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Information Overload: A System for Better Managing Everyday Data

Information Overload: A System for Better Managing Everyday Data

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Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Publication Date: 16-AUG-2010

Insert Date: 19-AUG-2010

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World-class guidance on using information to achieve better performance Examining the characteristics of information and the latest findings in cognitive science, this book shows how the mind works, how it can be used to think optimally about your business, and how to improve business performance with better information management practices. Provides the process and tools necessary to identify this information and how to remember it, and how to better use the people around you to obtain the best information Reveals how to handle all of the hundreds of pieces of information...

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How to Use Web 2.0 and Social Networking Sites Securely

How to Use Web 2.0 and Social Networking Sites Securely

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Publisher: IT Governance Ltd

Publication Date: 15-JAN-2009

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This pocket guide tells you the steps your organisation should take to ensure that your employees are using Web 2.0 sites in a secure manner, and that your confidential corporate data is protected....

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Security Testing Handbook for Banking Applications

Security Testing Handbook for Banking Applications

By: Arvind Doraiswamy; Sangita Pakala; Nilesh Kapoor; Prashant Verma; Praveen Singh; Raghu Nair; Shalini Gupta

Publisher: IT Governance Ltd

Publication Date: 19-FEB-2009

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Security Testing Handbook for Banking Applications is a specialised guide to testing a wide range of banking applications. The book is intended as a companion to security professionals, software developers and QA professionals who work with banking applications....

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An Introduction to Information Security and ISO27001: A Pocket Guide

An Introduction to Information Security and ISO27001: A Pocket Guide

By: Steve G Watkins

Publisher: IT Governance Ltd

Publication Date: 23-OCT-2008

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This new pocket guide is intended to meet the needs of two groups: Individual readers who have turned to it as an introduction to a topic that they know little about; and organizations implementing, or considering implementing, some sort of information security management regime, particularly if using ISO/IEC 27001....

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Information Security Law: The Emerging Standard for Corporate Compliance

Information Security Law: The Emerging Standard for Corporate Compliance

By: Thomas J. Smedinghoff

Publisher: IT Governance Ltd

Publication Date: 07-OCT-2008

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Information Security Law: The Emerging Standard for Corporate Compliance is designed to help companies understand this developing law of information security, the obligations it imposes on them, and the standard for corporate compliance that appears to be developing worldwide. ISO/IEC 27001, the international information security standard, should be read alongside this book....

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CyberWar, CyberTerror, CyberCrime: A Guide to the Role of Standards in an Environment of Change and Danger

CyberWar, CyberTerror, CyberCrime: A Guide to the Role of Standards in an Environment of Change and Danger

By: Mehan E. Julie

Publisher: IT Governance Ltd

Publication Date: 17-APR-2009

Insert Date: 14-AUG-2010

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This book gives you a stark and timely analysis of the hostile online landscape that today's corporate systems inhabit, providing CIOs and IT professionals with a practical introduction to the defensive strategies that you can be employed in response....

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Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity: A Quick Guide for Small Organizations and Busy Executives Second Edition

Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity: A Quick Guide for Small Organizations and Busy Executives Second Edition

By: Thejendra BS

Publisher: IT Governance Ltd

Publication Date: 13-DEC-2008

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IT-associated problems could threaten the survival of your business. If you want to protect your business, you need to put in place a disaster recovery plan. This book shows you how....

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The Case for ISO 27001

The Case for ISO 27001

By: Alan Calder

Publisher: IT Governance Ltd

Publication Date: 01-OCT-2005

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You have a responsibility to safeguard the information you hold on behalf of your customers. Adopting the ISO 27001 standard will protect the reputation of your company and safeguard its achievements....

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Nine Steps to Success: An ISO 27001 Implementation Overview

Nine Steps to Success: An ISO 27001 Implementation Overview

By: Alan Calder

Publisher: IT Governance Ltd

Publication Date: 17-OCT-2005

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This is the ideal guide for anyone tackling - or about to tackle - ISO27001 for the first time....

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Green IT in Practice: How one company is approaching the greening of its IT

Green IT in Practice: How one company is approaching the greening of its IT

By: Gary Hird

Publisher: IT Governance Ltd

Publication Date: 27-MAY-2010

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This best-selling practical book helps managers to navigate the confusing mass of information surrounding Green IT with greater ease. Focusing heavily on the experience of implementing the John Lewis Partnership's Green IT programme, it contains a host of valuable ideas for establishing and formalising your own Green IT initiative....

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ISO27001 in a Windows® Environment: The best practice handbook for a Microsoft® Windows® environment, Second edition

ISO27001 in a Windows® Environment: The best practice handbook for a Microsoft® Windows® environment, Second edition

By: Brian Honan

Publisher: IT Governance Ltd

Publication Date: 21-APR-2010

Insert Date: 14-AUG-2010

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Covering best practice implementation over a wide range of Windows® environments, this second edition is completely up to date for Windows® 7 and Servers® 2008....

