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Guide

Fortra's Complete Guide to Layered Offensive Security

Most organizations have a decent understanding of the types of defensive security tactics they need to employ to thwart cyberattacks. But offensive security techniques are just as important for detecting existing vulnerabilities that a threat actor has yet to discover and exploit. Learn how to approach offensive security from the ground up, including the value of using a layered security...
Infrastructure and Data Protection
IT Infrastructure Protection
Vulnerability Management
Offensive Security
Guide

The RPA Buyer's Guide

The RPA Buyer's Guide Everyone has repetitive, manual tasks that take up their precious time. They’re tedious to get through and eat up the time you could be spending on more important work. With a robotic process automation (RPA) solution, you can reclaim your time by streamlining your processes. Simply put, RPA is transforming the way businesses operate. RPA solutions are designed to boost...
Automation
Guide

Four Ways to RPA: An Exploration of the Different Types of Process Automation

The Evolution of RPA Robotic Process Automation (RPA) has taken the world by storm in recent years because of its ability to automate mundane tasks that humans are still performing manually. However, automation as a software solution has been around long before the term RPA was widely used. Progressing from script-based automation tools to business process automation to specialized tools for...
Automation
network-monitoring-security
Guide

Taking Back Control

In Taking Back Control: A Proactive Approach to Advance Your Security Maturity, learn why adhering to the motto “Prevent First, Detect Always,” is the best way to set and achieve the goals of security operations. Incorporating proactive efforts into your security strategy can serve as the first line of defense by providing significant obstacles that discourage attackers by making breaking in overly labor intensive.
Guide

How to Do IT Cost Optimization

Our years of experience shows that organizations waste 30% of their hybrid IT spend, on average. This article identifies the five key components of a cost optimization strategy and how to be successful with each of them.
Infrastructure Management
Guide

6 Simple Ways to Get Moving with RPA

Businesses across every industry and sector are growing increasingly reliant upon automation processes to improve organizational efficiency, boost customer satisfaction levels, and reduce operational costs. The most innovative and forward-thinking companies are consistently hearing that Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is systematically transforming the business world. However, they are also...
Automation
Guide

Understanding RPA ROI: How to Measure It and Why It’s Important

Introduction Robotic process automation (RPA) can deliver significant benefits to companies of practically any size and in any industry. Its ability to improve productivity, increase innovation, and help companies deliver a better experience to customers makes it one of the most valuable tools of modern business. With effective tools for measuring the impact of RPA, companies can show that these...
Automation
Guide

Continuously Optimizing IT in Financial Terms

CHALLENGES: Virtualization and increasingly complex agile computing environments are creating difficulties for IT financial controllers and for IT Financial Management (ITFM).  Virtualization breaks the long-standing direct, one-to-one correlation between cost-allocated physical hardware and the IT services it supports. Increasingly dynamic, multi-layered applications have made it more difficult...
Infrastructure Management
Maximize ROI of RPA
Guide

Maximizing Your RPA ROI

Learn how you can maximize RPA ROI with a long-term vision, knowledge of potential costs, and the savings that come from implementing an RPA solution.
Automation
Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
Guide

DevOps Development: Keeping the Lights On

Overview: The DevOps methodology embodies two core philosophies: decreasing the lead time of software deployment and the automation of delivery and testing. DevOps emerged as a practical response to the agile development movement, in contrast with traditional, phase-based or “waterfall” development, which is inefficient and labor-intensive. Traditional methods should be phased out, and companies...
Infrastructure Management
Guide

Essentials for Privileged Access Management

Learn how you can effectively and efficiently control privileged UNIX and Linux accounts from accessing data or executing any application by using centralized access management.
IBM i Cybersecurity
Guide

Controlling SSH for Security and Compliance

SSH is nearly ubiquitous in today’s enterprises, and is the predominant tool for managing unix and linux servers, and the applications and data that they host. Poor practices around the deployment and management of the SSH infrastructure could easily leave your enterprise vulnerable to a breach. Are you in control? SSH, Secure Shell protocol, is now nineteen years old and broadly deployed across...
Data Protection
Compliance
IT Infrastructure Protection
Guide

Dashboards Don't Work (Unless You Have a Metrics Management Strategy)

Tech has had a tremendous impact on the way today’s businesses seek continued growth and improvement. No matter what business they are in, executives everywhere are investing in technology that improves their business processes, gets them ahead of the competition and widens their margins. Ultimately, the return on that investment is determined by how well technology supports a business’ ability to...
Infrastructure Management