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Disaster Recovery Considerations

May 23, 2010

What is it “Ability to recover from the loss of a complete site, whether due to a natural disaster or malicious intent.” “A plan of action to recover from an unlikely event of a severe or catastrophic business disruption.” It’s NOT a planning for Mean-Time-To-Recovery (MTTR) from daily operational...

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business

Information Technology

May 22, 2010

Information Systems have become an essential element of our economic infrastructure. As important as energy, transportation and financial systems. Information system may be the most critical because all other systems are increasingly dependent on computer networks. Over a very short period of our history, computer systems and the Internet...

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What is a Blended Threat ?

May 22, 2010

Any threat that uses multiple means of propagation AND requires an integrated response from more than one technology Discovering Vulnerabilities How vulnerabilities are discovered: By accident or chance Browsing through CVS entries, software development, bug databases, or change logs Using source code scanning tools ITS4, Flawfinder, or RATS Utilizing...

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Data Archive Strategy

May 21, 2010

The best backup strategy starts with the Restore! Determine what data needs to be archived Create a plan Base backup Incremental backup Differential backup Frequency and speed of data restore Consider your network environment Operating systems (Windows, Unix, etc.) Firewalls (bandwidth, etc.) Routers, Switches Carefully consider the backup media...

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TOP Spot Directory

May 20, 2010

Excellent search reference. http://www.topspotdirectory.com/ 43 Popular search categories from Art to Weddings www.bestitdocuments.com

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Common Data Protection Issues

May 18, 2010

No integrated view of data protection Management of discreet components Predominantly server-centric perspective More focused on getting servers back up and running (availability)… …Rather than truly protecting the data (compliance) Virtually nothing is truly expired Many companies save old backups forever Value-of-data not adequately managed – equal treatment of:...

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eGIS Imagery Hosting Considerations

May 17, 2010

Goal to have all imagery served to all A -B Corporate users from a single location Evaluation Outsource to Spatial Energy Host Internal via ESRI Image Server www.bestitdocuments.com

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Vendor Spam Considerations

May 17, 2010

Reputation System Protection Identifies spam based on reputation of the sender Accelerated rapidness of zombie IP identification and data distribution to TS servers Added 15 new spam IP classifiers Raised effectiveness by 15% in the last month Message Reputation Uses reputation of the message content, attachments & meta-data Added...

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application

Sample eGIS Collaboration

May 16, 2010

Single storage location for all eGIS data Access for Corporate Users Web Based Mapping Access to all Geo-spatial Data Compliant with Corporate Security Policy Subscription Service to Download Geo-spatial Data Map based access to Documents in Document Management System Map based access to Permits including geographic coverage Collaboration Geo-spatial...

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Log Management SIM / SEM Justification

May 15, 2010

Background Companies are suffering from an overwhelming influx of security data from an array of software and hardware solutions, including antivirus software, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, access control, identity management, single sign-on, authentication and many more. A typical enterprise has one or more of each of these solutions deployed,...

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compliances

Why Archive your Data (Risk)

May 14, 2010

Business drivers Regulatory requirements Litigation demands Other business purposes Data management drivers Cost reduction Service level improvements Knowledge management The missing piece of the data protection puzzle: a long-term data strategy Why We Don’t Archiving is different from other data protection elements Application-dependant, application-specific Impacts primary storage policies We...

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Sample Qualys Statement of Work (SOW)

May 13, 2010

Business Need / Problem Statement The current Vulnerability Assessment is inadequate and requires a large number of customization and man-hours to produce any meaningful report data. Current system is lacking key features such as centralized management, role-based access control, limited data export formats and lacks the reports that management...

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business

It’s about Business !

May 13, 2010

Business  – > Information – > Technology We realize your current businesses have huge existing investments in IT These investments: Fill different needs, Are implemented on different platforms, and Are of different vintages No one in their right mind believes these huge investments will be discarded! Businesses are evolving...

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Vulnerability Management Process

May 12, 2010

New Assets, Technologies, Patches, Configurations Discovered Tracked by: Spreadsheets Asset Inventory System New Vulnerabilities and Threats Discovered Validated by: Alerts Web Site Research Information Collected and Validated Remediation: Database Spreadsheet Validation Tests Correlate Vulnerabilities to Assets Deployment Validated by: Risk Analysis Tools Develop Critical Vulnerability and Threat Risk-Ranked List...