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IT Outsourcing Contracts: A Legal and Practical Guide

IT Outsourcing Contracts: A Legal and Practical Guide

By: Jimmy Desai

Publisher: IT Governance Ltd

Publication Date: 09-DEC-2009

Insert Date: 14-AUG-2010

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This is the book if you want IT outsourcing that will work for your business!...

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Outsourcing IT: A Governance Guide

Outsourcing IT: A Governance Guide

By: Rupert Kendrick

Publisher: IT Governance Ltd

Publication Date: 26-NOV-2009

Insert Date: 14-AUG-2010

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This book offers you a guide to the many pitfalls of IT outsourcing. It will provide you with clear criteria for the application of governance principles to the outsourcing process, and thereby enable you to implement IT outsourcing so that it supports your overall business goals....

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Compliance for Green IT: A Pocket Guide

Compliance for Green IT: A Pocket Guide

By: Alan Calder

Publisher: IT Governance Ltd

Publication Date: 05-MAR-2009

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This pocket guide is intended to provide company directors and executives with a brief guide to the regulatory requirements that are driven by the Green Agenda. It offers you an overview of the key legislative initiatives and environmental standards, and includes an examination of carbon trading schemes....

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The Three Laws of Performance: Rewriting the Future of Your Organization and Your Life

The Three Laws of Performance: Rewriting the Future of Your Organization and Your Life

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Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Publication Date: 03-FEB-2009

Insert Date: 07-AUG-2010

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When a hurricane warning is announced, everyone's concerns and actions become focused on that expectation; the hurricane essentially becomes the future which people are "living into." Similarly, when an organization needs to transform or make the leap to a higher level, everyone involved should be "living into" the vision of the organization's new, improved future. But in the majority of organizations, the future people are living into is based on past performance and experience, and so major transformation is almost impossible. Steve Zaffron is, CEO of Vanto Group which has helped...

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Information Systems Transformation: Architecture-Driven Modernization Case Studies

Information Systems Transformation: Architecture-Driven Modernization Case Studies

By: William M. Ulrich; Philip H. Newcomb

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann

Publication Date: 08-MAR-2010

Insert Date: 19-MAY-2010

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Every major enterprise has a significant installed base of existing software systems that reflect the tangled IT architectures that result from decades of patches and failed replacements. Most of these systems were designed to support business architectures that have changed dramatically. At best, these systems hinder agility and competitiveness and, at worst, can bring critical business functions to a halt. Architecture-Driven Modernization (ADM) restores the value of entrenched systems by capturing and retooling various aspects of existing application environments, allowing old...

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Mobile Peer-to-Peer Computing for Next Generation Distributed Environments: Advancing Conceptual and Algorithmic Applications

Mobile Peer-to-Peer Computing for Next Generation Distributed Environments: Advancing Conceptual and Algorithmic Applications

By: Boon-Chong Seet

Publisher: IGI Global

Publication Date: 31-MAY-2009

Insert Date: 09-MAY-2010

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Mobile Peer-to-Peer Computing for Next Generation Distributed Environments: Advancing Conceptual and Algorithmic Applications focuses on current research and innovation in mobile and wireless technologies. This advanced publication provides researchers, practitioners, and academicians with an authoritative reference source to the latest state-of-the-art developments in this growing technology field. ...

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Open Information Management: Applications of Interconnectivity and Collaboration

Open Information Management: Applications of Interconnectivity and Collaboration

By: Samuli Niiranen; Jari Yli-Hietanen; Artur Lugmayr

Publisher: IGI Global

Publication Date: 31-MAY-2009

Insert Date: 09-MAY-2010

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Open Information Management: Applications of Interconnectivity and Collaboration discusses the impact of emerging trends in information technology towards solutions capable of managing information within operational environments. This book can be utilized in advanced courses and also serve as an excellent addition to library reference sections and research collections. ...

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Under Control: Governance Across the Enterprise

Under Control: Governance Across the Enterprise

By: Jacob Lamm

Publisher: Apress

Publication Date: 27-DEC-2009

Insert Date: 08-MAY-2010

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Under Control captures decades of business governance experience from many of the leading authorities at CA, Inc. This book sets out not only to explain the essential challenges of effective business governance, but to help you build solutions for your organization based on lessons learned at CA from its customers and in its own corporate structure. ...

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Data-Exchange Standards and International Organizations: Adoption and Diffusion

Data-Exchange Standards and International Organizations: Adoption and Diffusion

By: Josephine Wapakabulo Thomas

Publisher: IGI Global

Publication Date: 30-SEP-2009

Insert Date: 03-MAY-2010

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Data-Exchange Standards and International Organizations: Adoption and Diffusion establishes factors related to the implementation and dissemination of data-exchange standards. A cutting-edge reference source written by an international collaboration of field experts, this book covers advanced topics such as product life cycle support, IT standardization, and innovation- and adopter-centric data analysis. ...