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Trying to keep up with the vulnerabilities and threats that assault enterprise applications is a difficult but essential activity: Difficult, because dozens of critical updates and vulnerabilities are disclosed week after week, as illustrated by a typical 10-week period in ...
Ask your enterprise end-users to name the applications they use the most – odds are that corporate email and web access will be at the very top of their list. As we saw in the previous blog on Securing Mobility, ...
Everyone’s talking about mobile devices (i.e., smart phones and tablets) these days, and the phrase “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) has come to refer to the growing use of employee-owned mobile devices – as opposed to traditional enterprise-owned, enterprise-provisioned approaches ...
What endpoint security solutions is your company deploying to cope with the ever-evolving security threat landscape? In a previous blog on Securing Your Networks, a similar question was asked about solutions for network security. The results from Aberdeen’s research are ...
What network security solutions is your company deploying to cope with the ever-evolving security threat landscape? Aberdeen routinely asks about the current use, planned use and current evaluations of a wide range of IT Security technologies, and in the area ...
Over just the past couple of years, the IT infrastructure for many organizations has gotten considerably more powerful – and considerably more complex: Back-end systems now refers not only to the hosts, storage and applications within the enterprise itself – ...
“Seek first to understand” – the wisdom attributed to St. Francis of Assisi – is sound advice for managing the threats and vulnerabilities that continuously plague your company’s IT infrastructure. Understanding the vulnerabilities that put your organization’s IT infrastructure at ...
These days, IT Security professionals are increasingly aware that to be effective, they need to communicate less in the language of technology, and more in the language of risk. “But we do that already,” you might say. “We’re constantly talking ...
Cloud computing – whether manifested as server virtualization, Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service or Software as a Service – continues to be one of the hottest topics in IT. And Aberdeen’s research confirms that when it comes ...