You are here: silicon.com > Resources > White Papers > Security > Security Administration > Security Management

Security Management White Papers

Secure Virtualization: Achieve and Maintain IT Security in Virtual Environments

Tags:
security management

Overview Virtualization is the hottest technology for CIOs today with it ranked one of the top 5 important trends for 2008 according to a recent poll from CIO Insight.6 With the cost-savings, agility and convenience virtualization offers, it's no wonder. Smart companies will realize that virtualized environments require the same careful planning and protection as their physical counterparts. These organizations will turn to a powerful, proven configuration audit and control solution like Tripwire Enterprise to control change and configuration management policies and processes and to ensure that they achieve and maintain a known and trusted state across both their physical and virtual environments.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Tripwire	File Format	PDF
Date Published	December 2008
Format	White Papers
Topics	Security Management, Virtualization

Did you find this white paper useful?

Balancing Security Against Productivity

What makes for great security? Is it about keeping the bad guys out or letting the good guys in? About defending attacks or preventing them? When IDG Research Services queried...

Publisher:
Novell

Activate Today!Realize ROI with IntelÂ® vPro Technology and Microsoft System Configuration Manager

Join the team from the Intel vPro Expert Center for an informative Webcast on the ROI savings and activation process for PCs with Intel® vPro™ technology and Microsoft System Configuration...

Publisher:
Intel

Tags:
portable computers

Animated Demo of vPro Systems

This animated demo shows how vPro offers security and manageability on the chip.

Publisher:
Intel

Tube Lines reaps rewards of upgrading to IntelÂ®CoreÂ™2 processor with vProÂ™technology

Tube Lines has a 30-year Public Private Partnership (PPP) contract with London Underground. It is responsible for the maintenance and upgrade of the infrastructure on the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly...

Publisher:
Intel

Tags:
portable computers

Video Case Study: Verizon UK

This video case study looks at how Chris Maylor, head of architecture services at Verizon UK, went about implementing vPro.

Publisher:
Intel

CIO Jury: Are IT departments the new "corporate police force"?

Just over half (seven) of the 12 CIOs polled as part of silicon.com's CIO Jury user panel this week said they are taking an increasingly active role in policing any breaches of staff codes of conduct while the other five CIOs said it is still more...

Channel:
CIO Jury

Outsourcing remains high on CIO agenda

Given that reducing cost was one of the main reasons CIOs gave for outsourcing, this was a worrying observation, and suggests there is still a gulf between the savings that CIOs expect to achieve and the savings that are actually being delivered...

Channel:
IT Outsourcing
Tags:
outsourcing,
cio

TCO: Linux v Windows

Jo Best looks at which issues CIOs should investigate to determine whether switching to Linux from Windows will bring about cost savings for the business. CIOs with TCO on the brain might start to wonder if Linux cost savings are the techie...

Channel:
Open source
Tags:
tco,
linux

Cost and energy benefits driving virtualisation

Virtualisation will be a key infrastructure priority for CIOs looking to reduce costs and increase energy efficiency over the next 12 months. Cost savings and energy efficiency aren't the only benefits of the virtualisation approach.

ID tech tightens up compliance

Most CIOs have a list of compliance regulations as long as their arm. But even the most virtual of organisations has physical assets of some sort - and many of these assets are used to store or produce data, such as storage systems and printers.

Peter Cochrane's Blog: The cloud cometh

I prefer the latter course, through a trusted intermediary or service company. And it offers great advantages, including cost savings, for those who rise to the challenge of change. Actually I hope my bits are spread all over the planet on multiple...

Featured White Papers

The Value of Location Intelligence in the Communications Industry

Public Services are under pressure, the challenge is to do more with less. How do you improve citizen satisfaction, increase cost efficiencies and improve service delivery? The power of location intelligence is helping many local authorities and government departments make more informed decisions and derive greater value from current location-based information and data. Read this whitepaper to see how you can take advantage of location intelligence.

Publisher:
Pitney Bowes

Best Practices for Translating Customer Satisfaction into Revenue

Today's support organisations are focused on two top-level metrics: financial results and customer satisfaction. For most, it's easy to track financial performance, but customer satisfaction is akin to speaking a foreign language. How do you quantify customer satisfaction? Download the Best Practices for Benchmarking Customer Satisfaction to get industry research the Association of Support Professionals (ASP) on how to measure and leverage customer satisfaction.

Publisher:
Citrix Online

HP print solutions and 3M

the objective for 3M was to optimize office printing infrastructure at 3Mlocations worldwide Reduce total cost and environmental footprint. Some of the business benefits acheived by switching to HP print soultions, More than $3 million in savings in first two years and Per page costs reduced by up to 90 percent.