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IBM's SPARCLE Policy Management Tool Is Helping Organizations Create, Implement and Monitor Policies That Protect Personal Identifiable Information | 2008-01-01 | IBM |
| Following a recent wave of identity theft, spamware and online fraud, consumers are demanding that businesses safeguard their personal information from exploitation by cybercriminals and government officials have responded with stringent legislation mandating effective privacy policies. To help businesses manage and enforce their privacy policies, IBM Research has developed the SPARCLE (Server Privacy Architecture and Capability Enablement) policy management workbench. The goal is to help privacy professionals in any industry create policies in natural language, translate those policies into system readable commands, implement them with an enforcement engine and run reports to audit the effectiveness of the of the policy implementation. These capabilities will not only help protect the personal information of customers, but also will help reduce risk for organizations.
Tags: Security Tools, Cyber Security |
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Telecommunications Firm Uses Solution to Offer Easy, More Secure Application Access | 2008-01-01 | Microsoft |
| Slovak Telekom provides telecommunications services to customers throughout the Slovak Republic. The company needed to ensure availability and reliability and to improve security for its customer information application. To address these issues, Slovak Telekom implemented the Windows Server 2008 Enterprise operating system. Now, IT employees can offer better application access and improved security. The company will also increase efficiency.
Tags: Windows Server 2008 |
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IBM Research's Secure Trade Lane Solution Concept Helps Facilitate a More Secure Exchange of Container-Based Goods Shipped Worldwide | 2008-01-01 | IBM |
| Criminal and terrorist threats pose a significant challenge to the trade and cargo industries, which are urgently searching for new ways to establish a more secure global logistic chain across a complex, and often conflicting, network of manufacturers, distributors, freight forwarders, port authorities, ocean carriers and distribution centers. Closing the gap between stakeholders, embedding security across the logistics chain and providing critical data at every point of interaction with container-based goods would go a long way towards a more secure shipping trade. Experts at the IBM Research Lab in Zurich set out to meet these goals by developing a solution that addresses the logistical and physical challenges inherent in an end-to-end, secure trade chain.
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IT Firm Expects to Improve Network Security, Decrease Virus-Related Incidents | 2008-01-01 | Microsoft |
| Wipro is a multifaceted company with locations in North America, Europe, and Asia. With diverse business operations, including IT services, product engineering, and business process outsourcing, the company needs a solution that will allow it to easily manage multiple security and system health policies for its users, which include employees, outside consultants, and customers. Additionally, nearly one-third of the Wipro work force is mobile, and laptop computers that are out of the office often miss software updates. Wipro deployed the Windows Server 2008 Enterprise operating system, with built-in Network Access Protection (NAP), to a test environment in November 2007. A gradual companywide deployment is expected to begin in the first quarter of 2008 on Intel-based servers.
Tags: Windows Server 2008 |
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Pharmaceutical Company Expects to Improve Security With Affordable Solution | 2008-01-01 | Microsoft |
| Richter Gedeon makes pharmaceutical products for distribution throughout the world. The company has offices in 30 countries and operates four manufacturing sites. During 2007, it completed acquisitions of other companies, including the largest pharmaceutical company in Poland. Now Richter Gedeon needs a solution that meets the challenges of securing its multinational IT environment. Additionally, the solution must help the company manage access to its network by its many contractors and vendors. Richter Gedeon expects to begin deployment of the Windows Server 2008 operating system in the first quarter of 2008. The company plans to test features such as Network Access Protection (NAP) during a pilot involving 100 computers in IT. A gradual deployment of the operating system is planned for the rest of the company.
Tags: Windows Server 2008 |
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New Solution Helps City Strengthen IT Security, Automate Software Distribution | 2008-01-01 | Microsoft |
| As part of an ongoing effort to operate more efficiently, the City of Tampere wants to make more information and services available online while strengthening IT security. Additionally, the city wants to better manage its systems using limited IT resources. In 2007, Tampere made plans to upgrade 6,500 client computers to the Windows Vista operating system, and it began deploying the Windows Server 2008 Enterprise operating system on test servers. The city also decided to implement a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) to help protect information that is exchanged across applications, internal networks, and the Internet.
Tags: Windows Server 2008 |
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Food Company Improves Protection With Easily Managed, Comprehensive Solution | 2008-01-01 | Microsoft Tips |
| California-based Del Monte Foods sells popular branded food and pet products in grocery stores and other outlets across the United States. Recently, the company's work force has grown, which means messaging and collaboration has played an increasingly important role for Del Monte employees, who use Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to communicate. To improve protection of its information and management of these technologies, Del Monte deployed Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server and Forefront Security for SharePoint, Microsoft Forefront Server Security Management Console, and Microsoft System Center Operations Manager. These combined products offer Del Monte easy deployment, solid antivirus protection, and centralized control of the IT environment.
Tags: Email, Collaboration Tools |
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Salesforce.com Helped Customers Succeed and Gained Brand Loyalty Using Macromedia Breeze to Deliver Best Practices Presentations | 2008-01-01 | Adobe Systems |
| Salesforce.com is the world leader in on-demand Customer Relationship Management (CRM) services. They wanted to reach customers day or night, keeping viewers engaged with rich media experiences. The project team needed to ramp up production quickly, to deliver easy-to-navigate content, and to do it cost-effectively. In addition, the team wanted to measure training course success by tracking presentation views to see if customers actually viewed all the content or just some of it. The company deployed Macromedia for its solution with Macromedia Breeze. They used Breeze presentations to inform 100 conference presenters about responsibilities and expectations, saving hundreds of hours of meetings.
Tags: Learning Management Systems, Presentation Software |
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Local Authority Improves ICT Services for Schools, Boosting Classroom Innovation | 2008-01-01 | Microsoft |
| Warwickshire Local Authority sought to improve its managed ICT service for schools by streamlining application delivery and improving security for remote access to school networks. Now, IT technicians are freed up to focus on delivering better support, and teachers can easily evaluate innovative new software on school computers with Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization. Microsoft Intelligent Application Gateway 2007 helps to ensure security.
Tags: Security Management, Virtualization |
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IT Services Company Expects to Improve Security, Availability With New Solution | 2008-01-01 | Microsoft |
| Cognizant Technology Solutions offers business and IT services to corporations around the world. The company has 450 server computers supporting more than 35,000 workstations and laptops. Cognizant needs a solution that provides secure access to proprietary information on its network and ensures that computers accessing its network are up to date with patches and antivirus software. Cognizant also wants reliable availability of its network resources. Cognizant plans to deploy the Windows Server 2008 operating system, which includes the Network Access Protection (NAP) feature, during the first quarter of 2008. The company also will deploy Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and plans to use failover clustering in Windows Server 2008 to ensure that its IT systems maintain high availability.
Tags: Email, Windows Server 2008 |