With more and more enterprise systems moving to virtual IT environments, it is important to take the necessary steps to safeguard the entire enterprise. Two industry experts describe how virtualization is changing the management of IT environments, and what your organization can do to successfully take advantage of this enterprise-changing technology, while remaining cost-effective, efficient, and secure.

In this webcast, EMA Research Director Andi Mann, and Dwayne Melancon, vice president of Tripwire, discuss the findings of a new EMA report, Virtualization and Management: Trends, Forecasts, and Recommendations, and what the data means for your enterprise.

Topics addressed in this webcast include:

• New survey data from EMA that shows how enterprises are using, adapting and managing, and meeting the challenges of virtual environments
• Real-world risks of virtual environments and the tools you can use to avoid making serious enterprise-management mistakes
• Customer case study that shows how one company used virtualization and configuration audit and control to ace audits

Attend this webcast and find out how your IT organization can proactively address the management challenges as your organization builds out its virtual strategy and infrastructure.

Why does it seem that information security, IT operations and compliance efforts are so often at odds with each other? In this age of ever increasing information security risks, regulatory compliance requirements and the need to support the organization, these relationships need to change. After all, they all have the same objective: to ensure that IT is helping the business meet its goals, effectively, efficiently and securely. With Security Visible Ops, there is now a method for achieving these goals.

Based on 10 years of research, the Security Visible Ops methodology describes how to link IT security and operational objectives in four practical steps by integrating security controls into IT operational, software development and project management processes. In this webcast featuring Gene Kim, you will discover how your organization can use Security Visible Ops to:

• End the disconnect between operations and security by embedding effective information security controls into daily operations of change, access, and incident management.
• Create information security controls that add value to the business and other functional stakeholders
• Build effective controls through both detective and preventative controls
• Achieve information security objectives, as well as IT operational and business objectives

Attend this webcast with Gene Kim, CTO of Tripwire, Inc. and co-author of the newly release Security Visible Ops Handbook, and discover what steps your organization can take now to increase the effectiveness of security throughout IT operations.

Compliance is no longer a one-time event, nor is it the means to an end. It now has much more significance than merely passing an audit. Why? A single failed configuration that goes unnoticed can possibly snowball into an entire data center being non-compliant. In today's complex environment, it is necessary to maintain continuous compliance. This requires a proven method for automating the compliance process, one that not only satisfies the auditor's checklist but that also alerts IT to non-compliant configurations before they can create serious events.

In this webcast, you will learn how Tripwire Enterprise helps you manage compliance across the data center:

• How configuration assessments can automate the compliance process
• How to know what steps to take when a configuration has failed a policy test
• What a golden baseline means for configuring systems
• How to customize critical configuration tests as critical or non-critical
• Using Policy Waivers with selected tests for better work flow management

Register now for this webcast presented by Mark Petrie, Product Manager for Tripwire, as he shares how the new Tripwire Enterprise 7.1 can help your organization manage the many facets of maintaining compliance.

With rising costs and shrinking budgets, and a focus on providing value to the company's bottom line, IT organizations have long turned to Tripwire's configuration audit and control solution to help improve performance. Now with the enhanced configuration assessment capabilities and customized features in the new release of Tripwire Enterprise 7.1, IT has increased ability to keep data centers in a known, trusted and compliant state.

In this webcast presented by Tripwire, you will learn about the key new benefits of Tripwire Enterprise 7.1 that make it a valuable product for your organization:

• Golden Policy creation that can be used as a baseline for configuring systems
• Remediation Advisor that guides you through procedures to fix failed configuration policy tests
• Configuration Assessment enhancements including new out-of-the-box policy assessments from the Center for Internet Security
• Test Weighting that allows you to customize critical configuration tests
• Policy Waivers that let you apply waivers to selected tests and nodes

Register now for this webcast presented by Ananda Arasu, Product Marketing Manager for Tripwire, as he shares the exciting new benefits and features of Tripwire Enterprise 7.1.