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<description><![CDATA[Configuration Management: The management of security features and assurances through control of changes made to hardware, software, firmware, documentation, test, test fixtures and test documentation of an automated information system, throughout the development and operational life of a system. The control of changes, including the recording thereof, that are made to the hardware, software, firmware, and documentation throughout the system lifecycle.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Enforcing IT Change Management Policy]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper456/</link>
<pubDate>2008-07-10 14:28:55</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Discover how high-performing IT organizations are able to create a culture that supports and uses change management to their advantage, facilitating enterprise business goals.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Achieving Configuration Compliance in a Regulatory Framework]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper571/</link>
<pubDate>2008-02-19 13:35:28</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Regardless of whether your company is subject to HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, any number of state regulations, or none at all, configuration compliance has a place in most if not all business and government organizations.  Find out in this paper how you can achieve automated configuration compliance with the SafeWord SecureWire IAM appliance from Secure Computing.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How To Develop an Asset Management Program]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper885/</link>
<pubDate>2008-03-10 13:20:34</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This white paper explores the definition of IT asset management and the business case for developing an asset management program.&nbsp; Motivations for developing a program are discussed, most notable being the development of a centralized repository for IT assets in preparation for developing a configuration management systems and a CMDB.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Developing the Business Value of ITIL]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper886/</link>
<pubDate>2008-04-11 14:13:43</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This white paper, a sequel to &#39;Developing the Business Value of ITIL Part 1&#39;, focuses on the importance of developing a business case, and an ROI (return on investment) to justify ITIL best practice initiatives.&nbsp; Survey results are included from Evergreen Systems&#39; last survey on when, how and why companies develop business case metrics to justify ITIL initiatives.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Reducing the High Cost of High Availability]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper939/</link>
<pubDate>2007-06-06 09:27:55</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[High availability (HA) configurations seek to bring downtime to zero - but can increase complexity across the IT organization, often in the form of excess technology, financial, and human capital investments.&nbsp; Learn how application virtualization can reduce planned and unplanned downtime, and deliver greater flexibility.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[9 Steps to Implement a Successful CMDB Project]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1114/</link>
<pubDate>2008-03-10 13:20:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Simply click the title to receive this whitepaper which lays out a prescriptive nine-step plan describing how to implement a CMDB, including best practices that may be used to educate staff and design an effective CMDB project plan.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Configuration Audit and Control: 10 Critical Factors for CCM Success]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1200/</link>
<pubDate>2008-07-10 14:22:32</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In this whitepaper, you will learn how configuration audit and control can be used effectively to ensure system management productivity, and help reduce costs and sustain configuration viability within the bounds of operational, security and regulatory standards.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ITIL Best Practices: The Business Case for Change and Configuration Management and the CMDB]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1225/</link>
<pubDate>2008-03-10 13:20:42</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This ITIL best practice white paper on how to build a business case for change and configuration management and the CMDB makes a strong case for Configuration Management as the only real solution for controlling Change in high volume Change-transaction enterprises. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Emerging IT Shift Toward Business Service Configuration Management]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1246/</link>
<pubDate>2007-08-29 11:37:26</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[IT organizations continue to struggle with manual tasks and processes, subjective change decision making, and a lack of insight into inventories and service dependencies. Learn three product capabilities IT organizations should have, as well as the critical pieces of business service configuration management.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Total Economic Impact of the Tripwire Enterprise Solution]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1248/</link>
<pubDate>2008-07-10 14:24:56</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Hear from a leading industry analyst how your company can quickly enjoy a substantial return on investment from implementing Tripwire&rsquo;s configuration audit and control solution.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Configuration Management and Documentation to Meet Federal IT Compliance Mandates]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1288/</link>
<pubDate>2007-08-17 08:37:36</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Understand why FISMA is heating up, what&#39;s the impact on Agency IT departments, what role configuration reporting plays, how the right documentation can build a strong audit trail, and how automation fast tracks your compliance plan.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[PCI Compliance: Learn Solutions To Help Your Organization Comply]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1369/</link>
