The 2009 SIFMA-IBM Technology Survey Results
Download these survey results and find out what SIFMA members revealed about new technologies and computing models and how they are managing major industry challenges.
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Death to PST Files
[ Source: MessageLabs, Symantec Hosted Services ]
February 2010-Email is one of a company’s most widely used assets—the average corporate user sends and receives 167 messages per day. Since a company must provide employees constant access to their email accounts and retain copies of every important message, managing the email of an entire enterprise is exceedingly difficult. Many employees use Personal Storage Table (PST) files as a “personal email filing cabinet” that can burden a company’s storage and cause data loss or corruption.
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How Data Governance Can Constrain the Value of MDM Initiative
[ Source: Siperian, Inc. ]
January 2010-Over the past several years, we’ve seen rapid adoption of Master Data Management in a variety of industries offering a “single source of truth” across the enterprise. Most of these implementations use a “reactive” style of data governance… Learn how “reactive” data governance falls short and why leading organizations are using a “proactive” approach -- includes case study and migration questionnaire.
A CISO's Guide to Application Security
[ Source: Fortify ]
November 2009-Security breaches are expensive. They cost time, effort, remediation, and reputation restoration. Many IT decision-makers tend to focus their security efforts almost exclusively at the network perimeter. They overlook the software applications that run their day-to-day agencies. These applications are often packed with Social Security numbers, addresses, personal health information, or other sensitive data.
Focusing on security features at both the infrastructure and application level isn’t enough. Organizations must also consider flaws in their ....
6 Important Steps to Evaluating a Web Filter
[ Source: St. Bernard Software ]
November 2009-Determining the best Web filter for your organization can be difficult with so many choices on the market. IT Professionals know that there’s more to choosing a solution than looking at a few features and comparing prices. Other considerations may be just as important but you may not be aware of their significance. This informative guide discusses the critical considerations you need to make before you decide, and also, how thoroughly analyzing your options can ....
Five Essentials Of Business Recovery
[ Source: IBM ]
December 2009-This whitepaper delivers the 5 critical elements of business recovery you must have, which can help you reduce the risk of lost revenue should your system go down.
Uncovering Your Best Business Intelligence: How Next-Generation Insight Portals Turbo-Charge Executive Decision Making
[ Source: Saama ]
January 2010-For IT directors at large companies, delivering effective business intelligence (BI) is a critical responsibility. Corporations invest millions in data warehousing to learn more about the inner workings of their businesses but consolidating insights across multiple BI reporting systems is often a challenge.
Business functions like sales, marketing, operations and manufacturing collect data to help identify potential business problems. However, each functional area often uses different BI tools to collect and maintain this ....
The Benefits of Dark Fiber for Healthcare IT Infrastructures
[ Source: Sunesys, LLC ]
November 2009-Today, healthcare IT professionals are being asked to shoulder increasing responsibility for the delivery of key services to hospital and healthcare organizations. Yet many financial and operational obstacles can make fulfillment of these new services highly complex. The current recession has put increasing demands on the healthcare IT professional. Yet even with today’s flatlined or shrinking budgets, IT professionals are being tasked with delivering additional medical and administrative applications. How will you respond to these ....
Streamline Your Business with Innovative Tools
[ Source: Citrix Online ]
February 2009-Citrix Online has put together a practical guide that explores how Web-based solutions have enabled real companies to achieve remarkable results, such as reducing cost per sale by 75 percent; improving productivity by 10 percent and increasing revenue by $1 million.
Enterprise Packages: Where Are They Headed?
[ Source: Infosys Technologies ]
November 2009-This shift in the development and usage of business applications in large corporations began in the 1990s when enterprise packages arrived on the scene. The traditional way of developing an application for corporations from the ground up (whether it be for financial accounting or inventory management) was created and the concept of picking up and configuring a commercially available, off-the-shelf package was adopted. The threat of the looming Y2K issues in the late 1990s acted ....
The Tangled Web: Silent Threats & Invisible Enemies
[ Source: MessageLabs, Symantec Hosted Services ]
February 2010-Today’s cyber-criminals are experts at using anonymity, deceit and subterfuge to victimize companies with a variety of covert malware, spam and scams that hamper employee productivity and cut profits. Attacks using rich media, open-source platforms, web 2.0 collaboration tools and social-networking sites make business networks vulnerable to this new breed of web threats.
On-premise web-security solutions have the disadvantages of high costs for infrastructure, managing the security system and training IT staff. Learn about ....
The Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA): now and into the future
[ Source: ILOG, Inc ]
December 2007-
Industry analyst Chris Skinner provides an in-depth analysis of the implications of the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) initiative for the main European players in payments, and delivers a comprehensive evaluation of the dynamics of the European payments market.
