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  • Quick Guide to Calculating the Cost of Ransomware

    Organizations need to determine what they are going to do in the event of ransomware- Pay, Not Pay, or Defend. The math is straightforward. Learn more.

  • Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response

    SOAR is a security technology platform that automates security operations without human intervention. Learn how it can optimize your cybersecurity response. Learn more.

  • Build Your Own SOC or Partner with an MSSP

    In today’s environment, organizations must improve their security posture. Learn how to weigh the costs/benefits of building your own SOC vs. partnering with an MSSP. Learn more.

  • 9 Ways Cybercriminals Disrupt Business Operations

    This e-book outlines the nine ways in which cybercriminals disrupt businesses with recommendations on how to defend against the attacks of today and tomorrow. Learn more.

  • Gain actionable insights in to your O365 environment immediately

    Take this free Office 365 Health Check to gain immediate insights in to optimizing your environment. Immediately see how many licenses are inactive, what services are not being used and where security vulnerabilities lie. Be the IT hero you've always dreamt of. Sign up for a free Health Check today!

  • Strategies to Keep Malware From Costing You Your Job

    Read this white paper to learn about strategies you can use to protect your IT infrastructure and your job, including getting executive support for security initiatives, consistently backup and test, and patch and update everything.

  • How to Achieve Flexible Data Protection and Availability with All-Flash Storage

    Read this paper to learn how using all-flash solid state technology is becoming a business enabler that can be used to simplify and reduce complexity, as well as boost productivity, while lowering cost. Find out more!

  • Maximize backup performance with Veeam Backup & Replication and NetApp EF- and E-Series storage

    A lab performance test of the Availability for the Modern Data CenterTM program at NetApp® Labs Munich shows backup speed does not serve as a limiting factor for the modern data center when customers use Veeam® Backup & ReplicationTM in combination with NetApp EF- or E-Series storage. Find out more.

  • NetApp and Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5: Configuration Guide and Best Practices

    Deliver Availability for the Always-On Enterprise™ with this configuration and best practices guide for Veeam® Backup & Replication™ 9.5 in a NetApp environment. Version 9.5 provides new levels of NetApp integration to orchestrate Data ONTAP, create application-consistent backups and enable fast recovery from NetApp storage snapshots. Learn more.

  • 10 Crucial Audit Reports for IT Security

    Download this free e-book to learn about the ten must-have security reports for IT security and compliance.

  • The basics of auditing and securing your network perimeter with SIEM

    In this handbook, you'll learn about the basics of auditing and securing your network perimeter by leveraging a security information and event management (SIEM) solution.

  • Threat intelligence and the SIEM advantage

    Threat intelligence (TI) is the not-so-secret weapon the cybersecurity industry is using to step up its game against attacks. While it's been around for some time, only recently has threat intelligence been widely recognized. According to the SANS 2018 Cyber Threat Intelligence Survey, 81 percent of security professionals believe that investing in threat intelligence capabilities helped improve their organization's security posture—compared to 64 percent in 2016.

  • Data Privacy Is The New Strategic Priority

    This commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting evaluates the state of enterprises’ data privacy compliance in a shifting regulatory landscape.

  • Is Your Company In Peril If Critical Data Is Breached?

    Delegating data security to IT teams does not absolve the responsibility business leaders have to protect data. Forrester Consulting surveyed 150 IT, security, and risk decision makers and examined their approach to protecting their company’s critical data and information and communicating data risk to senior business executives.

  • The Forrester Wave™: Data Security Portfolio Vendors, Q2 2019

    The Forrester Wave™: Data Security Portfolio Vendors, Q2 2019, is a key industry report for helping security and risk professionals understand and assess the data security solution landscape, and how these solutions can address their business and technology challenges.

  • The Forrester Wave™: Data Security Portfolio Vendors, Q2 2019

    The Forrester Wave™: Data Security Portfolio Vendors, Q2 2019, is a key industry report for helping security and risk professionals understand and assess the data security solution landscape, and how these solutions can address their business and technology challenges.

  • Eliminating the Burden of Periodic Password Reset in Active Directory

    Many organizations are adopting the NIST 800-63b password guideline to stop forcing periodic password resets for users. Why? Because compromised password screening in Active Directory can replace it. Read this article to learn more.

  • Continuous Compromised Password Monitoring in Active Directory

    Are you screening passwords to prevent ongoing use of compromised and common passwords as NIST recommends? Can you screen passwords against cracking dictionaries and automatically run a daily screen in Active Directory? Now you can.

  • Managing Containers & Multicloud Complexity at Scale

    The difference between industry leaders and their competitors rests on their applications: how quickly can they innovate, bringing new features and offerings to market, and how well do those applications perform for their customers. To bring ideas to market faster, organizations are adopting container technologies and driving multicloud strategies.

  • A Quick Guide to Office 365 Backup & Restore

    Protect your organization's Office 365 and SharePoint data. BACKUP to AWS enable a point-in-time RESTORE with an unlimited retention period. This short, easy-to-read free ebook provides valuable information on how business should assume responsibility for data proctection in the cloud.