Monitoring White Papers

Organizations expect their network security to be able to keep pace with network demands and detect threats in real time. And when it comes to security incident response, every second counts. The McAfee solution combines leading technologies in intrusion prevention systems (IPS) and security information and event management (SIEM) for a risk-based, highly contextual security program—all with the fastest available performance to ensure real-time action.

This whitepaper highlights the need for organizations to demand more from their SIEM solutions, which should aim to reduce complexity and be fast and easy to use in order to address the requirements that legacy SIEMs can no longer fulfil.

McAfee Security Management solutions merge security products, management, and real-time intelligence to make your security effective for your business. It starts with deep integration within the system stack and across the IT environment. We add global, contextual visibility into changing events—within and beyond your organization’s boundaries—and connect all your systems with a cross-product command and control core.

Chief information officers (CIOs) at enterprises worldwide are facing a major struggle today: how to balance competing priorities from business units and IT. They have been mandated to protect the enterprise from every angle and maintain compliance while supporting business momentum and reducing costs.

McAfee® EDB is the only data management system specifically designed from the ground up to satisfy the unique requirements of the SIEM/logging market. It has features and capabilities that contribute to its uniqueness and suitability for the SIEM/logging market. Several of these features and capabilities are described in this document to help you understand why McAfee EDB is the leading data management solution for SIEM/logging.

Security Management 2.0: Time to Replace Your SIEM? takes a brutally candid look at triggers for considering a new security management platform, walking through each aspect of the decision, and presenting a process to migrate – if the benefits outweigh the risks.

Automating security monitoring has proven essential in today’s threat environment, and to succeed, today’s SIEM must have the right database back-end and must offer security intelligence that leverages contextual data.

The service desk of the future will need to keep on top of metrics and be able to provide reports that demonstrate business value and drive service improvements. That’s why this report advocates starting a comprehensive metrics programme now to ensure that you’re ready for the future (it’s never too early to start collecting data). The service desk has always been the customer-facing portal into IT, it’s future role will be to measure the performance of technology services, act as the ‘dashboard’ for assessing the success of the services operation and provide pertinent, timely and useful information to the business to enable them to make informed decisions.

This report takes a look at the enterprise threat landscape as it stands in 2013. What areas should you be sitting up and paying attention to? What areas can you afford to pay a little less attention to? We try to cover off all those questions and more. We hope you find the information inside useful as you step up your fight against the bad guys by deploying good technologies and best practice.

Uncover the impact modern business demands are having on corporate networks today and learn what you must do to ensure your network performs the way you need it to for business success.

This strategy lets you leverage your existing virtualization investments in order to quickly and cost-effectively reap the full benefits of the cloud.

Learn the recommended steps to cure your patch management headache as we dive into a technical discussion of what the critical items to address.

Cloud computing has a lot of appeal, from auto-scaling to lower costs, and it's all just a few clicks away. Thus, the big question is not "why cloud?" but rather "how cloud?"

Enter Box. Our partner integrations and robust security suite ensure employees get any-device, on-the-go content sharing and collaboration... while IT retains control and visibility of all user accounts. Get Your FREE Box IT Strategy Kit!

Assembling an internal private cloud or migrating to an external one is a challenge - both technically and organizationally. Datalink has answers - and a unified solution with the Datalink V-Scape Reference Architecture.

This white paper looks at the benefits of data center virtualization and addresses both public and private cloud strategies. The paper reviews the necessary steps in the evolution and how to successfully put those steps into motion.

In this on-demand video broadcast, hear Nir Zuk, CTO and co-founder of Palo Alto Networks and Rich Mogull, Analyst and CEO of Securosis, provide insights and recommendations on how to handle consumerization and the proliferation of devices.

Download the report to learn how your organization can benefit from reducing the technology footprint and operations overhead in branch offices.

Download this white paper from Osterman Research and Proofpoint to learn how the protection of corporate data from sophisticated malware and phishing attacks is at top of mind of IT decision makers.

See how a loan officer accelerates productivity with the world's fastest departmental network scanner (based on published manufacturer specifications as of August 2011).

Trouncing all competitors, including IBM POWER servers, the ProLiant DL385 G7 took the OVERALL top spot for two-processor servers with a record-breaking performance result on the TPC-C benchmark. Find out more now!

In this final piece on server virtualization and SSD, Storage Switzerland discusses the power of performance, specifically, the dramatic impact that latent-free storage can make on the virtual environment. Read on to find out more!

For data centers looking to get the maximum performance from Flash-based storage supporting their virtual infrastructure, the RamSan-720 should be given strong consideration.

It is common knowledge that PCIe SSD is faster, right? Maybe not, says George Crump from Storage Switzerland. Read on to find out why.

Most companies have only put limited effort toward the system architecture that surrounds the flash memory modules. In this white paper, Storage Switzerland focuses on the importance of architecture design in solid state storage systems.