Patch Management

IT and business leaders must ensure they have the right security strategies to protect against the rapid evolution of social networking threats

The healthcare industry has benefited from the breakneck pace of digitization - spanning everything from payments to patient records to X-ray film - but it has also been increasingly exposed to greater risk. Efforts to increase healthcare provider productivity via increased digitization and system interconnectivity have to be counterbalanced against the growing concerns for patient privacy and a backdrop of increasing liability.

Needing to implement a patch management solution to comply with SAS 70, Davidson found the solutions on the market lacking. They either required significant resources to test all patches, or were expensive automated solutions. Then, Davidson learned about Blue Lane Technologies, a concept that Davidson loved.

One of the biggest challenges mirrors a problem in the physical server world: security patching. This paper describes in greater detail the benefits and challenges of server virtualization, and offers insight into how Blue Lane customers are utilizing the PatchPoint(r) System to combat the threat of software vulnerabilities.

Find out how Blue Lane's unique approach can help health care IT pros quickly secure hard to patch servers.

Andreas Antonopoulos, SVP & Founding Partner of Nemertes Research, discusses the challenges of securing the new virtual datacenter.

As you know, automation is a critical component in achieving long-term IT savings. We've compiled a few resources to give you an overview of the benefits of service automation and the technology behind our comprehensive solution.

Forrester evaluated leading Data Center Automation (DCA) solutions across approximately 80 criteria. CA was named as a leader in this Wave evaluation. The report states: “Recently, CA introduced its Data Center Automation Manager, which is part of its dynamic and virtual systems management solution and is directed at the automation of the data center.

Only companies with a disaster-ready infrastructure and solid business continuity plan can come through such events with minimal downtime and cost.

This whitepaper examines the common misconceptions about full disk encryption.

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New technologies emerge every day, but not all of them pay off, and adopting them too early might be risky for your organization.

This white paper identifies the problems encountered in addressing network security risks through vulnerability management. It describes how automated vulnerability management contributes to compliance with industry standards such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and assists you in proactively identifying security weaknesses before these are exploited.

This white paper provides an overview of how to use GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner (N.S.S.) and Microsoft Windows Software Update Services (WSUS) to keep your network automatically updated with the latest security patches.

This document shows you how to use GFI LANguard N.S.S. to identify vulnerabilities on your network (excerpt from manual).

GFI LANguard provides a complete network security overview with minimal administrative effort. Why use GFI LANguard? Download this free trial to experience the benefits!

Read about the benefits of GFI LANguard, an award-winning solution used by thousands of customers that allows you to scan, detect, assess and rectify security vulnerabilities on your network and to secure it with minimal administrative effort.

Learn how HP Systems Insight Manager monitors and controls the server environment to enhance staff efficiency, improve uptime, and reduce the cost and complexity of managing the data center.

This whitepaper talks about more affordable solutions for improving endpoint security, patch compliance, lifecycle management and power management within midsized organizations.

Linux reliability has come of age. Several major Linux distributions including Novell SUSE, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu scored high in reliability, improved over 2006 uptime statistics and achieved near parity with Unix distributions. Security incidents plagued Windows Server 2003, which saw uptime decrease by roughly 10% during last year. Corporations must continue to adhere to best practices in configuration, management and security to ensure optimal server operating system and application reliability.

Save time and money by sustaining compliance between audits. Aberdeen Group's Derek Brink describes the benefits that best in class companies achieve by taking steps to sustain compliance.

Use of instant messaging applications-like AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger and ICQ-and peer-to-peer applications has grown significantly. Although the benefits of real-time communication offer a productivity benefit to corporate environments, instant messaging and peer-to-peer applications add significant vulnerabilities and risks to an enterprise's security posture.

A holistic, forward-looking and flexible IT security strategy can help organizations avoid common pitfalls and meet security threats head on in a cost and time efficient manner.

Learn how to balance the positive and negative effects of memory utilization in virtual infrastructures to better handle system workload and priority--while improving server utilization

The volume and sophistication of malware is skyrocketing, and traditional anti-virus approaches are struggling to keep up. It’s time to rethink how we protect our endpoints. Instead of trying to build a better anti-virus “mousetrap,” without any shift in the underlying management model for vetting change in endpoint environments, security professionals should investigate more innovative approaches to endpoint security that can automate trusted change policies. This paper discusses an innovative approach to application whitelisting – one that integrates application control, anti-virus, patch management and a trusted change management engine into one unified solution – to improve endpoint security and provide the necessary flexibility to optimize IT operations and user productivity.