Auerbach Publications

Compliance Frameworks
Monday, May 12, 2008
Compliance frameworks are the connection between regulatory mandates and software practices. This chapter from Oracle Identity Management: Governance, Risk, and Compliance Architecture explores the nature of compliance frameworks and best practices in an attempt to direct the identity professional toward standards that enable auditable stewardship and governance of identity-related information.
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The Foundation of Global Development Management
Monday, May 05, 2008
Managing global development risks will be the critical skill that project managers (PMs) must master to be successful, essentially having their current skills evolve to become true global development managers (GDMs). Global development will require mastery of core project management principles such as budgeting and estimating, resource optimization, and measuring and tracking productivity combined with cultural awareness. To be successful, GDMs must learn to apply new tools along with the techniques to engage all development team members.
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Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting
Monday, April 28, 2008
Whether a security system serves the purposes of information asset protection or provides for general security outside the scope of IT, it is common to have three main security processes working together to provide access to assets in a controlled manner. These processes are a authentication, authorization and accounting. This is sometimes referred to as auditing. The following sections discuss these three processes and the relationship between them. (From Mechanics of User Identification and Authentication: Fundamentals of Identity Management by Dobromir Todorov.)
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Information Security Review: 2007
Monday, April 21, 2008
With over 50 articles from over 50 of the best and the brightest in the industry, this annual look back (and peek forward) is something no one concerned with information security should miss.
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Network Content Filtering and Leak Prevention
Monday, April 21, 2008
The technology designed to protect highly sensitive data from leaks through networks is complex and expensive in terms of acquisition and ongoing operation costs, and its effectiveness is dependent upon what type of traffic an organization allows to permeate through its periphery. To combat information leaks effectively through networks, organizations must follow the continuous information security plan cycle: assess, design, implement, educate, monitor, and correct. The security personnel�s awareness and understanding of vectors that could be used by ill-intentioned persons to sneak sensitive or confidential information out of a network are key to mitigating its risk.
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How Much IT Is Enough?
Monday, April 14, 2008
IT is a strategic differentiator. Often, it is a single force that determines the speed and agility of an organization. Decisions about IT spending are a series of trade-offs. The key to making the right decisions lies in first knowing the compelling needs to achieve the business strategy. Establishing the strategic enablers generates the focus for planning activities to achieve this desired future state. Performance is defined differently depending on the strategic enablers critical to the business. (From The Business Value of IT: Managing Risks, Optimizing Performance and Measuring Results)
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Why Social Networking Can Mean Serious Business for Your Virtual Teams
Monday, April 14, 2008
How can we use social networking tools to create a virtual community among those we work with? The answer is so complex, we needed to carve out a couple of issues to get the job done. This first part provides some guidelines for success and a framework for getting started. The next part in the series will explore how specific social networking tools can best be applied for virtual teams that are serious about getting down to business.
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Connecting Virtual Teams Through Imagery and Metaphor
Friday, April 11, 2008
Using images and metaphors can work wonders to break the ice, create a shared sense of purpose and cultivate an environment of real collaboration. But when a team is confined to connecting only through virtual means, the use of visuals as a springboard for meaningful discussion is typically limited. Not because it has to be - but because it takes a lot of thought to figure out how to use imagery when people work miles apart. This article explores how visual concepts can be used to break the ice and connect people in ways that words alone cannot do. Although these tips were written with remote teams in mind, many can be modified for teams where members work face to face as well.
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Data Loss Prevention: Where Do We Go From Here?
Monday, April 07, 2008
Data loss prvention is fast becoming one of the most overused yet misunderstood acronyms in an industry known for its cryptic abbreviations. The popular label for data loss prevention is appearing on a puzzling variety of security products, adding to the confusion and hype. Meanwhile, the debate continues over where DLP should be deployed: on the network or the endpoint? What about stored data? And does it matter whether DLP is deployed as a standalone solution or as a feature in a broader product portfolio? To address those questions, organizations must first understand what DLP is, why it is important, and how it works.
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Best Practices for Deploying WAN Optimization with Data Replication
Keys for Successful Data Protection across the WAN
Monday, March 31, 2008
All too often, the Wide Area Network (WAN) link is the weak link in data protection. As data volumes grow, and as the distance between data centers increases to protect business data from catastrophic disasters, there is increasing pressure being placed on the WAN. This has heightened the demand for optimization tools that can improve data replication times across the WAN while maximizing bandwidth efficiency during these processes. By understanding these requirements and establishing guidelines for addressing them, WAN optimization can be deployed with maximum effectiveness. As such, WAN optimization can live up to its potential as a key enabler for strategic disaster recovery initiatives.
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Nearshoring: A Smart Alternative to Offshore
Monday, March 24, 2008
If offshoring's days are numbered, it should come as no surprise that household names have set up shop south of the border, nearer than any would have imagined when offshoring began in the 1980s. Look for those numbers to grow exponentially as more companies learn of the nearshoring option.
