Technology White Papers

Five Tips to Get IT Auditors Off Your Back

Molly Cadden — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:06:19 -0500

Uh-oh - you're facing an IT audit, but you can't just drop your normal responsibilities to prepare for it. One thing's for sure - this is no time to panic! You need to balance the audit requirements and your daily routine. In this Quest white paper, learn five key tips and the best way to get them what they need while juggling your priorities.

Whitepaper: 10 Reasons You Absolutely Need AD Reporting

Molly Cadden — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:40:48 -0500

If there is one thing you need for Active Directory (AD) in order to be secure, control costs, and pass audits, it's reporting. And though solutions like Windows Management Instrumentation and Active Directory Services Interface provide easy access to AD and Windows information, they aren't cheap. Learn more in this whitepaper.

CSO White Paper - Desktop Virtualization: Empowering Information Security

Molly Cadden — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:11:29 -0400

IT managers are facing an increasingly complex and costly battle to control and protect enterprise applications and data. At the same time as information security threats are growing more sophisticated and numerous, computing trends such as the consumerization of IT and cloud computing further complicate the information security landscape. In this paper, CSO explores why desktop virtualization should be the foundation of your approach to information security.

How Healthy Is Your Data Center?

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:42:14 -0400

With massive mixed network environments, long lists of remote access protocols and applications, multiple user interfaces, and what may feel like way too many tools, IT pros managing hospital infrastructure environments are increasingly searching for more complete solutions that give them a combination of in-band and out-of-band vendor-neutral management capabilities that are efficient and secure to use as well as cost effective to deploy. Find out what's really important when choosing a remote access management solution for a hospital data center environment in this paper.

Demystifying The Android Malware

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 01:48:42 -0400

Introduction to the paper:

Earlier, cybercriminals around the world used to create programs that could create havoc on your network and steal important data. But, now with the immense growth of mobile technology every individual needs to not only worry about the device being stolen but also of malwares that effect their mobile device.
In this paper, we are going to take you through the various phases so as to understand how and what these malwares are exactly made up of. First of all, we will start with discussing the background of Android and then move on to the basics of how an Android package architecture is developed. We shall then analyze an android malware in complete detail. In the end we will discuss on the steps to counter these kinds of malware attacks.

Whitepaper: Mobile Device Management Buyer's Guide: An Insider's View of the Market

Elizabeth Ray — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 11:19:03 -0400

What are the most important criteria to select the best MDM software for your needs? How do the dozens of products differ? This report will help you get to the bottom line, including a shortlist of vendors, an overview of security approaches, technical decision criteria, and guidelines on pricing.

Results of a Survey on DevOpsTrends

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:12:03 -0400

This whitepaper showcases the results of a survey on DevOpsTrends. We believe this is the first DevOps study to combine both technology and management perspectives, providing an integrated look at DevOps motivation, adoption and (importantly) results in organizations from less than 100 people to the Global 100. In addition to comprehensively covering a range of organization sizes, the survey represents a wide mix of industries including retail, manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, education, and consulting.

Here's an example of some study nuggets:
• Despite the emphasis on organization, over 90% indicated that software tools were either "important" or "somewhat important" to DevOps success. Tools cited ranged from defect tracking and source code control systems to agile workflow tools and automated defect resolution tools.
• Large organizations are more likely to have dedicated DevOps teams. Smaller organizations tend to implement DevOps with resources borrowed from other teams.
• The three major DevOps benefits that were cited are, faster mean time to resolution for defects, team communication, and smoother software upgrades, echoing key DevOps objectives of collaboration and communication.
• DevOps seems to be having the desired effect. Survey responders report that DevOps uniquely helps challenges with the software upgrade and release management process. 60% indicated that they can now do releases or major patch releases at least every 30 days.

Penetration Testing with Metasploit Framework

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 04:23:21 -0400

Today security is just an illusion. However safe you think you are, you might just be wrong. Penetration testing of your web application helps you know the vulnerability in your application and you might as well try to find out solutions for it once you know the vulnerability. Metasploit is the leading tool used by penetration testers today which helps test your application security and save you from possible intruders and attacks.

This paper tried to explain how Metasploit framework can be used by penetration testers to exploit flaws in the web application which could be really difficult to find if done manually.

