IT Auditing Research
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Beyond Native Tools: Auditing SharePoint Across the Enterprise
Sponsored by: Quest Software, now a part of DellThis white paper offers useful tips on auditing SharePoint across the enterprise. Learn about a centralized monitoring and reporting structure that every organization should put into place before getting hit with a compliance audit.
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Mind the Gap: What is an ITIL Gap Analysis?
Sponsored by: Global KnowledgeDiscover how a gap analysis can reveal areas where the reality and long-term vision of your organization are diverging and provide the momentum needed to start adopting service management best practices. Find out how gap analysis can help your company identify what it does well and how to achieve its goals.
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The Need for Profitability and Cost Management
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationAs indirect costs rise and economic pressures increase, the need for profitability and cost management (PCM) also grows. Read this white paper to find out more about how PCM drives business performance by finding drivers of cost and profitability, empowering users with visibility and flexibility, and improving resource alignment.
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Guide: Active Administrator
Sponsored by: ScriptLogic CorporationActive Directory becomes very complex to manage in Windows networks. Administrators leave, users are given elevated privileges, applications require special accounts - very soon you have an Active Directory full of security weaknesses.
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Lumension Endpoint Protection - Whitelisting Technology Improves Security, Reliability, and Performance via Trusted Change
Sponsored by: LumensionLearn how whitelisting guards your systems by allowing only approved processes and applications to run on the endpoint and preventing malware and viral programs. With whitelisting technology, you can improve total data security and overall system performance.
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Unlock the Hidden IT Opportunities in Troubled Economic Times
Sponsored by: BMC Software, Inc.IT executives are under intense pressure to cut costs, and that pressure is significantly increased by the current grim economic outlook. So, how can your organization weather this economic storm? Surprisingly, a variety of opportunities for IT are hidden within today's financial challenges. Learn how with the right approach, processes, and...
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Presentation Transcript: Managing Windows with IT Search
Sponsored by: SplunkRead this presentation transcript of the “Managing Windows with IT Search” podcast with Windows Specialist and Director of Product Management at Splunk, Johnathon Cervelli, to learn how IT Search can help you dramatically simplify Windows Systems Management.
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How Customers Are Cutting Costs and Building Value with Microsoft Virtualization
Sponsored by: MicrosoftVirtualization provides powerful, tangible ways to streamline many traditionally time-consuming processes and minimize the resources needed to deploy and manage IT resources. This white paper examines how Microsoft® customers are using virtualization technology to simplify their IT infrastructure, IT processes, and save money.
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Enforcing IT Change Management Policy
Sponsored by: Tripwire, Inc.Read this white paper to learn how to enforce IT Control Management policies effectively by fostering a culture of change and enforcing change management processes resulting in greater auditability, improved quality, and IT infrastructure integrity.
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10 Best Practices for Reducing the Stress of IT Audits
Sponsored by: Quest Software, now a part of DellThis paper presents 10 best practices that can greatly reduce or even eliminate the angst so commonly associated with IT audits.
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Taking Control of Software Licensing
Sponsored by: BDNASoftware licensing is full of complexity and factors outside your control. Having accurate information is the best strategy for managing vendors, negotiating with them, and avoiding vendor audits. This paper offers insight to enter conversation...
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The Drive to Greater Data Center Efficiency
Sponsored by: Tideway SystemsTrying to plan data center optimization projects without an accurate picture of the very assets you are trying to optimize is an exercise in futility. The results of this approach are well known...
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Centennial Discovery 2007
Sponsored by: FrontRange Solutions IncCentennial Discovery is an award-winning IT Audit and Inventory management solution designed to improve IT governance by enabling customers to more effectively plan, manage and report on various IT operational disciplines
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PCI Compliance for IBM System i (AS/400)
Sponsored by: PowerTechThis whitepaper examines how the standard relates to the System i (AS/400). When applicable, specific operating systems commands and configuration settings are provided.
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Best Practices in Audit and Compliance Reporting for IBM System i (AS/400)
Sponsored by: PowerTechCompliance with regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI, HIPAA and GLBA requires regular audit reporting against critical information technology (IT) assets. This paper outlines various audit items that should be reviewed on a regular basis...
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Hardware Neutral Imaging with ImageX: The Ghost Killer
Sponsored by: Global KnowledgeLearn how ImageX can help facilitate successful image management and lower the total cost of ownership of your Vista implementation.
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Creating a Culture of Change Management
Sponsored by: Tripwire, Inc.Download this paper and discover how to create a culture of change management in your organization that mitigates the risk of malicious changes and provides security staff with a reliable, objective view of change across your entire enterprise.
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Privileged User Monitoring for SOX Compliance
Sponsored by: TizorThis paper outlines a best-practices approach to monitoring and reporting segregation of duties, privileged user access activity, failed logins and other access failures, direct Data SQL Access events and database schema changes.
