Security Information Management - New Series Available!
by Dan Sullivan

Maintaining information security is a multi-faceted operation that is best managed with a single comprehensive strategy rather than mix of tactics based on whatever point solutions are already deployed. In The Essentials Series: Security Information Management, readers will learn about the fundamental processes and technologies that support security information management (SIM) operations, as well as the business justification for SIM. The series includes an examination of different options for implementing SIM and evaluation criteria for selecting the best options for a particular organization.Articles in this series include:Article 1: The Business Case for Security Information ManagementArticle 2: Foundations of Security Information ManagementArticle 3: Making SIM Work for Your Organization

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The Shortcut Guide to Storage Considerations for Microsoft SharePoint - New eBook Release!
by Wendy Henry

Though Microsoft SharePoint has emerged as a market front-runner in the race to empower business users and provide collaborative systems for decision making, few SharePoint installations live up to the prophecies originally hyped during the buy-in process. The brilliance of any successful enterprise application is its sustainability, not the initial reply to an urgent business need.The Shortcut Guide to Storage Considerations for Microsoft SharePoint will help bright IT engineers and administrators choose flexible storage for SharePoint that will stand the test of time. The guide examines SharePoint’s distinct storage requirements and recommends strategies for determining optimal yet affordable disk solutions that will support your SharePoint investment both now and into the future. Readers will learn about the pitfalls of inadequate storage management, I/O performance enhancements for SharePoint components, and high-availability options combined with data archiving to best manage data bloat. Lastly, an in-depth discussion of best practices for deploying SharePoint onto iSCSI will prepare any enterprise, large or small, which may be ready to ramp up their disk architecture.Chapter List:Chapter 1: SharePoint Capacity RequirementsChapter 2: SharePoint Storage ArchitectureChapter 3: Best Practices for Deploying SharePoint on iSCSIChapter 4: High Availability, Disaster Recovery and Maintenance

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The Essentials Series: Understanding and Responding to Network Threats
by Dan Sullivan

Networks face a stream of constant and evolving threats while changing in response to business demands for new IT services. This series is designed to help IT managers, network administrators and related decision makers understand the types of threats faced in today’s online environment and how to evaluate and deploy security products to counter those threats. The series is particularly focused on a comprehensive approach to network security management and products that can effectively address multiple threats.Articles in this series include:Article #1: Keeping Pace with Security Threats UnderstandingArticle #2: Evaluating Intrusion Prevention ProductsArticle #3: Managing Multi-Function Security Products

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Network Troubleshooting and Problem Identification - New Series Available!
by Greg Shields

For the harried network administrator, any tools that automate otherwise manual tasks and quickly take them from problem to resolution are highly desired. Techniques and technologies exist today that make a lot of the otherwise highly-manual activities of the network administrator significantly easier. The Essentials Series: Network Troubleshooting and Problem Identification discusses a few of those tasks along with ways to make them easier. The first article discusses the need for high-level flow analysis monitoring to augment traditional packet-based monitoring for problem identification. The second article then continues the discussion with a look at tracking down problems between “it is the network” and “it is the application”. With the right integrated notification solutions in place, finding a problem’s source grows easy. The final article moves into the needs for centralized and automated configuration management for the prevention of problems before they happen.Articles in this series include:Article #1: Bandwidth Monitoring and Traffic AnalysisArticle #2: Isolating Network vs. Application ProblemsArticle #3: Automating the Top 5 Network Tasks with Configuration Management

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Lecture notes designed for those who haven’t had college mathematics but would like to understand some of the mathematical concepts behind important modern applications.

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This textbook provides the basic principles of common semiconductor devices, with a special focus on Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect-Transistors (MOSFETs).

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