<pubDate>2008-03-28 13:01:05</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Learn about the key challenges of PCI DSS v1.1 and how NetIQ Security Management, Configuration Control and Enterprise Administration solutions can help you demonstrate PCI compliance. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Assess Unix Configurations with NetIQ]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1370/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Learn how Secure Configuration Manager can help with compliance requirements in the IT controls areas of entitlement reporting &amp; segregation of duties. Discover how to make your compliance program more sustainable &amp; repeatable, while gaining visibility into sources of vulnerability &amp; risk exposure. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Automated Server Provisioning: What Every CIO Needs to Know]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1477/</link>
<pubDate>2008-05-21 17:27:31</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[IT organizations are looking to leverage automation to improve the delivery of business services across the enterprise, while reducing costs. Automation can be implemented in many ways; however, today&rsquo;s enterprise demands a higher level of sophistication than simple scripts. This whitepaper from Stratavia discusses the key aspects of automated server provisioning that every CIO should know.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to Manage Your Servers with Group Policy]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1608/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Learn how to successfully extend your deployment of Group Policy to your servers by implementing end-to-end management of this pervasive technology, including advanced offline management and real-time monitoring of authorized and unauthorized changes.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CMDB Adoption in the Real World: Just How Real Is It?]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1659/</link>
<pubDate>2008-07-15 10:46:21</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This report provided by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) is developed around research that&#39;s focused on showing the many faces of the CMDB &ndash; as a central point for governance, asset, inventory, change and configuration control, and as a core system, in many cases for more effective service assurance. Designated for IT adopters and planners &ndash; read by executives, as well as, architects, and technical influencers.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Do You Know Your Change Program Benefits Have Been Achieved?]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1707/</link>
<pubDate>2007-12-21 08:54:46</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Every change program has to have deliver something &ndash; a new service, a new process, increased market share, and so on. But how do you know what the benefits are? How do you identify them, develop them and measure them to ensure your program has achieved its &#39;end-state&#39;?]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Prepare for Successful Audits: A Change Management Manager Checklist]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1749/</link>
<pubDate>2008-01-24 16:02:36</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This IT audit checklist guide includes advice on assessing the effectiveness of change management in a variety of areas.&nbsp;&nbsp; As companies grow more dependent on interdependent IT systems, the risks associated with untested changes in development and production environments have increased proportionately. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Identifying Critical Change Control Failure Points]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1751/</link>
<pubDate>2008-01-24 16:12:27</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Identifying critical change control failure points in your infrastructure can help reduce the threat of costly downtime, potential security breaches, and compliance weaknesses. Read this paper for guidelines on how to identify and categorize systems that have characteristics which heighten risk. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Putting the ROI into ITIL]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1752/</link>
<pubDate>2008-02-05 12:33:21</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Demonstrating ROI for service management investments can be difficult, especially with multi-phase deployments like ITIL that can require significant up-front investment in exchange for returns produced in the future.&nbsp; Learn how setting milestones and measuring the value of each phase of an ITIL implementation can help prove the project&rsquo;s value and shape its focus.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Configuration and Change Management for IT Compliance and Risk Management]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1864/</link>
<pubDate>2008-07-10 14:30:01</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Learn from industry analysts how IT organizations are using configuration management to meet compliance requirements and instill best practices. Find out how these organizations are applying the resulting processes to enhance security and improve operational efficiency in order to increase their level of service delivery.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Secure Virtualization: Achieve and Maintain IT Security in Virtual Environments]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2099/</link>
<pubDate>2008-07-10 14:24:39</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Find out how to maintain the same level of stability and security across both virtual and physical environments, using the same software and approach.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to Learn to Love a Security Audit]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2112/</link>
<pubDate>2008-02-28 16:18:20</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Save time and money by sustaining compliance between audits. Aberdeen Group&#39;s Derek Brink describes the benefits that best in class companies achieve by taking steps to sustain compliance.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Straddling the Divide between IPT and IT: Implementing ITIL to Optimize Your IP Telephony Investment]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2268/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The recent momentum of Unified Communications (UC) and the disruptive enabling technology of IP Telephony have created a convergence between Voice Engineering and IT departments that is unprecedented - even since the advent of computer telephony integration. However, despite rapid and significant advances within these technologies, many enterprises, even the early adopters, have not fully embraced the alignment of these two worlds.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[2008 IP Telephony Deployment Best Practices]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2269/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In this document, you&#39;ll learn to enable the successful execution and completion of IPT Deployment projects through a standardized set of processes and methodologies based upon Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) standards.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Gene Kim's Practical Steps to Mitigate Virtualization Security Risks]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2347/</link>