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Productive Relationships Rule
Monday, March 24, 2008
Successful organizations can be defined as a web of relationships, which requires all parties to work and contribute their share in order to achieve a common goal. Having relationships that are healthy, where cooperation and respect are manifested, can make an organization perform better. In this way, every employee works for the good of the whole and towards achieving the common organizational goals. Ultimately this can only be attained with ...
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Millenial Workforce: IT Risk or Benefit?
Monday, March 17, 2008
They�re here ... the Millennials that is. And according to a new Symantec study, Millennial Workforce: IT Risk or Benefit, this should be a real wake-up call to CIOs. Trying to implement IT risk management policies with a millennial workforce--one that has been labeled as risk takers--is very problematic. The study was conducted with 200 respondents each from the millennial workforce (born after 1980), the older workforce (born before 1980), and IT executives and professionals, to better understand this problem and the potential IT risk issues surrounding the emergence of this new tech savvy workforce. Clearly, the study reveals there is potential for huge risk exposure: data loss, compliance issues, legal implications, and other problems.
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Security Testing Versus Functional Testing
Monday, March 10, 2008
There are some significant differences between security testing and functional testing that really require some fundamental shifts in how you think about testing. As explained in this excerpt from Testing Code Security, you have to step back and reassess some of the "rules of thumb" and "tribal knowledge" of software testing that you've learned over time.
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Automate Role Management to Avoid Three Major Business Disasters
Monday, March 03, 2008
Roles and role management have come a long way from serving principally as a means of making it easier to manage access to applications. As the growing number of roles-driven projects indicates, roles are increasingly likely to address critical business objectives such as greater cost efficiencies, improved compliance, and reduced security exposure. Working as part of an integrated, automated role-management and identity-management solution, roles can go a long way toward helping avert potential business catastrophes in increasingly collaborative and complex business environments.
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Internet Television vs. IPTV
Monday, February 25, 2008
Exploring the current state of the IPTV market, business opportunities, and trial services worldwide, Understanding IPTV discusses the advantages that IPTV offers network operators and the new revenue streams that may emerge. It examines different IPTV technologies and the products that manufacturers are bringing to the market. It explores service delivery over IPTV, how services can be bundled, what VOD and interactive services networks will offer, and how these services can deliver relationships with the network operator. It also presents obstacles and possible solutions for security and digital rights management issues over IPTV networks and the risk of piracy and illegal duplication. This chapter introduces Internet television.
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Building the IT Consulting Competency
Monday, February 18, 2008
IT consulting groups are springing up all over. Forming consulting "teams" has become a popular strategy designed to enable IT organizations to get closer to their customers. Some work well; many do not. What accounts for the differences? This article focuses on the critical success factors (CSFs) necessary to improve IT performance through internal consulting initiatives. It includes an action plan to create successful IT consulting groups that will provide services in technology consulting, process redesign, and change management.
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Introduction to SOA Technology
Monday, November 05, 2007
Firms are aggressively beginning to design, develop, and implement advanced and complex Web service systems. This book guides readers through the business strategies, methodologies, and technologies used to successfully plan and deploy Web services. Interdepartmental case studies illustrate business dimensions, technological dimensions, and methodological principles as well as key critical factors for successful implementation of service-oriented projects. Based on the authors' practical experience, Service-Oriented Architecture: (SOA) Strategy, Methodology, and Technology describes the best practices and provides insightful tips for using this competitive-edge technology to improve business operations. Here's Chapter 7, Introduction to SOA Technology.
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Eight Rules for Dealing with Employees Who Are Bringing Your Company Down
Monday, November 20, 2006
There are certain problems that most managers would like to avoid. Calling angry customers, for instance. Presenting unhealthy sales numbers to higher-ups. And yes, dealing with those slow-moving, low-achieving, company-rule-breaking employees known as poor performers. But Joanne Sujansky has a suggestion: take care of the latter problem and the other two might just work themselves out.
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Developing Winning Book Proposals
Saturday, June 19, 2004
Keep in mind, several people with various agendas will read your proposal. Some will want to get a quick idea of what your book is about, while others will read every word. Although it's very important to be complete, you should start your proposal with a document no longer than a page that tells the whole story. It will set the context of your proposal for the editor, and it will provide more than enough information for the sales and marketing people. The following document outlines the key questions book publishers ask before they make a publishing decision. Regardless of how you organize your proposal, it should include answers to all the following relevant questions.
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Auerbach's Privacy Policy
Saturday, December 06, 2003
We take your privacy very seriously. Because we gather certain types of information about our users we want to help you understand the terms and conditions surrounding the collection and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses the types of information we gather, how we use it, and how you can correct or change it.
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