Balancing Business Risks in Social Media

Finding us in your spam mailbox? Please add us to your address book! Trouble viewing this email? View in Browser  Manage my subscriptions Maximizing IT Investments May 07, 2012 Best Practices for Securely Utilizing Social Networking in Business Processes Companies are increasingly using identity data created on social media sites to conduct business transactions, as it often provides for improved efficiency and better communication with customers. But organizations that rely upon identity information provided by third parties, such as Facebook and Twitter, must balance the benefits of doing so with the security and liability risks that can result. Read more > A Layered Approach to Optimizing the DC — and Your IT Investment Check out this webcast to learn how business intelligence software can deliver a breadth of capabilities that are needed in practically every area of your business. Register Now > Blogs Susan Hall Charting Your IT Career MIT, Harvard Plan Free Online Classes Arthur Cole Infrastructure Cloud Bursting Not Ready for Prime Time Loraine Lawson Integration Just the Stats: Master Data Management Think You Know Big Data?   Register for this big event, where you will receive great training, and discover the latest storage technologies and best practices. Register now > Download: Managing the Configuration of Information Systems with a Focus on Security Follow these NIST recommendations on secure configuration of all components of your information systems. CIO's Challenge: Find Right Data Integration Tool Without Overspending Ultimate Medical Academy needed to capture data from Blackboard, an Oracle-based online educational software tool, but it used SQL server. CIO Sam Collier explains to IT Business Edge's Loraine Lawson how he found a cost-effective way to solve this problem, without over-investing. Licensing Confusion in Network Management Software Network managers are consistently putting out fires, but, in the face of intense budget pressure, they're also charged with another tough job: ensuring that the software licensing model reflects their company's growing IT needs and keeps organizational IT costs in line. Featured White Papers The Top 5 Phone Buying Disasters (and How to Avoid Them) This white paper shares advice from phone system managers who were in the forefront of remedying phone system disasters. Topics like buying incompatible hardware, brands with bad customer service, or companies with bad SIP service are covered. •  Virtual Desktops for Anywhere Workers: A Centralized Solution •  You Need Hosted VoIP — Here Are 8 Reasons Why •  Offsite Disaster Recovery — More Bandwidth Might Not Be the Answer "... if you are looking at a cloud solution for a heavily regulated business process, the provider should already have most any compliance report you can imagine. If it doesn't, you may well be looking at a maturity issue." Excerpt from Ken Hardin Governance and Risk Latest White Papers Optimizing Storage & Backup — 7 Ways to Control Costs Opportunities to Control TCO in Your DC Infrastructure Conventional Storage Is Dead — Here Are 7 Simple Truths Talent Wars — The Fight for Talent Is Going to Get Tougher This e-mail is sent by: IT Business Edge, property of QuinStreet, Inc. Attn: Newsletter Subscription Dept. 950 Tower Lane, 6th Floor Foster City, CA 94404 Copyright © 2012 QuinStreet, Inc. All rights reserved. E-mail Reports Sign up for these additional e-mail reports to get the best return on your company's technology and talent: •  Aligning IT & Business Goals    •  Optimizing Infrastructure    •  Integrating the Enterprise    •  Maximizing IT Investments    •  Business Tools & Templates •  IT Careers •  Leveraging Enterprise Software •  Managing Compliance Standards •  Mobile and Telecom •  Fortifying Network Security •  Daily Edge Privacy Policy     Manage Subscriptions     Unsubscribe     Contact Us     How to Advertise