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Inside the Mind of an Attacker: 2011 Spam Report Recent attacks show that spammers and scammers are determined to find their way through any gap, however slight, in an enterprise's defenses. They're exploiting a variety of tactics, including blended attacks combining email, Web access and phony Web sites, to infect systems on enterprise networks. This white paper discusses the ongoing evolution of spam threats and the technology needed to close that remaining 5% gap in defenses. To defeat spam, enterprises need a holistic approach rather than an uncoordinated collection of features and filters. By systematically tying features together through real-time machine learning and analysis, enterprises can increase the effectiveness of their spam defenses to nearly 100%. Download this white paper to learn more. View this resource now Trick or Tweet: 3 Scary New Risks of Social Media Social media, when used in a corporate setting, represents a balancing act of rewards and risks for IT, business and senior management in virtually any organization or industry. Although social media offers a number of benefits and can create competitive differentiation for any organization, it must be monitored and managed properly. View this resource now 7 Ways IT is Creating Security Breaches Today's threats are more complex, move faster, and exploit more vulnerabilities than 1994-era technologies ever anticipated. New technologies combine traditional firewall technologies with new, cloud-based services that address these threats and even combat more sophisticated exploits of application vulnerabilities. This paper discusses 7 ways to address security breaches and implement immediate fixes. View this resource now Top Resources of the Week Is Your BPM Solution Missing Something? A Self-Assessment For years, business process management (BPM) solutions have focused primarily on long-running, routine, and seldom-changing processes. BPM has successfully guided system integration and provided business intelligence and monitoring for a wide variety of predictable, repetitive tasks and activities. But in this era of information-driven enterprises, routine automation is no longer enough. BPM must become smarter and nimbler. Take this readiness assessment to see if you have the capabilities you need to respond to your ever-changing business dynamics with Agile BPM. READ MORE >>> Mobile Collaboration: A 2012 Vendor Guide When work is a thing you do rather than a place you go, you know you are living in a work-anywhere world. The future belongs to a new application architecture that Forrester calls the mobile app Internet, defined as "an architecture of native apps on smart mobile devices linked to cloud-based services that provide a context-rich experience anytime, anywhere." To assess the state of the mobile collaboration market and see how the vendors stack up against each other, Forrester evaluated the mobility strengths and weaknesses of the vendors that their clients are asking most about. Download this research report to find the results. READ MORE >>> Forrester: The 5 Year TCO & ROI of Cloud Apps Cloud applications continue to gain momentum in enterprise applications as buyers are attracted to fast deployment speeds, low upfront costs, and ongoing flexibility to scale up or down as needs change. But as firms spend more and more of their closely guarded IT dollars on cloud applications, executives must scrutinize the long-term value of these investments. Today's cloud investments represent millions of dollars of annual IT spending for some larger consumers of cloud. This report analyzes the longer-term, five-year cost of ownership and value for cloud applications across four categories: customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), collaboration (including email), and IT service management. READ MORE >>> Cloud With a Brain: Why it Pays to Work Smarter, Not Harder Although IT departments play a crucial role in nearly every aspect of revenue-generating operations' from processing transactions and generating business intelligence to developing, customizing and maintaining software--all too often they're viewed as cost centers. This article from IBM Systems Magazine features cost-savings with Cloud through advanced virtualization, data center consolidation, and workload optimization technology. 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