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Report:The CISO's Guide To Virtualization Security

Get Off The Bench And Look Into Your Virtual Environment

In today's data centers, IT often virtualizes new applications and workloads by default. Virtualization is the norm; deploying a physical server is the exception. The technology is mature and...

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Report:Fear Of A Hyperjacked Planet

Hypervisor Security Flaws Get Press, But Operational Risks Matter More

Asked to do more with less, CIOs are using virtualization to pack more services into fewer physical boxes, reduce energy consumption, and provide greater flexibility. But security and risk...

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Report:Twelve Recommendations For Your 2009 Information Security Strategy

Many security predictions paint a doomsday scenario where a crippling cyberattack will leave us all reeling from its effects or Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems...

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Report:Client Virtualization Improves Security Of The Corporate Desktop

Demystifying Client Virtualization

The traditional corporate desktop is quickly becoming a thing of the past, because it's difficult to manage, insecure, and inflexible. Thankfully, emerging client virtualization technologies have...

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Report:Securing Virtual Server Environments

Server Virtualization Security: 90% Process, 10% Technology

There are no known vulnerabilities that can seriously compromise a virtual server based on hypervisor technology from Citrix/Xen, Microsoft, or VMware today. As vendors improve the control and...

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Report:Server Virtualization Security: 90% Process, 10% Technology

Perhaps the biggest concern with securing x86-based virtual server environments is updating existing management and security processes to cope with relatively new technology. There are no known...

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Report:Demystifying Client Virtualization

Desktop And Application Virtualization Increase Security And Streamline Ops

To virtualize or not to virtualize? That is no longer the question. The new question that desktop managers should ask is, "What desktop environment strikes the balance between productive users and...

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Report:Best Practices: Server Operating System Security

Consistency Is The Key To Success

Security managers are at their wits' ends trying to keep their servers secure from the deluge of new vulnerabilities across all operating systems. Why? Because as systems grow more complex, it...

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Report:The State Of Server Operating System Security 2007

Administrators Patch An Average Of Eight Days Late

According to a recent Forrester online survey of security managers, they are all over the map when it comes to meeting their server operating system (OS) security goals. They patch their servers an...

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Report:Case Study: A Global Manufacturer Tackles Server Operating System Security

A large global manufacturer was struggling to maintain and improve the security of its server operating systems (OSes). The IT operations team was spending all of its time chasing down the...

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Report:Case Study: A Global Retail Bank Consistently Audits Server Operating System Security

The information risk manager at a global retail banking organization struggled to quantify the business risk that imperfect server operating systems posed. In order to control that risk, she wanted...

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Report:Operating System Vendors: Do More To Help Users With Server Security

In November 2006, Forrester surveyed 137 server security decision-makers about their approaches to securing their server operating systems and learned about their struggle to keep their systems...

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