Guidance from VMware and Configuresoft for Achieving PCI in a Virtual Environment
 Minutes: 23:00 |
| The PCI Security Standards Council has indefinitely delayed the formation of the Virtualization Special Interest Group. Unfortunately, this decision will leave many organizations without specific guidance on how to assess and implement PCI controls into a virtual environment. This podcast features a panel of PCI and Virtualization experts including, Charu Chaubal from VMware, Dave Shackleford, Director of Center for Policy and Compliance for Configuresoft and Dave Taylor, Research Director and leading independent PCI Analyst for the PCI Knowledge Base, providing specific guidance and best practices for achieving and maintaining PCI compliance in a virtualized environment. |
Change Management Best Practices - Susan Ryan, Blue Cross Blue Shield
Minutes: 10:50 |
| Susan Ryan, IT Service Manager, Blue Cross Blue Shield Minnesota, talks about organizational alignment for change management at the 2008 itSM Fusion Conference and shares her experiences implementing an effective change management process at BlueCross BlueShield MN. Susan also shares some of her tips and tricks of getting buy-in for an effective change management process. |
Mastering Change Management through Analytics
Minutes: 5:00 |
| George Gerchow, Technology Strategist for Configuresoft, talks about mastering change management through analytics at the 2008 itSM Fusion Conference and shares some of the techniques that organizations can use today to improve their change management program. |
Compliance Checker
Minutes: 5:55 |
| In this podcast, we interview Chris Farrow, Product Director for Virtualization Solutions at Configuresoft. Chris discusses Compliance Checker, how it helps organizations get started on checking compliance of their VMware ESX servers. |
Green IT Essentials: Strategies to Reduce Energy Costs
Minutes: 7:23 |
| In this podcast as a part of the popular Sound Advice series, Chris Farrow, director of Green IT product strategy for Configuresoft, discusses Green IT and its importance in organization. In addition, Mr. Farrow discusses strategies organizations can implement to start reducing power consumption across workstations and minimize IT load requirements through consolidation, virtualization and decommissioning underutilized servers. |
Continuous Security Improvement in Information Security and Auditing
Minutes: 7:44 |
| Dave Shackleford, Director of Configuresoft's CP&C, shares his thoughts on why security and compliance can no longer be looked at as one-time events centered on audits and shows us how to drive a continuous improvement strategy for information security and auditing. |
Continual Service Improvement Through the Use of Analytics
Minutes: 12:20 |
| Jason Cowie, the Product Director of Configuration Intelligence Analytics, shows how forward-thinking IT organizations are turning to analytics to more effectively manage day-to-day activities, lower costs, improve processes and easily demonstrate value to senior executives. |
Managing Security and Compliance
Minutes: 11:26 |
| Dave Shackleford, Director of Configuresoft's CP&C, talks about the issues that are top-of-mind at the 2008 RSA Conference and shares his thoughts on how to deal with the audit process and best practices for translating regulations and standards into actionable processes. |
PCI Reality Show
Minutes: 9:20 |
| Dave Taylor, the Founder of the PCI Alliance, checks in from the floor of the RSA Conference in San Francisco and shares his thoughts on the differences between mere compliance and true security and how IT organizations can improve their approach to PCI DSS. |
How Holistic Change Management Can Enable Intelligent Automation
Minutes: 7:43 |
| As part of Configuresoft University's educational series, George Gerchow, Technology Strategist for Configuresoft's CP&C, provides his perspective on how IT organizations can optimize their automation efforts by taking a holistic approach to change management. |
Configuration Management:
Catalyst for Optimization
Minutes: 7:16 |
| George Gerchow, Technology Strategist for Configuresoft's CP&C, shares his insight into the history of Configuration Management, the industry and market forces that are hastening Configuration Management's evolution, and the exciting innovations in Configuration Management happening today. |
ITIL v3: What It Means To You
Minutes: 8:23 |
| In this installment of the Sound Advice podcast series, George Gerchow, Technology Strategist for Configuresoft's Center for Policy and Compliance, helps clear up some of the confusion surrounding ITIL v3 and provides some prescriptive advice on how to pursue your own ITIL v3 initiative. |
PCI DDS: The State of the Union
Minutes: 6:44 |
| In the first podcast of a two part series, Chris Farrow, Co-founder of the Payment Card Industry Security Vendor Alliance (PCI SVA), provides an overview of the current state of PCI DSS compliance in the enterprise: what's working, what's not and where the standard is heading. |
PCI DSS: Addressing the Digital Dozen
Minutes: 6:32 |
| In the second podcast of his two part series, Chris Farrow, Co-founder of the Payment Card Industry Security Vendor Alliance (PCI SVA), provides advice on how best to address the most challenging of the Digital Dozen requirements. |
HNS Podcast: Common Mistakes Made By IT Administrators
Minutes: 8:52 |
| George Gerchow is the Technology Strategist for Configuresoft and an active member of the Center for Policy and Compliance, a research and advisory group designed to address the issues of managing security within strict metrics. In this podcasts he discusses the common mistakes made by IT administrators when setting up their systems. |