answer for AV blues
Connecticut River Bank stopped using anti-virus software in all its branches nearly a half decade ago, and it hasn't had a single virus infection since then. Instead, the regional bank uses application whitelisting to lock down its workstations and keep harmful and unproductive software off the devices. Read More


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Building a Successful Security Operations Center
This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center

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Using BPM and Business Analytics Together
How do organizations become agile enough to proactively respond to all this change? They require processes, analytics and structures that give them real-time situational awareness into occurrences both inside and outside the organization. Read now!

The 6 biggest misconceptions about IPv6
For 15 years, Internet engineers and policymakers have been publicizing the need to upgrade the 'Net's current addressing scheme -- known as IPv4 -- to handle the network-of-network's explosive growth. Yet many U.S. CIOs and CTOs continue to harbor misinformation that they use to justify why they are not adopting the next-generation IPv6 standard. Read More


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Colocation versus Managed Hosting
The practice of outsourcing certain business functions or responsibilities has become more prevalent because it addresses two simple business needs, lower expenses and better allocation of resources. Learn More

Raising Your IT Staff's Business Smarts
Eisai Senior VP of IT Joel Dobbs says that after a consolidation, CIOs must focus everyone on strategic goals Read More


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Deliver Engaging Communications with PDF Portfolios
Learn how easy it is to create and send a single PDF Portfolio using Adobe Acrobat X Pro. See how to create a rich, branded PDF Portfolio containing many types of documents, each with a rich preview experience. Learn More

Four Kinds of IT Professionals CIOs Need to Hire Now
Developers of mobile, social media and collaboration apps. Business experts. Cloud-vendor managers. Masters of unstructured data. Why these IT professionals are essential to maintaining your company's competitive edge. Read More

Survey: More to IT Than Building and Running Systems
A survey by CIO and the MIT Center for Information Systems Research finds the IT department role goes beyond delivering systems. Technologists must help companies exploit the technology, too. Read More



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