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Secure Desktop Solution: A Modern-Day Marriage of Business Benefit and Risk Reduction
A comprehensive security strategy must deal with the increased vulnerability of mobile assets and a threat environment that is smarter and more aggressive, organized, focused, and profit oriented. Download this white paper to learn how good security practices not only provide a more secure and controlled IT environment, but also deliver real business value.


Managing Application Performance
IT organizations are considering application delivery from new perspectives due to the automation of key business processes, and the fact that acceptable application performance is continually becoming more difficult. This paper presents real user issues and the way they were overcome using WAN emulation.


A Guide for Creating a Corporate Mobility Policy
This guide will help you gain control over your mobile assets by establishing a corporate mobility policy, describing how you create a corporate mobility policy, common pitfalls, and how to avoid them.


Deploy the Whole Desktop with Desktop Authority
As a user's role changes, so do their permissions. Using scripts and native tools to configure user machines can do some of what administrators require, but it does not make administrators productive and drives up the total cost of ownership of the desktop. Learn how, with the simple click of a button, you can manage the entire desktop lifecycle.

IT Service Management Playbook
Get a jumpstart on IT service management best practices. We've handpicked five articles from the editors at TechWeb on service level management, ITIL, change and configuration management and IT asset management to give you insight into the latest thought leadership and best practices.

Is Virtualization Under Control?
Tripwire surveyed IT professionals to learn how virtualization is expanding and if security, change controls and compliance requirements are keeping pace. Read this white paper to learn more about the state of virtualization today and why most of the respondents agree that a dedicated configuration tool is needed and are in the process of evaluating or planning to acquire such a tool.




Featured InformationWeek Reports
More Security & Control for IT with Mobile Device Manager 2008
Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008, an end-to-end solution, enables organizations to provision, secure and manage Windows Mobile devices in a corporate network like you do with PCs. Read the whitepaper.


Internet Security Threat Report Executive Summary
Get a six-month update of worldwide Internet threat activity, including an analysis of network-based attacks, a review of known vulnerabilities, and highlights of malicious code. It also assesses trends in phishing and spam activity. Download the security report.






Featured Blog of the Week
Information Security's Fresh New Hell
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008 
  In This Issue
» Secure Desktop Solution: A Modern-Day Marriage of Business Benefit and Risk Reduction
» Managing Application Performance
» A Guide for Creating a Corporate Mobility Policy
» Deploy the Whole Desktop with Desktop Authority
» IT Service Management Playbook
» Is Virtualization Under Control?
» More Security & Control for IT with Mobile Device Manager 2008
» Internet Security Threat Report Executive Summary
» Information Security's Fresh New Hell

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