Compliance Through Proper Tape Management
[ Source: B&L Associates, Inc. ]
June 2006-
Government privacy and accountability regulations have led to sweeping overhauls of enterprise IT environments in an effort to become compliant. Tape management and, in particular, the use of a comprehensive tape management system can be an effective tool in helping banks and other companies become compliant with many of the regulations contained within the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Getting Ready for the SEPA Pricing War
[ Source: ILOG, Inc ]
April 2008-
Learn how to make pricing systems more flexible so banks can quickly and easily introduce new revenue-generating products; define new pricing structures (bundles); and move from product-centric pricing to customer-centric pricing.
Watch List Filtering Solution Considerations
[ Source: Bank of America ]
November 2008-
Watch list filtering solutions' primary requirement is to routinely scan current and prospective clients against a database (watch list) consisting of names, aka and address entries. This paper describes standard points which need to be considered to implement a watch list filtering solution and a high-level process flow. It does not matter whether a custom solution is built or a standard product is chosen.
Understanding and Preparing for eDiscovery
[ Source: B&L Associates, Inc. ]
October 2008-
Business history will note 2006 as a watershed year for how banks and other companies tackled management of their generated electronic data. Marked changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) created the buzzword “eDiscovery,” causing companies to scramble to determine whether they were effectively managing their electronically stored data.
Understanding and Preparing for eDiscovery
[ Source: B&L Associates, Inc. ]
October 2008-
Business history will note 2006 as a watershed year for how banks and other companies tackled management of their generated electronic data. Marked changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) created the buzzword “eDiscovery,” causing companies to scramble to determine whether they were effectively managing their electronically stored data.
Compliance Through Proper Tape Management
[ Source: B&L Associates, Inc. ]
June 2006-
Government privacy and accountability regulations have led to sweeping overhauls of enterprise IT environments in an effort to become compliant. Tape management and, in particular, the use of a comprehensive tape management system can be an effective tool in helping banks and other companies become compliant with many of the regulations contained within the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Reducing the Cost of AML Compliance
[ Source: SAS Institute ]
January 2009-
This white paper gives a high-level overview of SAS Anti-Money Laundering software solutions as an integrated framework for risk scoring, alert generation, investigation and reporting. SAS has proven its value for financial institutions on every continent, with assets from less than $1 billion to more than $1 trillion, representing all financial sectors. Because no two financial institutions have the same AML monitoring needs, SAS offers customized methodology via distinct offerings. With SAS Anti-Money Laundering, institutions ....
Watch List Filtering Solution Considerations
[ Source: Bank of America ]
November 2008-
Watch list filtering solutions' primary requirement is to routinely scan current and prospective clients against a database (watch list) consisting of names, aka and address entries. This paper describes standard points which need to be considered to implement a watch list filtering solution and a high-level process flow. It does not matter whether a custom solution is built or a standard product is chosen.
Aveksa 3 for IBM Tivoli Identity Manager
[ Source: Aveksa ]
February 2008-
Many organizations have successfully implemented IBM Tivoli Identity Manager to leverage its automated provisioning capabilities for enterprise application administration and access control.
This datasheet describes the benefits of deploying Aveksa 3 as an enterprise-wide solution for Access Governance complementing IBM Tivoli Identity Manager to deliver a complete access governance and compliance solution.
Aveksa Role Manager
[ Source: Aveksa ]
October 2007-
Aveksa Role Manager is the first comprehensive, scalable solution for role based governance, delivering role discovery and enabling organizations to deploy effective roles-based access control and simplify compliance.
Aveksa Compliance Manager
[ Source: Aveksa ]
October 2007-
Aveksa Compliance Manager makes it possible to establish a sustainable access governance model by fully automating the monitoring, reporting, certification and remediation of user entitlements and roles.
Aveksa Solutions Overview
[ Source: Aveksa ]
October 2007-
This datasheet summarizes how Aveksa 3, the industry’s only comprehensive Enterprise Access Governance solution, enables automated, auditable business processes for the management, monitoring, reporting and remediation of access rights to enterprise information assets, while enforcing accountability and enabling key stakeholders to collaborate to achieve good governance through the Aveksa 3 Enterprise Access Governance Suite. The Aveksa 3 Enterprise Access Governance Suite includes Aveksa Compliance Manager, providing policy-based governance through the automated monitoring, review and ....
Meeting the Challenges of Enterprise Roles-based Access Governance
[ Source: Aveksa ]
October 2007-
Real-world attempts to implement roles-based systems have shown that unless roles fit into a context that ties together existing entitlements, company policies, regulatory requirements, and current business process realities, they simply don’t work. Without this context, the result is a system that can’t keep pace with changing business-user requirements. This paper describes a new roles-based model of access governance that overcomes the challenges companies have faced in the past with roles-based access control systems. This ....
Beyond the Checkbox: A Sustainable Approach to Access Certification
[ Source: Aveksa ]
February 2007-
Every large enterprise has employees who need some level of access to its critical information resources, and many also provide a wide variety of types and levels of access to contractors, partners, vendors, and customers. Each of these points of access represents a source of potential business and compliance risk. The process, by which access entitlements and roles are authorized, reviewed, certified, and periodically recertified is critical to an organization’s ability to meet compliance standards ....
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