<pubDate>2008-07-10 14:29:08</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Tripwire founder/CTO Gene Kim provides seven practical steps that IT organizations can take to mitigate the unique security challenges of virtualization. While some are directed specifically at virtualized environments, many of these steps are solid best practices that apply to both physical and virtualized environments.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[BMC Software Solutions Integrate and Automate ITIL Best Practices]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2390/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is the most widely adopted best-practice IT framework for service management. ITIL defines terminology and processes across IT organizations by providing a common language and set of standards for quality IT service. If you are looking to implement ITIL, it is crucial that you understand how specific solutions support ITIL guidelines. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CMDB: Cornerstone of ITIL-based Integrated Service Support]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2392/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A CMDB, when used in support of ITIL best practices, is the cornerstone of IT Service Support, providing a centralized view of IT data that is essential to delivering consistent, reliable, effective, and efficient service to your business customers.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ITIL and CMDB Synergy: Enhanced Service Management]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2393/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[IT organizations that want to achieve the full business value from their service management initiatives need consistent, current, accurate, and secure information. That&rsquo;s why an increasing number of these organizations are seriously looking at how a configuration management database (CMDB) can help them manage their infrastructure more effectively.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Proactively Reduce Risk and Improve IT Security in Physical and Virtual Environments]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2532/</link>
<pubDate>2008-07-10 14:24:31</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Learn more about the security risks and vulnerabilities faced by organizations, and the elements of a proactive security approach. Then find out how Tripwire helps organizations attain and maintain a good security posture using industry-leading configuration assessment and change auditing to harden systems against security breaches, automate compliance with security standards and policies, identify configuration changes, and resolve vulnerabilities.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Effective Security with a Continuous Approach to ISO 27001 Compliance]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper3063/</link>
<pubDate>2008-07-08 12:29:18</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Tripwire Enterprise solution provides organizations with powerful configuration control through its configuration assessment and change auditing capabilities. In this white paper, learn how with Tripwire Enterprise, organizations can quickly achieve IT configuration integrity by proactively assessing how their current configurations measure up to specifications as given in ISO 27001. This provides immediate visibility into the state of their systems, and through automating the process, saves time and effort over a manual efforts.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Configuration Assessment: Choosing the Right Solution]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper3065/</link>
<pubDate>2008-07-10 14:22:24</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Configuration assessment lets businesses proactively secure their IT infrastructure and achieve compliance with important industry standards and regulations. Learn why configuration assessment is so important, why organizations find it difficult to control system configurations, and what types of configuration assessment solutions are available.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is Virtualization Under Control?]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper3106/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Tripwire surveyed IT professionals to learn how virtualization is expanding and if security, change controls and compliance requirements are keeping pace. Read this white paper to learn more about the state of virtualization today and why most of the respondents agree that a dedicated configuration tool is needed and are in the process of evaluating or planning to acquire such a tool.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Network Change and Configuration Management: Optimize Reliability, Minimize Risk and Reduce Costs]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper3211/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-29 13:51:06</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the most dramatic innovations in the infrastructure management marketplace in the last five years is the rise of Network Change and Configuration Management (NCCM) as a strategic requirement. This white paper will focus on the strong values that NCCM can bring to reliability, risk and cost management, as well as some of its powerful operational and lifecycle asset values. This report will also introduce the CA SPECTRUM Network Configuration Manager as a distinctive leadership offering.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Security vs. Flexibility: Must IT Management Choose?]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper3384/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[IT Managers are tasked with making the desktop environment more secure and locked down to a uniform corporate standard, yet flexible enough to handle the myriad of exceptions that arise across the enterprise. Centralized Configuration Management (CCM) tools are great, especially in environments with branch offices. But CCM tools can&rsquo;t do the big job of making your environment inherently more secure or more flexible.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[NETCONF by Example: A Description of the NETCONF Protocol with Practical Examples]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper3416/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The NETCONF protocol is a modern building block for device management automation, offering a unified approach to network configuration, rather than a device-specific methodology. To equipment vendors, NETCONF is a way to standardize the management interface of network elements. To service providers, NETCONF is a way to optimize the administrative workflow, by moving management intelligence out of the device under management, and consolidating this management into higher-level applications.