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A Critical Time for Critical Infrastructure: Some Utilities Step Up

2008-03-17 18:07:36 by Posted By: Earl Perkins, Research VP in IT Leaders - Security and Risk Management
 
Every industry has its particular concerns about information security. Companies in the utility industry, particularly those providing electricity, gas and water to citizens worldwide, have specific requirements that have been highlighted as infrastructure ages, while threats external and internal underscore the "critical" in "critical...
 
Tags: critical infrastructure, critical, critical infrastructure protection, ami security requirements, ami security, critical infrastructure services, ami, infrastructure, ami-sec
 
 
 
 
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Optimizing Infrastructure Control

2008-07-10 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Source: Tripwire) This paper outlines the nature of infrastructure integrity, change auditing, and compliance solutions It describes how an investment in configuration assessment and change auditing solutions can stabilize IT operations, lowering the operational costs associated with the IT infrastructure; be a force multiplier; and provide a...
 
Tags: infrastructure, solutions, compliance solutions, infrastructure integrity, force multiplier, configuration assessment, change, investment, paper outlines
 
 
 
 
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Summer School on Trusted Infrastructure

2007-08-07 00:00:00 by Burt Kaliski in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
One of many examples of the broader research opportunity RSA now has as part of EMC (as I described in my podcast on my new role) is this month's 1st Asia-Pacific Summer School on Trusted Infrastructure Technologies , which will be held in Guangdong, China. Dr. Wenbo Mao, who recently joined EMC to lead our new research center in Beijing, and...
 
Tags: excellent international program, wenbo mao, emc, infrastructure technologies, research center, top students, lead, held, month
 
 
 
 
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Planning a Virtualization Infrastructure What You Need to Know

2008-06-02 13:30:31 by Adnan Hindi in ScienceLogic
 
Theres a lot of noise about virtualization out in the marketplace from the latest company VMware bought to speculation about Hyper-V to the myriad solutions for virtualization management. I wanted to take a more practical approach to talking about virtualization and share advice and best practices that Ive learned based upon my own experiences...
 
Tags: virtualization, virtualization capacity, virtualization infrastructure, successful deployment, successful, virtualization management, successful virtualization deployment, plan, capacity plan
 
 
 
 
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Planning a Virtualization Infrastructure What You Need to Know

2008-06-02 13:30:31 by Adnan Hindi in ScienceLogic
 
Theres a lot of noise about virtualization out in the marketplace from the latest company VMware bought to speculation about Hyper-V to the myriad solutions for virtualization management. I wanted to take a more practical approach to talking about virtualization and share advice and best practices that Ive learned based upon my own experiences...
 
Tags: virtualization, virtualization capacity, virtualization infrastructure, successful deployment, successful, virtualization management, successful virtualization deployment, plan, capacity plan
 
 
 
 
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Planning a Virtualization Infrastructure What You Need to Know

2008-06-02 13:30:31 by Adnan Hindi in ScienceLogic
 
Theres a lot of noise about virtualization out in the marketplace from the latest company VMware bought to speculation about Hyper-V to the myriad solutions for virtualization management. I wanted to take a more practical approach to talking about virtualization and share advice and best practices that Ive learned based upon my own experiences...
 
Tags: virtualization, virtualization capacity, virtualization infrastructure, successful deployment, successful, virtualization management, successful virtualization deployment, plan, capacity plan
 
 
 
 
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NERC Critical Infrastructure Protection Will Always Change with the Evolution of Technology

2008-10-10 00:00:00 by Paul Davilman in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
As Stewart Brand once said "Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road". I think this quote describes perfectly the role in which IT departments are playing in implementing security programs, specifically those attributed to the NERC Cyber Security Standards
 
Tags: quote describes perfectly, security programs, technology rolls, stewart brand, steamroller, departments, road, role
 
 
 
 
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Traditional Disaster Recovery Services Are Dead

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2008-08-06 17:06:37 by Stephanie Balaouras in Security & Risk Management
If you still subscribe to fixed site recovery services using shared IT infrastructure from the likes of HP, IBM BCRS, or SunGard, among others, you will quickly become a dinosaur in the next 1 to 2 years These types of shared infrastructure services involve lengthy restores from tape and a recovery time objective of 72 hours, at best. Plus,...
 
Tags: recovery, recovery time objective, recovery-time, services, recovery affordable, recovery capabilities, recovery solutions, provider, recovery-point objectives
 
 
 
 
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Security Products: Suites vs. Best-of-Breed

2008-03-10 06:33:16 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
We know what we don't like about buying consolidated product suites: one great product and a bunch of mediocre ones. And we know what we don't like about buying best-of-breed: multiple vendors, multiple interfaces, and multiple products that don't work well together. The security industry has gone back and forth between the two, as a new...
 
Tags: security, non-security companies, security companies, companies, magic security dust, provide, security industry, provide security, industry