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Find out how IT pros can save time in managing help desk tickets and support tasks. Learn some easy and effective ways to allow IT pros to simplify the manual and time-consuming process of providing IT support to end-users.

Most organizations today are evolving toward a hybrid IT enterprise architecture, meaning their operations are split between the cloud and the traditional on-premises network. Many important enterprise applications are moving to the cloud, along with some more basic infrastructure such as storage and application development platforms. When cloud services falter, you need to know why – but often lack visibility beyond the firewall.

This paper provides information about the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and offers guidance on how to work with an existing program or how to start your own. A well-designed compliance program can improve overall IT and security efficiency while saving time and energy otherwise spent remediating audit failures/gaps. Electronic records are a cornerstone of modern healthcare delivery, and IT and security professionals need to be aware of how those records are managed and secured.

This paper gives you an overview of PCI for card-present and card-not-present transactions, as well as an update on EMV card processing. We’ll give you some practical IT and security guidance to help you select vendors for payment processing, and determine if you can self-attest to your implementation. Finally, we include the high-level requirements for a PCI compliance credit card processing program so you can compare your current security program with PCI requirements.

The DBA says the answer is both! The combination of OEM and DPA provides the kind of help DBAs need to better understand database performance issues and save time, money, and frustration.

SolarWinds® partnered with leading government research provider Market Connections to survey 200 federal IT and IT security professionals to find out their top cybersecurity concerns and the obstacles they face when implementing IT security strategies. View the infographic for data on Security Event Detection, Continuous Monitoring Implementation and return on investment, top obstacles and frustrations, and cybersecurity threats and threat sources.

In December 2014, Market Connections, a leading government market research provider, in conjunction with SolarWinds conducted its second annual blind survey of 200 IT and IT security decision makers in the federal government, military and intelligence communities in an effort to uncover their most critical IT security challenges and to determine how to make potential security threats visible so IT can confront them. Respondents weighed in on top cybersecurity threat sources, obstacles to threat prevention, necessary tools for threat prevention, and their concerns, investment and policies regarding cybersecurity.