Papers in Business Issues -> Security & Risk

1. Best practices for cloud security
Rather than being an inhibitor to take up of cloud computing, the use of cloud services can actually improve an organisation's security stance. Cloud delivery is suitable for a range of security services from basic ones such as malware protection...
Published By: Bloor Research

2. Rethinking MPS: The independent approach
This paper outlines the need for MPS and why organisations that are operating a heterogeneous print environment should consider an independent MPS provider to proactively manage and transform their print infrastructure.
Published By: Quocirca

3. Closing the print security gap
This report provides an overview of the inherent risks when operating an insecure print environment and discusses the current market landscape while recommending some best practices for adopting an integrated information and print security strategy.
Published By: Quocirca

4. Innovator for Business Analysts
With Innovator for Business Analysts, MID offers a modern, forwards looking tool for the business analyst role-oriented towards business stakeholders (rather than mainly targeting IT). It helps the business analysts in a business to manage...
Published By: Bloor Research

5. Architecting the security of the next-generation data centre
This document is aimed at those looking at data centre builds, upgrades or consolidation. It provides an introduction to some of the new security challenges of such environments and provides recommendations for implementing security in...
Published By: Bloor Research

6. E-invoicing: Ready for Prime Time
Despite today's digital age, of the 30 billion invoices sent and received in Europe every year, more than 90% are in paper format. This is not only labour intensive and error prone, but comes at both a financial and environmental cost.
Published By: Quocirca

7. Taking back control in today's complex threat landscape
The security threats that we face are getting ever more harmful. Attacks launched en masse are no longer the order of the day. Rather, they are targeted, use a complex range of techniques, are sophisticated in their ability to defeat reactive...
Published By: Bloor Research

8. Uses and benefits of SaaS-based Enterprise Social Networking
This survey looked at the business arguments for using an enterprise social networking (ESN) system based on software as a service (SaaS). We also investigated decision makers' views on the comparative qualities of SaaS based systems and those…
Published By: Bloor Research

9. A value proposition for ~IT security
The only way to resolve the dichotomy of the need to share data flexibly and protect it from falling into the wrong hands is to put in place a compliance oriented architecture (COA).
Published By: Quocirca

10. Smartphone and mobile (cell) phone security
The rise of the smartphone over the past few years has been a technology success story. An almost perfect storm of advancing materials science, chip set development, software innovation and social networking has fuelled the progress in handset...
Published By: Bloor Research

11. Data exchange and information sharing
The title if this paper may be somewhat misleading: it is about data exchange and the ability to share information but, specifically, it is about those exchanges and that sharing taking place outside the confines of your...
Published By: Bloor Research

12. Cybercrime, Cyberwars, Cyberterrorism and Hacktivism
In December 2010 the media was alive with stories of hacktivists attacking payment websites including Visa, MasterCard and PayPal in response to those organisation's refusal to take payments in support of the WikiLeaks website. Every day we...
Published By: Bloor Research

13. EU Compliance and Regulations
The growth of compliance requirements over the past few years has sometimes been seen as a US-based phenomenon as regulations are implemented to address various corporate failures and scandals over the past decade or so. In fact, compliance,...
Published By: Bloor Research

14. Optimising security in the enterprise
In 2009, it is estimated that 90 trillion emails were sent, translating to 247 billion messages per day. Yet it is not just emails that are contributing to the growth in electronic communications as the use of media such as instant messages, blogs..
Published By: Bloor Research

15. Improving IT efficiency through print management
Midmarket businesses face many of the same IT challenges as larger businesses, trying to accommodate increasing demand for new IT capabilities and services.
Published By: Quocirca