ITBE Staff

Accurately identifying and removing access rules for decommissioned applications, without impacting the accessibility of other applications, is a huge issue for many organizations. Oftentimes, unnecessary or overly permissive access rules are left in place due to the fear of making a change that impacts the network or applications. In this slideshow, AlgoSec, a security policy […]

As more companies put their business online, the playing field for hackers continues to grow. Companies are facing a wider range of cybersecurity threats than ever before that target their infrastructure, applications, operations and even employees. To protect their business interests, organizations must safeguard their data. As most attacks today are carried out automatically using […]

Is Big Data a business initiative or an IT initiative? For decades, businesses have been trying to make sense of disorganized transaction data sprinkled throughout the enterprise, relying heavily on human resources to analyze data via data warehouses. Steps traditionally include collecting, cleaning, conforming, consolidating and organizing the data for business analysts to perform ad-hoc […]

Smarsh®, a leading provider of hosted archiving and compliance solutions for email and electronic communications, recently released its third annual Electronic Communications Compliance Survey Report at FINRA’s 2013 Annual Conference. While challenges surrounding the oversight and retention of electronic communications remain widespread, this year’s study reveals that compliance professionals in financial services are more comfortable […]

Unified communications (UC) presents unique security challenges because it brings together disparate technologies. A UC business phone system combines VoIP, video, chat, email and presence together into one unified messaging system. As the technology has become more complex and more accessible from the public Internet, the security threat has increased. In many ways it is […]

With such a wide landscape of job search resources out there, it can be a struggle to navigate mixed messages. Some job search strategies become muddled and the core advice is lost. So how can you determine which strategies won’t actually help you land you the job? Heather R. Huhman, a Glassdoor career and workplace […]

As the data center becomes more complex, converged infrastructure can help simplify the setup and management by minimizing compatibility issues. There are many benefits for converged infrastructure like proven design and rapid provisioning, however change can create a cause for concern within an organization. In this slideshow, Zenoss lays out five common concerns when migrating […]

There is a fundamental shift underway in how consumers interact with businesses. According to research from Ovum on consumer preferences for customer service, the use of email, Web chat, Web self-service, social media, mobile and SMS for customer service has more than doubled in the past two years. At the same time, consumers still rely upon […]

A new urgency is uniting people in marketing, management and customer-facing roles: the need to capture insights from people to drive real-time, data-driven decisions. To stay competitive, enterprises face the challenge of collecting that insight, and are turning to new ways to help engage and encourage users to provide them with true, fast feedback. eHarmony […]

Puppet Labs recently surveyed more than 4,000 IT operations professionals in its annual survey on the state of DevOps. This year’s survey indicated a substantial increase in the DevOps adoption rate across organizations of all sizes, located in more than 90 countries. Puppet Labs believes this trend is due to the real business value that […]

Big Data wasn’t designed with security in mind; in fact, security has never really been the focus of distributed sciences. With these mountains of data, informing businesses on critical buyer decisions, habits, and countless other minutiae, comes a pressing need to keep this valuable information secure and protected. This is sensitive information, after all, and […]

The world of mobile health goes by a number of names: mHealth, telehealth, eHealth, telemedicine and remote medicine. The goal, however, remains the same: encouraging diagnostics and treatment in scenarios in which patient and professional are in different places. The broad sector is gaining momentum. A good example is the University of California, San Francisco’s […]