Key questions to ask your service provider about security

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	Key questions to ask your service provider about security Back in March, IT services provider Avanade Inc. conducted a global study of 573 business leaders, asking them about their primary IT focus areas for the next 12 months. It comes as no surprise that cloud computing, security and IT consolidation topped the charts. While 60% of the companies surveyed said cloud computing is a top IT priority for the next year, 75% of the C-level executives in those companies place it at the top of the priority list. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CIO Perspective Empower Yourself at CIO Perspectives CIO's Editor in Chief Maryfran Johnson and Suzanne Bates, author of "Discover Your Leadership Brand" discuss the experiences of IT leaders Steve Jobs and Sir Richard Branson. Learn what shaped their leadership styles and how to identify and leverage your own IT leadership brand. CIO Perspectives Boston – July 20, 2011. Click to continue In this Issue How to Argue with the CEO--And Win Cloud CIO: In Defense of Corporate IT Do you know where your security holes are? WHITE PAPER: Raritan Data Center Transformations Build outs, consolidations and acquisitions are large-scale projects that can be very disruptive and require careful planning and implementation to maintain operations. This white paper examines the process and what's required to meet IT goals and objectives and maintain business continuity. Read now! How to Argue with the CEO--And Win Arguments with the CEO are an inevitable aspect of the CIO role, whether they're knock-down-drag-out battles or civil attempts to persuade the CEO on IT matters of importance. They arise in large part from CIOs' inability to communicate on the CEO's level and from CIOs' and CEO's diverging views on how best to spend the company's money. Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Exceptional Application Experience To improve and ensure the performance and availability of business-critical web applications, organizations need to be able to see and understand the actual user experience. This paper examines the five essentials of application performance monitoring. Learn More Cloud CIO: In Defense of Corporate IT The threat that cloud computing poses to CIOs and IT professionals' careers does not stem from cloud computing rendering corporate IT departments irrelevant. Rather, it comes from CIOs' and IT professionals' failure to face the revolution that cloud computing brings and to assume much more important positions inside their firms. Read More WHITE PAPER: AirMagnet, Aruba Networks, Cisco, Enterasys Networks, HP, and Motorola Get the Mobility-Free-For-All Under Control Which is more secure: controlling wireless network access by the device, like an IP address or device type? Or is it by the user identity and that user's access rights and credentials? And how important is location? Learn more! Do you know where your security holes are? We all worry that there's some lurking security problem in our servers. We do what we can, patching, following best practices, keeping up-to-date with training and news. But wouldn't it be great to have an automated tool to check our work? That's the promise of vulnerability analyzers: products that detect problems in configuration, applications, and patches. Read More
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