 IT Infrastructure Insider
The IT Infrastructure Insider original podcast series explains how technologies complicate IT architectures and compromise delivery strategies, and suggests best practices to ensure rapid, smooth adoption. Separately, each chapter provides significant benefits and builds a comprehensive view of the operational and security challenges associated with aggressive adoption of these technologies.
Virtualization & Enterprise Security
 Minutes: 8:30 |
| Dennis Moreau, the Founder and CTO for Configuresoft, checks in from the floor of the RSA Conference in San Francisco as part of Configuresoft University's "Meet The Experts" series. In this installment, Dennis shares his thoughts on the buzz surrounding virtualization security. |
Virtualization: Manage the Complexity to Derive Maximum Returns
Minutes: 8:00 |
| The IT Infrastructure Insider is back by popular demand! In this installment, Dennis examines virtualization, its inherent complexity and the guidance now emerging to help organizations cope with the increased challenge to derive maximum benefit from their virtualization investment. |
Why Configuration Management Must Evolve to Configuration Intelligence™
Minutes: 7:13 |
| While today's IT environment is striving for effective configuration and change management; authoritative configurations, control, optimization, and analysis will form the management standards of tomorrow's IT systems. Dr. Moreau delivers a lesson in Configuration Intelligence™. |
Just Not Getting It Done
Minutes: 7:47 |
Why you must transcend provisioning to meet the security threats of tomorrow.
Configuresoft's CTO Dr. Dennis Moreau shares his insight into the management benefits to holistically move beyond provisioning and explains why you're a sitting duck if your SOP is provisioning. |
SOA Based Web Services: Security Up and Down the Technology Stack
Minutes: 5:09 |
| Dr. Moreau explains the significant complexity of deployment of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and provides a holistic view of security management and consequently, configuration compliance efforts, and the technology aspects of addressing these issues. |
Virtualization Does Have a Downside
Minutes: 8:21 |
| Have you considered how virtualization will complicate your systems management, security, and compliance efforts? Dr. Moreau explains the key factors to evaluating the configuration management gap between your virtualization approach and today's IT infrastructure. |
You Could Be Missing IT: Hard Facts and Dangerous Threats
Minutes: 5:07 |
| Assuring the security and availability of the Infrastructure and tracking configuration change across dynamic, complex enterprises is no simple task. Dr. Moreau's primer explains the root causes of enterprise mis-configurations and how today's threats can exploit them. | |
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Sound Advice
The Sound Advice original podcast series focuses on some of the biggest issues of the day, including PCI DSS and ITIL. Each installment provides background as well as prescriptive advice on how to tackle these complex issues.
Occasionally, the series will feature special guests that will share their unique perspectives as well.
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. | |
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