Focus on fundamentals to reduce data breaches, expert advises

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	Focus on fundamentals to reduce data breaches, expert advises Responsible network managers need to acknowledge that attacks leading to data breaches do happen and plan accordingly. By focusing on the fundamentals of best practices, they can control the breach and limit the amount of damage. Read More WEBCAST: Attachmate Unlocking and Service-Enabling Legacy Assets Whether your strategy calls for full-blown SOA, quick-turnaround mobile applications, or anything in between, Verastream Host Integrator can help. Watch this six-minute product demo and learn the noninvasive way to encapsulate mainframe data and logic as reusable services. View Now! In this Issue Whittle down application sprawl If you haven't retired Windows XP and haven't been fired yet, get busy What CISOs Can Do About the Cybersecurity Skills Shortage IT Lessons Learned from Boston Marathon bombings: Dr. John Halamka How to Add New Job Skills Without Going Back to School At Goldman Sachs SDN is déjà vu all over again Five things to know about malware before driving it out WHITE PAPER: Crittercism Getting Agnostic about Mobile Devices The need for flawless, high-performing mobile apps is critical, yet many organizations struggle. This paper explains how to accurately analyze performance of mobile apps, calculate the cost of app failure, and how to develop, deploy and test mobile apps so that malfunctions don't happen. Read more! Whittle down application sprawl When it comes to shutting down out-of-date, risky or unnecessary applications, James Gordon, vice president of technology and operations at Needham Bank, doesn't mess around. Read More If you haven't retired Windows XP and haven't been fired yet, get busy CIOs who haven't moved their companies from Windows XP by now ought to be fired, some people think, but those who haven't and are still on the job have options for saving their bacon. Read More WEBCAST: Attachmate Government Agency Webifies Outdated COBOL Applications Let this CTO tell you how his agency converted 1980s-era green screens into an e-filing portal for the 100,000 cases handled each year by a county department. With Verastream, they automated and standardized processes that drive the new, user-friendly front end, which accepts electronic transmissions. Learn More. What CISOs Can Do About the Cybersecurity Skills Shortage I had the opportunity to present some of my research on the IT security skills shortage at last week's RSA Conference. This is a serious issue that doesn't get nearly enough attention. Read More IT Lessons Learned from Boston Marathon bombings: Dr. John Halamka Dr. John Halamka, CIO for Beth Isreal Deaconess Hospital in Boston, chats with Computerworld's Tracy Mayor about some of the IT lessons learned following last year's Boston Marathon bombings. Read More WHITE PAPER: Crittercism The 2013 Mobile App Performance Management Report Most enterprises are looking for ways to leverage their investments in web technology to handle mobile app performance, but between monitoring, OS variants, screen sizes and OEMs, this can be a costly and complex approach. This 2013 Mobile APM Report highlights best practices for meeting mobile app challenges and ensuring mobile app performance. Read more! How to Add New Job Skills Without Going Back to School E-learning is a cost-effective, accessible way to boost your job skills without the hassles of 'traditional' degree programs. Read More At Goldman Sachs SDN is déjà vu all over again Goldman Sachs has been doing SDNs for a long time. It just wasn't called SDNs when the investment giant invested in network programmability. It was just a bunch of APIs, software development kits and other code used to cobble together a large number of various specialized networks – trading, investment banking and the like -- across the globe. Read More Five things to know about malware before driving it out In today's network environments, malware that evades legacy defenses is pervasive, with communication and activity occurring up to once every three minutes. Unfortunately, most of this activity is inconsequential to the business. You would think that would be good news right? The problem is that incident responders have no good way of distinguishing inconsequential malware from (potentially) highly damaging malware. As a result, they spend way too much time and resources chasing red herrings while truly malicious activity slips past. Read More
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