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	Votiro sanitizes malware-laden files intent on doing you harm According to the 2013 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, in organizations investigated for breaches, email was the initial attack vector 67% of the time. Malware-laden files are often sent as attachments, and unsuspecting victims open them and unleash the evil to their internal networks. Now one company claims it has a solution that will sanitize those files and neutralize the attack before it can do harm. Read More WHITE PAPER: SunGard Availability Services 3 Key Considerations to IT Ensure Resiliency The risks and costs associated with downtime in today's markets make disaster recovery a necessary consideration for organizations. Two leading analyst firms, Forrester Research, Inc. and Gartner, recently provided their perspectives on the state of the DR landscape today. 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Learn More Cognitive bias: The risk from everyone in your organization, including you Risks to enterprises are not only of the security breach variety from outside attackers, malicious insiders or even careless employees. Another comes from everybody in an organization a even its most loyal, careful, capable members. Read More How to use service catalogs to combat cloud sprawl Cloud usage is growing dramatically, but unfortunately some of that growth is the result of employees going around IT and obtaining services directly, resulting in cloud sprawl. Service catalogs can help you get your arms around cloud services, regain control of business processes, and enable you to better serve business users. Read More Video surveillance moves to IT A recent survey conducted by Enterprise Security Group (on behalf of Axis Communications) says more IT departments are getting involved in video surveillance projects. As cameras move from analog over to IP-based systems, it makes sense that IT get involved, considering the increased bandwidth and storage demands that these cameras provide to the business. But in addition to those challenges come some... Read More WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Converged Infrastructure for Dummies - 2.0 Simplify and align IT to the speed of business with HP Converged Infrastructure Learn More>> China's unsupported XP machines hold the potential to become a massive botnet army Unsupported Windows XP machines in China could pose a threat to the Internet in general if bot-herders round up significant numbers of them to use as launch pads for malicious exploits, according to a top white-hat hacker. Read More When crowdfunding goes bad; the story of ZionEyez Read More My Two Cents on the Security and Market Implications of the End of Windows XP I know there have been a substantial number of articles on the end of Windows XP and its implications, but I couldn't resist chiming in. Hey, maybe I was destined to do so since I was one of a few thousand people at the Windows 95 introduction in Redmond (back in the summer of 1995 of course). Here are my thoughts on this transition, I'll try to take a bit of a different angle on the topic. ... Read More WEBCAST: Code42 Mobility Mayhem: Balancing BYOD with Enterprise Security Check out this on-demand webinar to hear Sophos senior security expert John Shier deep dive into how BYOD impacts your enterprise security strategy and provides practical tips for securing a mobile workforce. Watch now>> Microsoft drags customers 'kicking and screaming' into its world of faster updates Microsoft's demand that Windows 8.1 users install this week's major update was another signal that the company is serious about forcing customers to adopt its faster release strategy, experts said today. Read More 14 Tips for Creating Business Videos Customers Will Want to Watch Video marketing and communications experts share their top tips on how to create a business video that will get maximum views and shares -- with no cats involved. Read More Government CIOs Face Data Center Consolidation Challenges Federal CIOs face pressure to consolidate their agencies' data center infrastructure. Those challenge are much bigger than just an IT, and experts advise CIOs to develop strategic plans so that consolidation improves application delivery and supports priorities such as cloud computing and virtualization. Read More Collaboration 2.0: Old meets new Today's tools are a lot like yesterday's in some respects, except they add features for cloud, social, Web and mobile. They're also a whole lot easier to use. Read More
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