The Summit
22nd - 24th May 2012
Summit Venue
Lyrath Estate Hotel Kilkenny, Ireland
The current economic climate is calling upon all executives to operate with an increasingly acute and sensitive approach to all aspects of business.
White Papers
NetIQ: Sustainable Compliance, How to Align Compliance, Security and Business Goals
Regulatory compliance has become an important corporate initiative as the complexity and scope of the regulatory environment continues to increase. Coupled with the rise in cyber attacks and insider threats, organizations are now searching for a more effective, sustainable, and scalable approach that will achieve their compliance objectives while improving the overall security posture of the organization. In this white paper, we examine some of the challenges that modern organizations face in their efforts to develop and adapt a compliance program to solve today’s needs and support new requirements in the future.
Samsung Mobile Security Offering Enhanced Core Capabilities for Enterprise Mobility with Samsung GALAXY
Prepare your enterprise for the growing BYOD trend - As mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets, are embraced by a larger segment of consumers, employees are more likely to want to use their own equipment for both work and personal purposes. In fact, estimates show that by the end of 2011, almost half the mobile devices used for work purposes were owned by employees, not employers. This presence of employee-owned mobile devices in the corporate environment is growing quickly. The phenomenon has been labeled “bring your own device,” or BYOD, and although it increases freedom for employees, it also creates security risks for organizations. BYOD introduces new risks that must be explored by each company’s IT management and mitigated with the appropriate technology.
Palo Alto Networks: The Application Usage and Risk Report
The Application Usage and Risk Report (8th Edition, December 2011) from Palo Alto Networks provides a global view into enterprise application usage by summarizing network traffic assessments conducted in 1,636 organizations worldwide between April 2011 and November 2011.
Palo Alto Networks: Reducing Costs with Next-generation Firewalls
For enterprise IT security organizations, the evolution of applications and threats, coupled with the stagnation of traditional network security technology has resulted in a loss of visibility and control. Despite efforts to regain visibility and control by adding more security appliances, most organizations remain stymied - unacceptably. In today's economic climate, however, any further increase in cost and complexity is similarly unacceptable. Some leading enterprises, however, have found that investing in innovation, and bucking the trend of seemingly never-ending appliance sprawl in network security can result in the restoration of visibility and control, and substantial reduction in cost of ownership of security infrastructure. This paper examines three different organizations, the legacy infrastructure they replaced, the Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls they deployed, and the substantial savings they realized - cutting both capital and operations costs by an average of 50%.
Palo Alto Networks: 10 Things Your Next Firewall Must Do
Much has been made about bringing application visibility and control into network security. The reason is obvious: applications can easily slip by traditional port-based firewalls. And the value is obvious: employees use any application they need to get their job done-often indifferent to the risk that use poses to the business. Nearly every network security vendor has acknowledged that application control is an increasingly critical part of network security. While the next-generation firewall (NGFW) is well defined by Gartner as something new, enterprisefocused, and distinct, many network security vendors are claiming NGFW is a subset of other functions (e.g., UTM or IPS).
Many organizations are grappling with the best way to drive competitive advantage against new economic challenges. With resource and labour cost advantages elements of the past for many, the next great frontier appears to be a fundamental bet on knowledge worker effectiveness. Innovation, collective decision-making, and better access to information and expertise across organizational and geographic boundaries all loom as the next big-bet opportunities. These, coupled with a new generation of workers who are motivated to work in more social ways, have led many organizations to major strategic investments in social initiatives. The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of deploying Yammer within their organizations.
M-Files: Easy Document Management - A Guide to Benefits, Features, and Selection
Organizations with an overarching system in place to handle all their information operate at a vastly superior level of efficiency compared to those that still rely on paper files and folders. Even companies with most of their documents in digital form, but in a traditional folder structure, suffer many of the same drags on productivity as paper filing systems. Time is wasted constantly looking in several folder locations for misplaced documents. This is often compounded by the proliferation of multiple versions of the same file that results in errors and repeated work. With a document management framework, businesses find it very difficult to enforce reliable file organization and optimize their internal processes.
Deloitte: Yammer Case Study
Deloitte’s Innovation team began using Yammer in 2008 thinking “this looks cool, let’s try it out.” With minimal planning, the tool began to spread across the firm. Within months, Yammer played an important role in company-wide decision-making and collaboration, becoming integral to the business. In 2011, Yammer and Deloitte Australia won the prestigious Forrester Groundswell award in the Management: Collaboration System category. The Forrester Groundswell Awards recognize excellence in achieving business and organizational goals with social technology applications.
bluekiwi: Understanding the ROI of Enterprise Social Networks
Social networking is a phenomenon that has become an integral part of our lives. Whether staying connected with friends or family on Facebook, or learning about trending news on Twitter - the renewed culture of sharing, expression and collaboration is changing how we interact with each other. Enterprise Social Networks (ESNs) are similarly reshaping how employees engage and collaborate among themselves and with customers, partners and other external influencers. While ESN proliferation is in part fueled by the increasing familiarity of business professionals with social tools, management leaders are also opening up to their far-reaching potential benefits. Notably, a strategic assumption from research firm Gartner predicts that more than 40% of enterprises will have an ESN environment deployed by 2015 to enable circulation of business and personal data.
BCS Global: European CEO Award for “Telepresence Managed Service Provider of the Year 2011”
BCS Global Networks Limited, a leading worldwide provider of managed videoconferencing, telepresence, and visual collaboration services, today announced that it has been named by European CEO as “Telepresence Managed Service Provider of the Year 2011”. European CEO is proud to embrace a smarter future through the Telepresence Awards 2011, celebrating the leading deliverers of global multimedia communication. The award winners’ media solutions provide an authentic and engaging digital platform for businesses to interact with clients and potential new business partners in a manner that allows for the simple communications of ideas. Through their advanced systems, the winners of the Telepresence Awards 2011 provide the next best thing to meeting in person.
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