8 Critical Requirements for Secure, Mobile File Transfer and Collaboration

Connie Walsh — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:27:07 -0400

By giving users mobile access to secure collaboration and file sharing, enterprises can boost business productivity and organizational agility. However, IT departments need to ensure that mobile file sharing never jeopardizes the organization's data security or compliance mandates. With more and more employees downloading free, dropbox-type applications to access work files whenever and wherever they are needed, your enterprise may be at risk for a security breach. Download this whitepaper to learn about the requirements that secure file sharing solutions should meet in order to deliver mobile access while protecting enterprise data.

5 Ways to Reduce Enterprise Mobililty Costs with Wireless Telecom Expense Management

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 18:07:00 -0400

Most CIO's are still unaware of the excessive mobility costs they are overpaying each and every billing cycle. In fact, if an organization does not implement some form of wireless telecom expense management, they are literally blowing anywhere from $10-30 per device every cycle. This can mean big bucks if your organization deploys hundreds or thousands of phones/tablets/etc.

But it’s not your fault. See, the big wireless carriers employ top dollar ad agencies and marketing firms to maximize each plan's pricing strategy. Your monthly wireless billings are a great example of these marketing tactics in action. More often than not, billing terminology is complex and unless you are a seasoned wireless billing analyst, you will probably have an extremely hard time of determining where all of this unsettling overspending occurs.

Therefore, we’ve put together this white paper to give you 5 ways you can easily save around $5 per device every billing cycle.

In this whitepaper, we show you exactly how to use basic wireless expense management pricples to help reduce your mothly wireless spend. These unversal expense management princples can apply to organizations with 1, 100 or 1,000+ devices currently in use.

Attracting best-in-class clients with best-in-class OCR

Rebecca Friend — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:35:32 -0400

Foxit Corporation is a leading provider of electronic document solutions. To meet customer demand for more features, the company wanted to add an OCR solution to its award-winning Foxit Phantom PDF Suite. Download this report to learn about the Foxit sucess story.

Case Study: ABBYY FineReader® Engine Drives Demand for ECM Software Leader

Rebecca Friend — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:29:47 -0400

When dissatisfaction with their old OCR solution led Colorado Springs-based CAPSYS to ABBYY FineReader® Engine, the results were greater flexibility, better quality, lower costs and broader market opportunity. Download this report to hear the complete CAPSYS success story.

Green Doesn't Have to be Hard

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:57:36 -0400

IT departments today already have to struggle with a wide array of influences, pressures and goals. Now they have yet another thing to think about: the environment and how their technology decisions may impact our planet. But the reality is that being mindful of the environment doesn't have to be challenging from a cost-saving or implementation perspective. The two can be in harmony. Find out more about the role of IT in being green here.

Efficiency On Demand

Mon, 09 May 2011 11:01:13 -0400

Managed services represents a paradigm shift for IT departments away from the time-honored presumption that being responsible for IT means doing everything yourself. The cost savings and productivity gains of moving to a managed services model can be immense. Find out what managed services can mean to your business here.

The E-discovery Toolbox: What you should look for in a unified e-discovery solution

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 19:10:50 -0400

Faced with the high costs of outsourcing e-discovery to vendors, consultants and outside counsel, organizations have no doubt considered insourcing some of the work. The decision of which e-discovery processes to bring in-house is based on various considerations. Setting aside the document review phase of the process, organizations look first to the most costly line items when deciding which processes to bring in-house first. In recent years, organizations have targeted collection and processing as two big-ticket items to bring in-house. In fact, Real eDiscovery’s Winter 2009 feature article (“Bringing eDiscovery Processing In-House”) addressed how organizations are attempting to move e-discovery collection and processing in-house and away from service providers. In the short time since the article’s publication, collection and processing have expanded such that organizations are continuing to insource more of the e-discovery workflow. This trend is a result of a number of factors, including: the increased sophistication and capacity of in-house e-discovery teams, the pressure to adapt to shrinking legal budgets and minimize risk during continuing difficult economic times, and the development of technology that facilitates an integrated, comprehensive solution to the increasingly complicated e-discovery process. The issue remains as to which of the processes to bring in-house. With a unified technology, organizations have the ability to insource such capabilities as automated legal holds, pre-collection analytics, early case assessment and first-pass review.