Three reasons you shouldn't neglect your application security

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	Three reasons you shouldn't neglect your application security With so much emphasis on all forms of security these days, business applications remain one of the most vulnerable and most frequently exploited IT components. Investment in application monitoring should be a part of a comprehensive defense strategy. Keith Brogan of managed security provider Vigilant provides his thoughts on the importance of application security. Read More WHITE PAPER: Salesforce.com Escape Lotus Notes With the Salesforce Platform, you can develop and deploy mobile, secure, scalable apps faster than ever. You'll get real-time reporting, visual work-flow, and with automatic feature upgrades, your apps will always have the latest innovations. Read Now! In this Issue CIOs Must Move From 'Mobile First' to 'Mobile Only' How a CIO at ING Japan Transformed Its IT Operation INSIDER Why Diversity Matters in IT Hiring Does Big Data Spell the End of Business Intelligence As We Know It? WHITE PAPER: AccelOps Unified Infrastructure Management Examined AccelOps' Unified Infrastructure Management Examined: How network and security administrators can monitor performance, availability and events with just one application. Managing a More Dynamic and Complex World. Read More>> CIOs Must Move From 'Mobile First' to 'Mobile Only' It's a rare CIO today who doesn't think about the impact of mobility and consumerization of IT. But mobile is more than just the latest step forward in tech innovation, say Mike Brinker and Shehryar Khan, principals with Deloitte Consulting. Mobile is fundamentally reshaping operating models, business models and marketplaces. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM Corporation Powerful Application Solutions for CRM & ERP This white paper examines how you can get the most from CRM and ERP, find the best system for your business and how IBM can help. Learn More. How a CIO at ING Japan Transformed Its IT Operation The CIO at ING Insurance in Japan explains how he provided a new vision and framework for improving the reputation and effectiveness of the IT department Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies Reshaping IT for Unprecedented Productivity This "consumer driven IT" represents a new wave of technology adoption—one that significantly blurs the lines between business and personal domains. Learn More INSIDER Why Diversity Matters in IT Hiring Building a network of diverse IT talent--people who will be ready for your next job opening--is a year-round task with a big payoff, says a former divisional CIO at GE Read More Does Big Data Spell the End of Business Intelligence As We Know It? Traditional BI requires human input to decide what correlated factors to query. As predictive data analytics gets increasingly powerful, the algorithms do the deciding. That spells the end of BI as CIO.com columnist Bernard Golden knows it--and he doesn't feel fine about it. Read More
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