In Depth

In Depth

IT risk management

• Securing applications on the network

  When it comes to securing applications on a network, limiting privileges is the golden rule. Vulnerabilities that expose web applications start with the...  Continue Reading

• Asking the right questions: how information security needs to gather intelligent information

  Companies that perform traditional risk management use a business impact assessment to gauge the risk a project will introduce into the business. The engagement between security and business is measured in information security concepts rather than ...  Continue Reading

• Green Storage and the challenges of data growth

  Whatever their long-term view ought to be, many people see the premium on green goods as discretionary, and among the first thing to be cut when times get...  Continue Reading

• XAM: a guide to standardising archives

  How much money has your organisation invested in storage systems and processes over the last decade? Chances are you have spent many millions of pounds storing...  Continue Reading

• Banks should prepare for post-sub-prime legislation

  As scrutiny continues into the role that mortgage-backed securities played in the credit crunch, data integration specialist, Informatica, believes banks...

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• Storage Expo preview: Why e-mail is a legal timebomb

  E-mail is the data type that nobody wants to know about - it is a huge problem. The storage teams do not want to know, the mail teams do not know how to cope, and the compliance issues grow just as fast as the e-mail volumes. Corporate e-mail is a ...  Continue Reading

• Companies tread carefully on SaaS adoption

  History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce, according to Karl Marx. Is software as a service a tragi-comic re-run of the application service provider (ASP) model - a lovely idea that didn't work in practice?  Continue Reading

• Hacker Gary McKinnon - Essential Guide

  UK hacker Gary McKinnon has lost his appeal to the European Court of Human and now faces extradition to the US on charges of causing damage to US military systems when hacking into them to seek information on UFOs. Find out more in our essential ...  Continue Reading

• Virtualisation: realising the benefits

  Virtualisation: Realising the benefits

  T departments are being pressured to cut costs, and yet deliver more services faster and better than before....

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• How to manage your software assets

  In May, the Business Software Alliance, the industry's licensing watchdog, launched a six-week blitz to cut the use of illegally copied or counterfeit software across 5,000 businesses in the Manchester area.  Continue Reading

• Microsoft’s guide to IT efficiency for SMBs

  In this series of articles Microsoft UK offers directors of small-to-medium businesses advice and...  Continue Reading

• Case study: Simplifying IT at Nottingham Building Society

  Working with systems integrator Esteem, Nottingham Building Society has re-engineered its entire IT estate to reduce its service overhead and enable its IT team to work more strategically towards long-term goals, employing virtualisation and remote ...  Continue Reading

• IT managers in finance sector trapped

  IT managers in the finance sector ...  Continue Reading

• Identity is no longer a matter of what you know, but who you are

  Protecting your personal information with "what you know" is no longer good enough as it is now easy to find information like a birth date, address or mother's...

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• How UK business broadband is evolving

  Broadband connectivity was supposed to be a revolution in digital communications. In the late 1990s, businesses that wanted high-speed internet access...

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