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Versafe offers a server-side-only approach to fraud detection and prevention
Already a success in its native Israel, Versafe is bringing its TotALL Online Fraud Protection Suite to North America. With solutions for web-based and native mobile applications, Versafe protects banking (and other) applications from fraud and other attacks at the application layer, protecting users without requiring them to download software. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Ipswitch, Inc

Fixing Intermittent Application Performance Problems
Intermittent performance problems are among the most frustrating issues IT administrators face. The apparently random nature of occurrences, the near impossibility of reproducing all conditions, and the complexity of applications and their dependencies make it difficult to diagnose root causes to resolve an issue quickly. Read Now

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5 ways devops can benefit IT
Devops is about getting the people responsible for creating applications to work more closely with the people who maintain apps in production. The goal? Faster delivery, better quality apps. Read More

How to calculate the costs of solid state drives
Many organizations are considering swapping out some of their Hard Disk Drives (HDD) for Solid State Drives (SSD) to increase I/O throughput and power density (IOPS/Watt). But how do you compare cost vs. performance to determine the best technology mix for specific application environments? Read More

WHITE PAPER: Citrix

10 Reasons to Strengthen Info Security with Virtualization
New ways of working call for new ways of managing risk. Mobility, flexwork, BYOD and increased collaboration across organizations have changed the risk profile and undermine existing IT architectures. This paper describes how desktop virtualization can help regain control and reduce risk without sacrificing business productivity and growth. Learn More

Where do SDNs Fit in the Data Center?
As CIOs try to make sense of the hype surrounding software-defined networks (SDNs) and their potential in data centers, some experts and vendors say IT leaders are looking for answers in all the wrong places. Read More

The Grill: Cynthia Nustad creates a culture of transparency
Every year, the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium names four finalists to its CIO Leadership Award. This year's list includes Cynthia Nustad, senior vice president and CIO at Health Management Systems, which provides government-funded, commercial and private entities with cost-containment services for their healthcare payments. Like all good leaders, Nustad credits her team for the recognition. "I have a true sense of team, and I love when accolades go out to my group," she says. But Nustad also brings to the job her talent, insights and strategies -- gained from 17 years of IT experience. Here, she shares some of her ideas on what works in IT. Read More

WHITE PAPER: CDNetworks

Dynamic Web Acceleration
Delivering web applications over the Internet and ensuring reasonable response times for users around the globe is a significant challenge. Find out how Dynamic Web Acceleration can accelerate highly dynamic and interactive web applications aimed at a global audience. Learn more.

Experts praise Pentagon's march to security standards
Consolidation of the Defense Department's 15,000 networks expected to cut costs, as well as improve security against Edward Snowden-like leaks Read More

The International Security Community Should Embrace the STIX and TAXII Standards
Most experts agree that security technologies based upon signature files (DATs) alone can no longer provide adequate security protection. Why? There is simply too much malware volume so it's harder for the security industry to keep up with the bad guys. Furthermore, polymorphic and metamorphic malware is designed to change its appearance. You can't match a pattern if the pattern keeps changing. ... Read More

How do you define a cybersecurity "professional'?
How or should the cybersecurity workforce be formally professionalized? The National Research Council this week issued a report that looks at the issues around how to professionalize a field it describes as so broad and diverse it could be hard to even treat it as a single occupation or profession. Read More

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