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Electronic Arts Embraces Social Networking to Create Better Games on Tight Timelines
by Lanlogic

This is a Microsoft SharePoint Server case study. "We know that employee collaboration saves money by reducing duplicated effort and increasing information sharing. Our SharePoint portal definitely enhances that team collaboration by leveraging "social networking" for our own in...

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Beyond Simple Data Backups - Real Business Continuity
by Lanlogic

We all know how important it is to develop a Disaster Recovery/Business Conntinuity Plan. If you still don’t have one, consider this : relying on backup data that you have never tested and have no idea how long it would take to restore … is not a plan. In the old days of IT...

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System Imaging - Cloning, Not Just For Sheep
by Lanlogic

Remember the last time you had to rebuild your computer ? Worried about how long it would take to rebuild your server if something happened ? How do large corporate enterprises save time on these issues ? You know the answer to all of these questions. System imaging is like cloning, it makes a...

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Data Classification Policies – Forgotten Purpose
by Drazen Drazic

Data Classification. I’m not sure I have ever seen an implementation of a Data Classification policy that I would say, is very successful. It’s a scary thought given that Data Classification is a key foundation policy for Information Security. For those who have implemented a Data Classificati...

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Overcomplicating Information Security and Risk Management
by Drazen Drazic

If I had to highlight a key problem area for organizations when it comes to how they approach Information Security and Risk Management overall, it would be the over-complication of their implementation(s), or lack thereof. (Sounds strange for the latter but it’s that “complication”...

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Sentilla: Measuring Power Consumption At A Data Center
by Zen Kishimoto

If I take a look at power consumption beyond data centers, my current thinking is that the market will follow this sequence: Mitigation with power consumption Mitigation with energy consumption Carbon footprint awareness Renewable energy Smart grid Among the above, I think the mental transition fr...

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Eve’s Advisory: Cloud Computing Authentication - It’s All About Changing Behaviors
by Eve Maler

Editor’s Note: In her second video blog post for Tek-Tips, Eve Maler takes a look at the recent Twitter break in with some insights about behavior and user authentication. Have your behaviors changed? Can you remove login and password authentication for your users? Eve thinks you can.

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Signed, Sealed – Delivered? The Payoff of Showing Your “Trust Mark”
by Bronwyn Johnson

Bronwyn Johnson is our newest guest blogger. She works at VeriSign, hailing from South Africa, where she works as a product marketing manager. She is also a novelist and freelance journalist. In this post, she looks at the importance of where you place your Trust Certificate to show customers. Ok, s...

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New whitepaper touts “compliance for free”
by T.Rob

A new whitepaper from Reymann Group promises “compliance for free.” Too good to be true? Not really. What’s the catch? There is none. My executive summary of the paper is this: If you have a compliance program, you almost certainly also need a security program. But if y...

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I.T. Decisions – Who Makes Them In Your Organization?
by Owen Greaves

Owen Greaves is that rare IT consultant who bridges that chasm between IT and marketing. As a regular guest blogger for Tek-Tips, Owen will be sharing his insights with us about IT management, technology consulting and the impact of social media on the IT professional. Please help us in welcoming Ow...

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CSOs becoming CIOs……A Natural Progression?
by Drazen Drazic

Welcome Drazen Drazic, our newest guest blogger. Drazen’s posts will be a feature of our Wednesday coverage of the data security world. Drazen is the CEO of Securus Global. He is a strategic consultant, working across several industries on matters to do with Information Security strategy. Dra...

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Botnets Vs US Government
by Ben Chai

This was the title of my last post on the SecurityVibes website and relates to the July 4th cyber attacks on the US government that allegedly brought down several US government departments for days. There were several lessons to be learned from this attack but the one I want to focus on is the one t...

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What Identity Issues Should The Enterprise Be Aware of With Public Cloud Computing?
by Eve Maler

We’d like to call Eve Maler our first guest “vlogger.” We asked Eve to set up her video camera to answer a series of questions over the next several weeks about identity issues and cloud computing. In her first installment, Eve answers the question about what identity issues the en...

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How to Move a Data Center in 35 Days – Week One
by Mark Townsend

Part of the Enterasys IT staff’s annual plan in 2008 was to consolidate our data centers into several strategic locations. The reasons for this consolidation included a need to reduce costs associated with multiple locations, as well as a company-wide campaign to reduce energy consumption....

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Microsoft is the Perfect Security Barometer
by Chris Schwartzbauer

Editor’s Note: We’d like to welcome Chris Schwartzbauer, our latest guest blogger. For more about Chris, please see the accompanying post with his bio information. By Chris Schwartzbauer Microsoft’s offering of free anti-virus software is like everything that Microsoft has ever do...