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FREE Whitepaper on protecting your software against piracy

Overview Software piracy continues to be a growing epidemic. According to the Second Annual Business Software Alliance (BSA) and IDC Global Software Piracy Study, thirty-five percent of the software installed on personal computers worldwide was pirated, representing a loss of nearly $33 billion in 2004. This white paper on Best Practices in Creating High Level Application Security examines prevalent hacking tactics and the means for effectively battling them. With the ever-growing software piracy epidemic, this paper will also address best practices for implementing security to realise the full potential of your software.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	SafeNet	File Format	PDF
Date Published	March 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Infrastructure Management, E-commerce Security, Data Center, IT Reliability, Network Administration

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IDC reports on Novell's Secure Desktop Solution: A Modern-Day Marriage of Business Benefit and Risk Reduction

Publisher:
Novell

Green IT: Reducing your Carbon Footprint with Citrix

Publisher:
Citrix Systems

Protecting virtual macchines: the "best of Vmworld" approach

Publisher:
Citrix Systems

Security Beyond Corporate Boundaries: Using Citrix Application Delivery to Protect Corporate Information Anywhere Business Happens

Publisher:
Citrix Systems

Identity and Security Management and Strong Information Technology Goverance

Publisher:
Novell

Microsoft stirs up another security storm

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Channel:
Security Strategy

Woman gets nine years in software piracy case

Twenty-five percent of business software in use in the United States was pirated in 2001, with California's piracy rate showing a notable drop from 2000 to 2001, according to the Business Software Alliance.

Channel:
Law & Policy

Code leak spurs Windows Server 2003 piracy

Service Pack 1 would not install on pirated versions, but Microsoft offered no mechanism for turning off pirated copies. There is little Microsoft can do to stop the pirated software from spreading; the best it can do is contain the damage.

Microsoft to turn cracked Windows legal for $1?

According to a report in the Jakarta Post, Microsoft is offering the government an amnesty of $1 per pirated copy of Windows and a promise from the administration it will buy legally. Indonesia, the fifth worst country for software piracy according...

Online pirates face Redmond legal blitz

According to the Business Software Alliance, about a third of all the software installed on PCs worldwide in 2005 was pirated, a multibillion-dollar loss for the software industry. The lawsuits are part of Microsoft's continued crackdown on...

Russia hits out at Microsoft licensing

He said the low average income of people in Russia is one of the factors in the relatively widespread use of cheaper pirated copies of software but he also laid some of the blame on the behaviour of the large software vendors for their restrictive...

Channel:
Applications
Tags:
russia,
microsoft

Virtualisation: Architectual Considerations and other Evaluation Criteria

In the past several years, server virtualisation technology has moved quickly and firmly into the IT mainstream. Of the many approaches to system virtualisation available in the market today, VMware's hypervisor architecture has gained the greatest market acceptance. This paper examines the architectural issues, solution support, and enterprise readiness required when deploying such a virtualisation solution.

Publisher:
EMC

Getting Started with Master Data Management

Master data management forms part of an overall enterprise governance program that aims to establish trusted data throughout the enterprise. This white paper from Mike Ferguson of Intelligent Business Strategies defines master data, examines why it is needed, and explores methodologies for implementing master data management.

Publisher:
DataFlux

Optimising Storage with Global File Virtualisation

This white paper will provide an overview on how Rainfinity Global File Virtualisation virtualises unstructured data environments and moves data -including active, open files-without disruption to users or applications. Rainfinity is the only enterprise-class file virtualisation solution, and delivers complete NAS optimisation across geterogeneous environments, such as NAS, CAS, and file servers.

Publisher:
EMC

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