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Configuration Management Simplified]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper3419/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This whitepaper describes how NETCONF and YANG can help drastically simplify network configuration management. The IETF has recently standardized the NETCONF configuration management protocol and is currently in the process of standardizing a NETCONF-oriented data modeling language called YANG. These two new technologies promise to drastically simplify network configuration management. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Configuration Assessment- Choosing the Right Solution]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper3526/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-30 17:17:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Configuration assessment lets businesses proactively secure their IT infrastructure and achieve compliance with important industry standards and regulations. Learn why configuration assessment is so important, why organizations find it difficult to control system configurations, and what types of configuration assessment solutions are available.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Effective Security, with a Continuous Approach to ISO 27001 Compliance]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper3527/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-30 17:18:13</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Tripwire Enterprise solution provides organizations with powerful configuration control through its configuration assessment and change auditing capabilities. In this white paper, learn how with Tripwire Enterprise, organizations can quickly achieve IT configuration integrity by proactively assessing how their current configurations measure up to specifications as given in ISO 27001.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[File Integrity Monitoring- Secure Your Virtual and Physical IT Environments]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper3528/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-30 17:21:24</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Discover the capabilities your file integrity monitoring solution should have to effectively secure &amp; control your virtual and physical IT infrastructures.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What's Good for Security is Good for Operations]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper3529/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-30 17:46:19</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Discover why configuration auditing is key to operational stability, and that gaining visibility into all change to IT systems is the first step toward employing best practices across the organization.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Proactively Reduce Risk and Improve IT Security in Physical & Virtual Environments]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper3532/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-30 17:28:17</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Learn more about the security risks and vulnerabilities faced by organizations, and the elements of a proactive security approach. Then find out how Tripwire helps organizations attain and maintain a good security posture using industry-leading configuration assessment and change auditing to harden systems against security breaches, automate compliance with security standards and policies, identify configuration changes, and resolve vulnerabilities.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Secure Virtualization- Achieve and Maintain IT Security in Virtual Environments]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper3533/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-30 17:32:06</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Find out how to maintain the same level of stability and security across both virtual and physical environments, using the same software and approach.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Gene Kim's Steps to Mitigate Virtualization Security Risks]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper3534/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-30 17:22:48</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Tripwire founder/CTO Gene Kim provides seven practical steps that IT organizations&nbsp; can take to mitigate the unique security challenges of virtualization. While some&nbsp; are directed specifically at virtualized environments, many of these steps are solid&nbsp; best practices that apply to both physical and virtualized environments.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is Virtualization Under Control]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper3535/</link>
<pubDate>2008-10-01 10:39:57</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Tripwire surveyed IT professionals to learn how virtualization is expanding and if security, change controls and compliance requirements are keeping pace. Read this white paper to learn more about the state of virtualization today and why most of the respondents agree that a dedicated configuration tool is needed and are in the process of evaluating or planning to acquire such a tool.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[NETCONF: Not Your Father's Network Management]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper3537/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The complexity and size of networks are increasing dramatically. This is placing new demands on network operators to deploy networks in an affordable and effective manner. NETCONF is a new IETF standard that is redefining the way in which network devices are configured using a highly-scalable, XML-based, machine-to-machine protocol. This webinar will provide a technological update on NETCONF. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Virtualization and Automation Drive Dynamic Data Centers]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper3551/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Data Center Automation enables you to manage change processes, ensure configuration compliance and dynamically provision servers and applications based on business need. By controlling complexity and automating processes in the data center, your data center becomes more adaptive and agile. Effective Data Center Automation lets you leverage virtualization, manage capacity, and reduce costs and also helps reduce energy usage and waste.]]></description>
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