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There's a tremendous focus today on complying with regulatory mandates, keeping IT systems secure, and ensuring privacy for confidential enterprise and customer information.

Thanks to the rapid growth of Web sites such as Facebook and Twitter, social computing has entered the enterprise lexicon quickly as business and IT managers seek to leverage the power of social applications to improve communications and collaboration both internally and externally.

The GCSX Code of Connection is an important step along the journey to provide a secure infrastructure for public sector business. At the time of writing most, if not all, work in local authorities to achieve compliance with the Code of Connection has been completed.

By March 1, 2010, all organizations with operations and/or customers in the state of Massachusetts will be required to follow comprehensive information security requirements regarding both paper and electronic records containing personal information. These requirements include enforcing password security, encrypting all personal information stored on laptops and removable devices and ensuring up-to-date firewall protection, operating system patches and the latest versions of security agent software. Read this whitepaper to learn how your organization can meet the necessary requirements and improve its security practices.

A FISMA compliance approach that relies on a manual and labor-intensive process can produce mountains of paper and electronic documents that no one can organize and make sense of. Such a compliance strategy results in overwhelming confusion where the assumption is that everything is in place because personnel are too busy to make sense of it all: that is, until things break down and all the fingers are pointed at the agency. This whitepaper highlights the six critical elements agencies should keep in mind in order to reduce the burden of FISMA compliance, while achieving greater control and security.

Managing IT risk is part of running any business, helping you increase security, reduce management costs and achieve greater compliance. Corporate leaders who fail to identify, assess and mitigate IT risk are setting themselves up for security breaches and financial losses. Read this paper to learn how to effectively assess IT risk and manage compliance.

Read this white paper to find out the first solution to effectively combine configuration assessment and file integrity monitoring, enabling automated and sustainable configuration control throughout virtual and physical infrastructures.