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compliances , policies

Why Standardization

May 12, 2010

Standardization is an approach to business and IT that reduces cost and simplifies change, based on : Industry-standard architectures Reusable components Consistent implementation https://www.bestitdocuments.com/Samples

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business

Channel Sales – Items to Consider

May 11, 2010

Territory   vs   Major Account Manager,  vs  Channel Manager, vs  Global Accounts Manager             Forecast:                Quota’s   (top 10/20 deals) Commit, Top prospects, Most likely,  (what moved)                         Revenue  (where can is there low hanging fruit)                                        Sell to and through             Lead Generation, Call Activity,             Professional association,                                     Tradeshow,...

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compliances

Competency

May 11, 2010

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies: Customer Service – Responds promptly to customer needs; Responds to requests for service and assistance; Meets commitments. Oral Communication – Speaks clearly and persuasively in positive or negative situations. Written Communication – Writes clearly and informatively. Change...

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projects

Integration Test Team Roles and Responsibilities

May 10, 2010

The Integration Test Team consists of the IT Integration Test Lead, a System Integration Test Lead or Integration Test Point of Contact (POC) for each system participating in the integration test, and a Project Management point of contact. The roles and responsibilities for the test team members to facilitate...

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Sample Project Communications Plan Template

May 10, 2010

It’s rare that an IT project is completed successfully (on time and within budget) without good communications among all the stakeholders.  That’s why it’s so important to make sure your project team develops a communication plan so that lack of communication does not derail your goals. Use this project...

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Sample HPUX – AIX Backup- Recovery of User Files on Network Servers

May 10, 2010

Purpose To outline the use of network servers for storage, backup and recovery of user files. Scope Discussion: Employees who have Windows NT accounts also have a file storage folder allocated for their account on a network server.  This storage area is usually referred to as the user’s “U:...

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Project Group Objective

May 9, 2010

To be pro-active with our processes to accommodate changing business environments. To maintain and update procedures that support test planning, execution, and reporting efforts involving our various product lines. PI Meeting Structure: Meetings are three fold:   Present new PI taskings   PI team presentations, recommendations, discussion, buy-in  ...

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Sample Project Scope Change Request

May 9, 2010

If you or your project team is dealing with project scope creep, use this project scope change request form to gain some control.  Simply ask your clients to fill out this form when requesting a change to the scope of the project. The form asks them to define the...

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compliances

Best Practices for Virus Protection

May 8, 2010

First and Foremost, Define your Security Policy Virus Protection has to be part of your security policy because viruses are security threats. What factors should you consider when designing security appropriate to your operation? 1. The number and density of personal computers If your company has many PCs or...

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HIPPA – Virus Prevention Plan

May 8, 2010

Purpose Computer anti-virus protection has the purpose of ensuring system integrity and substantially reducing the risk of data loss and business disruption in the event of a virus attack on Health Care Providers computer systems. It is the goal of the Health Care Providers that all viruses are detected...

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compliances

PCI Validation Details

May 8, 2010

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business

IT Manageability Life Cycle

May 7, 2010

Provision Discover and configure compute, storage and network elements to the operational state Monitor Discover, monitor, and alerting of  the ongoing state, health and performance of services Control Regular and preventative maintenance and service optimizations Fault Preventing, predicting and recovering operational state from faults Upgrade Change management, version control,...

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Defense In Depth – Another Interpretation

May 7, 2010

Identify and potentially mitigate risk at all layers Perimeter Defenses: Packet Filtering, Stateful Inspection of Packets, Intrusion Detection Network Defenses: VLAN Access Control Lists, Internal Firewall, Auditing, Intrusion Detection Host Defenses: Server Hardening, Host Intrusion Detection, Auditing Application Defenses: Validation Checks, Verify HTML / Cookies Source, Secure IIS Data...

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Security Event Management

May 7, 2010

Security Event Management Proactively discover and detect intrusive activities/vulnerabilities Provide real-time prevention Provide a multi-layered approach to intrusion defense (Host/Network) Correlation & Visualization Integrate any event from the enterprise Collect, consolidate, and normalize events  across the enterprise Filter events, alert and notify personnel, execute countermeasures Response, Reporting – Forensics...

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Project Manager in a nut-shell

May 7, 2010

    Rene Magritte, Clairvoyance, 1936

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Vulnerability Management the correct way

May 6, 2010

Proactive, not reactive! Enhance your process: Capability, Deployment and Sustainability Access to assured and validated content Risk-based for work prioritization Step-by-step remediation instructions Real-time asset and technology inventory Task completion and tracking in enterprise reports

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Predicting the future of Business and IT

May 6, 2010

“Some day on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads information, for in most cases the information is more valuable than the hardware which possess it.”                         Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, United States Navy. Grace wherever you are ….. you were right !!!!

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