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Applying unified communications
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Optimizing mobility
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Business class SaaS
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Non-intrusive security
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Desktop virtualization
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Mobile virtualization
Mike Seashols, Chairman of VirtualLogix, talks about implementing virtualization technologies onto mobile platforms. He says there are many issues that mobile providers have to ...
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Nurturing sales leads
Phil Fernandez, President and CEO of Marketo, says that many companies today are not managing sales leads effectively. He suggests ways to utilize the ...
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Managing Internet growth
The Internet is growing by 1 zettabyte a year, fueled by images, videos, gaming, and peer to peer file sharing. Pieter Poll, CTO of ...
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Online ad strategies
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What is semantic search?
Semantic search uses the science of meaning in languageinstead of just searching keywords, it checks the context of the words to return more relevant ...
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Next generation of business intelligence
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SIP trunking 101
Voice, instant messaging, and video no longer have to be islands of collaboration. Kenneth Kuenzel, founder and CTO of Covergence, shows how SIP trunking ...
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Wireless inside the enterprise
With the rise of PDAs, Blackberries and mobile phones, the demand for wireless service inside large buildings is increasing every day. Leila Nouri, director ...
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Intel® vPro™ technology and cost savings
Sponsored: Randy Nystrom, an IT systems engineer at Intel, shows how vPro saves time and money by diagnosing PC problems remotely. The content for ...
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Intel® vPro™ technology and manageability
Sponsored: Limited technical support hours and powered down PCs can make it difficult to manage large numbers of PCs. Randy Nystrom, an IT systems ...
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Application streaming
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OS streaming
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Enterprise 2.0
Vince Casarez, vice president of product management at Oracle, explains how Web 2.0 technologies, such as tags, wikis, and mash-ups, can be applied within ...
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Secure file transfers
John Thielens, vice president of technology at Tumbleweed, talks about the need for managed file transfers that are not only secure, but auditable and ...
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What is LEED?
"Going green" is becoming commonplace in the corporate world. Paul Holland, general partner at Foundation Capital, explains LEED, the metrics used to certify the ...
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What is a mashup?
Developers are getting creative, taking APIs from multiple Websites and merging them to form new, innovative applications. Frozenbear.com merges Google maps and Singles to let you know where the single people are in your neighborhood. Parkingcarma.com helps you track down parking spaces in the Bay Area. ZDNet Executive Editor David Berlind says mashups are the fastest growing ecosystem on the Web and that by 2007, there will be 10 new mashups per day.
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Non-intrusive security
Martin Capurro, senior director of product management at Qwest Communications, discusses how to strike the right balance between productivity and security within the enterprise. He explains security must work end-to-end, from the system level to the mobility level, and how each layer works to mitigate risk.
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What is virtualization?
Data centers are commonly filled with large numbers of servers that require a tremendous amount of time and money to maintain. Dan Chu of VMware shows how virtualization can optimize fewer servers to run at higher performance levels.
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First steps to SOA
What does it really mean to introduce SOA into an organization? Ross Mason, CTO and co-founder of MuleSource, explains how an enterprise service bus allows different applications to communicate with each other.
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Desktop vs. workstation: Introduction
Sponsored: Dave Buckley, product line manager of workstations at HP, explains the differences between desktops and workstations, and how these differences influence purchasing decisions. The content for this video was sponsored and provided by HP.
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Users-to-tech support ratio
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Applying unified communications
Thuy Ha, director of product management at Qwest Communications, discusses a practical framework for unified communications. Ha explains how to build a foundation on a converged network, then add layers such as mobility, conferencing and collaboration.
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Energy-efficient transistors
Rob Willoner, a technology analyst at Intel, explains how smaller and more energy-efficient transistors are resulting in faster and more powerful CPUs.
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Implementing balanced scorecards
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What is semantic search?
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Network Security Gaps: Real-time Detection
Securify CEO Buck French explains how many organizations are leaving themselves vulnerable by not having real-time monitoring devices for their critical business systems.
Hello, my name is Buck French, and I'm the CEO of Securify. And today I'm going to talk to you about the network security gaps that exist within most enterprises, and their ability to have real-time detection of what users are doing with their critical business systems.
In most organizations, they've opened up their networks to a whole host of different user groups - for a great business reason - outsourcers, partners, different employee groups, providing them access to these key business systems, so you can drive efficiencies within your organization.
The challenge, though, comes that this creates a security risk for you because most organizations today do not have real-time visibility of what users are doing to those key business systems. They don't have an ability to verify the trust in which they're providing those different user groups. The only way they've been able to achieve any level of visibility today is through log-analysis. The challenge with log-analysis, as many of you know, is extremely time consuming and costly, and it's always after the fact.
So what I'd like to speak to you today about is about this gap that exists. An interesting statistic to help support that this gap exists today, is that 78% of inside abuse that happens within an organization today is by an authorized user to a key business system. And in 75% of these instances, the abuse is reported by a non-IT person. So, we know the gap exists, so how do we fill it?
Well, first, it's important to have a real-time monitoring device that monitors the traffic between different user groups and these key business systems. There's three critical components that need to be monitored for within this interaction to ensure that these users are doing the appropriate things. First, you have to understand the relationship between that user and the system. Based on that relationship, you need to understand what services that system can offer. So the second key component is, given the system to that user, what services are allowed? And finally, the third component is, based on that user, to that type of system, with those types of services, what transactions are allowed within those services?
For example, let's say that this is a general intranet user. Then, has access to a web server. That, at the highest level, is the relationship. Based on the fact that this is a general intranet user to a web server, that system is allowed to provide HTTP. Based on the fact that it's a general intranet user with a web server, getting HTTP, the service is only allowed to provide Gets and Connects as a transaction for that user. If a user tries to do a WebDAV or a Change command on this web server, or this key business system, you'll be alerted on it. So the core component of understanding and mitigating the risk of insider abuse within your enterprise today is having the ability to have real-time visibility and control of how a user is interacting with those key business systems, all the way up to the application layer.































