InformationWeek: The Business Value of Technology

Executives are paying attention to security—just like you always wanted. Survey respondents are seeing increased funding (albeit only slightly), and business leaders are getting involved in policy discussions. That’s good news for security pros, but it also puts us under greater scrutiny. Here’s how to flourish in this new environment.

Spinning up VMs is easy--too easy, in fact. Fortunately, keeping virtual servers safe doesn't have to be.

Spinning up VMs may well be too easy for our own good. For example, our latest Virtualization Security Survey shows a lack of even basic change controls in many organizations. Fortunately, keeping virtual servers safe isn’t as difficult—or expensive—as some vendors would have you believe. We’ll explain our strategy.

Plus: VDI Security Strategy

Without a logical way to prioritize security spending, you may as well be flipping a coin. Yet we found that's exactly how some CISOs do business. Time to get rational.

By the seat of the pants is no way to prioritize security spending and set project precedence. But we found that’s exactly how some CISOs are doing business. This must change, and we’ll tell you why (and how).

Data-centric protection and increased vigilance of provider and partner networks is the new call to arms for WAN security professionals.

In this report, we'll learn how an attacker scouts out and exploits your network, and some of the things you can do to thwart his designs and send him packing.